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My first comment here at xbhp.

Once I was in my first love rx-135 with roots horn. Was honking the whole road just to keep pests away from my way. Suddenly a mid aged woman on her new scooty pushes her indicators and takes a sharp right . I was just overtaking her and then hit her at 50+. She fell and over her the scooty and me too.

I stood up and shouted wouldn't you look whether anybody is coming behind before you turn.

Then comes a shock from a novice
"Why should I see"
I started bursting in laughter then later rolled my rx135 to my mechanic friend and left home.

These women are always to be watched for, they're like a Pandora's Box, anything can burst from their brains....

No offence intended

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I'll say, "worth it uncle" and I removed the pillion footrest and made her single seater..

TBH, in my whole 2.5 years of ownership, I had a pillion just under 10 rides in all the 100s that I went.... that too they were complaining like crazy.. so hell with it yeah!!!!

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still relevant till this day....!!!

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my neighbors know me as a bike freak, common around here I guess, some were talking of my marriage with my bike to my mom!!!!!
It so happened that one of my neighbors picked a new bike, BS4, headlamp on, he thought that the bike has some issue and asked me, so I explained him that the headlight on is a safety feature and blah blah, dude traveled a lot to the USA and all, but whatever, he called up the showroom guy to confirm if I was telling the truth and he was kind off satisfied..

a couple of statements he said:

"doesn't that waste the electricity?? I mean, c'mon, why would you need your headlamp on to be visible on broad daylight"
"it's not like it's foggy here or we're living in some hill station that's foggy"
"this is a stupid feature"

while on a different occasion I met one dude at night 9.30 riding around without his headlamp on, when asked what's up? his response:

"well, simply, just like that, I don't use headlight ever...!!"

and then we got hordes of folks using high beam everywhere in this city!!!!

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Same guy!


I've got a P220 that has been souped up with goodies from Sahyadri, Mumbai but I seldom use it as most of my commutes these days are intra-state. Plus I'm as passionate about the CT100B as any hardcore RE guy is about his Bullet, I was planning on getting it for more than a year before I could actually buy it.


As far as safety is concerned my next addon is a pair of Acerbis Handguards for the CT100B, I've already sourced them, but I'm yet to install. Would put up pics once I do.

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Ahh!! The bell qualifier. You must be the guy who posted the review of CT100 on team-bhp. CT100s and Bell (any other high end helmets ) are certainly a rarity and an extreme one at that. In fact the first thing i thought when i came across your review was that..." This guy perhaps has a more powerful bike, and hence the bell"

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My Saturday/Sunday night ritual consists of washing my bike and lubing the chain. More often than not, I would be in shorts with really shabby T-shirt (my weekend attire ). One day a gentleman who was new in building asked me how much will I charge to clean his bike.

I said Rs 4,000 per week. He said something of the effect of WTF? I said yes, I am a highly qualified washerman having done my MBA from IIM Lucknow.

Was really funny to look at his face when he realized what I was talking about.

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I've experienced the same with MT when I was working at Kochi, people who own exorbitantly high priced phones made fun of me for investing 6.5k on a helmet but over the time I've somehow adapted and learnt to ignore such comments, but that wasn't it! I recently shifted to Trivandrum, and since I've been wanting to own a CT100 for a long time I got one as well along with a new Bell Qualifier, people at work are now concerned about my mental well being because the ideal thing they would've done is to settle fora cheaper helmet and invest the 10K spent on the Bell to opt for a better motorcycle. I did put in effort to convince them, but **** it! Commoners just wont understand!

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Lul. Ok. . . . . . .

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Yes it does! Didn't you know? It's the thumb starter!

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People are astonished at the cost of my helmet. They feel that i was a moron to pay Rs.6500 for a helmet.

A guy curiously looking at my MT helmet starts a conversation :

Guy : What does your helmet cost ?

Me : Rs.6500

Guy : ..You can get a helmet for Rs.300/-. why spend so much on helmet.

Me: Safety

Guy : After all your life depends on luck !!

Me: Now changing my argument...why did u pay 70000 for an iphone when u can get a micromax with same features for 7000.

Guy : Brand name and quality dude.

Me : Exactly!! You are a phone freak and am a bike freak.

Guy did not seem convinced.

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So i drive the rc200 and one dude stopped beside me and started asking me questions. And at one time he asked me if there is a button to do a wheelie. I was like what? He explains that i heard these bikes have a button that if you press the bikes do a wheelie automatically. And that's how those racers do it too. I didn't know what to say. I looked at him for a while and said no this dosent have it. Then he goes ahead and says then why did you pay 2 lakhs for it?
I didn't have any words. This was a week back in Hyderabad, koti. Lol.

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No joke [emoji2] and he said it with so much conviction that it took me a minute to realise the crap! haha

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I think the pillion holds a big spoiler to generate downforce in this case!

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If you would have been buying an inline 4 I am certain he would have shown you a family of 4 seated on a 100 cc commuter and told you to buy that at 6 lakhs less!

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Hahahaha 😂😂😂😂

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This happened to me recently.

Me: going to buy a Yamaha R3

Duke 200 owner: how much is it for?

Me: around 4L

Duke 200 owner: instead buy RC390 it's much cheaper than that

Me: but R3 is parallel twin

Duke 200 owner: dude you are mistaken! even on RC390, 2 people can sit. The rear seat is actually called a cowl!