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To circumvent the problem, I continuosly blip the engine, whenever the clutch is engaged, untill the problem is solved | |
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Thanks buddy. I am looking forward to doing some serious riding with her now. Though I have been thrashing my 500 these last 4 months since I sold Baby Duke, and enjoying myself immensely, its obviously not been the same. But as a result, Doppie has got cleaned up, spruced up (black paint on block and silencer, tuning, oiling, fluids, electricals, regular running), and is now doing well as a regular runner. Will make a conscious effort to not neglect her now this time. I agree with you about not being remotely anal and thrashing the machine working for old school Bulleteers on Dukes. We are just so "seasoned" (polite word for traumatized, emotionally and financially scarred, toughened like old well tanned leather, etc. etc.) by a decade of our Bullets, that I honestly don't get what if anything can be remotely wrong with a rorty bike like the Duke. You and I both know how blessed we feel when our 500s are running fine on a cold winter night. How horrible they feel on a hot summer afternoon. How we baby them on the highway with our butt and wrist and ears and nose, constantly alert. The Duke's "issues" are not issues at all! They are amusing reminders that even modern high strung machines can still be raw and entertaining and involving. I would honestly hate to own a smooth silent characterless machine, like those made by some huge auto giants. Quote:
In bike (and car - though I have never sold a car, nor bought a used one yet) deals, whether you are selling or buying, the right guy/bike is destined. Other deals you might be lusting for or almost on the verge of closing for some reason or the other will invariably fall through. That is my learning over the years. Quote:
We instead had this central machine with gears fashioned and hewn out of wood, with this huge long pole, attached to a big huge bull, which would go round and round and round till there was no juice left ....... ![]() | |||
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BHPian Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Bangalore
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I suspected you were waiting for the RC version. Getting to know the ownership experience with D390 from seasoned riders like you will be eagerly waited. | |
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But seeing as that's going to be a minimum of two years more, I'd rather have a 390 then as it ticked a lot more boxes than the Ninja 250 did. Though to be honest, my heart still gets pulled when I see a nice shiny wel kept Ninja standing somewhere or passing by. It really is a brilliant bike. But all said and done, the Duke 390 is brillianter. And it makes a lot more sense from a financial perspective as well. Quote:
Tinu knows I did not gel with the 650 and do not like the Con GT all that much. ![]() Most of us old Bullet crowd have moved on to other bikes, and the theory is that so challenged are the Bullets as bikes, and so hard did we push them in order to get that last drop of sugarcane juice out of them (!) that when we moved on to competent modern machinery, we just elevated into biking heaven! Here is another one of us old timers and a very close riding buddy, Imran, kicking buttocks in Delhi, getting his 1st place award from yet another old school RD/Bullet rider ..... ![]() ![]() Sure lets ride buddy. Are you going for the Goa RM? Otherwise any Sunday morning, as always. Last edited by ebonho : 7th November 2014 at 15:16. | |||
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| ![]() Did I mention to you guys that I am very impressed by the brakes on this 390? Seriously good especially when compared to my test 390, which had a spongy feel, not great feedback, and required quite a bit of pull, and had even contributed to a set of soiled trousers once on the way to Gujarat. These ones are great. One finger stuff. I found myself reflexly dabbing them with two at times, but that just did not feel ok. Maybe it was the angle the lever was set at, but if its needed you will compensate for the angle. So obviously it was not need, and one finger hit the anchors hard at some pretty nice speeds. I recall even gettin g the ABS to activate at the front once while approaching a diversion that came up suddenly .... something I had never done (or been able to do) on the test 390. |
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| ![]() Could be (hope its not though). My test bike had the soft squishy front brakes with too much bitepoint-travel from day 1 almost though. |
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| ![]() Got the bike back. They have changed the stepper motor as well as the temperature sensor. Asked me to take a test ride. There were two bars in the temperature guage. The bike didn't stall in the usual conditions. They said that they are not closing the job card. They asked me to check for the problem during cold start. If I am satisfied, only then will they close the job card. Very hopeful. ![]() |
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BHPian Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Bangalore
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I remember you saying about going for the bike where one's heart is ![]() I like to narrate a funny incident which happened few days back. Just like a person who takes his entire family to see the bride, I too took my entire family to the KTM showroom for having a look at D390. There were many bikes standing next to each other, but my entire family was looking only at the RC and I was looking only at the Ninja. In fact we completely forget the original purpose of visiting the showroom. It went on like that without noticing D390 until the showroom closing time approached. After coming back from the showroom, my son was almost crying to have the RC and all other members in my family also felt the same. Adding more fun to that, I was just dreaming about the Ninja that I saw on that day and so there was no any meeting point. After a couple of days, some sense prevailed and I finally told them that only D390 would do. The most funny part was that the entire gang visited the showroom again and the manager looked at me so differently. He himself might have felt whether he was selling brides or something else. The other terrible part is even now my son is still crying and insisting on getting the RC Doc, can I ask you a politically incorrect question ? You can choose not to answer if it is going to create a war like situation between the KTM and Ninja group ![]() | |
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![]() Any plans to graft that exhaust you mentioned earlier? The one you found so impressive. --Anoop | |
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Insurance was good for another 6 months, within the state so only CC and no extra taxes, but the rest was a definite expense. Ironically he found a buyer who paid 1.5L ![]() Most of the other 390s available are in the price range of 1.65-1.85 L which have run about 5000-8000 kms. The New 390 is 2.16L OTR. About the Bangalore way of fixing prices, pray God you are the lucky one who doesn't stay here in Bangalore. | |
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