All New Duke 390 2017
KTM has recently revealed their latest naked sport bike release, the All New Duke 390 2017 model. After its world premiere at the EICMA Motorcycle Show 2016 in Milan last year, the second generation of the KTM Duke 390 has sparked up many interests and attention. Now, let’s find out about what KTM has added to its upgrades and improvements in this new version.
Firstly, the KTM Duke 390 2017 has been re-designed to have even a more sportier feel to it. It borrows the styles and characteristics from the 1290 Super Duke, thus becoming more aggressive, bold and fierce looking. You can easily tell so by the LED blinkers that has been lifted up, and also the from the split LED headlights, together with a full colour TFT display. The seats have also been mounted up 30 mm higher, making it 830 mm in height. Moreover, they’ve also expanded the fuel tank capacity to 13.4 litres, which is about 2.5 litres more than the older version. Although one thing to keep in mind is that in order for it to be compliant to Euro 4 regulations, its overall wet weight has been increased by about 10 kg.
KTM has fully acknowledged that the engines in first generation of the Duke 390 faced heat dissipation problems, and has proceeded to make improvements in the Duke 390 2017. They now use a liquid-cooled, single cylinder, 373.2 cc engine. Together with a 6-speed transmission, the Duke 390 2017 gives you a power at 44 bhp and 37 Nm of torque.
The selling price for the All New Duke 390 2017 is estimated to be around 225,000 Baht. It is also rumoured to be available for bookings in this up-coming January, and deliveries will be starting later in April 2017. Well, let’s hope that it can do exceedingly well in the market and can beat the sales number of its rivalry opponents, which is the BMW G310 R that is also made and assembled in India, the Honda CB300F, the Benelli TNT 302, and the Kawasaki Z300.
Posted: 17 April 2017
