@Sagar-Nice Video. Appreciate your Efforts. But please elaborate more on how the camera was placed.

Someone's all Defensive, isn't he I don't care what you can do with your bike and its masaledar engine. If you would have left your ego aside before reading my posts, you would have been able to actually understand what I am trying to say here. The original question was about the top whack that everyone has hit on their respective R15s. Hence I happened to mention what I have hit and when people tried to question my 148 mark, I posted a video to substantiate my claim. While doing so, I never mentioned about any magical characteristics of my bike. My bike is plain stock without any tweaks and I am sure that with some professional tune-up it can do much much better. From my very first post, i have clearly mentioned that I hit 148 on a road which had a natural decline which helped me sustain my momentum. So it was not luck, nor tailwind but a very good patch of road with gradual decline that helped me get to my magical figure CONSISTENTLY. And hence in my last post I insisted that anyone on a well-maintained stock R15 and weighing less than 75kgs should be able to hit 148 if not better it on the same road. I rest my case here.

Anybody have true max speed of an R15? Or how accurate is the speedo?

@DriftKingNT and ketan_r15- I fitted the mobile phone between the helmet jawline and my chin and with the wiser closed of course. The gap between my nose and the helmet jawline (after i wore the helmet) was just enough to fit the phone and balance it with my chin.

Hey thanx for that info Sagar..
I must say riding a bike at those speeds while also holding the cam like that.... i mean yeah i know it was resting between ur chin n nose but it must hav taken atleast some of the concetration away from the biking.. hats off dude..

I really dont get what you re trying to say about my claims here.
Didnt get the ego part u are trying to quote, or do you have it..I dont know. I'm saying that a stock R15 WILL do it given the road...but a tweeked engine will hit that sweet spot earlier. Thats all.
Read my last post clearly and I've said that its a combination of the optimum condition and state of tune which gives you the best possible top-end.
If you feel I'm being defensive, every point of mine is being taken as offensive by you.. Cant help it, unto each his own.
You have a point, you proved it. Good for you but bad for those who never believed the R15 could do this much.

archi ... did you go today to the SS what happend...

joel you have a PM.

hi joel,

can u tell us what are the tweeks you've done on your R15....we'd be happy to know that and try it.

thanks

It truly was SOME experience as I tried this for the first time. But then again it was so worth it

This is not an ownership post since I am not an owner but I do think that I needed to post something on this really good bike.

My first impressions of REALLY riding the bike are posted here:


Congrats to all owners who have owned and ridden this bike. I am happy for you guys.

And this might help for people who are dilly dallying about buying a new bike. If you know how to extract power out of a bike, this is the "One"!

A post like this coming from u is really heartening and brings a lot of pride to the R15 owners Ken!

".One to One its yamaha all the way for me."

@sagar 46: Next time you decide to belittle anyone on xBhp, please say goodbye! Such posts will not be tolerated.

Bad service at Ambal Motors!

Hey all, as I mentioned in my earlier posts, my bike was making a ruckus off-late. Too much noise, NVH-too high, tappet noise and so on. Yesterday checked Engine oil and it had lost all its viscosity. It looked all black and was flowing like water. I doubt if the SC guys even changed the oil in my last free service which was only 1.2K kms ago.

I then got a liter of SHELL mineral oil and replaced it. Now the bike is back to its old self and runs like a dream. The SC guys said that they had poured MOTUL semi-synth oil and charged me 300-odd bucks(on the bill) for the same. Am damn sure that a semi-synth will not loose its viscosity so soon. I service at AMBAL MOTORS, chennai. This is for ur info guys. Better be present when the SC guys do a service on ur bike. If this is the quality of service, Yamaha better warn its service guys.

This is exactly wat I told yesterday.. I had changed the oil just before 700kms from AMBAL MOTORS.. The oil was damn black in colour and the quantity was very less.
Happy to hear that u'r problems r solved n I'm planning ti take it to SS this saturday to adjust the tappet.