I think MRF zapper Q directly fit to ZMR...no need to cut a chain cover..

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Front rim damage

Hi all. Sorry to break in the middle of a discussion. On my way to work today, I crashed into a bloody huge pothole and a portion of the the front rim has bent. It has however, not resulted in a handle bend nor misalignment of the wheel. Should I consider changing the rim just for that? I'll post some pics in sometime to give a better picture of what's happened. Till then, if someone's gone through the same, please help me out. And ya, it's a 2011 Karizma R

Woha !! You have changed quite a lot of things on your bike.
How many kms your bike had clocked to change all this?

I guess I will be doing Leh in the last week of July. Will need your inputs.

Zapper Q comes in 100/90X18 so it's a direct fit...

Ya.. A tough choice... As for me, you should go for ZMR... You won't regret..

Good Luck Sachin... Waiting for log and pics...

You can try Honda Semi Synthetic 20w40 oil imported for CBR (discussed in CBR thread)

For me less the electronics in my ride, more the dependability.......It is not as though the electronics should not be used , the quality of these are not the same and if some critical parts like the injector, fuel pump, ABS etc., go bad the bike looses it's ride-ability....then what is the point in going for it if it can not serve the basic purpose ?...this of course can be solved by using superior rated (MIL spec) components, which will cost 3 times as much, which in production quantity of Millions is economically not feasible for the manufacturer...
So ZMA in my eye is a better option than a ZMR...and ZMA-R has a KICKER, and can be started and run on a flat battery or even without BATTERY....
I recently happened to check a 2011 ZMA R , for my friend's sake and I found the cables to be very tough to operate...there was no lube done, which i found by moving the clutch lever shroud and found the lever to be very dry with no trace of lube...and so was the cable.
A friction free cable is one in which there is a tough sleeve around the inner cable...in between the inner and outer sheath.,and the cable is pre lubed.
My 2007 used ZMA-R is butter smooth in cable operation, but the previous owner had both the clutch and throttle cable changed within the first 10K Kms..

i contradict you on this point..Honda's PGM-FI is very reliable & doing its job perfectly..I never faced any prob regarding any sensor or other technical thing in my bike till almost 14k kms..its just that you should learn how to care about them rather then running away from them..

its just like saying that my horse is better then my bike cuz i just have to feed him horse gram rather then taking him to painful servicing each time

Agreed, as someone who had handled the PGM-Fi in the car engines, I know of it's dependability, and it's Achilles heel.I was more worried over ZMR Fuel pump failure which continues to happen .....and replacements take upto 2 months......and so is the wiring harness with issues...

by hearing these probs all the time i feel lucky firstly to be in Delhi cuz here i get spares easily in couple of days ..& secondly that my bike haven't seen any such prob till now

Yes you can say that again, a friend's ZMR had fuel pump failure and he had to wait 2 months to get it...It was a 6 month old ZMR and now he had sold it, and moved on.......to Ninja 250.
Good luck to you and the ZMR

i dont want 100 section tyre, i want 110 zapper q. is it possible without cutting the chain cover???

So, isn't N250 not having problems related to spares...they do and most importantly very much costly..i was reading a N250 thread where someone mentioned a front alloy cost is 27,000...and servicing cost 3x more from your car annual service...

Every bikes has some problems here and there....

+1
every 2nd service costs around 7k @12k kms.
and the spares are costly even for the basics such as throttle wire costs 1700 bucks etc. but still who cares when u get thrill.

Very true, but the bike does not fail on a ride....you have to crash or do something bad to it to require spares...and regular spares are available..If you own a 3 L bike the spares are going to be commensurate with the bike's cost , and cannot be compared with the 100cc ones..what is of importance is,whether any critical component fails, and if so availability of the same in short time.....The more the parts failure, the more customers are going to move away from it....Ninja250 is a world wide top seller with a reason...
There is no comparison between ZMA or ZMR and Ninja ...they are worlds apart.

AFAIK only couple of ZMR's in the first batch i.e. the 2009 models had some issues. Later I haven't heard of any issues with Fuel Pump !

Yes agree with you wrt spares supply from HH. One of my friends ZMR pump had failed, after bombarding the dealer he gave him fuel pump from a brand new bike.

But imagine it happening on a 1 L bike and the owner left high and dry, for want of spares.
More than anything once the problem happens and it happens to be a critical component, any owner of the bike will not have confidence on his ride.