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Thanks! I needed this because the guy @ probiker in pune told me this is not a good daily use helmet and people complain of headaches in it.

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Umm you have said this on every superbike ownership thread from past many years I guess? When exactly are you buying Anyways buy one soon and give us another ownership thread to drool over.

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Hi I would suggest you add one more product to your bike care products its a bosch aquatak pressure washer..
It's a cool product and the basic one would be under 4k I guess. It becomes so easy and fun to clean your bike.

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Deathmate.Zed Brother since right now I don't have 15 to 20 Lakhs INR, so have to settle for a Pulsar RS200 Sport and when I have that kind of money in the near future you will definitely see an SBK in my garage. Right now RS200 Sport is on my list.

I keep reading SBK ownership reports and other things related to it so as to keep myself updated with everything happening in SBK arena

There are a lot of SBK's on my wishlist but temporarily I will get the RS200 Sport. I hope my dream of owing a SBK becomes a reality Ameen.

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Either they reported within the first couple of weeks (when I had my jaws paining for a few minutes after rides) or the store did not have stock or their head shape did not match. Mine is round oval and I never had a headache.

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Dude you could get one for around 6 lac as well
Must commend your will power. I could not wait for more than a year from the time I started getting into this Alice-In-Wonderland-World !

RS200 looks promising but I am sure a RS400 is not far away, as soon as Bajaj can plonk the 390 engine into a chassis that they made. That would probably make more sense.

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I am still bathing in the unreal excitement of actually seeing Roadbuster in the garage every morning while not being woken up from a cruel dream, like the ones you have when you are in Hawaii and Rosie Huntington Whiteley comes out of the surf in a white 60's style one piece and tringgg tringgg the alarm bells !!!)


Meanwhile, Roadbuster has munched up kilometers faster than I had anticipated. When I got her, I was still wondering if I would be able to get to 1K kms before 30 days and targeted a meagrely 800 km before 1st servicing but here she is, past the 1K mark with a week still to go.


The 1K came up at a solitary traffic light at red in a 100+ kms journey from Mahadevapura to home. Good timing, must say !


3 of us planned to start around 530 but we ended up doing so around 0600 on sunday. The 1st phase of the break in which ties you down to 4K RPM is till 800 kms and this I achieved exactly at the meeting point early morning. Again, timing !


6K RPM limit is a breathe of fresh air, I must accept. Now the highways are no more frustrating and your fellow riders do not disappear into the horizon any more Capable of doing healthy speeds now, distance was quickly eaten in. And the best part, thanks to her large fuel hump, she was last amongst a Duke390 and a R15V2.0 to need a fuel stop or go into emergency, which she did at around 260kms from last fill (Last fill was, unexpectedly, fun. Bangalore had a bundh on saturday which meant City was like uber fun to ride around. 25kms from BTM to Lalbagh to and from tells you how much fun we were having).


Mysore road was like Mysore road, humpy laden with meandering crawler of vehicles who all just want to kill you. What it did showcase was how easily the suspension was ready to take the humps on without actually jarring me to the point my liver was where my lung should be. Except for the multi-humps, none of the other ones needed the lowest gear or standing on pegs.


The 15km road off the mysore highway was 5 kms of messaging chair with no message but only pain and the remaining 10 was snaking tarmac with less traffic and flanked by coconut groves galore. For a a moment you might check the maps whether you found a worm hole that took you to Kerela super quick.


A good filling breakfast was done at the MacD on the way, only after we woke the guys, from their sweet slumber, up in the store. People looked at us as if we had landed from another planet when we decided to lube chains the Z and Duke outside MacD too.


The final destination was nothing to rave about though. Sultry, scorching, heavy vehicles shaking the bridge, that tried to topple the helmets and mine did fall once on a little stack of straws, about like Jurassic Park was about to introduce the T-Rex.


Same route back. Thanks to the fellow rider's immense knowledge, the interceptors were avoided. By noon we were all back home !






There is a bad though. A little paint chipped from the cowl beside the seat, probably the flying pebbles or something evil !!! A speck on her ! Put little carbon fiber vinyl triangles to cover em in a decent way for now. PPF needed ASAP.


1st Service is booked for next saturday so no more riding her till then as 1 0 0 0 kms has been breached by over 50 kms. Wallet already has a gloomy face.


While coming back, observed another rider with the exact same helmet, MT Revenge in white/red/blue, as mine and evening saw me do something about it. Dug out all the stickers I had received with various purchases in the last 2 years or so and used all of my limited creativity to make it look better and unique IMO. Let me know if anyone has some suggestions.



Some quiet time coming up now

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As usual, very good write up. Good you had fun.

This bridge looks more like "Kokkre Bellur" to me. No pictures of waterfalls ? How is the water level ?

Was it like this or better ?

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I strongly disagree with the kerala part. I am from kerala. I ride with full gears and have never been pulled over. And I ride with a group called Redliners everyone with full gears.

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Thanks Shreeni Next stop to the service center and meet those people again !!!
This is the bridge over kaveri that connects Mahadevapura. We skipped the rapids (not a waterfall rather a bathing place for local people) because we wanted to be back by noon. The heat was something. Wasn't it ?


Good to hear. I don't recall which thread in which forum but that is what was told to me when I was planning my trip to Munnnar. Maybe I can link it here if I can find that post. That sounded pretty insane to me at that time too.

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They have stringent rules wrt speed limit. I never faced any issues while riding with gears.

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Heartiest congratulations on getting THE ROADBUSTER sir. I have been following your thread in team.bhp since the start & i really loved ur story so far. Great writing indeed , from the heart too. Just a few moments ago i came to know that you are here in xbhp too . Sad to know that some paint got chipped off. Please much miles on your ROADBUSTER & do keep us posted.
Regards
Alex

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Firstly, whoever is reading this, I would make a heartfelt request to help the people affected by the recent Earthquakes in and around our country ! I have been to these places and they are lovely ones. The people of the place deserve our helping hand in this hour of crisis ! I am a firm believer of Nature taking her own way of maintaining balance, however cruel it may seem. We can, though, do our best to help as much as we can, however we can ! Google and you will find ways to help ! Kudos !

Now, back to her,
A week off with the pending 1st service meant, I was back to my pre-Roadbuster life. It was boring and uninspiring for the most of it except for the rains opening up craters in Bangalore like Moon gets done every hour ! Kept counting the days off. Didn't not even start her up once, to listen to her breathe awhile maybe ! No! 1000kms 1st servicing rule took priority. An infected throat which led to a couple of sleepless nights, loads of brine gurgling in my throat and tablets into me though a little 'official' news made the week feel great mid way again. Saturday morning saw me wake up with a somewhat better throat and a happiness in my gut ! Rode her in the morning to the service center. As anticipated, another depressing encounter, with Khivraj, awaited. 1 hour of being done nothing. Missing people every 10 minutes. Unprofessional work. Un recommended stuff being used save for the engine oil. Patience was tested but kept it in check, thinking, it was not before another 6 months that I would have to here again. 4.5 hours and meeting a ZX14R owner with a NEXX helmet later, she was done and delivered. Cash paid, as they charge, illegally, an extra 1.75% for using a card, about which I had already written to them and, as expected, no action has been taken ! Another mail is on the cards !

Back home on a tank full of Speed97 (83 bucks ! 91RON was 80+ around an year back ! ), she, all shiny, waited for, hopefully, my throat to improve and another ride ! She definitely felt smoother in the snail crawl that I had from Kasturba Road to BTM ! By night, my throat seemed in decent situation and I was ready to ride the next dawn ! Avalabetta was planned by a few guys and I decided to join in. The night couldn't end any faster. The usual pre ride ritual done and an early sleep being achieved, I was up next morning, fresh and ready, with a great child like anticipation !

Zoomed her off, the sun was yet to play peek a boo, the craters were not still very visible, the watering holes from last night's rain meant the shiny Roadbuster looked her namesake within a few kilometres as she took on muck spitting cabs and road pools. The wind was nice and that meant the weather was "nice". 1st Service + Speed97 meant she felt like a hot knife through butter ! Cubbon road felt wonderful as her morning music reverberated in the canopy with glow of the sun just starting to penetrate the clear morning sky. 0558 hours, I was at the place where I was supposed to be at 0600 (Punctual Me ! Reminds me of my first private tuitions, 14 years back, when my english teacher was literally confused at my accuracy of arrival time everyday and, finally, asked me if I waited outside his gate till it was actually time. He laughed about it and said, being an English teacher, "You don't come 'in' time ! You come 'on' time !" ) .

Soon all of us gathered but I remained the only one who had seen the Roadbuster all blingy from last last day's wash ! Greetings done, we started off and boy ! Oh ! Boy! Was it not fun ! Last time when I had just breached the 4K limit and entered the 6K limit, I was on the hump conveyor belt that is the Mysore road ! This time though, plus the new oil and fuel in her, I was on the Bellary road ! She flew and everything was in control ! Not one noise that you didn't want to hear from any part of her ! Just the mesmerizing Inline 4 harp playing the notes to make the Angels weak in their knees !

After around 70 kms, we found our way, after some to and fro going-abouts and asking-local-people-arounds, to the top of Avalabetta. The approach road was beautiful and twisty while being decently laid down as well. Soon we were rocking the cemented pavement of a road to the top of the hill that has nothing, but a locked up little house. No idea what that was but surely, the view from top of the hill was excellent, even with the sun shining bright at around 0730. Gotta be here in the winter, at least for once !

Soon we took our way down and back. Roadbuster sang her other song (the engine braking song hum song) during the descend, which I was told was enjoyed by the co riders ! (Bike Pics coming in! I forgot to take them as I was engrossed in taking in the horizon !)




In no time, we were flying back ! A stop at Kamath for a Masala Dosa and cup of hot coffee. A Kamath-side show, of the tire smoking and the idle revving and wheeling and stoppie-ing, being put up by a huge superbike group, to the happiness of a few bystanders and frowning the faces of many more there, probably did not like their breakfast time being marred by the racket being caused! Soon, we were off. The "group" followed, most of them causing every other vehicle on the highway much trouble ! With them out of sight, we took the left opposite Nandi Upahar and made our way back, through the lovely little road through hoskote-Kolar Highway.

A great ride done. Around 240kms of great fun. 1300+ on the ODO means just another 300 kms before all restrictions can be taken away and Roadbuster can do what she is capable of doing ! 6K RPM meant I never felt stranded and choked. A couple of 8K RPM bursts, which were wow ! Good Fun ! Good to be back on the road with my Roadbuster ! Time to tackle the monsoon, just the 2 of us ! Keep em coming !

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Great to know Alex that you liked it

Thanks man and yeah it has been quite a fun journey with my Roadbuster till now. Fingers crossed that it may continue long and smooth !

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My suggestion is you could just fill normal shell petrol.. Reasons
1) not available at all places so no point filling it once in a while
2) the 97 octane fuel which is available here at BP pumps is added with additives and all manufacturers suggest not to use additives
3) can't be sure that you are getting 97 octane fuel

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Just a small query.
What is the speed of the bike at 6k & 8k rpm ?

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It runs at around 130 kmph while slotted in 6th at 6K rpm.
I was on lower gears for 8K rpm so not sure but expect it to be around 150 kmph.