Saturday, May 7, 2016

Life takes off on two wheels


Good way to bring this blog out of dormancy is to announce a major life event – I got my first motorcycle! Yayyy!

This has been in the works for a while, almost a year anyway and the multitude of options combined with whether I would merely end up splurging on just a passing fancy reduced me to a waffling juvenile. Some of that has been captured online in the following thread - http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/motorbikes/159634-yamaha-r15-v2-vs-ktm-rc-200-a.html

The wife finally decided she had had enough with the questions directed to her about the pros and ons of each (these were monologues really and she doesn’t have too much of a clue anyway on 2 wheelers beyond gearless scooters) and forced me to bite the bullet. I ended up booking the legendary Yamaha R15 S (yes they brought back the single seat)

I have reviewed my bike here http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/motorbikes/172645-flies-like-butterfly-stings-like-bee-my-yamaha-r15s-now-single-seat.html and have already clocked more than 6k kms in less than 6 months. Nearby destinations like the much abused Nandi hills, the Bangalore biker’s loop (Kanakpura – Anchetty – Hosur – Bangalore) Yelagiri and even overnighters to Chikmagalur have all been dispatched on this little gem with barely a sweat broken (ok maybe I did sweat a bit, at least in the recent rides in the brutal heat).


More updates on some of those rides later J

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