i'm sure a lot of you with agree that ninja not only has an "Ownership Experience", but we can write a lot about the "Pre Ownership Experience"

well last i wrote was when i had 88 days and 17 hours to go for my Green.
i'm not sure if anyone remembers that, but anyways -

last Saturday i saw three missed calls on my phone from some 080 numbers and i was out of town.
i called back, the guy who picked up told me, its BAJAJ pro biking number and there is no one around and he will ask them to call me back...

i didn't get a call back though, then i left it thinking will comeback to b'lore and visit them in person, then i read bluevolt quoting ninja's new Price - 3,25,021, so i assumed the missed calls were to inform me about the new price applicable starting april.

i tried calling probiking once i was back, but no one was picking the phone.
so i just went to Probiking today, introduced myself and told i had booked the bike on 6th March, can you tell me my status and the new price ( not doubting bluevolt, but just out of curiosity) ... and here is the reply -

" We were trying to Contact you, your bike has come, and you can Pay the remaining amount " -

i was like can you please repeat, he repeated the same;
still me being not the optimist kind, i still told them are you sure i booked the bike on 6th March
and he said yup its there for you to take....

i can't express in words what i felt, i couldn't understand what was happening, just yesterday i was talking to Gourav and we were thinking i might get it by June end, and here i was standing a week or 2 away from my hard earned possession.

so i said i'll go back and get you the cheque as i was not prepared for such an onslaught...

With my blood at its highest entropy, i rushed to get the cheque.
When i came back with the cheque, the pre-Ownership had another surprise in stock for me - and here is the sweetest thing you can hear; the price of the Ninja is 3,19,054 - ( so correction guys )
there seems to be some confusion with the RTO about the tax and hence it's been corrected to 3,19,054.

Janaki told whoever paid 3,25,022 will get a refund.

So here it is fellas, a pre-ownership experience, hopefully in 10 days or so i might join the league of people who spent the next few days, weeks or months getting the odometer pass 1600 kms

the feeling is yet to sink in, and i still feel it might be a dream and they might call me tomorrow and tell me; its not me but someone else, or the price has again risen to 3,25,021 ...

sorry for spamming your regular conversation with my story, but couldn't resist sharing it.

Hope he isn't scared


I believe oil change has got nothing to do with rev-limit-ation

they are asking to stick to certain rpm's as they feel the engine would properly bed-in by then, IMO(correct me if i am wrong)
still take easy, give shorts bursts till 2K and start raising the revs gradually

i'm sure a lot of you with agree that ninja not only has an "Ownership Experience", but we can write a lot about the "Pre Ownership Experience"

well last i wrote was when i had 88 days and 17 hours to go for my Green.
i'm not sure if anyone remembers that, but anyways -

last Saturday i saw three missed calls on my phone from some 080 numbers and i was out of town.
i called back, the guy who picked up told me, its BAJAJ pro biking number and there is no one around and he will ask them to call me back...

i didn't get a call back though, then i left it thinking will comeback to b'lore and visit them in person, then i read bluevolt quoting ninja's new Price - 3,25,021, so i assumed the missed calls were to inform me about the new price applicable starting april.

i tried calling probiking once i was back, but no one was picking the phone.
so i just went to Probiking today, introduced myself and told i had booked the bike on 6th March, can you tell me my status and the new price ( not doubting bluevolt, but just out of curiosity) ... and here is the reply -

" We were trying to Contact you, your bike has come, and you can Pay the remaining amount " -

i was like can you please repeat, he repeated the same;
still me being not the optimist kind, i still told them are you sure i booked the bike on 6th March
and he said yup its there for you to take....

i can't express in words what i felt, i couldn't understand what was happening, just yesterday i was talking to Gourav and we were thinking i might get it by June end, and here i was standing a week or 2 away from my hard earned possession.

so i said i'll go back and get you the cheque as i was not prepared for such an onslaught...

With my blood at its highest entropy, i rushed to get the cheque.
When i came back with the cheque, the pre-Ownership had another surprise in stock for me - and here is the sweetest thing you can hear; the price of the Ninja is 3,19,054 - ( so correction guys )
there seems to be some confusion with the RTO about the tax and hence it's been corrected to 3,19,054.

Janaki told whoever paid 3,25,022 will get a refund.

So here it is fellas, a pre-ownership experience, hopefully in 10 days or so i might join the league of people who spent the next few days, weeks or months getting the odometer pass 1600 kms

the feeling is yet to sink in, and i still feel it might be a dream and they might call me tomorrow and tell me; its not me but someone else, or the price has again risen to 3,25,021 ...

sorry for spamming your regular conversation with my story, but couldn't resist sharing it.

oil change is after every 12 K km i think...

I hope u r talking of the front fork oil. Engine oil change after 12k = one ****ed up ninja

Well at least thats what the manual says ... Pg 71...1 yr or 12 K km whichever comes first... Or may be I am not reading it right...

I will be honest ! I dont read bike manuals.

P.S Are u sure you are talking about the engine oil in the manual ? I am really thinking if the manual is reading 12k then it must be the fork oil

2nd service is after 6K km and after that every 6k kms... alternate services are pretty expensive and oil change is after every 12 K km i think...

2nd servicing is due at 6000kms.

Yup, it is engine oil indeed...I remember asking the same question to the khivraj guys and they confirmed that oil changes after the first service were at an interval of 12K km...but then as everyone has noted, there is no harm in doing it earlier the question is what would be a good interval...

Because of the above discussion, I have checked the manual in detail for the first time Also checked 2009 version Carburetor and 1988-2007 model service manual.... Yup oil change is at 12 K after the first change at 1K... Everyone will be changing the oil before 12K I hope....

Even I don't believe in manual. Also got false gears after the first service (May be because of the change in the ride after the breaking period). Noticed that some gears are getting harder than earlier...

@ bluevolt > What about you, have you changed the engine oil after 1st service. Changed the oil to any other brand?????

Hmmm..havent had a problem with gears becoming hard. I am however facing a strange issue. Since even before the first servicing. If I open the throttle a bit hard, go some distance and then suddenly close it, the gears would slip to neutral (or basically to not being engaged to the engine at all). Any one else who has faced this? Any idea what it could be? This has happened to me about 2-3 times.