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Please change the air filter and change the carburator once again. Make sure that you are doing it in a Yamaha service center only.

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4 Years , 59,300 kms


It was 19th January , 2011 when I persuaded my dad to buy the Gladiator , then called as SS125. I used to stare at the pics of SS125 on the internet , and always dramt of owning. The D day came , and dad rang me up and we went to the showroom to collect the bike. After a lot of wait , the bike stood outside the showroom after a so called "PDI" .

I started the engine , it didn't sound that great , almost soundless. ... Rode it back home extremely carefully , on the way noticed , the bike lacks power.



The bike surely looked amazing in flesh , with the red - black color. I was spell bound. Slowly , the bike became mine as dad found it too "sporty" for him.

My SS125 became my everyday friend to college , which was 26 kms round trip. I thoroughly enjoyed riding it. I hardly knew anything about break-in ... I first did a short speed run before 1000kms on odo.



Soon touring started. The bike complained of nothing , except power & mileage. It would struggle with a pillion on highways and wud return nothing more than 43 - 45 kmpl. It was hard to digest as it was just a 125cc.
Soon , i started solo touring , and thats when i came to know what Gladiator is. It would do 80's all day without complaining.
I used to get 50 kmpl on a regular basis on highways even doing 80 - 90 kmph.

My tours have been never ending , doing 500 - 800 kms a day on my glady , needless to say its amazingly comfortable & durable. Never it left me strandd beside the road.

FULL DC


Electricals flickering with engine RPM nd bad headlamps were biting me when i came across a blog about full DC ritten by a guy namrd Arun Kumar. I called him up , he helped me unground the coil and my glady became Full DC like Karizmas nd Pulsars.

I was a immature childish noob , and would startup a street race with anyone who overtook me . To my surprise , i could beat many 150cc on the road.

Till date the highest mileage I could fetch is 57 kmpl. The worse I got was 35 kmpl .

The topspeed so far I could attain only once is 119 kmph. However , on a regular basis , 100 kmph is a bit difficult to achieve. Also once past 100 kmph mark , it happily touches 110 kmph if the road permits.

Gladiator lacks TORQUE , so maintaining speeds on highways i very difficult. Also its performance gets badly affected by cross winds / wind drag. Crouching help to some extent.

Gearbox of Yamaha Gladiator is one of the best I have ever experienced. Amazingly smooth yet lot of feel.
The speedometer on my bike is as accurate as the GPS. To some extent , that makes one feel we are going slow (as there is no speedo error )



Handling

Gladiator / SS125 handles like a track bike , there is no doubt on this fact. People generally don't believe this looking at the skinny tires , but I guess every Glady owner will agree to this point.
Also the brake feel is extremely precise. Under hard braking , rear end might fish tail , but not to that extent that one loses control and falls off.

In one word , Gladiator is an amazing handler. Compare it with any 125 - 150cc , even mono shock bikes , gladiator will still be strong contender in terms of handling.

Durability

I would say , there is nothing I haven't tried on my SS. From stunts to daily commuting to touring to offroading , it withstands everything without falling apart.









Every purpose is served by the Gladiator flawlessly.

Strange thing is my chain & sprocket is still the stock one that came with the bike. even after 59000 kms , its working fine.


With more hardcore touring , I felt the necessity of upgrading the headlamps and finally went for a high-end HID projector setup , that changed night riding experience completely. I also rewinded my coil for higher power wattage. Now my electricals , work flawlessly with everything including a mobile charger









Verdict

I would anyday suggest anyone to go for the SS125 / Gladiator. No bike is perfect , nor is gladiator. There are small glitches like the absence of Full DC electricals , LED tail Lamp , Digital dash board. But as a product , its amazing. Extremely no-headache bike. Hardly asks for any maintenance.

If there is anything i would like to change , then it will be the power & torque. I wish Yamaha had taken the 165cc concept seriously and launched it. Glady's frame is extremely capable and can easily handle 14 - 17 bhp without any major changes.

Totally love the bike. And my glady is my first bike , so I am never gonna sell it off. I wish to keep it with me forever , even if I later upgrade to a bigger machine.

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Nice review. But the attachments are not visible.

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Thanks , uploaded the pics again. hope its visible now.

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Yes, they are viisble now..

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My odometer is stuck at 39999.9 and I can hear a ticking sound from the console (I understand a gear is slipping instead of turning over).
Is it possible to fix the odo? I really don't want to lose the mileage my bike has gained so far.

Chennai's roads are hurting the bike really badly, and I am taking the best possible route from Maduravoyal to Teynampet.

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Hai,
It is my first post here, And let me tell you i am in deep trouble. I own a gladiator which i bought in early 2008. I was having a RXG before and the beast RX100 before. So in short i was always a YAMAHA Fan so i decided to buy gladiator. But after 2 years the bike started giving me all sorts of trouble .

The first issue was engine missing, The extent of missing was too much that once it turned of when i was climbing a steep uphill and i fell down. But when i serviced the bike at YAMAHA authorized center, the issue was fixed although for around a month or so and the problem started popping up again. This later became a routine that i no longer cared about missing.

But then another strange issue popped up, Battery not charging.And like all the other people out their, i changed my battery without a second thought, even new battery was not charging even though it was showing the required voltage at terminals. And the YAM guys suggested me to replace the Rectifier, and i did. This didn't fix the issue and later by performing some tests i saw online, i was able to conclude that the alternator coil was faulty. (Although YAM people didn't agree to this ) I changed the alternator coil and the Issue was solved.

and now another issue seemed to have popped up which is making the bike totally unusableThe bike doesn't rev beyond 2 or 3k rpm.. the moment i increase the throttle bike starts acting as if its starving for fuel. The issue doesn't seems to be with carburetor because yamaha guys tried cleaning the carb and tuning them. The problem gets even worse when their is a pillion, The bike hardly goes above 40. Their are lots of misfiring happening too.

I changed sparkplug but issue still exists

Now Yam guys are suggesting me to replace ignition and CDI unit, I really don't Understand whats happening with my bike, Why am i getting so much of problems, i used RX for years and never had to deal with any problems of this sort.

So guys, Tell your views, Is something fishy here ?, Something like the ignition coil was faulty at the first place and it fried up rectifier and dynamo coil.

Or is it something else

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Sorry to hear you have auch problems.
Whats wrong with yamaha these days.
Cant figure out whats wrong with your bike.
But best of luck brew.

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It felt bad to hear about your problem. Seems that the svc guys have messed up things. I'd suggest you write a mail to Yamaha India directly stating your problems.

Sent from my Xperia L.

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Can anybody please give me a working email id ? .. I tried several of them which i got from different places but i didnt get any reply yet.

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Hi,
Got delivery yamaha ss125 on Saturday :-)

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Congrats and welcome to the Ss125 club.
Ride hard. Ride safe.

Sent from my Xperia L.

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Did you get this solved yet?

My bike also behaved as such last Saturday on the way to Vellore from Chennai. My brother suggested it could be a blocked silencer and got worse as we rode along. Found a Yamaha mechanic at Walajah (about 32kms from Vellore). The choke had jammed and he replaced the choke cable and the bike was back to normal. Turned out he was an ex-Yamaha employee.

I suggest you get a second opinion from an outside mechanic.