KTM RC 200 Owners Experience Thread

[Ajay Vishwanath]

Re: KTM RC 200 Owners Experience Thread

the bolts on my fairing fell off coz the svc guy was careless and whatever happened.. now I've been following up since THREE weeks for a fix, that guy simply says, "no bolts available" then I today went and blew the steam off.. and BOOM nuts just appear out of nowhere & I'm charged 40 bucks.. isn't it great.. I'm paying for the errors of the svc..

not just that, the outlet pipe for my coolant reservoir is broken AGAIN!! and they said, "let the engineer inspect and determine if it's under warranty".. what can get more pathetic than to manufacture a poor quality product and say "pay to get it fixed coz it's not in warranty" well.. guess Bajaj/KTM is going to lose one customer soon.....

[jRay]

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My gearbox has gotten clunky lately both up shifts and downshifts, really noticable between 2nd and 3rd gear, what could be the reason? I've done just ~4.4k kms till now. It was butter smooth before, never clunky or hard to shift. Noticed this a few days ago

[KayKashyap]

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for all the gear-changing issues, please check the gear rod, I had my share of similar issues and apparently the gear rod was spoilt, the reason given by svc folks - when bike is parked, folks coming around to "look" at the bike, switch gears and tadaaa.. you got your gear messed up..

thankfully, I could get mine replaced under warranty.. so yeah..

That's funny!!! These svc guys & their lame reasons!!!!

[RohIIT]

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Yea please do update. As I am facing similar issue.
It happens 2 times in 10 times for me.
It doesn't engage in gears shows blank in gears display. When riding sometimes I am unable to shift to 1st gear. And sometimes it automatically shifts to neutral from first or second while the vehicle is in motion.

Shifting to neutral is close to impossible nowadays for me.

Sometimes 4th-5th gear grinds which is a very harsh sound (garrrrr).

Any one has any info or faced this problem please help me out.
Thank you[emoji4]

Clutch has too much freeplay and chain is tight, Get them under specs , problems will go away.

[jRay]

Re: KTM RC 200 Owners Experience Thread

You are not applying enough pressure to upshift, this is common. You need to put a little more force to upshift to 2nd, because the lever need to pass through Neutral.

My issue is the gear doesn't engage to 1st from Neutral, it just stuck in the middle and falls back to neutral. I need to release the clutch couple of times and then shift to 1. I will post you an update when I get some time to visit SVC. If you guys know the culprit on this issue, please let me know.

Thats not what I'm talking about, i mean gear slipping like when shifting from 1 to 2, the second gear is engaged but as i twist the throttle gear slips and engages/disengages continously and it feels like i am blipping the throttle or pressing the clutch while throttle is engaged. It was weird but it never happened again.

[abhi1991]

Re: KTM RC 200 Owners Experience Thread

for all the gear-changing issues, please check the gear rod, I had my share of similar issues and apparently the gear rod was spoilt, the reason given by svc folks - when bike is parked, folks coming around to "look" at the bike, switch gears and tadaaa.. you got your gear messed up..

thankfully, I could get mine replaced under warranty.. so yeah..

Is their any means to setup a wired circuit so that if someone tries to harass our babe they get electrocuted?! Just asking..:P

[Ajay Vishwanath]

Re: KTM RC 200 Owners Experience Thread

for all the gear-changing issues, please check the gear rod, I had my share of similar issues and apparently the gear rod was spoilt, the reason given by svc folks - when bike is parked, folks coming around to "look" at the bike, switch gears and tadaaa.. you got your gear messed up..

thankfully, I could get mine replaced under warranty.. so yeah..

[Shahreyar Najeeb]

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You are not applying enough pressure to upshift, this is common. You need to put a little more force to upshift to 2nd, because the lever need to pass through Neutral.

My issue is the gear doesn't engage to 1st from Neutral, it just stuck in the middle and falls back to neutral. I need to release the clutch couple of times and then shift to 1. I will post you an update when I get some time to visit SVC. If you guys know the culprit on this issue, please let me know.

Yea please do update. As I am facing similar issue.
It happens 2 times in 10 times for me.
It doesn't engage in gears shows blank in gears display. When riding sometimes I am unable to shift to 1st gear. And sometimes it automatically shifts to neutral from first or second while the vehicle is in motion.

Shifting to neutral is close to impossible nowadays for me.

Sometimes 4th-5th gear grinds which is a very harsh sound (garrrrr).

Any one has any info or faced this problem please help me out.
Thank you[emoji4]

[joe_marvy]

Re: KTM RC 200 Owners Experience Thread

I experienced this once or twice when shifting from 1 to 2 but not regularly.

You are not applying enough pressure to upshift, this is common. You need to put a little more force to upshift to 2nd, because the lever need to pass through Neutral.

My issue is the gear doesn't engage to 1st from Neutral, it just stuck in the middle and falls back to neutral. I need to release the clutch couple of times and then shift to 1. I will post you an update when I get some time to visit SVC. If you guys know the culprit on this issue, please let me know.

[jRay]

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Same happens on my bike also. I haven't found any solution to it yet. But if you do please do let me know.

Did you visit svc for this?
I experienced this once or twice when shifting from 1 to 2 but not regularly.

[Shahreyar Najeeb]

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My gears are starting to slip especially the 1st gear. The first gear engages, when I release clutch and start to move it doesn't and the gear indicator is blank on the speedo, I need to engage 1st again. This frequently happens when I halt for red light in Neutral and engage 1st when the signal opens. I suspect chain and clutch, recently the chain was adjusted.

Once at a good speed top gear slipped to 5th, luckily nothing happened, just the shift light was lit constantly, but this happened only once.

Same happens on my bike also. I haven't found any solution to it yet. But if you do please do let me know.

[Ishaan.humble]

Re: KTM RC 200 Owners Experience Thread

My gears are starting to slip especially the 1st gear. The first gear engages, when I release clutch and start to move it doesn't and the gear indicator is blank on the speedo, I need to engage 1st again. This frequently happens when I halt for red light in Neutral and engage 1st when the signal opens. I suspect chain and clutch, recently the chain was adjusted.

Once at a good speed top gear slipped to 5th, luckily nothing happened, just the shift light was lit constantly, but this happened only once.

You should get it checked! This is not normal!

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[joe_marvy]

Re: KTM RC 200 Owners Experience Thread

My gears are starting to slip especially the 1st gear. The first gear engages, when I release clutch and start to move it doesn't and the gear indicator is blank on the speedo, I need to engage 1st again. This frequently happens when I halt for red light in Neutral and engage 1st when the signal opens. I suspect chain and clutch, recently the chain was adjusted.

Once at a good speed top gear slipped to 5th, luckily nothing happened, just the shift light was lit constantly, but this happened only once.

[Shahreyar Najeeb]

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What rpm are you shifting and most of the time on the console when you are cruising what mileage it shows?

I shift high 6000-7000. But I get around 30-40 kmpl on console

[Ajay Vishwanath]

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Bro change the cable.if possible use one plus one data cable.I bet you will see the difference.the cable looks cheap one and it can't fast charge the mobile

did, not much of a difference, have to test more..

On a D390 it is fuse 4. Check the plug coming from the ignition coil to this and insert the positive in it.

well, now that's new, provided with the fairing and all.. yeah, looks messy to me.. but the "low battery" warning isn't coming anymore..

@Ajay Vishwanath did you check if fuel is leaking or vaporising from the cap.if you rip it or drive sanely and gives you same mileage then it might be evaporating or leaking.ideally if you shift at 5000 rpm it gives a good 38kmpl

vaporizing isn't the thing I think because when I did highway runs for 200+ KMs, she returned the about the same mileage,

My shift depends, sometimes at 5K, sometimes higher and rarely lower.. but mostly above 5K..

I ain't getting 30 also. I dunno what's wrong with my bike . I don't think it's evaporating. Any other reasons ?
Thanks

rip her, trust me, little ripping will give good mileage, shift 5K and above, you'll be fine.. ignore the noise/vibration/sound...

What rpm are you shifting and most of the time on the console when you are cruising what mileage it shows?

my avg speed is about 23 when going to office and when returning it shows about 47

office is about 22 Kms from home.. so yeah, I even switch off the engine at reds...