‘Pump Kinn’ grabs some more quality time riding KTM´s new 390 Duke. Here’s what he thinks…

Motorcycling usually involves a very simple rule of thumb: the better the bike, the more you want to ride it. A bit like eating chocolate. When I was riding the 390 the thought of Salzburg’s legendary chocolate – ‘Mozart’ – balls with pistachio marzipan and nougat came to mind; small but tasty and a real delicacy. Once tasted, it’s hard to stop.

After riding the 390 for a full day at the launch event on Salzburg, I went to the ‘orange people’ and coyly asked if some more bike time was possible. So the next day when the test fleet of 36 motorcycles were loaded on trucks to be brought back to Mattighofen, one was left over and the keys placed in my hands. “Have fun,” they said…So I loaded my stuff in the tank and luggage bags and rode off smiling.

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