Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

The answer to your doubt is, in cars the exhaust pipe is aery long. By the time fumes reach the tip they condense and hence start dripping. Also, in cars, the exhaust is quite horizontal, while in a bike, the exhaust is bent and swept upwards, while in 200NS and Duke 200, it has to travel through the big black box before coming out of exhaust.

You can still touch the tip of car exhaust after driving for some time, try that on a bike and you bill burn your finger. Hope that clears your doubt, if not, other please contribute.

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

^^ thats a valid point.. so that means to be absolutely sure of whether its water or oil.. i have to wait for a dry day... i mean a day without rains to check.

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

Crap guys... got a bad news from my end. For the very first time my bike engine has stalled, I was ripping on my way to home just now after a 40 km ride in Delhi. Some distance away from my home, I totally redlined in 2nd gear and my bike engine died suddenly. luckily ended up just a few meters away from my house. I suspect engine heat up ? But I see no critical temperature warning on the console, only spotted the radiator fan working once during my ride. Man it could simply be a catastrophic damage to some engine part. Hence it's refusing to start. Though I'm not spamming the power button, tried just a few times. It's not responding. waiting right now for it to cool down, then I'll try it again, if it doesn't work. I'll give the SVC a call.
Kya re lagta hai mera bura waqt shuru ho gaya.. yani ki SVC ke chakkar lagane padenge... (I think my good times are over, now it's gonna be repeated visits to the SVC)

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

Must be air lock once open the tank lid & close after a min just try it.

Did u checked the engine oil level?

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

Bang on ! It appears it was infact just an air lock issue. (Im such a fool)
I had let the bike cool down for an hour as I suspected heating issues cos of foul smell, though it was nothing like that. It didn't start even after an hour of rest, so I gave up and called the SVC. Incidentally, the moment I was gonna request a pickup for my bike, I hit the power button and my NS came to life, sigh of relief for me xD. I actually hadn't opened the tank lid as you mentioned above, only shook the entire bike forward and sides to move around the petrol just before calling the SVC. I guess that helped ? Still took my bike to the SVC for a quick look and they advised the same thing u did @truelypulsarian. Thanks. And yes everything including engine oil appears normal. Bike behaves like it should.
Good lesson learned! hopefully this small issue doesn't come back.
I wonder how many anonymous users silently following this thread got scared of my post. you know for their research before they book their NS.

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

Buddy its just a small issue of air lock be cool if you open the fuel lid for a atleast 30 sec immediately after the stalling it would have started no need to wait untill it cools.

Any ways enjoy the ride man pulsars are more tend to air lock issues faced this issue in all my previous pulsars right from p180 to present p220 after the heavy ripping but it shouldn't occur more frequently.

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

Its not that the quality of gaskets, but the way the covers are tightened. I found on my bike, i could go a few more turns before i felt resistance from the bolts on the engine covers, which was the actual cause of the leakage. the issue started after i took it to the svc for valve clearance setting at around 9000km on odo. they did not change the gasket and the oil filter washer as well. and did not seal the wires going through the magneto cover very well(I still cant understand why they opened it just for tappet setting i don't think it is needed.). faced the problem for a couple of thousand km and decided to get rid of it. these mechanics do half-hearted jobs takes all the fun out of riding just because of these small issues which become big.

for consumer forum, you can google their phone number and contact them. they will definitely help.

with such minor gaps, cruising at 140, more heat, more pressure inside the engine, oil viscosity lowers, seeps out of gaps and there is your problem. but catching on fire could be because of a whole different type of problem.

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

You are lucky it was just an air-lock... in my friend's case, the same thing happened but it was broken crankshaft... :sly:

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SHORT HANDLE's for NS??

Hi, friends any one tried shortening the height and length of handle bars, i know the tanks wouldn't support but if a new tank or say the tank panel be removed, and on the same T-plate we can replace only the clip on and handle bar, which would fall inwards just like r15. I personally like the flick-ability and handling and power of this bike but the only disappointing part is that the handle is very straight which doesn't support for hi speed cut's.

Re: SHORT HANDLE's for NS??

Till date I have seen only one mod on NS's handle bar, that too on the internet. The Ghost Ryders stunt group from Kerala had installed a custom fabricated single-piece handlebar on their NSs to aid in popping wheelies.

Naked bikes, IMHO need to have wide handlebars, but even I would have liked the handlebars to be a bit lower, y'know gives a sporty feel.

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

Thanks for the encouraging, inspiring words [MENTION=14087]csajal[/MENTION] ... The last lines are uplifting...

Tomorrow is the RED letter day...

Now the sad part...
OT: Today evening brought a Cross helmet for 3.5k after "bargaining" near Urvashi theatre. In the whole excitement & urgency didn't do much of back-ground check aka internet research. Few moments ago checked Cross website for model details & found its online price is 2.9k Ignorance+urgency=duped..

Please let me know the things need to be checked while taking delivery...

Re: Pulsar 200 NS : My 1st

1st check the rear disc for any damage as in the past there has been issue of bent rear plate during delivery earlier by using marker pen (must have being mentioned somewhere in the beginning of the thread)..

2. Coolant and engine oil level upto recommended level ..

Thats about it !
And if your getting red ns then straight go for red pliots looks devilish in evening :P

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Re: pulsar 200ns Drive Chain issue

the noise is due to some parts(links) of the chain getting stuck,you can see a rise and fall of chain if you check the bike in 1st gear in centre stand.you can get aftermarket chain,but not many shops deal with it.The chain in our bike is made by ROLAN.my chain got issues at 8000km and i replaced my chain from a totalled NS

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i got hold of a spare exhaust and have opened it up,since i know whats inside the exhaust i strongly disagree that its water,no way! it looks like you are having a problem i feared that i faced.burning oil.can you do something?can you open up all spark plugs and see if it has oil deposit?

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others done it too, here is one of fav setups i have seen


single piece handlebar, handbrake, custom crash gaurd with rear footstep acting also as a crash gaurd

Re: SHORT HANDLE's for NS??

I agree to that but just like how the handle of ktm is which is shorter and inward than 200ns, or 220 S which has clip on but inwards, gives confidence in taking high speed cut's, like that if a mod could be done to get the handle of ns inwards.

My whole idea for doing this is because am much comfortable n confident driving and throwing the bike in corners with such aggressive handles(KTM, P220, r15) rather than straight ones and am sure NS still has lots of potential with its perimeter frame, wider tyres and 23.5ps to go into corners with the aggressive handles.

KTM 220 r15 these are the bikes which i feel are steered by elbow n wrist reflexes where as in NS no matter how good handling it has, to steer your shoulder needs to move completely which is very different than the normal style

Re: SHORT HANDLE's for NS??

If you observe the design of NS closely, this is what you'll realise.
1. If you want the handlebar clip ons to be a bit smaller, it should be pushed a little front so that it doesn't touch the tank when turned completely. So riding position would get aggressive but odd.
2. If you want the handlebar clip ons bent in a bit inward like that on R15 then you'd have to fabricate taller clip ons so that they don't touch the tank again. Riding position will be pretty much the same but that doesn't solve your question.

Try to use the KTM handlebar and for the holders, get them custom made so that they fit the NS in the right places. There's probably no way you can fit it directly without bending the bar appropriately. Then again, after going through all that, if you aren't satisfied, there would be no point at all.