How many bottle should be required for bike like Impulse.

If I am not mistaken the impulse front tyre is of 19" and rear is 17" so Tuff-Up is of no use.

It was a great pointer. Just had a talk with the FireFox dealer at Jaipur and he said they sell the same brand "Slime". Right now not in stock but he said they can arrange for me if I place my order. Having said so, it is available in India through FireFox. Nice. He has given me a tentative idea of price which is INR 500 per bottle. He said for bycycle, one bottel is needed for both the tyres so in his openion for a dirt bike we might need to use 4 bottles. I am not sure if what he said is authetic. Do you have any idea of this? How many bottles did you ship for your bike and what was the quantity per bottle.

No worries, I guess the top speed of Impulse is 100 KMPH only .

1. I am going to request him to join this forum.
2. If he does not join, who knows if I am going to be the first XBHPian who owns an Impulse.
3. I might buy a Impulse within this month.

PS :: I visited the Hero dealer and checked for the finance option. The financial they had there was HDFC and he told me that the interest rate is going to be 13% flat . Is it not too much? I have decided to buy the bike in cash.

hummmm... In that case why to change the tyre??? I guess changing only the tube will be fine. Correct me with details if Am I wrong?

The only issue that arises with these Solutions is that when the Valve starts to leak, you have no option but to tear apart the Tyre and replace both Tyre and tube. Which is a painful job both physically and on the pocket

@NarenCharan: Why dont you get your friend onto xbhp and make him open an ownership thread? SO, when are you expecting your impulse??

Its unbelievable that no one on xbhp owns an impulse yet.

$13.99 per bottle(32 oz.) + shipping.
A friend carried it for me to India.
Slime claims to seal the puncture upto 1/8inches.
If it fails, then I guess cleaning up the tyre inside and fitting a new tube should work fine.

If you are using 18" wheels, then you can also opt for Honda Tuff-Up tubes (used in Unicorn). Many people in Raid run them and I also used them in the ZMA's rear. Though haven't had any first hand exp of seeing it working but have heard from people that it works.
I had got a reference of Welcome to Firefox Bikes - Mountain Bike, Road Bike, Hybrid Bike, BMX Bike, kids Bike...Bikes for everyone who also sells some similar solution.

These vibrations are known thing. They normally appear at speeds around 70 and above. Don't recall exact speed. They are not there always though.
Again, I think, Slime don't recommend running at high speeds (I guess over 100 or so) with the solution in the tyre/tube.

I will surelly do that.

How much did you pay for Slime? How did you managed to ship it to India? Is any similar product available in India? What happen if this product fail, can you still simply change the tube and ride? This seems to be a very good product and must for off roading use as we have many throns (kaante) in our area. Is there any other sollution you recomand? Mind it that normally I ride/drive alone. Asking so much I am new with adventure biking.

Why these vibration are there? Are they exist only on very high speed (say 80 KMPH and above)? Any sollution?

Wish him good luck for the rally.

I am using Slime for Tube in my Fiero, for more than a year now. During my Ladakh ride, I found a nail in the rear tyre, just pulled it out and the puncture was fixed in a couple of seconds, with hardly any air loss (rode more than 1000km's after than without topping up air). Still riding without having to do anything other than check/top up air pressure. I bought it from Speedworks in 2010 but it seems they no more sell it (last when I checked) and hence I bought it from US (via amazon).
Though using it in front tyre affects the handling of the bike (a little bit). Sometimes, I feel a bit of vibration/shaking of the front when riding the bike.

I think he is planing to do Desert Storm with his Impulse...

I have a question to you guys... Is there any fluid available to fill in the tube so the tyre does not get punchare? How effective it that?

One more photo of him...

And I see a Raid sticker on the bike already.
Was he there in Raid (ofcourse of another bike) this year, and any plans of taking part in Raid on the Impulse?

Hey Nik, nice catch. I just had a talk with the owner of that bike (Nitish) and he said he has a free flow exaust which he bought from HRC, Karol Bagh, Delhi. I requested him to make a video clip of the bike and to upload so we all can listen the knots. However he did start his bike for me so I can hear the knots on phone. It was quite a good sound/knots. He said the torque of the bike has slightly increased after the free flow.

Looks like he's already stripped out the stock muffler and put a different can in.

i see a custom exhaust . can u ask nitish/ur frnd which make is it and does it improve performance?

Yes, he is the same guy...

I have almost made my mind for Impulse in black colour. I know this is not the best colour but however I would feel less awkward while going to office on that bike than the other bright colours.

Though I am going to buy this bike soon but there are a few things I really do not like about Impulse...

1. The name which reads I M PULSEr . It n 4X4 world, we call Maruti Gypsy as JeepSi (Jeep jaisi = wanna be Jeep). Even the "pulse" fonts are somewhere similar to Pulser.
2. the logo of hero is not impressive to me. I know it is subjective. No problem, one I have the bike I can always perhaps put Honda sticker on it.

Enjoy the below pictures too... I love the last pic...

Lovely stills. Wish i got the 'M' Power to get this only for Leh / Spiti ride, so every year will get Leh'ed

Cheers !!
Karthik

I think its the same guy here in this pic I found on the FB impulse page

@ NarenCharan, What an amazing first post here..! Hats-Off to try out something that is built for. Not many people try these out, rather park it in some Coffee Shop & Drool at it...!