First of all - Congratulations bunny!
its amazing how u were keen on ur goal to buy the Fireblade!
Most ppl give up halfway thru.
Congratulations and safe riding!

Just out of curiousity.. how much do u spend on servicing?
and the mileage is 14kmpl!
looks like a satisfactory value for a 1000cc bike

Jaipur ride was good rather comfortable except the thighs were loaded and started to hurt after and hour or riding, guess i got to get use to that.
rand it on speed 97 and then on xtraprieumin from IOC with octane booster of STP in the ratio of 10ml per liter performance was good could not feel much of a diffrence ( most diffrence is felt on lower gear at intial acceleration) was crusing at 120-130kmph.
the road back from jaipur has become really bad with furrows in the middle of two lane due to teh truck tyers , very dangerous as the bike moves in to them and difficult to get out at high speen .
Jaipur to manaser took 3 hr then another 2hr to get to noida.
i got a suprising average of 19kmpl over the eniter journey (according to the onboard gauge reading)

the servioce cost was Rs3200 breakup is :
Labour Rs 1650/- (i think a waster considering the suck my parts with glue)
oilfilter was aroud Rs 900/-
Oil - honda 10w30 Rs130/- per 800ml bottle - 4 required.
plus tax.

oh and i got a HJC FS-10 helmet , will put pics on the helmet thread .

Hey Bunny Congrats for you fireblade, i know i am little late to join the party, saw the thread today only.

PS: Can you post a pic of the jacket you got from honda.

From fireblah's thread!



Congrats Bunny for the blade

yup same jacket, they got my size correct its a very nice fit.
though i have my doubts about the armor feels very flimsy compared to fieldsheer jacket that i have. But it has honda on it and that makes it so cool.

Hey Bunny,
nice to know about your long ride. My only problem on long rides in my neck. Thigh and back are adjusted now. 19kmpl is very nice. I get around 18.8 on my long rides. I feel the reading the bike shows is pretty accurate.
Can you tell me which oil did you put exactly? Is it semi synth. or normal ?
And whats your jacket size ? cause mine is too bog for me! even though I think my bro is gonna have it, still I feel its bigger for him as well...

Ive put extra premium full tanks a couple of times, and I have felt no difference in performance, except some knocking at low gears (1-2) on sudden acceleration.

the jacket they send was marked "L"

Oil used the the standard Honda mineral 10w30 in 800ml plasctic bottles they used 4 some was left over.Rs130/- per bottle sorry dont have any pictures looks like the same type grey color servo oil bottle with honda logo on it.Some company Sanchi or some name like it make it for them.
They recomend it Ashok (same guy who came to your place) so i stuck to it, he told me he prefers the use of normal compared to synthetic.
Personally i have seen a big diffrence in my P220 when using veedol mineral as compared to veedol symi synthetic bike was definatly smooth grear engaged better even the castrol 4t extra was good as well.
Lot of debate rages on on the matter - i would perhaps switch to semi-synthecis in the next oil change or perhaps in the 3rd service .

on fuel..
I could not make out any knocking more because i cant understand any sound in this bike its too noisy (cars i can make out) but say a definate reduction in pickup at the lower rpm range. I still havent tried sudden acceleration.

hi bunny, you have not tried sudden acceleration at all or just after the service, and have you tried any other sbk?

I have not had the luck to ride any other SBK except mine..

as for sudden acceleration i have tried it to the point i could feel blood rushing to the back of my head, but i guess that is not sudden enough for the bike

hey bunny tell us how you felt fireblade after p220 . the acceleration ,braking ,comparison . does the bike get overheated in traffic .

Hey Bunny, hows the bike going ?

@Bunny :- Congrats and ride safe

Congrats Bunny, you are now a proud SBK owner
Enjoy and Ride Safe, keep posting

hey Bunny how u doing? hows the bike doing????

first off how is the fierblade doing now..well thankfull it is doing well crossed the 2000km mark on it running smoothly.

Made one change to the suspension setting , turned all the setting of compression and rebound by one turn towards the softer side to make it condusive to indian conditions and guess what it works the ride had become very smoothe and all those little bumps on a smooth road have disappeared . although i feel it might be a bit on the too soft side ad one get the feeling of floating in air on certain road conditions.

As for the update on the feelign of riding a pulsar well these superbikes actually spoil you , one gets use to a better escape speed making one take the choice to speed out of a tight situation insted of break, also as the braking and stablity is very high in this bike a pulsar feel very unsafe and unstable and ofcourse the pulsar just doesnt stop when you apply the brak (compared to the fireblade). Even in sever traffic jams i find the fierblad to perfom much better.
On heating - the heating at the right foot does happen but with ankel high boots(cats in my case) one doesnot find it uncomfortable at , after say 30 min in taffic jams the bike tem show as high as 108 C but to the rider it is fine. considering that we belong to a high temprature climeate we are use to heat as say teh europeans - hence the discripancy in the reviews provided by them we guys bike at 40C plus tempratues so heat is not an issue. which makes me wonder about teh R1 09 model heating issues at the thigh - i wonder if it is true.