I completely disagree because, first I was not in city. I was on dark roads with no street lamps, more of like roads through jungles where anything might come on to the road. High beam on here helps a lot to spot the animals and people early on.

On highways as you say commercial vehicles are considerete, but these roads cannot be called proper highways and the truckers are not professional. They dont do inter-state not even inter-district.

I have my lights set up only one beam at a time. Both lights work in low beam as well as high. not both modes at a time.

I went for a 600 kms ride this weekend and basically redlined her at every gear for long stretches. Today the bike feels very sluggish, rough and seems to be gasping for power (especially at low rpms). I have one bar of fuel left. Is it because of the ripping requesting an oil change? (Changed oil and oil filter 1.2K kms before current reading). Is it because of a dirty air filter? or is it because of low fuel?

+100,as I also travel in same type of roads with any rare locality in view..and High beam is only the last resort for travelling in this type of roads, & what you have done is exactly correct as even in the road that I travel truckers & even the private vehicles always keep riding with high beam.repeated flashing of my bike beam is of no use against them so IN THAT CASE IT IS BETTER TO RUN WITH YOUR HIGH BEAM ONNN.other riders or drivers should care for the opposite direction coming rider.

The road had no traffic. There are just villagers and very few of them who go to nearest wine shop or returning from a town, except for that the roads are empty. 50 to 60 kmph is not fast, it is a two lane road. Pedestrians, dogs, bicycles, or rikshaws, cant flash their lights can they?. and with the low beam you cannot spot them from far and by the time you realize you are too fast something bad could happen. The roads here scarcely have night traffic.

About your advice of switching to low beam and passing on, the guy had HIDs, I signaled him couple of times, yet he was coming on the wrong side of the road and that too from very far, there were no other vehicles in between. I wouldn't say "I will switch to my low beam, please dont hit me.", because I couldn't clearly tell for a moment whether he was overtaking or deliberately coming on to me. What if he did not respond and was drunk. What if he was sleepy and couldn't tell of the vehicle ahead? I tend to reason such way when I do something like that. There are plenty of ways to keep ourselves alive, at times with bad manners as well. The worst of the manners would be going ahead and teaching manners to other road users.

Yes I would have cursed a trucker with high beams, but I wouldn't have attempted teaching him a lesson even if I was also riding a truck, because that would be worst of the manners. Would you teach the other guy a lesson if you were the trucker. would that make you a driver with manners? I wouldn't think so. Think about it and you would know.

Please read the post thoroughly before you reply. plz.

Well looking forward to see in the N250R forum then bro! 2k kms in 2 months was achieved like in a various method like doing a couple of long rides! And the bike was like untouched for almost 70% in those 2 months I wanted to enjoy the Ninja more, with the FZ i dint want to take the Ninja to traffic and all ( even to college ) but with FZ outta the equation I ought to ride the ninja often so just found the bike standing dumb for 70% a bit frustrating and started to love that extra bit of power juice from the twin pot but still I miss the FZ

Glad to know someone got the point

Now who blames you ... ,completely acceptable ... The FZ still is amazing when in traffic . slices through it like a hot knife through butter

dude,under the circumstances u were under I see no wrong either..nonetheless whenever a vehicle comes opposite its best to just dim to low or signal.1/8 tonne fz vs 4+tonne truck never goes down well!..as u said them lorry and rtc drivers(bout 50% rtc nowadays thou) are crazy.so its better for us to be safe than sorry.let someone else teach them manners(they'll screw up bad eventually one day)..like that tire ad said:the roads are filled with idiots.

Haha! but the Ninja is not as bad as what as I thought it's quite nimble too! I even got used to the thigh roasting heat generated by the engine

can you please stop with the excuses ?

A guy rides with his High Beams ON on an empty road.The on coming guys get pissed off.Totally understandable.

Front fork issue

There have been many reports here of the Front fork making noise if we ride over potholes or speed brakers. Even my bike has the same problem.

I was so pissed off with people at ASC saying that's the way a bike would sound and its very normal, so I ended up calling Yamaha Back office and they very politely took the complaint and arranged for an engineer from Yamaha take a look at the bike. He was also very professional and resolved all the problems with the bike. Everything worked like a charm for 3-4 months then the problem is back. Complained the same to ASC guys..... and as you might have guessed.. they repeat the same old story... it is very normal, that's the way a bike would sound.

I somehow lived with it, completed around ~15K kms now, every now and then when I go over a pothole or a speed breaker the "tak" "tak" noise pisses me off. I called up Yamaha back office again today and asked them straight forward "what will it take for Yamaha to accept the fact that their bike has a problem?"... I was asked for the details.. repeated the story agian......and informed them that this problem is reported with many people... why dont they analyse it do a recall if there is any issue?. To which they say, nobody complained to them about this problem, many come with many different kind of problems but we haven't heard this problem repeatedly in complaints that we get.
This made me think....blood hell, they don't even know that many have this problem.

Saying this, I encourage all the people who got this problem to call Yamaha back office and register their complaint.

BTW, I did receive call from a ASC as the complaint was forwarded to them and they invited(yeah, this is the word they used) me to bring the bike for a check up, once they find the issue they'll forward the information to Yamaha for the resolution. I very promptly said NO, with the argument that, you couldn't find what the problem was till now and I have been giving the same complaint in all my services, you couldn't do anything till now, how do yo expect me to believe you guys? and more over I don't want to waste my time for you to troubleshoot and learn/experiment with remote help from Yamaha.

wow datz cool.....so did u get to see the flower beds???
u went for photography or jus the ride???

N i would like to join for the ride if u ppl going out again.....i am thinkin of going to malshej

Having trouble at low RPM means only 1 thing...clogged up air-filter....jus replace it and m sure it will be back to normal.....and if its been 3000 km since u put the engine oil den yus the oil n the oil-filter too need to be changed

Fuel level never would n will give u any drop in performance untill there is literally no fuel left