2017 KTM RC390 – Review

When KTM introduced the 250 Duke and RC in Japan back in 2015, little did we think then, that the motorcycle had any purpose in India. The KTM 200 Duke and 390 Duke were established products even then, but the price difference between the two wasn’t expansive enough to accommodate the quarter-litre version. However, the 2017 KTM Duke range is now on sale and while the 200 Duke is now slightly cheaper, the new generation 390 has gotten more tech friendly and a lot more expensive. Naturally so, a void that was created and has now been duly filled by the 250 Duke. With India being the latest market to get the 250 cc offering, we took the 2017 250 Duke to the Bajaj test track to see what KTM’s fifth offering in the country is all about.