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Originally Posted by AtheK
If you liked the seating of dominar more, why don't you look at CBR as well, yes agreed it is pretty old but its still a great bike.
Also a bit OT, but were you able to get the OTR price of duke 390, and anyting dealer said about availability. |
Couldn't agree more with you
AtheK and CBR 250R was where I wanted to put my money. In fact, I first went into the Honda showroom for the same reason, before I visited the KTM, but the following reasons sent me running away:
- No TR vehicles available with anybody. If a rare one does happen, the bike is pathetically abused and could not really give an iota of the true CBR sense.
- The available bikes seem like some sort of "Stock Clearance", as almost all of them are either a December or earlier manufactured.
Only the Repsol edition seems new, but somehow it just seems too loud for my taste.
- The service bills were predicted to be ~3-4K excluding labour!!
I already have a white elephant in my garage (GT TDI) and not really keen to own a White Stallion as well.
- OTR price of the Non ABS in Bangalore is 1.94 Lakhs, which seems to bit too steep considering it is over a half a decade old design and no real visibility of its future in India.
Have no clue bro on the OTR price for the 2017 D390, but looking at the trend, I think it must be ~2.6-2.7 Lakhs in
Namma Bengaluru.
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Originally Posted by CrAzY dRiVeR
The real review is out -
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Awesome
CrAzY dRiVeR and thank you for sharing it here
I agree to the fact that D250 looks like a 600cc bike when viewed from the side. I have never liked the looks of the D200 and this iteration by KTM is just brilliant.
From the review, the D250's advantage is probably more apparent on a closed circuit/race track. In fact, when I was around for the D250 display, just the startup and revving lead to some considerable heating on the tank and around.
So for someone like me, whose primary requirement is B2B commute, D200 probably makes more sense, which unfortunately I don't like.
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Originally Posted by Amey Kulkarni
I agree with you. Waiting so long for a Bike is not at all worth it and one more point is what is KTM doing?
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Exactly
Amey, and the
NEED for a 2 wheeler is more than the
WANT for me.
Many of my daily chores warrant a 2 wheeler, and I don't think I am able to convince myself that I can be a 'Biker' on the weekends. So I may well just look for something that serves my purpose, rather than the fantasies.
For all the Weekend Rush/Adrenaline, I still got my German Road Runner.
P.S - I have now spoken to the KTM folks to initiate the Cancellation of the D250 booking.
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