The Official Cochin Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[RoadZilla]

The South India ride against Exploitation through Child Labour getting covered in Times of India.

http://www.bit.ly/ride4cause

[kochumvk]

Hey guys .
Great news , Parents sanctioned a new bike , im focusing on either R15 or P220
Im happy with both bikes but dad insists that i check out finance and after sales services , so all p220 and r15 owners in cochin and Tvm please help also i'd like to know more about the price difference b/w cochin n Tvm .


@ranjith,swas - hows the yamaha service
@ Kochu - Bajaj service

please mail me any details that you have about dealers in cochin .

Congratulations buddy

So you can make long rides here after.

I will recommend R15 for you if you can afford one.Somehow I think R15 suits you more than 220. First of all both are entirely different machines.From your words I clearly knows how much you loves cornering, let me remind you "Nothing inspires u like R15 do on a corner". 220 is all about straight line blasts.You will suffer on corners.But the package makes 220 a decent all-rounder.

Service:

Bajaj Parts are cheaper and freely available.
Yamaha parts are neither cheap nor freely available.

The service people of bajaj are almost ignorant. They have no passion for motorcycles. They dont know how many teeth a rear sprocket have, they donno which tyre a stock baby ninja runs on the rear.They donno how to wash a bike.

BUT STILL I DO KNOW HOW TO GET THE JOB DONE BY THEM.
They are polite and knows how to talk.

You can always teach them, whats the problem and get your issues rectified.

Finally its not as bad as u can read from my words. But as an Engineer I will always expect more professionalism from the people who take care of my machine.

[RanjithMN]

Yamaha parts are neither cheap nor freely available.

Parts availability of YAMAHA is pretty decent..nothing to complain about...unless crashes are very bad im yet to see bikes waiting for parts @PSN
but yeah BAJAJ spares are probably the easiest to get.

and R15's spares aren't as costly as they use to be....the newer spares are made locally and hence there has been a huge cut in price(though it MIGHT still be a tad costlier than the BAJAJ)

[SilentKnight]

Congratulations on the approval! Will they sanction funds for fuel too?

Ha ha , sadly fuels gona be coming out of my pocket money ..

FINALLY! CONGRATS MAN!!!


dude just get the R15...Service at PSN YAMAHA is very good...no worries!

Congratulations buddy

So you can make long rides here after.

I will recommend R15 for you if you can afford one.Somehow I think R15 suits you more than 220. First of all both are entirely different machines.From your words I clearly knows how much you loves cornering, let me remind you "Nothing inspires u like R15 do on a corner". 220 is all about straight line blasts.You will suffer on corners.But the package makes 220 a decent all-rounder.

Service:

Bajaj Parts are cheaper and freely available.
Yamaha parts are neither cheap nor freely available.

The service people of bajaj are almost ignorant. They have no passion for motorcycles. They dont know how many teeth a rear sprocket have, they donno which tyre a stock baby ninja runs on the rear.They donno how to wash a bike.

BUT STILL I DO KNOW HOW TO GET THE JOB DONE BY THEM.
They are polite and knows how to talk.

You can always teach them, whats the problem and get your issues rectified.

Finally its not as bad as u can read from my words. But as an Engineer I will always expect more professionalism from the people who take care of my machine.

R15 would have been my first choice and i love goin arround corners , but im trying to avoid it mainly because i have this slight issue with my backbone , the posture is a little uncomftable for me , i borrowed my friends R15 to test this out and by the end of the day my back was killing even though i was riding on the salem highway . So im leaning towards the p220 streetfinhter now ( fairing on 220 keeps brushing against my knee)
And another reason is the mileage, R15 has a high running cost .not to mension the initial 1,08 .

[RanjithMN]

actually R15 users have complained about the back pain only at the initial stages.....and R15 does give a mileage around 40 btw...

anyway its your choice and PULSAR's great but get F not S

[SilentKnight]

actually R15 users have complained about the back pain only at the initial stages.....and R15 does give a mileage around 40 btw...

anyway its your choice and PULSAR's great but get F not S

why is there something wrong with the S

[RanjithMN]

Yeah...no projectors! :P
no man nothing wrong but i guess S is tuned for a low end ,so dont expect the top end of the F
Im not 100% sure about this...better just check up!

[praveenmemala]

good news

@silentknight: Its a great news that u ll be getting a new bike soon........Congrats.

I dont know the price difference between F and S. But I am a damn fan of the projector headlight of F.

[vishnups17]

Yeah...no projectors! :P
no man nothing wrong but i guess S is tuned for a low end ,so dont expect the top end of the F
Im not 100% sure about this...better just check up!

AFAIK there is no difference between F & S in the engine specification,F has slightly little more topend because of the aerodynamic shape of the fairing.

why is there something wrong with the S

Nops,S will be good for the city traffic and F is better for the night riding

@silentknight: Its a great news that u ll be getting a new bike soon........Congrats.
I dont know the price difference between F and S. But I am a damn fan of the projector headlight of F.

The price difference is only 3K but its totally worth and it is different from other pulsar siblings

[SilentKnight]

@ vishnu Im a fan of the fairing to but since my legs are long my knee keeps hitting them , and as for projectors i can always get that don on the S .

[kochumvk]

Ha ha , sadly fuels gona be coming out of my pocket money ..






R15 would have been my first choice and i love goin arround corners , but im trying to avoid it mainly because i have this slight issue with my backbone , the posture is a little uncomftable for me , i borrowed my friends R15 to test this out and by the end of the day my back was killing even though i was riding on the salem highway . So im leaning towards the p220 streetfinhter now ( fairing on 220 keeps brushing against my knee)
And another reason is the mileage, R15 has a high running cost .not to mension the initial 1,08 .

Get the "F" man. The semi fairing will aid u very much at higher speeds.
The other will do better in city though, handling my machine in city was not a nightmare an all. Better Lighting better makes it a more usable tourer .

[SilentKnight]

Get the "F" man. The semi fairing will aid u very much at higher speeds.
The other will do better in city though, handling my machine in city was not a nightmare an all. Better Lighting better makes it a more usable tourer .

I'll keep that in mind , anyway , i'll be taking test on both to get a better comparison ,

which dealer do you think is best , bear in mind that i live in tripunithura and the closer the better .

[kochumvk]

I'll keep that in mind , anyway , i'll be taking test on both to get a better comparison ,

which dealer do you think is best , bear in mind that i live in tripunithura and the closer the better .

I think Popular dealership at elamkulam is cheaper than Thripponithura.Not sure though.

[SilentKnight]

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[Swas]

I'll keep that in mind , anyway , i'll be taking test on both to get a better comparison ,

which dealer do you think is best , bear in mind that i live in tripunithura and the closer the better .

if you are going for R15, then go to PSN. PSN service is also good. Shinrai sucks alot....Earlier i used to give to Shinrai, but lot of problems faced from there. So i shifted to PSN.