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Even after an year and a half, Helen fails to dissapoint. The world class braking saved my puny arse yesterday. I was returning back from office, was on the rajouri garden flyover at 5:20. Not for non delhi people, this flyover is huge. It's long so that you can speed up and it's wide so you can shift through traffic as well, I do 110-120 everytime I'm on this flyover.
So, like always, I'm accelerating hard, 70-80-90-100-110-115 goes the display. Now, sometimes this flyover gets jammed with traffic, but these instances are rare and when it happens, due to the curve in the flyover, you can see traffic coming to a standstill and can reduce your speed in order to stop. Well I was in another place altogether. I was around 115 at the bend in the flyover and then I saw an auto slowing down. Instinct told me that I'm beyond screwed. Downed a couple of gears and used both the brakes. The rear went fishtailing as if I'd braked on glass. No issue, released the rear for a second and as soon as the tire gained traction, went down on the rear brake pedal hard again, all this time downshifting so as to keep the rpms up and engine braking to the max and keeping the front brake lever pulled just so that I have enough braking that don't end me in either a front wheel lockup or a stoppie.
I know a guy who races at the chinese tracks and he had told me about this technique. He had called it zzzz'ing the brakes. He told that be on the front as high as you can hear a little zzzzz kinda noise coming from the pads rubbing against the rotors. He told that in order to loose speed quickly, you zzzz the front brakes, downshift in order to keep bumping off the rev limiter and keep at the rear brake lever. when the rear fishtailes, let go off the lever for a sec and then have a go at it again.
Anyhow, I came down to my quickest stop from 115, managed to avoid hitting any of the traffic, didn't lock my front wheel and go down. There was a visible skid line left on the tarmac from my rear tire due to the fishtailing.
In two words, R15 rocks. I'm still happy with my decision to go for her.
In other, more boring, but still necessary, news, I need to replace the rear tire. 17000 kms and the front one has gotten punctured so many times that it just doesn't seem to be holding air. I'm loosing 20psi in a matter of hours.
I'm not gonna put in the stock mrf rubber this time. Yeah the corner grip is insane, but the drawbacks are just to much, short life, not really good in mud, get's punctured quickly.
So I want a long lasting tire, 25k kms at least, which should be resistant to punctures. I'm not looking to upsize, so I need a 100 sec tire only. I was looking at mrf zapper c, comes stock at the rear of stunner (checked myself) and pulsar135 (or so I'm told). What are my other options?
So, like always, I'm accelerating hard, 70-80-90-100-110-115 goes the display. Now, sometimes this flyover gets jammed with traffic, but these instances are rare and when it happens, due to the curve in the flyover, you can see traffic coming to a standstill and can reduce your speed in order to stop. Well I was in another place altogether. I was around 115 at the bend in the flyover and then I saw an auto slowing down. Instinct told me that I'm beyond screwed. Downed a couple of gears and used both the brakes. The rear went fishtailing as if I'd braked on glass. No issue, released the rear for a second and as soon as the tire gained traction, went down on the rear brake pedal hard again, all this time downshifting so as to keep the rpms up and engine braking to the max and keeping the front brake lever pulled just so that I have enough braking that don't end me in either a front wheel lockup or a stoppie.
I know a guy who races at the chinese tracks and he had told me about this technique. He had called it zzzz'ing the brakes. He told that be on the front as high as you can hear a little zzzzz kinda noise coming from the pads rubbing against the rotors. He told that in order to loose speed quickly, you zzzz the front brakes, downshift in order to keep bumping off the rev limiter and keep at the rear brake lever. when the rear fishtailes, let go off the lever for a sec and then have a go at it again.
Anyhow, I came down to my quickest stop from 115, managed to avoid hitting any of the traffic, didn't lock my front wheel and go down. There was a visible skid line left on the tarmac from my rear tire due to the fishtailing.
In two words, R15 rocks. I'm still happy with my decision to go for her.
In other, more boring, but still necessary, news, I need to replace the rear tire. 17000 kms and the front one has gotten punctured so many times that it just doesn't seem to be holding air. I'm loosing 20psi in a matter of hours.
I'm not gonna put in the stock mrf rubber this time. Yeah the corner grip is insane, but the drawbacks are just to much, short life, not really good in mud, get's punctured quickly.
So I want a long lasting tire, 25k kms at least, which should be resistant to punctures. I'm not looking to upsize, so I need a 100 sec tire only. I was looking at mrf zapper c, comes stock at the rear of stunner (checked myself) and pulsar135 (or so I'm told). What are my other options?
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