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**Archangelonar3** · 01-02-2016, 12:30 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by ROHAN SPEEDOFREAK SHARMA View Post

Has anybody done more than 250 kms ride? I need some answers. Please reply !

I did one - Chennai to Pondicherry - 330 km overall. Had a lot of fun in the highway. Real comfortable.

**Pulsar220F** · 01-02-2016, 12:33 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by ROHAN SPEEDOFREAK SHARMA View Post

Has anybody done more than 250 kms ride? I need some answers. Please reply !

Read this, two R3 had done 800 kms ride.

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**ROHAN SPEEDOFREAK SHARMA** · 01-02-2016, 01:13 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Thank for the reply. [emoji1] [emoji106]

**krish2778** · 01-02-2016, 10:12 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by chinmayakar View Post

Owners, I have a query. I am looking to buy a R3, however all the R3s I rode till today had a stiffer gear box. The upshifts do not happen with a click, rather feels very stiff, while the downshifts are perfect. Can owners confirm if this is a trait of the R3. Thanks in advance.

Originally posted by Ivin View Post

I have the answer. Thats because you use those Kawasakis. The gear shifts are so smooth in them and hence you feel the tightness in R3's . Coming from an R15 and riding R3, you maynot feel it. Yamaha doesn't want to make it too smooth. Thats what Yamaha has been doing all along. R3 has that click sound too while shifting. But if you shift it like you do on your bike, what you are going to find is false neutrals

Faced the issue plenty times on my few days with @krish2778 's R3. I also dint feel much has changed after the servicing as well.
But again thats just getting used to.

Chinmay, brother, you really need to learn to stay satisfied with the bikes you already own ..

Now in all seriousness, i also did feel the shifts are a bit sticky(for th lack of a better term), but it has improved over time with more miles clocked in, it is almost very responsive now, thats 2.5k plus on the odo. And like @Ivin also said after having ridden my bike with him for a few days, it was just the initial few kms that had this stiffness, I guess the Yamaha branded oil also doesn't help. Maybe a change in oil would bring some change to it.

Originally posted by ROHAN SPEEDOFREAK SHARMA View Post

Has anybody done more than 250 kms ride? I need some answers. Please reply !

I just did a 1.7k kms ride on the R3, and it was wonderful, the effortless way it handles triple digit speeds, I mean, the CBR and Duke390 which does the same, but the R3 does it with extra grace, yeah that's the twin pot doing its magic. Mostly in highwya ides gear shifts are less, it can be lesser with the r3, the thing pulls like a charm from 45kmph in 6th gear. So very few instances only where shifting was needed, as far as comfort goes, I felt pretty comfortable, but then again, do frequent long rides, so my body is used to it.

BTW guys, the Black is indeed a very sexy color, but i have to say this, those horrendous stickers do no justice to the bike, I just had to get rid of it, apart from the Fairing R3 stickers, I removed all the other ones. I'm attaching a picture of the end result

Cheers
Ride Safe
Krishna

**Pulsar220F** · 01-03-2016, 12:03 PM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by krish2778 View Post

Cheers
Ride Safe
Krishna

Hi,
Within a month of ownership you clocked 2.5K? Nice going? I see you are in Kerala I think with all the coconut trees around?

**s1d** · 01-03-2016, 02:06 PM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by Pulsar220F View Post

Read this, two R3 had done 800 kms ride.
[Photo Feature]: [ENDURANCE RIDE] : The Ride to Belum Caves

one r3 did 800km
one r3 did 400km
one r3 did 200km
nice multiple numbers eh

yesterday two r3's did approx 360km

yours truly was part of the 800km and 360km on his humble D200.

a snap from yesterday's ride to nagarjun sagar dam:

**yellowspunk** · 01-03-2016, 02:16 PM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Add 1300kms to it. [emoji14]

BLR - Mangalore - Coorg - Wayanad - Calicut - Bandipur - Mysore - BLR

**ArnabC** · 01-04-2016, 01:59 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Well, my R3 did something around 10K kms now. And I'm getting used to it more and more. Like cutting through traffic, the braking and believe me it will bring smile to your face.

**ArnabC** · 01-04-2016, 02:04 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by ROHAN SPEEDOFREAK SHARMA View Post

Has anybody done more than 250 kms ride? I need some answers. Please reply !

Had done a 4K kms ride with my R3... B'lore to Kolkata and back... Did 1100 kms in a day, from Kolkata to Rajahmundhry... And still was quite able to do another 870 kms till B'lore on the very next day... And was able to attend office also the day after I reached B'lore. How can I help you??

**Karan Aj** · 01-04-2016, 10:03 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by ROHAN SPEEDOFREAK SHARMA View Post

Thank for the reply. [emoji1] [emoji106]

I've done a 350km one day, single tank highway ride. And also a 130km all in city traffic conditions.. It's a nimble machine once you get used to the Lil extra weight if upgrading from the R15..

**krish2778** · 01-04-2016, 10:23 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by Pulsar220F View Post

Hi,
Within a month of ownership you clocked 2.5K? Nice going? I see you are in Kerala I think with all the coconut trees around?

Yeah, I tend to do that with most bikes i have

. Ok, i swear i did not mean to brag..!!

The pic was taken from my home town in Kerala, I was there for a few days from Dec 24th on-wards. Now been back to Bangalore for about a week or so, back to daily office commutes and busy schedules.

Cheers
Ride Safe
Krishna

**Pulsar220F** · 01-04-2016, 03:06 PM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by krish2778 View Post

Yeah, I tend to do that with most bikes i have [emoji14]. Ok, i swear i did not mean to brag..!!

The pic was taken from my home town in Kerala, I was there for a few days from Dec 24th on-wards. Now been back to Bangalore for about a week or so, back to daily office commutes and busy schedules.

Cheers
Ride Safe
Krishna

Where in kerala are you located? Do you use NH7?

**banerjee.obhi** · 01-04-2016, 09:41 PM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by yellowspunk View Post

Add 1300kms to it. [emoji14]

BLR - Mangalore - Coorg - Wayanad - Calicut - Bandipur - Mysore - BLR

Hey is that the Rynox Nomad v2.1 saddle bag ??

**Gollum** · 01-05-2016, 07:21 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Got my Bike on My Birthday.

It was my Birthday Yesterday. So cake cutting at the dealership

With my friend.

**jRay** · 01-05-2016, 10:19 AM

Re: Yamaha YZF R3 Owners Reviews and Experiences

Originally posted by Gollum View Post

Got my Bike on My Birthday.

It was my Birthday Yesterday. So cake cutting at the dealership

With my friend.

Congratulations. Ride safe

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