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2. Maintainence cost, India is place of dirt and grime, precisely why evn the 100cc bikes here have heavy duty full chain covers, so that dust doesent eat them away.I think that would be unfair to brand india as a dirty country. Yes , most of the cities are dirty, but just get away a bit and its paradise. Last week I had gone to Corbett National Park in the Gharwal Hills – and that place is just beautiful – uncomparable to anything else. You should also try out Darjeeling and Sikkim side… beautiful.
4. Non availability of parts. If something breaks … you can’t get a replacement and have to import it. I know a chap in chennai, with a ducati, whose fairing had cracked a year back .. and he still has not been able to get a replacement.
i thought import duties on bikes was around the 150 – 200 % mark.
rotfl. that’s good. he he he.
you guys got some really farfetched imagination !how about the scooter ?
it comes with a booklet which has the instructionf for calliberating it. basically depends on wheel circumference which you need to measure.
for correct readings, you need to change the magnet you are using. why don’t you ask the guys at rddreams ? they have been doing it for ages.
cross post by a friend and a bullet enthusiast… which I would say is pretty comprehensive about the bullet scene here :
Firstly I hope your dream of touring India on a motorcycle comes true
one day, India is a really beautiful country once you leave the
metropolitan cities aside:).And when I say beautiful , take my word
it IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL:).Now coming to the bikes.
Enfield has been around for a couple of decades now , and has hardly
made any changes to their basic model they had come out with.In our
Bullet community a rider known as Ashwin who is a very learned person
said in an article of his :
“To me, the Bullet stands for simplicity. A design that worked well
not because it changed to incorporate every new discovery at NASA,
but because the folks that designed it 50 years ago got everything
right the first time. And then didn’t try to fix things that weren’t
broke. It’s a bike that has built a reputation for being reliable,
simple to work with, comfortable to be with, and lasts a whole
lifetime. which is definitely a whole lifetime longer than the Japs,
who outdate their throwaway models before one has even paid the
second EMI.”
To read the whole article go to this link :
https://www.royalenfield.com/theride_content.asp?ride_id=453&news_id=Bullets are a very reliable bike to tour the country in.And if you
take proper good care of it this bike would never let you down.
I have just come down from Goa and have also posted the article on it
but did not mention about the foreigners who ride around the city
over there.Goa is flooded with Bullets modified in all kinds of ways
but most of it is cosmetic upgradation the heart aka the engine is
untouched for the simple reason they are more than satisfied with the
power and torque the bullet pumps out.And like Vibhu said in one of
his mails , any road side mechanic could fix your bike without any
hassles.In long rides hardly anything can go wrong and you should
know if anything does go wrong what could it possibly be.
ONce you have decided to come to India and settle for a bike I shall
give you all the problems and the medicine to them which you could
face on the road.Yes it is true that you have to pamper the bike a lot.Like Vibhu said
its a maintenance intensive bike, unlike the Hero Honda’s and other
brands available in the Indian market.Ride Safe
Thanks ID,
currently I just write for my friends and myself. I don’t know if magazines here in india will pay for such stuff … but if you know any Uk publication which would … please let me know !! [
]Photos are there, but I do not know how to upload them here.
If you want to see some, you can join up at http://www.bikenomads.com , and go to the ‘through the camera’ link to see the pics.
Enjoy the Ghats [
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basically a bike will get you where the cars/buses can’t.
but most of the religious places requre you to get off the bike and trek a bit… mostly barefoot ( mark of respect).motorcyles.about.com
I ride with the headlights on while on trips. Not in the city. There is no penalty for riding with lights on, but mostly the people on the road will drive you crazy indicating that your headlight is on !!! Used to irritate me no amount in the beginning, but now I take it as a signal that the light bulb has not fused [
]666, hope you enjoyed the ride in the woods !
Hi Radar, ID.
Truth to tell, I also did not know that such places existed in india, cause we normally just stay in the cities & towns, and the tour operators only suggest places which are more famous ( and hence more populated). It requires some research and then you just have to go out and figure out if your research helped.A couple of trips I have to do sometime. Timelines are not really fixed…
1) A Trip to Leh. This is the mecca of riders. It has the highest motorable road in the world at the Khardungla pass. A few friends from the RD club went on their bikes . The log is at https://www.bikeszone.com/mab00019.htm . This trip can only be done during the summer season, as most of that area is closed due to snow during other parts of the year.
2) A trip around india. Basically India is huge. We have read about it in History books and geographic books (in school), but have not really seen most of it. So I am planning on this ride too… Most probably this will need to be done during spring or autumn so that both the south and north can be covered. The issue – I need a month off from work !!!I will keep you updated if these plans materialize.
As rajnish mentioned, most people prefer the bullets for rides. This is due to the fact that they are the only tourers available. However, we do have people doing the trips on other bikes. I use my CBZ, the link given above has RDs touring, and another of my friends did Leh on his pulsar .
India is a beautiful country – if we get away from the towns and cities.
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Originally posted by 666beastWhat’s a Kilometre? Only joking but I think going prone is the only way to ride, whatever the bike. You can really gain an extra few mph (or kph) that way. You’ve always got to beat your last attempt!
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The company specifies that the bike’s topend is 105. Initially that was all i could do… then i started crouching. 110 is normal now, 115 sometimes. 120 twice… (helped by a downward gradient [] )anyone knows of a good printable schedule for 2004 ?
Hiya radar, seems like you enjoy the twisties.. my personal favourite
But man, the speeds you were doing were phoenomenal. 95-100mph !!! that’s like 160kmph here !!!
Following are a few twisties that I have experienced…
– Going from Bangalore to Mangalore. A stretch of twisties come which takes about 1 hour to cross. There were 16 bikes in all in the group going ( 10 bullets, 4 RD 350s, 1 Pulsar, 1 CBZ (me !). As we started the ghats ( the local term given to the twisties in south india), I decided to break away from the bullet pack (they were going too slow for me in those lovely hills), and raced ahead. That was the only time I have been able to keep up with the RDs
. Basically a friend of mine on a blue RD saw me on his tail, and the race was on.. My Bike leans better than the RDs, so every corner, I would gain a bit on him, which would all go waste as soon as the corner finished – the burst of acceleration from the RD being too great for my CBZ to handle. That was fun !– The second trip that i can’t forget was going to the Kudremukh National Park ( again south india. I was working in bangalore at that time). I was doing this trip solo, and after the 100+ speeds on the state highways, i finally struck the hills. Its about 70kms of twisties. The roads in the initial parts is very bad (I think about 20kms). After that, it becomes bliss !!! The road passes through tight twists .. opens up into paddy field valleys, where you are suddenly brushing past the rice growing taller than you and your bike combine, and again hitting the tight twisities. About 30kms of this, and then you hit the mountains – the temperature difference is noticible … and the scenery is just marvelous. The roads at this point are about the best roads in the hills I have seen here, and with very sparse traffic.
My next sojourn would probably be to the roads up the Himalayas. I have grown up there, but when I did get a bike, I am about 2000kms away from there
. The beauty of those mountains is just breathtaking !We don’t have speed cameras … but… we really can’t do justice to speeds !
At least not with the current produced bikes. I know some stretches where I am going flat out at 110kmph on my bike , crowched low over the tank, the chest touching the fuel cap, and wishing i hade more horses under me
Checked out the writeup..
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. The beauty of those mountains is just breathtaking !