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I see a certain passion existing between you and your bikes, the way you talk about them, the way you look at them, it reminds me of a little appreciated but a brilliant film called AJANTRIK by a great director called Ritwik Ghatak where he depicts the relationship between a man his passion, his vintage car.

I really want to see you one day riding one of those Great restored Classics.

tnanks a lot Ken da to see that... i am going to try and work out my way to that classic of my dream a well restored Vintage Bike. not sure what yet but yes.


Wait this is going to be completed to day itself

Where is the love.


In the end of november the bike started giving me problems with the starting idleing and all that. Again too it to the mechanic. To find out out that the timming needs to be worked out as the timming pinions are fake as discussed earlier. I was still fine cause I thought to my self that ok another grand would not hurt. But there was some thing that was to be unpacked for me. We opened up the head cause there were weird sound being made in the barrel. Then we came to know that the barrel was also sleaved it was not a good thing cause the ovualty of the piston had changed cause of that and the bike was picking up the engine oil even though I never realize it. So this time it was decied that I am going to get the engine done and that would put my worries to end. The whole engine rebuild cost me 10K in total. It was a pain. But I was in love at that time with my JEETA. The bike ran fine it was the end of the month of feb that I had my bike with almost 200 km on the dial after the engine was done. I had to do the runnin of the bike as I had to go to the ultimate ride of the till life. Taking this to the account I planned a small trip to Braj Ghat almost 70 Km from GZB. Things were going fine just when I crossed the city of gazziabad. (till now I had been riding at 50-60)I tried to open up a bit and bham. The exaust valve went kaput and I was strangled there. Any way a new exaust valve did the trick there. After that every thing went fine till the last days when the bike was being prepared for the trip, came to know that the clutch center was no good for the ride and would not be able to handel the stress. No choice because I was in love got the thing changed at that time it was like 3000 that was spent again just on the repairs. This and that tits and bits. But I was a happy camper. The bike ran real good for 2400 KM out of which most of you know how hard is the terrain, the bike gave no problems. No problems means nothing at all. Even the bike knee deep in water did not stall which was amazing. I was just so thankfull to the all mighty and JEETA for making my RIDE to the top of the world a success.


to be continued.

Wow! That was interesting. I am still thinking of my Bullet days. I learnt on my father's Bullet when I could not even reach the ground with my feet. He taught me to open his first Jawa when most of the guys out here were not even born other than our Aeronautical Engineer! And then he helped me get my first Enfield when I was 22. As I was telling you, I do not remember the number of times that Bullet had stalled just at the hint of some heavy clouds in the sky and I had to push it back to my room in the Univ, often 8-10kms on the trot. But I never parted with it. Had installed disc brakes on them in the 90s. Travelled entire Rajasthan, North UP, Rohtang Pass several times and thankfully I never had problems while touring. I rode that for 15 years through a LOT. I felt quite grief stricken giving her away. But I did it with a heavy heart.

How did you manage it when your Valve went Bham at Ghaziabad. You got your bike towed to a mech? There are such similarities in the stories that people had to go through with their Bullets! And yet they cling on to them. And that factor is inexplicable. Whch is what DD calls Love.

Actually with the Valve thingi. i opened up the whole thing rite there on the road it self. the Valve was jamed had nothing to lose borrowed a chisel and a iron hammer from a local construction worked and BHAM once BHAMMMM!!! twice and there it went gave me the ability to ride back to the nearest mechanic. i also may have some photos that i will post up some time

I guess that is how Bullets work!!

hey desideep,
i remember u had a post on ur bullet before the server crash!! howz the bike turned out now?? all set and fine??

I dont believe this! Is this really true! It sounds incredible.

Man just keep a eye on this thread you will know all.

I know when my mechanic told me to do this i was not sure if he bull crapping or some thing but then i tried and it did work.

I guess we had a chit char session.. at athe dhabha once..and he told us the same thing..
and we all were like.. is it really that a bullet could work like this....and yes we were amazed..
and certainly after that..Deep's bullet's battery got drained again we had to start it with a jugaard..

That was a lovely writeup man. Bham Bhaaaam being the best part. lolz.

OT: Well your Avtar is confusing. Royal Enfield and Yamaha Logo??

Thanks yes the Bham Bham was the best part in the thread and also on that day if i would not have got that idea from KAKA Jee Bullet wale then i would have been strangled in gaziabad draging some odd 170 KG's


I have both of them and they hold same place in my heart and thats why the avtar.

Bringing this thread back alive, I just bid farewell to another great friend last evening and already feeling an empty space and all lost!!

Then was doing the count and realized its happened before and has taken quite long to refill that space..

2003
Bid farewell to my Caliber a.k.a "Butterfly" to get myself a Bullet Machismo

2005
Bid farewell to my stock bullet a.k.a "Nessie" for she underwent major surgery after which she was rechristened "Black Venom" (well this kinda took some getting used to, from stock to redone)

2008
Bid farewell to my not so stock bullet a.k.a "Black Venom" due to reasons beyond my control such as travel time, distances and working hours and days. So settled to using a Zen a.ka. "Silver Streak"

2009
Bid farewell to a Thunderbird a.ka. "Crucifer" (borrowed for 4 months) from a friend who wasn't able to use the bike due to health conditions. Now back to settling with "Silver Streak" who was used by everyone but me during that period of time.

June 2009 will bid farewell to "Silver Streak" as I would be off to Coimbatore and would not be taking her with me there, and she would be used by everyone else but me all over again..

The bright side of it all is that end of this month another "Black Venom" will be born but more in the form of a much much much smaller bike the Unicorn. And yes she is all black as well as "Black Venom" was. Just trying my level best to get the same registration number as "Black Venom" and hopefully I don't really have to shell out too much money to get the number as well..