calendar 2008

I know, its bit late to get a calendar what with the year being almost 2 months old.But for a biker its never late to have some very good bike wallpapers with a calendar thrown in.
The images or calendar you see here is courtesy of Tushar aka sunny!He created it with help of some image editors and obviously lots of time and effort.
All the pictures were taken on Lavasa road by him and another of our friend Neil who happens to own the silver 220 that you see.
All the images are 1600 x 1200 or round abouts and are perfect for wallpapers.






Next time I would like to see a new image every month though, and knowing sunny I am sure this is not too much to ask.

Kudos to both ,and as they say 'keep 'em rollin'!

From Hyderabad :

And on one fine day I found myself in Hyderabad,AP!It was not as if I was tele-transported from Mysore,but I was in firm belief that they would post me in Pune, which of course did not happen.
Last post on this blog was in last year October, and in the meantime nothing much has happened except that I completed (successfully) treacherous training and my relocation to HYD as they say.My bike is still lying idle in Ahmednagar barring some short rides by my dad,and he is taking good care of the baby.Thanks a ton,dad!
I plan to bring the bike here shortly as this being a very vast city and me being a lazy bum :).
By the way all was not perfect with my P200 one very odd incident happened.Everything was going OK when one day all of sudden all the bulbs in front fairing (main+2 pilot lamps) went kaput.At first dad suspected wiring fault and took the bike to local Bajaj showroom.There it came to light that the wiring was perfectly OK , the lamps were burnt.I still don't know how it happened, nor did the bajaj people knew.
As there is no ProBiking there in my town, dad fitted normal bulbs.
This doesn't make big difference, in fact yellow beam feels more powerful according to some people.But if you ask me, I would definitely like to see original bluish lights,and will fit them ASAP.Other than this there have been no expenses or anything till now.
Ohh, and yes,this is for readers from HYD, does anyone know where can I get K&N air filter here? I am very curious to see what difference does it make actually.I remember every biking forum flowing with K&N queries and such.
This brings me to end of first post from Hyderabad.I don't usually like posts without any pictures in it and neither do many people out there,So here is one nice pic,taken by my dear friend and an avid biker,Tushar aka Sunny.
Thank You!
Keep riding with appropriate gear!

I am in Mysore, toiling! (part 3)

Life sure has taken me to places ,albeit without my bike! and when I saw superb highways here, I miss my bike even more.
If things appear to be taking more time here, next on my agenda would be to ride to mysore from pune.Although
that seems to be long shot.In near future I am looking forward to meet my friend sandeep from banglore, who is a great bike enthusiast and also owns a P200.He will be riding from banglore to here.
lets see how it goes.

I am in Mysore, toiling! (part 2)

The thing is that I am on roaming and friends and family of mine have been calling up like never before.Add to that unlimited gprs, all raking up huge bills.But as they say old habbits die hard and I can't resist net surfing and just now I discovered that blogspot works nicely from mobile, shrewd minded of you must have guessed that I am blogging from mobile,hence every post can have only 450 words and thats why I am breaking up the posts.

I am in Mysore, toiling! (part 1)

I guess there are some loyal readers if not many to this little blog of mine.So hello there everybody! and sorry for no activity on blog for some time, but you see, yours truly is holed down here in Mysore,karnataka at lovely Infosys campus as me happens to be employed by them.And yes the bike is currently enjoying holiday at home,free from my thrashing!
but no worries bebe wll be back soon and me promises a huge review on p200 very soon.
bbye!

Meddling with carburettor

Last few days of mine were lost into digging information about Fuel Injection and Carburettor and thankfully with help of some of my friends and netsphere I was able to get a good dose of knowledge.
P200 being a carburetted one I concentrated on carb mostly.As you might be knowing, carb plays a vital role in welfare of your bike's health.A detuned carb can greatly reduce the performance and efficiency.While a neatly adjusted carb can do wonders.
The fact also helps that carbs are much easy to tune/alter than FI.It doesn't need all that electronic gadgetry which FI needs. Once you get to know the basic hardware of carb its easy to do a makeshift operation on it in case anything goes wrong.
In my case the fuel efficiency had gone awry and engine was jerky in 1st and 2nd gear.When I enquired with some, it turned out that carb was set for too rich mixture(which meant it was forcing more than necessary fuel into engine).
Locating the volume control screw is easy.In fact its the only screw on LHS of carb other than the one for setting idle.Besides its bronze color so no mistaking!









As from the pic, I don't need to say the obvious, But will say it nevertheless!
Turning right the carb will channel less fuel and more air making it lean while turning it left will channel more fuel and less air(as in my case).
So adjust it accordingly.
However don't go overboard on either side. Maintaining it on a perfect position is best and will give you right amount of performance coupled with efficiency.
(Remember one thing turning it completely towards right or left doesn't mean peak efficiency or performance respectively) For engine's health you must maintain the balance.
There is one cliche though. Before you embark onto this learn to read your spark-plugs.Don't panic!!Its easy and a must know for enthusiast biker.
Remove both the sparks and check their electrodes for color.
If its more on the brownish side your bike is running on leaner mix if its way too much black your bike is running on rich mix. So ideally it should be dark-brown(almost black but not black!).
When you adjust the volume control ride the bike for a few kilometres and then check for color of the spark plugs tune it accordingly until your bike is running on balanced mix.
One more precaution to take- Don't turn the volume control like you do with normal screws.Do it slowly and only by half or a quarter turn at a time.Its much sensitive.

Update On Fuel Efficiency After some tune-up

Time for quick update, I am in hurry(some of you might be wondering)!As usual I went to Pune last week.Yes it is one place I am always ready to go, superb highway from my town to Pune is one of the reasons.Other reasons follow -
Once there I wound up some unfinished businesses of last 3 tumultuous years of MCA.:)
Then I went to new Probiking authorised service station in Pune.(readers if any from pune - Its on sinhgad road behind IBP petrol pump.name-B.K.Automobiles).I had a prearranged appointment with Mr.Vivek Pendharkar of BK auto.
I had already called him and told him about my bike's falling fuel efficiency and front disc brake that was way too much effective.
So upon reaching there , they quickly went onto business and opened the front disc caliper.Due to rains and my recent trip to konkan had deposited a lot of dirt in it and there was not much lubrication also.
So the calipers were polished with sand-paper and front wheel's axle was greased.
Secondly, carburettor was cleaned and checked for fuel mix.It turned out that the mixture was too rich.Thus channeling much more fuel into engine than necessary.This was the primary reason behind fallen efficiency.
Although I don't know how did it happen.
Anyway it was corrected and also Idle RPM was set.

All said and done, time for real road testing.Here's the cracker - Right after the tuning, bike returned 42kmpl in Pune's horrible traffic.Then I embarked on return journey to home.Believe it or not , on highway at a steady 65kmph she returned astonishing 48Kmpl.

When ridden hard like some occasional bursts to 100kmph or above and steady at 80kmph , it was down to 40kmpl, but still me think it is very very commendable.
Whoever said that performance comes at efficiency's cost, I am sorry, eat your words.