I'am also runnig without the parling twins and rear num plate light, saving total of 15Watts i guess.

Will buy that 55/60 now.

Hard shifts and the banging sound, which is probably the dogs slipping are indicative of excessively work shifter forks or dogs. I only have theoretical knowledge of constant-mesh gearboxes, never worked on one hands-on, so someone more experienced will have to provide some inputs. But there's nothing other than the forks or dogs which could be screwed. And the oil, viscosity and temp would make a difference in shifting.

From these pictures it's now clear what you meant. I would say it's not an accurate way of knowing, since you're measuring the distance between the spring and the rearset. Rearset's are not part of the main chassis, so you should be measuring distance between the shocks vertical axis and the swingarm's linear instead. I have noticed that one of the shocks have more washers under the dome nut, i think they've used them as some kind of spacers. Overall, i don't have a very good impression about TVS's finishing methods. I've mentioned earlier about the excessive use of insulation tape instead of sleeving and heat-shrink tubing in the electrical wiring. It seems like how the local mechs do jugaad to just finish the job. It works fine and does the job but isn't aesthetically perfect or correct. I will try to measure all the offsets soon and report back.

Thanks for understanding the problem...

But the rearsets are quite rigid and one can assume that they are equally spaced from centreline of the chassis. Maybe washers would also make the shocks offset a bit, but not as much as in my case. 2-3mm difference can be neglected, but a good ~12mm difference is the root of my worry. That's why I'm urging here to provide your respective steeds' 'highlighted' gaps.

Thanks in anticipation...

55/60W works little better but switching between high beam and low beam takes more time.

Measure the distance from swing are pivot shaft to swing arm end
you will come to know.
If it is offset, get the swing arm serviced and change the pivot bushes of the same.

Thalaiva, good to see you back!

For the throttle cable, check the routing of the cable. See if it routed through the clamp @ T-Stem. If not try putting the cable inside the clamp and then check.



Got my bike back from service on monday (saturday actually). Bike is now running on motul 300v 5w40. Could'nt find 10w40 300v. Bike is absolutly smooth now. Tappets were resetted but not done properly. Wonder how smooth would it be had it been setted properly. its damn smooth

Just checked the mileage. am getting around 45kmpl. Disc brake jerking still not rectified. but it does'nt bother me much. need to replace the rear brake shoe.

What exactly the dogs are?
and what about the connecting "joints" of the linkage??

Does it make one hell of the diff in beam?

Washers wont make them offset,and these 12mm is bit too much, i wonder what is the cause.

Not bad Mr. Satish...
45kmpl is really very goog average.

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Just came after the 20 kms of ride.
The bike ran like dream, it came to 117 from 100 in like 3-4 secs, it felt very fast and the bike ran so smooth at 7000RPM that it even gave complex to smoothness at 4000RPm the bike has.
i rode almost 12kms parking my tacho's needle at the 7000RPM.

I'am in love with the RTR again.

i guess dogs in mesh type gearbox is a small piece of metal which is of square shaped hardly 2-3cm(L*H), and its main function is to connect the gearbox mechanism with transmission one( frnt sprocket shaft). if i am not wrong
i had a glimpse of this dog when my friends RE (bullet) gearbox malfunctioned
(unable to clogged a gear) and this dog was culprit in that case.
cause is mechanical wear and tear of that dog's head.

@SARAB_FI:

Thanks for the input.

oiled dust 'round the injector

While cleaning my bike today i noticed "oiled" dust around the injector (covering the neck of it), may be that's from the head, cuz RTR's head leaks a fine line of oil once a month or so, i always clean the oiled dust around it.
Anybody noticed the same??

What you're describing is the length of the swingarm?? Confused what you mean exactly.

Loose connecting joints will create excessive play in the shift action, and may cause a few false neutrals, but probably won't be causing the symptoms you described.

The dogs are teeth on the sides of gears which engage into holes on other gears which in turn connect the input shaft to the output shaft in a constant mesh gearbox. See the following links for more info.

How Motorcycle Transmissions Work
Transmission Applet / scottdial.com
Gear Shifting

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Thanks for the links bro..

80% are the chances that he need to change the swing arm pivot bush. to confirm that, i am asking him to measure the distance of pivot bolt center to swing arm end. If bush is damaged and swing arm is deflected, this distance wont remain same.

Another method to confirm this is to use string (line-dori).

Nice links buddy.

it feels nice to be back especially when welcomed by so many guys!

Il take up your suggestions... and yeah, considering i am going for a round headlamp, does not make sense of having pilots, but still wondering whether we should remove the number plate lamps?

RTR Apache efi. TOP SPEED REDUCED

Hi guys am from "BANGALORE", am new to the forum so didn't know where to post my question.
I own an apache rtr efi 160.
I have managed to touch138 Kmph singles on airport road in bangalore.
Now my problem is that my bike takes up alot of time to reach top speed and its not crossing 117 kmph. Ocassionally it crosses 120 in slopes.

I changed the clutch plates and the bike is smoother now but the problem still remains.

One of the mechanics i asked told me that changing the valves and the piston rings will bring back the bike to almost new condition and the bike will perform like before.


Please suggest me of what to do about it.


Also am planning to get a low price exhaust kit fitted as i want my bike to reach higher RPMs faster. Anybody from bangalore who can suggest me from where can i buy or enquire about the exhaust ???