{"id":55506,"date":"2020-06-09T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=55506"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:01:31","slug":"2020-ktm-390-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2020\/06\/2020-ktm-390-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessible\u200c \u200cAdventurer\u200c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u200c \u200csmaller-displacement,\u200c \u200cfull-size\u200c \u200cadventure\u200c \u200cbike\u200c \u200cfor\u200c \u200cthe\u200c \u200cmasses\u200c.<\/p>\n<p>Since KTM began production back in 2011 of its smaller Duke models, no fewer than 515,000 KTM motorcycles have been built by Bajaj Auto, KTM\u2019s partner, in Pune, India. According to Stefan Pierer, KTM\u2019s president and CEO, volume gradually increased throughout this decade until more than 100,000 such bikes left the Pune production lines in 2018, around half of them for India and Indonesia, two of the top three bike markets globally. The rest went to countries all over the world, from Austria to Australia, from Ukraine to the U.S. More than 20 per cent of KTM\u2019s total 2018 production of 261,454 bikes headed to the U.S., split between its eponymous brand and Husqvarna,<\/p>\n<p>None of those Indian-built KTMs, however, were directly descended from the kind of dual-purpose on\/off-road bikes that have made Austria-based KTM so successful in the marketplace since introducing its first 620 Adventure multi-purpose single-cylinder back in 1996. That absence is widely attributed to Bajaj boss Rajiv Bajaj\u2019s lack of conviction that any real demand existed for such machines in his company\u2019s massive home market, which is the largest in the world for combustion-engined motorcycles. That\u2019s despite the challenging road surfaces found throughout India, which a street Enduro\u2019s longer-travel suspension ideally would cope with, and the traffic-clogged cities through which a taller seat height is beneficial in helping plot a course \u2013 let alone the glorious adventure riding possibilities throughout the subcontinent. One can only conjecture that the advent of the 411 cc Royal Enfield Himalayan and the Indian-built BMW G310GS in the past two years may have helped change his mind \u2013 that, and Stefan Pierer\u2019s talent for persuasion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>390 Adventure\u2019s Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-55520\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/315272_390-Adventure-2020-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">That absence has now been addressed with the launch of the first small-displacement KTM go-anywhere bike at the 2019 EICMA Show in Milan. The KTM 390 Adventure, developed primarily in KTM\u2019s R&amp;D Centre at its HQ in Mattighofen, Austria, will be entirely manufactured in India. Using the 390 Duke as a platform, the Adventure\u2019s distinctive design is also derived from the company\u2019s dominant KTM rally bike, which won the iconic Dakar race 18 years in a row, from 2001 to 2019. Indeed, with such rally events limited to 450 cc bikes since 2011, KTM can justly claim that the 390 Adventure is more closely related to the company\u2019s serial race-winning off-roaders than its larger-displacement parallel-twin 790 Adventure and V-twin 1290 Super Adventure models are.<\/p>\n<p>I was the first outsider to ride the preproduction version of the new model and the bike promises to be a genuine multi-purpose entry-level motorcycle rather than a look-alike styling exercise or a neo-retro nostalgia bike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Purchase the issue to continue reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u200c \u200csmaller-displacement,\u200c \u200cfull-size\u200c \u200cadventure\u200c \u200cbike\u200c \u200cfor\u200c \u200cthe\u200c \u200cmasses\u200c. Since KTM began production back in 2011 of its smaller Duke models, no fewer than 515,000 KTM motorcycles have been built by Bajaj Auto, KTM\u2019s partner, in Pune, India. According to Stefan Pierer, KTM\u2019s president and CEO, volume gradually increased throughout this decade until more than 100,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850,366,1893,1835],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2020 KTM 390 Adventure Motorcycle Review | Motorcycle Mojo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the July 2020 issue of Motorcycle Mojo magazine, we see the latest adventure motorcycle from KTM with a review of the 2020 KTM 390 Adventure.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2020\/06\/2020-ktm-390-adventure\/\" 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