Ducati Multistrada 1200 versus KTM 390 Adventure
Ducati Multistrada 1200
KTM 390 Adventure
Year of construction / RRP / Test report
Competitors
- Power
- Sound
- Precise chassis
- Space
- Equipment
- Wieselflink
- Pillion comfort
- Low weight
- Sparse furnishings
- Price
Dimensions & Weight
Length : 2.190 mm Height : 1.495 mm
Seat : 845 mm
Weight : 232 kg
Seat : 855 mm
Weight : 172 kg
Engine
Displacement: 1.198 ccm
Hub: 68 mm
Hole: 106 mm
Cooling: flüssig
Drive: Kette
Displacement: 373 ccm
Hub: 60 mm
Hole: 89 mm
Cooling: flüssig
Drive: X-Ring, Kette
Aisles: 6
Performance
Performance: 152 HP at 9.500 U/Min
Torque: 128 NM bei 7.500 U/Min Tank contents: 20 Litre
Performance: 44 HP at 9.000 U/Min
Torque: 37 NM bei 7.000 U/Min Tank contents: 15 Litre
Consumption: 3 l
Reach: 426 km
Chassis
Mono-featherleg
Tubular space frame, powder-coated (steel) Front suspension:
43mm WP APEX fork, adjustable in rebound and compression (travel 170 mm) Rear suspension:
WP APEX Monoshock (travel 177 mm)
Rear suspension:
Two-arm swingarm Tyres at the front: 100/90-19
Rear tyres: 130/80-17
Brakes
Double disc Rear brake
Disk
Single disc, 4-piston radial fixed caliper (∅ 320 mm) Rear brake
Single disc, 1-piston floating caliper (∅ 230 mm)
Superbike for everyday use
What's stuck? The Multistrada is a capped superbike that is suitable for everyday use, allows long tours at a time, is fast and also ensures the passenger a comfortable livelihood.
It offers almost the same riding performance as a superbike, the same stability when it needs to go faster and packs a wendigkeit. It is the superbike for the rider, who no longer wants to edge on the motorcycle, but may enjoy the upright posture.
With her whole facility she enjoyed Dietmar and me a lot.
For everyone else, think about it well. If you don't want to be constantly challenged, who enjoys the peace, who gets the constant roar ingenuity on your nerves, who wants to cruise first – let it stay.
The test bike was provided to us by Ducati Hamburg.Good, but expensive
What about the third puzzle mentioned at the beginning? What kind of bike is this? Then we get the gaaaaanz big club out. The world would be better if we all ate less meat, practiced safer sex and not just drove as an A2 driver's license holder KTM 390 Adventure. The safety equipment is convincing. Alone, the world is not like that. The problem with the KTM is that it is so wonderfully equipped that it is as safe as possible, but therefore cannot be cheap at all. Is it not, at EUR 6,195, what makes the answer to the question of classification even more complicated.
For a good 6,000 you get a good bike with the KTM, which has no development possibilities. It will always have 44 hp, that's the end of the flagpole. This is either enough for you in the long run – or you put a few hundred euros on it and move in the area of the Kawasaki Z 650 or Yamaha MT-07, which are throttled A2 compliant and later after the penitenting period with 75 hp are extremely enjoyable fun bringers.
The KTM 390 Adventure is too expensive to be used as a pure beginner bike. On the other hand, 44 hp is not enough for most motorcyclists in the long run. So a great bike is finally found between all the chairs.
The test bike was provided to us by Motorrad Ruser in Haseldorf near Hamburg
