Fantastic bike.....enjoy

With crazy import duty on bikes made or assembled outside of Asia. In Thailand the price tag on the Duke is 660,000 Bart which is about $21,000 gulp !!!!

 

Thanks man! You guys are lucky to get the FI bikes over there and it looks like you have yours modified nicely with the 330 kit and the cams!

 

Just a little update to my experience with the Duke. The bike has developed its first problem. I commute on the bike to work which is about 9 miles. I ride the bike into work at 7am. I have to park the bike outside in an uncovered spot so it sits in the sun all day. One day last week I rode in to work no problems. 5 comes around and its time to head home so I walk out to the bike and fire her up. The engine fires up quickly so I drop it into gear and take off. I made it about 15 feet and the engine dies and refuses to restart. The engine cranks over strong but will not fire up. No warnings lights or anything just no start. I push the bike back to my shop and bring it indoors. I notice that when I turn the ignition on the fuel pump isn't priming. After sitting inside in the air conditioning for about 20 minutes, I turn the ignition and BZZZZZZ the fuel pump finally primes and of course the engine fires right up. I was leary to ride the bike home thinking it might stall on me again but it made it home just fine, the bike ran perfect. Well this same thing happened to me about 5 times before I finally broke down (no pun intended) and took it into the dealer. They think they've found the bad part (TPS sensor, which I'm skeptical is the culprit) and the part should be here in a week. General consenus on the net is the fuel pumps are the crap. I may end up having to purchase an aftermarket pump that is superior to the KTM pump. Lame.

I was worried about getting a bike that had so much more technology on it. One think to love about the KLX is the technology is so brainless that there are much fewer things to potentially wrong. I had the KLX for a year and I never had one problem with it. I just had to have that extra horsepower! DOH.

 

There are some who carry a spare fuel pump any time they are leaving cell phone coverage.

 

ptech's new thread:

Will trade KTM for KLX.


jesting, couldn't resist. hope it all works out.

 

Hahah thats good.

 

well I hope it gets resolved as I know how excited you are about the bike.
nowadays you just never know about product reliability even within a premium brand.
in other news the KLX doing great, fueling could be a bit better but since I am after mpg will keep that way... buying a TCI windscreen an seat concept seat for it to see if I can turn it into a mini GS1200