I lowered the brake pedal a bit after refering to the manual. I also noticed that the brake lining wear limit is showing a bit above the range(as opposed to below range as shown in fig. B, 6-39 of the manual). Is that something that could be causing the heating?

It had been a really long time, since I had added something worthy to this thread.I knew that this forum attracted posts from gentlemen with far more concern for minute details and someone rash and inconsiderate like myself isn't worth being here.But now, since I have been mentioned in the posts I feel I must speak something.

I had previously own a fleet of bikes, thanks to my enthusiastic Dad........but GS150R is the bike which I bought with my own hard-earned first savings of my life in exchange for the Suzuki Zeus which I bought too in order to get myself back to biking after I left it 2yrs ago for being in two back to back high speed crashes on a Pulsar 180DTSi and then on Suzuki Fiero.

I have ridden every kind of bikes since I started my love for two-wheelers since 8th standard of my education.
Multicylinders,Single cylinders,Scooters,Mopeds,two-strokes,four strokes,electric bikes,50cc to 1300cc sometime or the other from all manufacturers,most of them are my friends's bike and some of them mine own.

Hundreds and thousands of issues, some are like you cannot use regular fuel sold in India on certain bikes and some others are like handle coming out of clip-on systems at high speeds,some are even life taking.

So it is very odd to comment that I (in particular), do not feel any pain of ownership !!! There is absolutely no bike on earth which is entirely trouble free and does not challenges the attitude of ownership.

Whenever my friends ask me how I did the run-in on my GS150R..........I answer them, by completing 500kms in 4.5 hrs.This forum is a testimony to that as it contains pictures and words about a fact that a 9500kms odd Hero Honda Hunk failed to keep up with a 120kms old Suzuki GS150R while going flat out on highway.Yet I still own a trouble free bike !!!!

On the other day on a city freeway, I pulled a 90kmph in 3rd gear and shifted gear without clutch at redline while overtaking a speeding Hyundai i20.Yet my gearshift is better than a silky shifting Unicorn, my friend a owner of Unicorn confirmed it !!!!

When I hit the highway in a group ,the cruising speeds generally averages around 100kmph all the time. Yet,I am the biker who spends the least money for buying fuel as my bike still registers 52kmpl on such highway hits too !!!!

So I do own a trouble free bike and proudly.

But is it really that different from all its brothers assembled at the same factory line ?????
If someone has been following me through this forum since I bought my GS150R........(that would be somewhere around page number 524 of this thread), he/she would easily find out that I too had issues, but my love and understanding for the bike out witted those issues to nil.

But just a recap in case it went unnoticed,
Well how would it feel to ride a new bike home,30 kms away from the showroom and that too on a monsoon drenched night with knee deep water clogged streets everywhere ????? What kind of showroom delivers a new bike at 9:00 pm on a Saturday night ????
But I stayed cool and kept the staff waiting as I won't have moved an inch that day without my bike and rode her out to my home despite the weather.When I came home,my neighbours pulled my leg saying that I bought a new boat and not a bike.

And how would it feel if the chain cover comes off making a huge rattling sound amidst a huge traffic at peak hours in the city ???? and that too only 4 days after purchase ???? Is it a manufacturing defect ??? Yes it is !!! Rather an assembling defect.
But I rode her to SVC amid all embarrassment (that even dogs barked at me due to the sound) to get it checked and corrected despite being late to get on with my routine for that day.Not another day has that chain cover troubled me again,I made sure of that.

Also how would it feel if a damn sqeaking noise keeps getting the attention on a new bike,a week after purchase ????
The SVC guys told that they were sorry to deliver the bike that late at night and without oiling or greasing the new parts and the monsoons did not help it.Just an oiling of the swingarm that day did away with the trouble of sqeak-sqeak forever.


I must admit that it felt very bad when I found that the gear-shift on my bike is toe breaking when it was 850 kms old.Did I not get upset to find it such,even when the reputed bike magazines has reported the gearshift to be super smooth,at par with Unicorn ??? Did I not feel that it too might be another manufacturing defect ????
But I never doubted my bike and Suzuki for a single moment........and I did seek an advice about it on this forum here.But ironically it was not the Suzuki whom I approached to change my bike and neither was the issue solved by them.It was rather a local mechanic chacha who solved the problem by doing some adjustments to clutch settings on finding my gearshift hard.Since then the kind of gearshift that I enjoy on my bike is mentioned above.

There had been runs on which my fellow highway riders felt the need to ease off as their bikes felt stressed out being cruising near redline and felt engines overheat.But what they found hard to believe that my bike still felt as relaxed as it came out of the garage.It cools down without complain........ despite the fact that the Cat-con still keeps ticking(famous tick-tick sound ) even after the bike is 6500kms old.Well it feels great when the bike does not seems to age even after kilometers of high speed and hard acceleration, everyday I take out,it feels new.The tick-tick sound reminds me of the fact that the cat-son still expands and shrinks like that of a brand new bike and I smile to myself.

I find so many people worried about coverage under warranty..........well I challenged warranty for using an engine oil which was not gifted by the SVC.
The SVC told that they would observe my bike for issues over two services for consequence of not using the company supplied engine-oil.
Needless to say I won the challenge and my bike has been gifted back its warranty when no issues were observed.The SVC now themselves use the engine oil I use instead of the company supplied engine oil.

Sometime ago,I too started complaining about rear-braking and I still believe it is has been set on a weaker tune.So is it not good at braking at all ???
My inhibitions were shattered by a mechanic friend of mine who rode my GS150R recklessly in a crowdy bazaar with myself as pillion.Speeding down as accurately as possible while speeding up as abruptly in such a crowded place.When I asked him how he did it on such bad brakes.....he said,"riding is all about how you control the machine and not how dependent you should be on the machine,your braking technique is far inferior to mine" I was so shocked by his reply, that I started observing how he braked.....I learnt it soon and with added practice i found the braking set-up on GS150R are next to ABS.I have ridden Pulsars and RTRs too but none felt so confident inspiring under hard braking.

The latest issue being a spark-plug adapter/spark plug cap which is faulty on GS150Rs because it tends to black out under hard acceleration.
Installed Splitfire powercable.......hope to do a top end Sunday ride to confirm everything is ok now.The bike is already taking hard revs in lower gears easily without losing power as it was on the faulty sparkplug adapter.Now need to confirm this in higher gears.


So, if so much is common with every other GS150R here then why I don't complain ??? why I don't feel the pain ????
Yet it is my GS150R which got its front wheels up in the air, perhaps for the first time in this thread and it has been recorded and posted here as a video.
Yet it is the same bike which did 122 kmph on a busy city transit and clocked 129kmph and has been recorded and posted here as a video featuring break neck speeds and hard braking.


Many people comes to me on seeing my bike and enquiring about it after witnessing its performance first hand.After knowing that there is no direct dealer in my city and that SVC of the sub-dealer(they sell and service all brands of bike-bajaj,yamaha,honda,tvs,mahindra,hero honda...all)too is 30kms away in the downtown region,they ask why I bought this bike ????

I reply, after owning legends like Suzuki Shogun(peak power 8500rpms,peak torque8250rpm),Suzuki Fiero(the champ of TVS racing,father of RTRs)
I believe:
It takes guts to own a Suzuki.

Those who likes my reply,goes for a GS150R.........others keep waiting for Honda to deliver their CB Unicorn.

By lowering the brake pedal did you adjust a bolt to make the rear brake pedal a little lower. I did the same so as to keep the foot on lever all the time. I think thats what you mentioned about tension or strained position

The wear limit indicator will be at the top when the brake shoe is intact and points to the lower when its nearing replacement.

The heating issue was raised before in our thread, everyone concluded that its normal. My situation is also the same, now I hardly notice these and ride bike with utmost satisfaction......

Guyz do any of u guyz out there know anything related to a new Gs150r Coming to face ? I have booked my Blue GS150R...it is not available with the authorised dealer ..he said he will lettme know when it will be available.. i read almost all the pages on this thread..coz i am a fan of the GS i admit & it is worth it..but suddenly one of my friends MAzaid..here on xbhp itself & also a guy from chennai i dont know his name ..but the point is they said it that there is new GS150r Coming on its way !! with new looks almost everything new features..i dont know whats the price band but iam thinking of rather waiting for this new bike .. as MAch said loving your bike is important ..it will love you back ..i completely agree !!

Do u have any idea that how is this new bike going to be & what will it cost & is it true that suzuki is re-inventing the GS150 r? ..

Guyz i really need ur views on these please fill all the information u guyz have on this & should i try out a completely new bike without knowing its flaws or should i go with our this GS150 r??

Reviews welcome

HAppy riding..ride safely...wear a helmet

Take care !!

Nobody knows for sure whether suzuki is going to upgrade the gs150r shortly. But i had been to suzuki showroom in vasanthnagar, bangalore, around 15th March to book a gs150r for my friend, and there was not a single gs150r on display in the showroom. The sales guy said they will get 2011 model in april. I asked him if there will be any changes in the 2011 model. He said there will Not be any changes except the date of manufacture. But he also said there may be some new colors, and that they will know of the changes (if any) only after they receive the bike.

But its April now and there is still no gs150r in the showroom. The showroom guys say they are still waiting for 2011 model, but they are taking booking for gs150r. If suzuki is taking so much time to bring the 2011 model, i think definitely there will be some changes in the bike, not just the date of manufacture. I hope they retain the kicker. The showroom guy also told me suzuki will launch a 200cc or 250cc bike in april.

Also, i read in another forum that suzuki may launch a 150cc slingshot as well at a cheaper price. So far, all these are just rumors.

Guyz do any of u guyz out there know anything related to a new Gs150r Coming to face ? I have booked my Blue GS150R...it is not available with the authorised dealer ..he said he will lettme know when it will be available.. i read almost all the pages on this thread..coz i am a fan of the GS i admit & it is worth it..but suddenly one of my friends MAzaid..here on xbhp itself & also a guy from chennai i dont know his name ..but the point is they said it that there is new GS150r Coming on its way !! with new looks almost everything new features..i dont know whats the price band but iam thinking of rather waiting for this new bike .. as MAch said loving your bike is important ..it will love you back ..i completely agree !!

Do u have any idea that how is this new bike going to be & what will it cost & is it true that suzuki is re-inventing the GS150 r? ..

Guyz i really need ur views on these please fill all the information u guyz have on this & should i try out a completely new bike without knowing its flaws or should i go with our this GS150 r??

Reviews welcome

HAppy riding..ride safely...wear a helmet

Take care !!

Also, i read in another forum that suzuki may launch a 150cc slingshot as well at a cheaper price. So far, all these are just rumors.

Ooo Nooo rest of the story is fine, but don't tell me one more sling shot; I don't think they won't do the same mistake.

Let's hope for the best.

hey guys i am facing some problems with my 2011 gs. i bought it in jan, the bike was doing fine till the first service but after that i faced this problem where the vaccum is created in the fuel tank and and no petrol reaches the engine after that and i have to open the fuel tank to let the air in. i have checked the pipe which is connected in the base of the fuel tank it is ok. pls reply soon

hey guys i am facing some problems with my 2011 gs. i bought it in jan, the bike was doing fine till the first service but after that i faced this problem where the vaccum is created in the fuel tank and and no petrol reaches the engine after that and i have to open the fuel tank to let the air in. i have checked the pipe which is connected in the base of the fuel tank it is ok. pls reply soon

It had been a really long time, since I had added something worthy to this thread.I knew that this forum attracted posts from gentlemen with far more concern for minute details and someone rash and inconsiderate like myself isn't worth being here............................
............I believe:
It takes guts to own a Suzuki.

Those who likes my reply,goes for a GS150R.........others keep waiting for Honda to deliver their CB Unicorn.

hey guys i am facing some problems with my 2011 gs. i bought it in jan, the bike was doing fine till the first service but after that i faced this problem where the vaccum is created in the fuel tank and and no petrol reaches the engine after that and i have to open the fuel tank to let the air in. i have checked the pipe which is connected in the base of the fuel tank it is ok. pls reply soon