Since its introduction, the 390 Duke has become KTM’s “bread and butter” bike outselling all other KTM models. Aside from being a great performer in its category, there’s another reason it’s KTM’s biggest-selling bike: in markets where 125s dominate, it is considered a big motorcycle. Because of this, it has received some big-bike changes for 2024, getting a slew of improvements and tech that you’d normally see on bigger-displacement motorcycles. As we discovered riding it along mountain roads just outside of Almeria, Spain, the 390 Duke has also grown up in the process.
THREE GENERATIONS
The KTM Duke celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The 390 Duke isn’t that old, having been introduced in 2013. That first-gen 390 was followed in 2017 by the redesigned second generation, which remained mostly unchanged until…
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