Dirt and Trail Dec 2019

NEW BIKES GALORE
Lots of new technology has been revealed at the global Eicma show… here
are a few snippets to whet your appetite:
The KTM 390
Adventure Is
Happening
It has taken a long time to wrangle this bike into
existence, but the KTM 390 Adventure is officially a
thing now and coming in 2020.
We could look back through the pages of Dirt and
Trail Magazine, and see when we first started talking
about this small-sized ADV bike, it has been quite a
while in the making.
The good news though is that the KTM 390
Adventure arrives with an exclamation point, and it
is certain to dominate in markets where the 373cc
engine is considered quite large and peppy. This is
because the Austrians have designed the KTM 390
Adventure to be actually taken off-road.
Unlike some of the other bikes in this category, they
tell us that the 2020 KTM 390 Adventure is intended
to get dirty, and it was built to haul riders and gear
around the world, if necessary.
That is a big promise from the orange & black
brand, but it fits in line with the company’s ethos
and approach to motorcycles. The 2020 KTM 390
Adventure isn’t an ADV bike for the sake of having
something that looks the part – this KTM looks the
part because, they say, it actually can do it.
If specs are your thing, the KTM 390 Adventure
makes 43hp, 37 Nm of torque, and tips the scales at
158 kg without fuel.
There are other goodies to the package, like the
slipper clutch on the motor, and the adjustable
(rebound/compression) APEX suspension from WP
(6.7″ / 7″ of travel, front and back). In total, there is
200mm of ground clearance.
KTM didn’t skimp on the electronics either. As such,
the 2020 KTM 390 Adventure has standard cornering
ABS with off-road mode and traction control (MTS).
There is an optional up/down quickshifter as well.
We don’t have word on pricing yet, but we do know
that the KTM 390 Adventure will be coming to SA as
a 2020 model.
Looking VERY forward to that!
6 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019