KTM Superduke 990

[y2blade]

dern said:

Christ I love this bike, it's an absolute riot. Should have got one ages ago, it's not like they weren't recommended to me.

Like a 600 with a big grunty engine and so much more slingable that a bent over sports bike. Really confidence inspiring, makes all the right noises. Very pleased with it.

80 to fuel light on on the open road. 60 to light on on my commute which is through town but even town riding] on this things is a massive laugh.

I was right with you until that bit.....that honestly would drive me nuts, I've had a couple of bikes with sub 80mile tank range, didn't keep either very long

[gareth h]

y2blade said:

dern said:

Christ I love this bike, it's an absolute riot. Should have got one ages ago, it's not like they weren't recommended to me.

Like a 600 with a big grunty engine and so much more slingable that a bent over sports bike. Really confidence inspiring, makes all the right noises. Very pleased with it.

80 to fuel light on on the open road. 60 to light on on my commute which is through town but even town riding] on this things is a massive laugh.

I was right with you until that bit.....that honestly would drive me nuts, I've had a couple of bikes with sub 80mile tank range, didn't keep either very long

Does yours have the smaller tank (I think the earlier ones did)? I did 2000 miles in France / Spain on mine which has Akras / 2nd flies removed and a remap, we were filling up at 100-120 miles, I was using a bit more fuel than my mate who was on a speed triple who could probably gone 120-140 between stops, not going banzai but 80-90mph on A roads and whatever was safe through the mountains and B roads

[graham22]

y2blade said:

dern said:

Christ I love this bike, it's an absolute riot. Should have got one ages ago, it's not like they weren't recommended to me.

Like a 600 with a big grunty engine and so much more slingable that a bent over sports bike. Really confidence inspiring, makes all the right noises. Very pleased with it.

80 to fuel light on on the open road. 60 to light on on my commute which is through town but even town riding] on this things is a massive laugh.

I was right with you until that bit.....that honestly would drive me nuts, I've had a couple of bikes with sub 80mile tank range, didn't keep either very long

Filling up properly is the key to getting better tank range, if you stop once it gets to the filler neck then yes 80 miles before the light if you're lucky. The tank's widest bit is above this point,if you are careful, you can get quite a bit more fuel in after it gets to the bottom of the neck - not too hard to do compared to my Hayabusa which has an 'unleaded' restriction in the tank.

Having done this, I once managed 124 miles on my early SD, that was on the M4 being very gentle once the fuel light had come on at 100 miles.

OP your SD is the early model but it has the later model indicators and mirrors.

[dern]

y2blade said:

I was right with you until that bit.....that honestly would drive me nuts, I've had a couple of bikes with sub 80mile tank range, didn't keep either very long

I know what you mean but my commute is now down to 3 miles each way so most of the use mileage wise is just going out for a blast and 80 miles is fine for that. It would get really annoying for long trips or a long commute I imagine.

There's also the matter of not knowing what map I'm running. I've just ordered a tuneecu cable to check. When I had a good look over it a couple of weeks ago I found the silencers weren't fitted correctly which suggests that they were refitted after some after market silencers were removed before trading it in. It may still have the old map on as was suggested earlier in this thread and that may help the mpg... possibly. I lot of it though is the fact that the drive on it out of corners is addictive as is the noise on the overrun.

[dern]

bimsb6 said:

dern said:

Catch fire?

Anyway, I didn't mean that I knew it has had akros on, I said as far as I know it could have had them on. Just like any bike you don't know what's been removed prior to sale. It could also have been left standard. Don't know.

Worth finding out , ring previous owner from log book details? The catching fire bit we were told by either our local ktm dealer ( the ktm centre hemel ) or a friend who works for ktm uk , we can't remember which , i think it relates to overfuelling

Just thought I'd follow this up... I got a coy of tuneecu and a cable and checked out the map and it did have an akra map installed. I replaced that with the original map which was simplicity itself and the bike runs way better. I loved it before but now it's much smoother and even nicer to ride.

Cheers.