It has been almost 2 months since the NS has been launched in Kolkata, And still there is No Spares available. Not even the necessary things like the Oil Filter which needs to be replaced during the 1st service!! Or even the center stand!!!!

1stly Bajaj showed a step-motherly treatment towards Kolkata while launching the NS, and now it's the same with the spares.
This Surely calls for negative marks..

91 octane petrol is good enough for NS. All metros have 91 octane petrol, even the normal unleaded ones. Premium fuels are better only in terms of additives and the branding which ensure quality, not Octane rating. (apart from specific fuels like Speed 97)Many in Bangalore have got the centre stand. Khivraj Kasturba Road, generally has a good stock of them.Which headlight bulb you installed? For the pilot bulb, just get hold of a "plucker" or tweezers to pull it out. If that doesn't work I'm afraid you will have to remove the headlight assy and shake it get the bulb back. And even that's 10 mins job as well.

tried a lot of things... Tweezer, plucker, fingering and what not...seems like i have to open the headlight assy or leave it there.... It was a DIY pilot actually running on 1.5 volts with a resistance...total cost 5 x 2 = 10 rs and about the headlight bulb, its philips 55/60 hs1 with 4300k color temperature... Looks like hid when viewed from front with the light on... Its pure white... I just forgot the name... I think its blue vision... It was lying with me for a long time... Seriously i dont need hid after this though i will get one later for looks...@govind: 250kms review might come tonight...currently on 225 after today morning... and i never said the stock tyre is good having scary moments everytime... Front tire squeeling under hard braking and slipping... Yesterday had a bad front wheel slide under braking over a manhole cover... Rear tire too sliding on dusty roads..but since i have loosend the rear brake, it dont lock up. The tire have very good grip on clean and good roads though... Main problem is i am getting wheelspins on dusty roads...@myth: we just met suddenly... will be meeting today also... Btw you can meet [email protected]: would love to meet but as you know its durga puja so we ourselves dont know where we will be at what time... u coming with your bike...? I can help you out with a digha trip though... Around 34-35 bikes will be going...pm me you email id if you are in fb...@all: as shibadip said, no bajaj svc in kolkata infact the two biggest osl service centres dont have a single spare of ns...nothing... I will be changing my oil soon, so me and shibadip planned to get the duke oil filter from ktm and fit it on our ns...no other options left

Check if chain tensioner is aligned to same points on each side.

I am not sure if I m correct or not... but the over heating might be due to tighter brake pads or might a a result of constantly pressing the brake lever (This happens when one has a habit of keeping his foot over the brake lever) which in turn tightens the brake pads on the disc.

Updates from my side:

1. For false neutrals, hard downshifts and gear lever becoming tottaly free issue, Got gear shifter changed, the current one did not have smooth surface and had some abruptions on it. So i guess that was the defective part from the company itself. Shocked to see defective parts present in brand new bike and delivered to the customers. Anyways now the gear shifts are slick and smooth ( now i know what i have been missing all this while ), hope it stays like this forever. Also false neutrals have reduced drastically, got only once or twice since sunday.

2. For Rpm needle vibrating and Neutral indicator becoming dim, got console changed "AGAIN", yes it was changed once before also. All my data is gone now, thanks to defective parts by bajaj. I am actually 3000 + kms , but odo shows some odd 200 kms. What pisses me off is now il have to calculate kms travelled n al mannualy and also service reminders of no use. When i told this to Manager he was like we hava data uploaded in systems an al and we will remind u, i was like then why the hell u have given console on bike, keep it with u.

Also i have noticed disc brakes performance decreases exponentially in rains/heavy rains, i just escaped banging on to a car from rear last time, felt like as if am riding a bicycle ( if u have ridden bicycle in rains ul understand what i mean). Told this to SVC guys, he cleaned disc pads n al, il have to check next time how it performs now. Has anybody else experienced this?

tried a lot of things... Tweezer, plucker, fingering and what not...seems like i have to open the headlight assy or leave it there.... It was a DIY pilot actually running on 1.5 volts with a resistance...total cost 5 x 2 = 10 rs and about the headlight bulb, its philips 55/60 hs1 with 4300k color temperature... Looks like hid when viewed from front with the light on... Its pure white... I just forgot the name... I think its blue vision... It was lying with me for a long time... Seriously i dont need hid after this though i will get one later for looks...@govind: 250kms review might come tonight...currently on 225 after today morning... and i never said the stock tyre is good having scary moments everytime... Front tire squeeling under hard braking and slipping... Yesterday had a bad front wheel slide under braking over a manhole cover... Rear tire too sliding on dusty roads..but since i have loosend the rear brake, it dont lock up. The tire have very good grip on clean and good roads though... Main problem is i am getting wheelspins on dusty roads...@myth: we just met suddenly... will be meeting today also... Btw you can meet [email protected]: would love to meet but as you know its durga puja so we ourselves dont know where we will be at what time... u coming with your bike...? I can help you out with a digha trip though... Around 34-35 bikes will be going...pm me you email id if you are in fb...@all: as shibadip said, no bajaj svc in kolkata infact the two biggest osl service centres dont have a single spare of ns...nothing... I will be changing my oil soon, so me and shibadip planned to get the duke oil filter from ktm and fit it on our ns...no other options left

I am actually 3000 + kms , but odo shows some odd 200 kms. What pisses me off is now il have to calculate kms travelled n al mannualy and also service reminders of no use. When i told this to Manager he was like we hava data uploaded in systems an al and we will remind u, i was like then why the hell u have given console on bike, keep it with u.

Sir,
But some gurus are asking to check the plug’s color after 1000 kms ride, some are advising to check it after 1500 kms and some others at the extreme top end – swam across the ocean of knowledge – are preferring checking after even longer distances. And if the tuning is incorrect? Tune the carburetor again with – I don’t use the word screwdriver again – with a stick like tool with a fitting flat head – again and ride another 1000 or 1500 or more kms and check again and turn that screw again and repeat everything until the desired result is achieved.
What I said earlier is this: There are trustable scientific methods to tune the air/fuel ratio according to the operating condition needs. Instead of advising to adopt this method, some of our gurus (let them be called GGHHURUS with a stress) to ride with that tool used to turn screws in the pocket and turn the AFR screw whenever and wherever the bike can be stopped. I questioned the reliability of this method and asked how one can determine the tuning is correct. Unfortunately the question was to PSRji whom I respect most; that is all. The persons like you who advocate this tuning has the responsibility to clear this doubt. And beating the bush with statements like “reading spark plugs is enough in most cases for proper tuning” is not an answer as the bike is running with improper AF mixture up to that reading.
Going through the ownership forums you can notice a strange thing. If somebody asks about filling synthetic oil, he gets a number of weird answers from all these GGHHURUS. Some says it is not for commuter bikes, some asks to wait till the running in is over. Some pines that it can be filled after 2507 kms – it is a sharp figure; not rounded – and this number of kms suggested goes on indefinitely. The man came with a single doubt dashes for his life with so many doubts, never looking back, and dares not to come back for, at least, the next 13 Good Fridays.
If you have any doubt about my statement, ask for an alternative for the manufacturer recommended 20W-40 mineral oil. You can see how these GGHHURUS arouse and throw their masterly opinions to you.
Marx and Engels begin their manifesto with these words: A specter is haunting Europe. Here we are being haunted by many specters, one after one. Once it was tappet noise. Then appeared engine oil. After that it is carburetor tuning. The next one follows is sprocket ratio. People are searching for taller ratios than 2.800:1 for their 12.8 Nm torque bikes. Some are even ready to change the sprockets before every ride as some more scholarly ones of us change oil in every morning and afternoon when the ambient temperature changes.
Usual shouting and gnashing of teeth expected.

There's a way to get your odo back to the figure you want. My garage guy had done something similar with my splendor that was totalled some 10 years ago.

When asked how, what he told me was:
used a spare odo cable
Clipped it
Used a drill machine to munch through the KMs (he used a manual hand drill which took ages)

I guess you'll kind of figure out what I'm talking about. Not sure if this'll work, but definitely no harm in trying

Sorry to hear about the trouble..
But anyways, Congratulations!!!!

@all: as shibadip said, no bajaj svc in kolkata infact the two biggest osl service centres dont have a single spare of ns...nothing... I will be changing my oil soon, so me and shibadip planned to get the duke oil filter from ktm and fit it on our ns...no other options left