Apr 01, 2009 04:03 PM
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I really missed this Bike. It was my soul during my College days and in my early career.
Here is little history of me and this bike. For a starter (L board) I learned biking with this beast, when my father thought me how to at the age of 16. He gave me this one as a big present for me, the original color was Green. As the Days passed and was well known in my college for having this machine. I had done some modifications to the bike to suit the raiding conditions and for easy maintenance.
Since finding a good mechanic for this one is pretty hard where-ever you go(I used to service as well as repair the bike). The first thing is I had put on an additional Air filter for the bike for better air filtration since When I was riding it I lived in a village and Dust was the major factor(used to merge the bike till the seat in water during rainy season in water logged roads like the Hosur road in Bangalore with stopping the engine). Removed the Muffler from the silencer since when I tested this the speed and acceleration of the bike increased. The bike used to give around 50 to 55 Km pl.
I am a bit muscular guy so handling this one even in cities like Bangalore was not a problem for me. It had a good road grip and used to go to speed up to 80 Kmph which is the max you can drive in a City. I used to go on a long trip on it. I later changed the color of it to Blue.
Now I had to give it up to one of my Cop- brother since riding this bike causes major attentions from the City - Traffic police and most often they stop the bike.
The most Wonderful thing of this beast is no need of spark plug and the wiring mess. For the record I did not have a battery, The horn, lighting and indicators were connected directly to the dynamo. even if there was a mess-up in the wiring you can still drive the bike during daytime.
The picture show the minor modifications shown. Other than the painting, refitting of the engine, gearbox and setup of the bike was done by me and my Dad. And for the record I am not a mechanic am a software Engineer in Bangalore, Just loved this beast or Beauty let me know which one
