There are reports of Fake Castrol oils being marketed..so to be safe keep away from it and go for Gulf Pride 4T plus, Shell AX series, Motul as recommended for your bike.
Many in forum complain of vapour lock,as well as petrol vaporizing ..which is true ? what is the petrol cap arrangement in GS150 for this ?....Most petrol tank caps are either fully ventilated, bidirectional, or a small valve locks in Vapour pressure and when vacum arises open to atmosphere to prevent vacuum lock.

@ Abdul (akfara)
Yeah valvoline champ is jaso ma2 and I found nowadays castrol and shell as well are jaso ma 2

Sorry guys going (OOT) out of topic
Figo is a drivers car according to the dealer and other owners petrol mileage after first 3000 kms varry between 10 to 15 in city and on long drive 15 to 20 all it depends on driving style, city and fuel quality.

Boot space is really big, only problem is it has good wheel base (the length between front and back wheel) it gives more stability but cause hurddle for the bed to clear many of our unscientific speed breakers

On my diesel figo am getting 25 kmpl on long with A/C on.

In my experiance diesel figo or new swift is better choise for you as you already feedup feeding more petrol for GS and diesel is not only cheeper modern day diesel engines are much better suzuki bring us a diesel GS as we love to drive more on GS but govt love to increase more on petrol price and tax.

@psr,
Yeah that's very much true as all the criminal duplicate oil makers doesn't know gulf or motul they know very well about castrol as it sells more so duplicate castrol is more. But am luck to have a karnataka government oil direct selling shop (below the kr puram cable fly over and its close to railway station and next to a mosque)

Even shell oil doesn't goes good with GS moreover

the evaporation of petrol is possible even in high class bikes to manage the pressure inside petrol tank will vary according to temperature so a tiny way near cap is required to let air get in / out so as to avoid unexpected disaster

and the worst brakes in the segment. The rear brake is useless.
High speed braking is not inspiring. Even after changing the
brake shoes, it is the same. Should have gone for apache

hello guys ...

long tym .. good to see users of CASTROL POWER 1 .. its good really good going strong since 3500 kms .. approxx
&&
any GSPIAN planning for leh dis year ..
if yes please do post ur probable itenary and schedule.
i am planning for dis season ..

I also housed similar thoughts till the time, my mechanic taught me effective braking.Now I feel,GS150R brakes under panic situation with a feel next to ABS.

Even sometimes I think, would have been the RTR160 better ???, but the vibrations and significantly raw ride quality of the RTR makes me think I am better of with GSR.

I will differ in this, there best drivers who can control the vehicle even with worst brakes and there worst drivers who got crashed and killed even with best (abs + edb blah blah) breaks

It all depends on how defensivly we drive and how good we are at breaking and as said by vishnu during panic sittuation the way our body muscles reacts to the sittuation does matters; so finally your saviour are safety gears

Drive me crazy!!!!!!!!!

Guys guys guys

Add one more to the GSpians list(me )
After gong through almost all posts in this thread, Finally went with my heart and brought Orange beauty Yesterday.....

The comfort is unmatched compared to any other bike in this segment...
Riding is so so smooth...feels like I am driving even though I am riding it:-P
Already got many compliments while coming from showroom..
Very Very happy..
Thanks to all especially Kirtimann and Madhu for answering my silly questions
Here are few pics:

Congraz

@ashoka_bnglr: Congratulations on your purchase......it is a great bike.The most wonderful 150cc bike of all times in India.The saffron colored bike looks smashing.
Take good care of your ride and it will return the favour when you would need it the most

@ashok

Congrats bro, Mine too is the same color. Its really looks smashing. My bike will be one year old this july.


Guyz, can i change the visor of my GS? Will it be available in bangalore SC's.? I have got lot of scratches on the visor so i want to change it. Where can i get it and what cost?

CO2 level

Just done with testing emission test for my GS it shows
CO2 = 1.77 is that value is normal

Hey Madhu, its supposed to be CO level right ? not CO2.
Anyway, even my bike's CO level was 1.86. So i guess GS has a high CO level. I think Vishnu and Abdul were saying 1.2 is the normal level. Not sure though. But if your mileage is good dont try tuning for CO level, i asked the SC to tune CO levels and my mileage dropped by 5kmpl.

co & HC levels

Mine are very much less...........

CO---0.8%VOL

HC---710PPM.


Can other gspians mail down there co & hc score....

Yes falcon I say normal is 1.2 for CO is thru the SC manager from pondy told me and reduced it to below it ...but its long time ago while my odo is 8500Km...Now 17700km on Odo ...waiting for another CO test if i visit Reliable CO test center or SC pondy

Yes @madhu CO2 is for Cars and for bike its CO..If u visit to Car Pollution test center may be they have readings for CO2 and HC only depend on Machine they got...@Madhu 25kmpl for ford figo diesel with AC is Amazing mileage

hey bro...well done..you have bought a good bike..now give it time and take care of it and it will take good care of you...

@All,

Thanks guys and yes I too believe I made a good decision:-)
Yes I will take very good care of her and I am sure she will drive me crazy(in a good way)..