Hi Aditya,

Thank you for the reply.

Will get these done at the 5000 Km (already over due!!) service.

Sounds to me like,ur AFR ratio is a bit lean... And reagarding engine roughness..chk your oil level and top up if necessary.. Engine oil n AFR are the main possible culprits for such problems.. Gud luk..

Pulsar 200 NS Acceleration problem

Hi!

I am having a very frustrating problem / issue with my NS.

The bike is 60 days / 5400 kms and is due for servicing soon.

Since the last 1500 kms or so, the engine has become very rough.... and the acceleration has also become very weak. It accelerates like a 100cc till about 7500 rpm, after which it gathers a bit of pace. Till about 3800-4000 kms, I was able to clock 148 kmph top on a daily basis, but since that time the acceleration has dropped, the bike takes ages to reach even 130 kmph. It also feels under powered, and is hardly accelerating in top gear. I took it to the service station but, they simply adjusted the ration and cleaned the air filter, with NO result / improvement. Instead, it has started to heat up too much, and knocks like crazy in 2nd and 3rd gear when it heats up with a further fall in acceleration.

I have made no mods to the bike till now, and am using the Bajaj engine oil.

Any suggestion guys about what could be the problem / issue...???

Also, anybody here using FS oil from Castrol / Motul.
Please share your feedback about the same.

Cheers!

You're the first owner I'v come across whose low fuel level indicator comes on at 3 bars! All others (whom i know) have it when two bars are left. But again...the digital fuel gauge is very mis-leading.

On my NS, the reserve light comes on at 3 bars and reserve is reached at 2 bars. It varies from bike to bike.

no no i have never turned to reserve yet..i am only at 83km and when i took my delivery the bike was about 11 or 12 km on odo(no fuel bars and the reserve light blinking and petrol knob on reserve)...i filled 4 litres and now its on 2 bars with reserve light blinking...

my frnd had a 220 and his bike showed no petrol when there was about 4-5 litres of petrol has the reserve light showing...so i guess its the bajaj trademark of faulty reserve which we'll have to live with...

i'll change to reserve only when the bike gasps for fuel....

today i thought i hit reserve and there were 2 bars but then realized i forgot to turn the knob to "ON" :P

Till date whenever my bike has hit reserve, I've never had any bar on the fuel gauge. Rather my bike hits reserve about 5-10kms after the bars disappear.
Yes the reserve light when there are two bars. And sometimes if I switch off the console and restart it, the light goes off. Yes, never trust the light or the fuel gauge.

The dealers don't give any fixed quantity of petrol, it may vary from .5 lts to 2 lts.
I got .5 lts at the time of delivery.

Till on what basis do you switch to reserve...console or the engine gasping?
Next time try not switching to to reserve until your bike gasps/jerks for fuel.

are you sure?
my console sometimes shows 2 bars and soemtimes 3 bars

when it shows 2 bars the reserve light glows...

i know you can never trust the reserve light...

when i got delivery of my bike it showed no bars and reserve light ON and i rode about 5 km and filled 4 litres of petrol...

after 72 km it shows 2 bars and the reserve light....

if it hits reserve at no bars all my mileage calcs are wrong....well just a rough calc and not reseree to reserve or tankfull to tank full

any idea how much petrol the showroom guys give at delivery??

The bike hits the reserve level when there are NO bars on the console.

This could be an afr issue or a cold start issue too. since you took out your bike for a small ride, I assume that you may have not gone too far when this problem occurred. Even my bike used to shut down when I used to try to throttle immediately after it started, but would work fine on slow gradual throttle. So you may want to check if its a cold start issue. Try using choke if it happens to be the problem.

I don't think it's a problem of Faulty engine.
Rather i think the fuel line or the carburetor or Both might be clogged because of dirty fuel. Clean and check out the fuel lines along with the carb.
hope it will solve the matter!!

Booked the vehicle 200NS on 19/10/12 and now after taking the delivery on 31/10/12 from Popular Bajaj showroom Banashankari 2^nd stage bangalore and returning to home as it was raining.. the bike engine started to shutdown at regular intervals..firstly thought that it might be cold start as the weather was cold due to rain..and this continued..and after 4-5 such stops the choke also didnt start to work..my journey to home was 80% pushing the vehicle..as the vehicle would start go few meters and then stop and then starts after 10mins..people were like mocking as new bike from delivery and pushing on road..it was such a disappointment..at a point in an road intersection the engine shutdown and didnt start, the policeman there helped me push the vehicle aside as it caused traffic jam..so hopeless situation..
Dont know what the problem is..is it the faulty engine..literally had to push my new vehicle drenching in rain to home as it didnt start at all when reached 1/2 km away from home..
Is it the same case of faulty engine..is it a serious issue..please reply

Seems like your NS's AFR need to be checked. Check at Authorized service center.

Time to get updated buddy..
NS is a carbed bike, while Duke is an Fi bike

@godzzilla, I too think the problem was with the fuel knob not turned to reserve mode.
Try that

reserve knob???

my glamour pgm-fi does not have the knob..because of fi technology ..i think ns may not have the knob..this kind of bike must have the fi tech..

and one more thing... my key chain's bottom part (metal) just fell off from the key while riding and it went through the gap between the tank and the head.... i though it got stuck somewhere and that created the problem and was searching for it but couldnt find it.... so i just assumed that it fell somewhere in the road...... would that possibly be a part of the prob??