Whoever said that, its 101% true; just be careful enough OR IMO, take help from any YMIS ASC; they've exhaustive service manual & parts catalog where the combinations of primary gear & clutch bell has been mentioned. IIRC, there're about 7 combi possible. Use that as reference & you'll 101% never go wrong.

Welcome back Ganesh For now, I have decided to go with the existing bell and primary. My technician is confident it will perform well and against his experience of over two decades (better part of which was in Farid Motors) and my noob king knowledge I let his judgement prevail. Hoping nothing goes wrong.

any progress? bring some updates here mate, if possible with some snaps...

Not much updates. Engine assembly is completed and it is bolted on to the frame. Rest of the bike needs to be assembled. Unfortunately, the day I visited the garage I had not carried the camera.

Front fork assembly is the major work left for now. I haven't called my technician in over a week now. I'll wait for him to call me.

Fork assembly reconditioning? Any temptation to disc it up?

No tempatation for disc set-up Not re-conditioning, but replacing inner tubes and spring.

Anyways, he called me to say that the forks I bought won't fit 2002 model 135. It is of 100s & early batch 135s. This one has a different 'groove pattern' apparently.

I am not convinced, asked second opinion. I am told all side locking RXs have same inner tube. Only the central locking ones have a different top plates and hence different tubes. This explanation sounds intitutive.

Whatever, I've lost my interest in this project now. I asked him to source whatever tubes he wants. I'll return the ones I bought sometime later.

Come on Nitin, will pass this phase soon and start enjoying the ride soon. Ups and downs does happen in talks, procurement and difference of opinion. It's just a matter of time and all will fall in place right.

Once again true; trust me, I know inside out on the fork assy

Hmm...no better answer I guess

What inner tube are we talking here? If its the under bracket ASSY (refer catalog) then this is 100% true; otherwise, if he's talking about the inner tube (refer catalog), then this is 101% incorrect as inner tube has got nothing to do with locking.

All you need is...
- Rx100's inner tube (the one sitting beneath your handle bar)
- Rx100's/Gladiator's/Rx135's outer tube (refer catalog)

If the parts are in place, assembling them & putting to bike takes not more than 5 hours & I'm talking about putting each & every nut & bolt in the front fork & not just assy by assy. If I can do it in 5 hours, the mechs can do it half of my time.

I don't mind delays. Problem is this could have been foreseen and it wasn't. Top of that he switches off his phone

Now, this statement confuses me. My technician says what I procured IS a RX100 inner tube 36LF31100000 INNER TUBE COMPLETE and it CANNOT be fitted to 2002 model RX 135.

He himself says there isn' much work left now. But these are the pending items. I called lot of dealers in Bengaluru yesterday, nobody has this 2002 wala inner tube. They say its stopped long back.

EDIT: Just spoke to my parts dealer. He confirmed that there are indeed differences in inner tubes. Even in the later models there are two types Asked me to bring old ones so that he can give me the correct part. Another weekend ruined

Nitin, I don't see why a Rx100 top tube doesn't go well with Rx135's bottom; only thing is that, the inner spacer & springs have to be changed accordingly otherwise it would be more softer ride.

IMHO, it SHOULD; if I were you, I would stop worrying about it, get a pair of any year's Glad's bottom (should cost around 2.5-3K) & get a disc assy or IIRC, Glad also had drum brakes, if you like, you could go for it.

Nope, not wlling to spend another 2.5-3k on this. I had already spent 2.5k on inner tube. Since my technician says he canot fit it, I don't have an option but to exchange the tubes I bought with the 'correct ones'.

Tomorrow or day after I will post the pics of both these models. Let me see if I can make any sense out of it.

Did u get the parcel??

Not yet. Spoke to them today. It has left Delhi on 12th by road and is expected here only by Monday.

This build is taking as much time as it did for Shahjahan to build TajMahal.

I had left at fork inner tube issue. That is resolved now. Patched my technician with my parts dealer, technician visited the parts dealer, exchanged the incorrect part to the correct ones and assembled. All this happened 10-14 days back.

Meanwhile, the person to whom the wheel work has been entrusted has gone to his native place and we are waiting on him for the past 6-7 days So now, I officially don't have an ETC for this build When the wheel fellow feels like returning to B'lore, my build will be complete since my Rs.1350/- Union wheel rims and Rs.300 (approx) HH spokes are with him and his shop is shut for past 6-7 days. Everything else is complete.

Today, I visited the garage to have a dekkho. This is what I found:-

Front end


Brand new 'POWER BOX'


Brand new 2T oil tank-(colour) Looks like milk can


Ridiculous quality of steel/chrome parts that you get nowadays. Ashok-If you are reading this, can we get two grab rails made in stainless steel?



Powder coated silencer-Catcon


OE Rear Shocks, side stand, gear shifter lever


HEAD-without the ache



2T oil pump-2nd heart


Hopefully all this should add up to a durable, reliable two-stroker with good low end torque and 38-40kmpl consistently. But then, let it come out of the ICU first

Was waiting for the updates here Nithin...
Excellent Job, feeling jealous that you own two neat bikes

kept the old oil level indicator when you changed the 2T oil tank?
I think the oil level indicator available now is a different one, not the one with needle...

why you have gone for non RX side signal lights?, I think its Crux's lights...