Well I do agree with Synn to a certain extent....

Anyways why all the hungama over precise data. I ride a 220 and have done that for a long time,for someone who rides a P180 and is looking for a upgrade naturally the options would be ZMA P220 and R15.....go for the R15 eyes closed. Its the best thing money can buy you today....this coming from a 220 owner.

PS: weren't you looking for a used 600 till sometime back!

Malad means the factory owned showroom right? shocked to know that they don't have it.

BTW, guys, are you all aware that the right side inner panel is being replaced with ones with a mesh when the bikes go for service. I casually visited the service center y'day and they offered me to replace it then... but I told them that I'll get the bike for servicing in about a week days and it can be replaced then.

@Archi, the last pic with the inner and front panel in Red looks awesome...
Awaiting the pics of your bike....

Now, these new accessories are damn good. gotta get some of them now!

Hi everybody. I got the Seat Cowl and the Tank Pad Fitted to my bike. It is looking really awesome. I dont have electricity in my house right now. I will upload and post the Pics soon.

During the R15 championship, I saw that the rear seat cowl fitted on a bike. It actually was a whole assembly - a split-seat setup with the seat cowl rivetted on the rear seat. Is it possible to remove the cowl alone so u have a permanent split seat setup? Or is ur rear cowl simply a strap-on on the existing single seat?

Still no accessories in Mumbai

I have checked Malad factory showroom--Excellent yamaha Showroom---Ganesh enterprise Yamaha Showroom

none of them have r15 accessories yet

All they say its going to take 10 days everytime i ask about the accessories

dont understand why yamaha is not shipping accessories in mumbai

I checked out the IRC tyre that most of the R15 owners have installed on the bike

I spoke with the guy in metro tyres(Grant Road--Mumbai) he was damm confident that putting IRC tyre does not effect the performance like cornering ablity/Braking etc
he says only avg will drop by 2kms

He said they have installed many IRC 130/70 tyre in r15 none of them returned with a complaint

Have any of the R15 owners got IRC tyre installed
Need to know how is the performance etc etc

This is a pix of R15 with IRC tyre

how much the tyre cost....................

I don't know why people have this fascination with 'fatter' tyres. I mean, a vehicle's design process is something we don't completely understand, at least I don't. There maybe ten billion things that the Yamaha people consider when they go about making a motorcycle like the 15. Thats why we pay them more than 10^5 bucks for a motorcycle. Its not like the engineers try tyres of different profiles and sizes and then vote on which one looks best. How a motorcycle scores on the looks scale is a different department altogerther. Even that is a case of form following function, NEVER the other way around. If the FZ16 sports a 140 or the Gixxer has a 190 on the rear, there has to be a reason behind it. I don't know what it is, but it sure as hell ain't looks.

And yet we go about tampering with something as crucial as the rear wheel for the sake of aesthetics. If we all knew whats best for our bikes we'd have customized bikes with every Tarun, Dinesh and Harjeet on every corner of India's billion streets. The 15 has a lot of things other motorcycles currently dont offer. Though with all the modifications people seems to be doing, Im forced to ask you all: Is'nt this motorcycle wonderful enough as it is?

Just my head, dont mind.

help help help please

Thanks Praful ... Also, Puneet, R-King & Drift Series ... Thanks guys for opinions.

Even I felt this way, when I tested R15. Damn, it was so Sensitive to my touch!

but I asked, as P220 is the ONLY Indian Performance bike I never rode ...


Reg. 600, I want to get one "legally" ... But searching in classifieds, I couldn't find one suitable advert... Still waiting ... Praful bro, Kindly let me know if there is one around Rajasthan ... I'll be thankful!

Everything has positive n negative side , same with wider tyres u get
1)better braking due to wider contact patch
2)more stability in sandy n loose roads (r 15 is not good on gravely or loose road as ive personally experienced it )
3)more cornering stability at higher speeds.
4)Looks cool
bad
1)lower acceleration n mileage
2)it may have diferent tread n compound thats not beneficial for u

Wrong, It has nothing to do with the tyre section, its more about pattern. Get dual purpose or off-roader and you can tackle gravel and road with sand. There is nothing except Looks that works in this mad race of upsizing, absolutely nothing else.

i said that ,if it has different tread then its not gonna be benificial

The correct way to brake is to use the front brakes 'cos of the weight transfer it brings about. Its almost rare that you bring in the rear brake into operation. So, braking is really not an issue. As far as straight line acceleration goes, do people account for the increase in weight of the 'fatter' tyre?
Again, as setuniket said and you yourself concede, its the kind of treads and compounds we are looking for that comes into play when offroading. Even a 200 slicks wont help on offroads.

A steep profile like the stock ones on the 15 will offer a much greater contact patch while cornering, ostensibly at higher speeds, than the squarish profile of a, say P220. We have proof of the 15 winning hands down on the track, with these tyres.

To each his own.