Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Let's say my father knows some people.
Don't know about the price change
You suggest that we should walk wearing helmets?

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Best way is to carry it in your hand, or get a bag which has provision for carrying helmets, or strap it to existing shoulder strap of your backpack. Keeping it on the bike may result in vandalising helmet. Or, another option is to fabricate a topbox and keep it in that.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

That looks ugly as hell. Agreed thats the best way to carry around the helmet.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

try jcmoto.in
or
give aliexpress a try [MENTION=51754]theironhorse99[/MENTION] does order quiet a bit of stuff from that website. it might take a month or so for deliveries but it works.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

I think i have seen them on bachoomotors.com but i can't get the site to open right now, check it out.

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I saw a guy on his D390 with similar cover for his monoshock and which was some kind of cloth made material and always has wanted one as it's painful cleaning them by ourselves.
My concern here is, does the cloth material too risk us of fire or what?
Considered your caution of staying away from rexin!

P.s. I seriously do not know what rexin material is, I shall hit Google right away [emoji14]

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Thanks Guys, Ordered from JC...

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

there is a good chance even cloth can catch fire (i have had the oil from the chain flung on the exhaust and when ridden hard the exhaust gets so hot that some of this oil burns off and i can see smoke on my D200) i would suggest you stay away from such accessories. rexine is the material that is used for the seat covers.
i pity you rc owners at least the dukes from late 2014 have a hard plastic cover and a flap that protects the monoshock from dirt.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Reserve to Reserve as per my calculations is full to "Low Fuel Level" warning. That's approximately 7-7.4L. So Im getting about 20kmpl.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Damm..
thats one heck of a portable barbecue grill

anyways guys need a lil help
my mileage sucks
it's around 69 miles reserve to reserve method which would be about 111 kms which would give me 13 :-/
so a lil help is needed
average speed of mine is around 40-45 kms and I usually switch gears at 6,000 rpm and it's mostly city driving and a lil both of gali driving included
first service done
but they didn't change the spark plug in it nor I know if it had to be changed

and bs should I try using Xtraprenium fuel?

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Sorry, average speed is about 50-60kms 60% and 30-35kms 40%
used to miles and not kms

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

13 is damn too low.even maruti 800 gives 15+ [emoji4]

Anyways what are the changes that were made in the servicing ?

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Maa far as I can remember it was just chain cleaning
oil change and filter change
was getting the same milage back to
now it's been increased to 15-16 I guess :-/ still waiting for the tank to get empty to check

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

It's FI so its pretty tough to identify the mileage.for a Carb u can use the last drop of fuel but for FI chances of blowing it is more with less fuel.
Still the bike should give atleast 20 in city(if u don't redline in every gear)
I think you can check the clutch settings just once more.that's the only thing I can think off.or may be the air filter of its fitted properly or not faulty.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Mine was September 2015 model, came with 4.8KM on ODO, hopefully thats not tampered, but bike looks fine, works well. Not gotten registration number yet, but rode it around 30KM on Sunday in city, vibrations are there, but nowhere close to what I've heard it would be like. It does heat up quite a bit at signals and bumper to bumper traffic, but again, that issue too is highly overrated. The fan sounds kinda weird, its much louder than I'd have expected, so I need to get used to that. Otherwise its an amazing bike, despite being my first bike, I found it really easy to handle, I guess its the Metz that give that confidence to lean it so much, and the riding posture too has a good sports bike feeling, I've not had any back pain, and some minor wrist pain, which is relieved as soon as you grip the tank with your thighs. The bike looks amazing too, attracts a LOT of looks from people around./
Running in period is a huge pain, I managed a 65KM/h speed in 5th gear, it reaches 6000rpm way too easily (Manual says 7.5K but I keep a limit of 6K for myself so that even if it exceeds a bit it wouldn't matter). I did cross the limit just once though to get a feel of how powerful it actually is, and the surge of power felt was amazing.
Overall loving this bike

I do have a tiny question, coolant should be between min and max right? Mine is there, but its pretty close to MIN, and looks a lot lesser than it should be, but when I pointed it out he told its normal, is that okay?

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

A better way to obtain a reliable FE figure would be to:
1. Tank full -- reset trip to 0
2. Ride around 150km
3. Tank full -- note down how much fuel goes in 'X'
4. FE = 150/X

Do not go by the fuel gauge/reserve assumptions. A FE of around 20kmpl in the city traffic is normal for the RC390 (from what i have heard from other users)

On a relatively new bike with good quality fuel and proper service (filters, oil, coolant changed maintained correctly), the one other item that you should check (or simply replace) would be the O2 sensor (that's present on your exhaust). If the O2 sensor isn't working properly, then there is a chance that the engine is not getting the right amount of fuel(too rich) leading to bad FE.