You're welcome.
The chain is better than it was. 5k Kms ago, there were jammed links, & the mech strongly recommended getting it replaced. But I insisted on keeping it stock, & did frequent cleaning & lubing thereafter. Result- There are just 1-2 lightly jammed links now.
Whats your bike's odo reading? Due for replacement due to negligence?

Right!

I have 3-4 Jammed links. Did a Night in Kerosene thing. Much Better. I still do notice 2-3 Jammes links here and there. It's 20,000Kms+. No Negligence as such. Regular Dry Tape and Motul Clean!

The links on my bike's jammed due to infrequent lubing, so I thought could be same with your bike.
With proper care being taken, I'm surprised to hear your bike's chain has jammed links. I'm wondering what could have caused the jams!?

btw, Santa's bike is at 40k, is running stock chain, & believe it or not, the chain tensioner is still at 1

I did not do much in Monsoons though. Might be because of that.
And I know he hasn't changed his chain and sprockets. But the tensioner is at 1?? How the... What the... ???

This is of help thanks Tibby and welcome back again good to see you posting


Yeah even my friend went to ask for the chain set, the Vendor told him since its the first lot of R15 i.e. 2008 model hence they would be putting DID. Can you tell me if there is any change?

Brother please I am keeping my fingers crossed, and riding my babe with care... hence no crash so far... touch wood

^^ DID is imported, Rolon is indian.

Shivanshu bro's bike is crash-free till date, and lets hope it remains that way forever

Chain tensioner still at 1 WTF??






@ All : My bike is back from the service center. Got a call from the svc manager yesterday evening that she's ready and I can take her home next morning, I wanted to to and take her yesterday evening itself but it was just about a half hour left till close so I didn't go. The night was very hard to get through.....kinda had the same feeling of excitement when I was gonna take her delivery.

I went to the svc at around 10:30, bike was ready......the feeling of contentment that I felt was inexplicable. Got some formalities done and also got the fourth service done. Put in motul 5100 semi synthetic for the second time, the old motul 5100 is not in that bad a shape even that it needed to be changed even after 2300 kms of moderately hard ripping, i changed it just because the service was due. Put the old oil in the motul can and it reached around 950 ml, hence the bike isn't consuming oil . Got the coolant topped up, 300 ml for 90 bucks.

As for the repairs charge, I incurred 6305 for parts and 400 for labour. Hence got her back to awesome shape with incurring 6700 bucks. I had to give 500 bucks extra for saving my old headlight assembly which was in good condition as only 1 socket which holds the assembly in place was broken. I had my trusted mechanic get that socket repaired too by a plastic weld. The svc manager recommended not changing the assembly as the damage was negligible but I wanted her to be as good as new so got it replaced altogether.

A big thanks to prakhar arya for taking almost all of his day off and coming to the service center for me. Friends like him are hard to find

IMPORTANT
I was using the rx100 stand which I bought from yamaha SVC only for lubing my chain. When I was done lubing I took the center stand off and found out that it had bent . I did not expect the stand to bend as the weight difference between r15(130kg) and rx100(98kg) is just a mere 32kg. I've post some pics for reference.

I'm thinking about getting the stand straightened at a welder and an additional piece of iron rod affixed at both the legs to provide more strength.

^^ That's funny, i am using RX 100 stand as well, but it has not issues what so ever...

hey did any body had a engine head clean after 13k kms...
is it really required to do it?

Where did you get this information from?

Need help on knowing the better service centres in Chennai. Bought the bike at Bikerz and have completed 3 services at their Nanganallur service centre. They suck !!

Have had a problem with a scraping noise from the front suspension since August - Have had the bike serviced twice after that and it still exists The fools dont even seem to know what the issue is and have told me that they have done this and done that and it shouldn't be a problem again.

Really need help on this !!

Good to know its helpful. Thanks!

I don't think he HAS to use the costly one, just because the bike is from the initial lot. He can definitely ask for the new chainset (ROLON make).

Apologies for the typo! I intended to address Srinath Rao. Typed your name by mistake
Good to know all is well with you.


Mistake I did. Forgive me!

Yeah! He lubes it regulary, so.

@tibby: I don't think its possible that Santa's chainset has not yet been replaced. It must be on the 1st position of the new chain!
He tours a lot&touring at higher speeds wears out the chain even faster. Last time after I rode from Hyd to Bangy at 120+ speeds constantly, the chain adjuster nut position had to be moved up from no.3-4. If 600kms.of ripping can do this, just imagine!
My bike has just crossed 20K kms.as you might be aware.

a local mechanic was telling..

he told for proper performance after every 13k-15k kms its better to clean the head once..
please guys tell me .is it true?

when i using hhambition the service centre guys used to do that

Hi, ripped my bike on the EC Elevated Highway today. Reached 127 kmph with pillion and sitting upright. It it fine?

Also, the RVMs, are they foldable by design? In my case the hinge at the fairing end keeps getting loose if I fold the mirror a few times! Help!!!