Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

Aditya it's called as paddock stand.
Yes you can check with bachho motors online but seems it would be way too costly.
You can also get it custom built or get hold of any CBR customers.
Many of them get it build and it fits in for R15 also, you just need to take care of rings.


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If you are doing a lot of miles then maintainance cost will also be proportionately high on any bike. I can vouch for R15's reliability. I have done 28km and my bike is 27 months old and its only required regular mainatainance every 3k km. Usually the bill comes to around Rs 1k. It still runs like new (except for some clutch bell noise, which usually needs to be replaced around 20-30k km from what i hear).

Also, depends on what you mean by high speeds. I'd say R15 is comfortable crusing upto 100 kmph (about 7k rpm in 6th gear), if you are doing more than that you need to look for a bike with a bigger engine (CBR 250 perhaps). Also if you are looking at a bike strictly from the perspective of commuting i would suggest that you check out other bikes too like Honda Unicorn (has solid reputation as a commuter) and HH Karisma (don't know much about it). You can check out Pulsar 200NS too but i don't know about how good it is reliablity-wise, my past experience with a Pulsar 150 has been very poor so even though 200NS is completely different from the 150 it is still suspect.

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V2 doesn't have a provision for swingarm spools required for paddock stand.
You can get an Yamaha Rx100 center or one made locally. Thats what i use.

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than for the opinion. my gs150r is done after 20200km.
the way i see, i have had bad experience with honda, especially their service so unicorn is out of the question and cbr250 is way too pricy for a limited budget. typically gs150r is unicorn's twin brother. if gs150r coudnt handel me then unicorn is out of my league.
as for pulsar, i know all about it, my friend have it and now they r crying.
karizma is great and i will surely give it a try. it kinda looks ugly though but looks r not much of concern.
m also thinking about ktm duke, it is a bit more pricy but maybe duke could be the answer but as of right now, r15 is still the bike i got my eyes on.

so need some opinion between r15, karizma zmr and duke....

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Hey bro, tell me what is your main requirement from the new bike you'll be getting. I had r15 for 3 years and now i have duke 200 so i might be able to clear your doubts.


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well that's too costly..i underestimated its possible price by a huge margin lol.

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yeah sorry, paddock stand, not race stand lol...been calling it race stand for long but always had a feeling it's actually called something else but never figured out what haha

yeah bachoo motors price is very costly...god knows how i will get ahold of any cbr riders, know not one of any kind of rider here...i guess i will chuck the idea, seems like a bother...

thanks

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man aren't you selling it short by 10-20 kmph ? ;-) even under fairly strong head-winds R15 easily can cruise at at least 110-115 kmph..in normal conditions at least 120kmph seems to be coming very easily always and the RPMs are not even that much high if doing 115-120 in 6th gear.

100kmph is attained in the high end of RPMs (somewhere between 9000-9500 i think, always forget the exact figures like this) in mere 4th gear...shifting from 4th to 5th at even just 90-95 kmph quickly takes it to 105-110 without having to pull the throttle a lot or anything and there's still many more RPMs in 5th and furthermore a gear left to go to. :-)


but v2 is always exhibited on a paddock stand in the showrooms, must have those swingarm spools for it then (or do they attach those spools just in the showroom bikes?)

an rx100 stand should be what, 200-300 rupees at most ? how much did the locally made paddock stand cost you?

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[QUOTE=aditya_YZF-R15;1058483]well that's too costly..i underestimated its possible price by a huge margin lol.

You can get R15 centre stand itself! I too did the same for the same reason :P
Its gonna cost you around 900 including bushes, spring etc etc

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[QUOTE=Yashas Rl;1058506]yeah i knew about the center stand and its price, but still just keep on asking about the paddock stand to people every now and again because a sportbike on a paddock stand looks so nice haha..

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I went to a small bike repair shop in my neighborhood, he took a center stand from some other bike cut & welded some tubing onto it and took Rs 500. Saala loot liya merko. :-D

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still 400-500 saved from buying a centre stand from the ASCs...

manufacturers in india should really also sell paddock stands for at least their sportbike models even though these are small sportbikes..they showcase them in showrooms stood on a paddock stand mostly, why not also sell it at a cheap price ? i am not sure but think in europe etc it's standard practice...or even if manufacturers aren't selling them there in europe, it's available readily at almost all motorcycle stores there and this am sure about.

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Sure, someone in India can make one but i reckon they won't be selling many of those.
I suppose there is another disadvantage with a paddock aside from it being heavy and cumbersome, i think it requires a second person to hold the bike upright while its being deployed but with the center stand i can do it by myself.

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thnx for asking the million dollar question.
well lets see...
my main requirement would be that the bike should be able to cruse at high speeds (110kmph+)

my older bike have had many engine problem due to excessive speed its engine cant handle.
i have to ride on open highway for about 25km and 8 km in city just to reach collage... and then back again
pillion is not such a big concern as i usually ride alone. one thing that does matter is the after sale service at which suzuki, bajaj and honda really suck( i own all three) i dont know anything about yamaha or ktm.

well thats about it.

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Ok so as far as crusing at the speed of 115+ kmph r15 will have no problems doing that, it's engine is literally bullet proof. My 2 other friends still have r15 and their bikes are still going strong, and they dont even take much care of their bikes like i do. One of them is at 45k and his r15 engine is still feels so responsive. So that tells you about the built quality of r15. Its a bike that you can buy widout any worries, its been in the market for long time and according to me its the most reliable bike in this segment.

Now coming to the duke200, its a totally differnt bike in every aspect. It is much faster than the r15 and it can also do 115kmph crusing very easily. Now i think that the built quality of r15 is slightly better than the duke. Also you would feel more wind blast on the duke as its a naked bike, but its a absolute hoot to ride in the city.

Regarding maintainance, duke would be slightly expensive to maintain but parts are cheap. If you buy r15 rest assured that you won't need to go to svc apart from regular servicing,
According to me its not that bajaj or suzuki engines are bad, but its the svc guys who don't take the customer bikes seriously and mess it up. I don't find much differnce in yamaha or ktm svc, they won't do any work properly until you stand beside them tell them to do so.
I know this post is getting to long so i would end it by saying that, ride both the bikes and see which one you like more. R15 is a bullet proof bike and it dosen't have any problem, duke have some niggles but ktm higher management is very active and they take care of any issue very fast.

All of the above is purely my views so as to not offend anyone
HAPPY RIDDING.


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u know you are right that those service guys mess it up. my discover is 2006 model with 80k km and is still as good as new. had first few free services from bajaj and they mess up the chain set, dad got angry and never went to bajaj again. as for suzuki, they dont even grease the battery or even check the water level. anyway that suzuki bike is dead so i guess i will probabbly go for r15 as i m not a big fan of naked bikes & r15 is cheaper.

thanx a lot for the review, now i have my mind that the engine is great, i have to take care of the bike myself, i cant depend on service guys again. gonna visit yamaha tomorrow

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Ur welcome


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brother can u answer one more query from myside...1 whom do you find more refined duke or r152 say after riding an hour on highways in triple digits on higher revs whose engine holds it refinement more..