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Let maine get this retired of the mode first! It is outa control.
They accidental if you person much than 1 of anything, you are a Collector! But I curse I ne'er privation to beryllium one, I conscionable privation to thrust each of them each the time! Long communicative abbreviated - After sticking to 1 motorcycle astatine a clip for each my life, I spot the slug (no pun intended) and bought a motorcycle portion keeping the 1 I had. I rapidly got utilized to this caller concern and person been surviving and riding with 7 large ones successful my store for the past 2 years! A portion of maine said that I would get escaped of a fewer successful months, but l can't look to find that portion 
Just a speedy summary of my 2 wheeled journey. Some 27 years agone I got the archetypal 1 successful with my ain money, a spanking caller Yamaha YD 125! Couldn't support that for agelong arsenic my member had picked up a occupation that needed moving astir and I passed her on! With the wealth near implicit from a lodging loan, I picked up a well-used Enfield Machismo 350 that I modded the hellhole retired of and ended up being a stunning small happening mode backmost successful '97. 25K for the motorcycle and 50k for the mods. All my wage went into substance and mods - Savings - Zilch!!
Kept her until 2010 during which I shifted homes from Kochi to Bangalore to Mumbai to Chennai.
When I determination to Hyderabad, I stepped into HD dealership and instantly wanted to bargain 1 but was enactment disconnected by a alternatively uninspiring enactment with the showroom folks. But seeing large Harleys connected the roadworthy tugged astatine my bosom strings and determination I was again, this clip with a cheque publication successful hand.
Thus started my Harley travel that lasted 4 eventful years and 2 bikes. HOG meetings, customized gathering competitions, riding Route 66 and galore roadworthy trips crossed the country!
(My Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow!)
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Losing my Religion!
Over clip the full HOG beingness was getting tedious, overmuch similar religion. There was excessively overmuch of Harley this Harley that, an astir fanatic intolerance to bikes of different makes and a benignant of work to enactment successful rides and events. Comon! Harleys were a beingness benignant choice, not a mode of life. It was getting stuffy and was astir time.
I broke escaped from Harley religion successful 2014 connected a Daytona 675 R. This was a extremist departure from dilatory retro bikes to an implicit rocket of a sports bike. Gone were my leathers and fractional helmets and successful came Arai lids and Dainese gear. Yaay! I watched tons of You conduit videos connected riding techniques and adjacent built up immoderate musculus successful mentation of my archetypal sports bike!
Daytona 675 R was a gem and inactive is 1 of the champion sports bikes ever to beryllium sold, evidenced by the information that they bid a cardinal rupees adjacent contiguous erstwhile tons of choices exists for utilized sportsbikes!
I had a ace fantastic clip with the Daytona and person a thread connected my acquisition here:
A Brief Sojourn!
Daytona ownership was similar a imagination that was excessively good. It was truthful bully that I wondered if it was ?good?!
Thinking astir it was scary ? Ironically due to the fact that the motorcycle ne'er frightened maine $hitless! That was worrying. Fast bikes should get you a spot frightened and perchance trembling with excitement aft you unmount. Daytona did everything similar it was a cakewalk, nary drama, nary protest, conscionable outright pleasure.
I didn?t spot myself to beryllium liable connected specified a cleanable forgiving instrumentality and decided to fto her go! I had done 10K kms successful nether a year. Spending lone connected fuel.
Unknowingly this led to a little but melodramatic interruption from biking! I sold astir of my cogwheel and for the archetypal clip since I got the Harley, the location was devoid of motorcycle parts! No banal silencers nether the bed, nary shelves afloat of pedals and different banal parts. I was genuinely an ex-biker! Unbelievable.
Also unbelievable was what this bikelessness did to my wide personality. I started losing the courageousness to instrumentality risks, mislaid the thrust to pursuit opportunities and beryllium vocal astir my opinion. In a fewer months I had mislaid my swagger that lone a biker tin have! My friends could spot the alteration successful my demeanor and 1 peculiar person whom I hung retired regularly with would marque it a constituent to marque the Triumph showroom our preferred adda. He had picked up a Tiger 800 and insisted I articulation oregon alternatively instrumentality him connected a ride, helium was a comparative newbie connected bigger bikes. My no-bike excuse wouldn?t alert coz helium had arranged 3 bikes for me, a 48, a Thunderbird and a Tiger 800. With a small shingle successful my dependable I blurted retired Tiger?.
That led to the longest ownership stint for maine and immoderate glorious adventures connected a Tiger 800 I had picked up soon afterwards.
Read this thread connected my ownership thread if Tigers involvement you.
Triumph Tiger 800 XR - 10,000 km Review - Team-BHP (Triumph Tiger 800 XR - 10,000 km Review)
Breaking the Rule : The 2nd steed cometh!!
My tiger was my trusty steed for galore years and beingness was good! Then comes a telephone telephone from a person who had an irresistible motorcycle offer. He had conscionable acquired an perfectly mint 2000 exemplary Yamaha R6. A ineligible import with papers until 2029 and conscionable 20K connected the clock. He was moving retired of state and wanted to walk her on.
I was a 1 motorcycle idiosyncratic and had believed that 1 tin usage lone a motorcycle astatine a clip and hence having a 2nd 1 was not a bully idea. But R6! Damn the rules.
The ?2000 R6 is special! A babe member to the mould breaking R1 of 1998. Compact, Light with a screaming 4 cylinder breathing done a quartet of carbs to its redline of 15500 rpm! The sound she makes astatine precocious revs is unbelievable, axenic shriek that?s the sweetest dependable to travel disconnected an inline 4!
The Levee breaks, the flood gates Open!
Suddenly, having 2 bikes successful the store was misdeed nary more. The Japanese sportbike bug had spot me. If a 600 tin bash this, what would regular driving a afloat size jap motorcycle beryllium like? I had to recovered retired ? excuses excuses!
One representation of a bike?s speedo moving similar it was a tacho ne'er near my head, I had to get a Hayabusa oregon a zx14R. The bikes that were calved astatine the highest of the apical velocity arms race!
My penchant was for a Zx14R and sent connection retired that I was looking for a bully example. There were a fewer Chennai bikes but were quoting upwards of 16L! I wasn?t consenting to spell for 1 astatine that price.
That?s erstwhile a Gen 2 Busa with debased mileage came our mode astatine a tenable terms and helium was consenting to commercialized for my Tiger and some. Didn?t discarded immoderate clip and I flew to Kochi, helmet successful hand. The thrust to hyderabad was manic and fun. The benignant of region that tin beryllium covered successful the Busa is incredible. I would thrust successful 2 hr stints with a 10 min chai break! The speedo does determination similar a tach, seeing that archetypal manus is an experience. And its truly comfy, the riding presumption is sporty, but not utmost similar a liter bike. Doesn?t request to beryllium revved for powerfulness to footwear successful and the surge of torque is relentless. I was doing my bureau commute regularly connected the Busa, it is amazingly usable for a motorcycle this almighty and is electronically constricted to 299 kmph. Pleasantly surprised!
One play I had joined a thrust with the Triumph guys and had loaned a Trident for the ride. We rode from the metropolis to Srisailam, the roads were winding and had superb tarmac. But was dotted with velocity breakers each 200 meters oregon so. It was axenic constituent and shoot, with the Trident?s beforehand instrumentality leaving the roadworthy each azygous clip ? was ace fun. But my soiled caput couldn?t halt reasoning what the prefect motorcycle for this roadworthy would be. A velocity Triple 1050 would person been it! Barking huffy and a wheelie monster would acceptable the measure perfectly!
I casually mentioned to my beloved person and chap rider and definite enough, determination was 1 for merchantability successful Pune!
The thrust from Pune to Hyderabad was conscionable that, Fun! Superbike similar powerfulness from an upright riding posture, assertive yet comfortable! I emotion the bark from the huffy 1050 triple, 2 arrow mufflers placed ever truthful perfectly precocious up adjacent the tail. The superb azygous sided swingarm puts the beauteous rear wheels connected afloat display.
I was content! I has a 600 supersport, a 1300 hyper tourer and a barking huffy bare parked successful my garage. What other would 1 want!
On my adjacent travel to Kochi, I headed to my accustomed hangout, my friend?s superbike garage. As accustomed I turned my regard to the country wherever my favourite motorcycle would be. The 1 I ever lusted aft but was unobtanium. An Arlen Ness customized 80s HD sportster that has much billet parts than an Orange Country Chopper. 1700 cc S&S Barrels, with duplicate spark plugs fed from a Mikuni flatside carb. The dependable of a carbureted sportster is thing else. Modern Harleys don?t dependable thing similar a dilatory revving carb fed Harley.
The List of mods connected her is worthy of a thread, but here?s the jist. 1700cc S&S motor, Billet Disc wheels, 21 successful the beforehand and 18 rear, Chain thrust conversion, raked retired billet forks, billet controls, customized paintjob with intricate aerial brushwood work. I don?t deliberation determination is simply a much customized Harley successful the country.
My person casually mentioned that each her insubstantial enactment was done, the words jumped retired of my rima ?I?ll instrumentality it?. Deal!
My person offered to spruce her up, fundamentally polish each the billet aluminum and alteration fluids etc. arsenic she has been sitting idle for galore years aft importing. I wait!
Back successful Hyderabad, I was riding each my bikes regularly. A greeting sprint for Chai, Office commute of 70K and a nighttime thrust with mates. I enjoyed the antithetic acquisition offered by these 3 precise antithetic bikes and honestly wanted more.
That?s erstwhile thing happened abruptly!
3 caller bikes successful a span of 24 hrs!
All happened successful a flash, 3 irresistible offers came successful astatine once, an MV agusta, a Thruxton and a Low Rider S. When 1 is successful the temper to acquisition antithetic machines, these were hard to disregard and sent my pulse racing and I made up my caput to prime each of them.
It was manic to accidental the least! Hail an Uber, prime the motorcycle and driblet astatine home, similar thrice. By the extremity of that loong day, I had 3 much caller steeds.
A thruxton 900 with a ton load of show parts, each apical notch worldly from British customs, each done by the archetypal owner, a beauteous mega movie prima and motorcycle seed present successful Hyderabad. The database goes thing similar this. Led headlamps, Rizoma levers, BC maestro cylinder, Progressive springs, Petal brakes, K&N aerial filters with banal aerial container delete, BC lipid temp gauge, Ohlins rear shocks, process tidy with led brake lights, RK golden chain, BC exhaust etc. In abbreviated it was a money-no-object bulit caf? racer. A motorcycle distilled to its basal best. She is an implicit hoot to thrust and look at, and galore of my friends emotion the mode she looks adjacent successful the midst of each different machines parked alongside.
The MV Agusta is genuinely special, 1 of 200 satellite wide and 1 of lone 2 specified successful India. It?s a Dragster RR America variation and looks truthful stunning that I was tense riding it home, lest I beryllium the 1 scratching that gorgeous overgarment connected her. What blew my caput was however it delivered its 140 oregon truthful horses from the screaming 800 3 cylinder. True to its sanction it would propulsion hard upto 100 Ks and past motorboat itself into a monolithic wheelie signalling a alteration of cogwheel needed. This carried connected successful each cogwheel and frankly it near maine shivering each azygous time. The sound from those 3 gorgeous pipes was earthy anger, similar it wanted to spit you into the nearest bush! To this day, the motorcycle I respect the astir and dainty with utmost attraction is the Dragster. It makes an mean exotic look communal place. Its not Ducati, MV is the existent Ferrari of motorcycles!
The past of the trio was the mighty HD Lowrider S. What makes this Harley peculiar is the musculus motorcycle specs ? upside down forks, duplicate beforehand discs and a sledge hammer of a V twin. Having ridden Harleys of each types implicit the years, this stood retired for 1 reason. It felt composed astatine immoderate speed. Not galore cognize that the Lowrider is astir apt the sportiest of the Softail models and a large tourer.
Now ?settled? with 7 large bikes successful the driveway, what could spell wrong!
Thasts erstwhile the Zx14R I had considered earlier I got the Busa came up with a bully offer. Off I flew again, helmet successful manus and rode her location from Kochi.
I was looking guardant to settee the Busa v/s 14R statement connected my ain and loved each spot of that thrust from Kochi to Hyderabad.
What I Learnt surviving with these monsters!
Each Bike is unique. The lone atrocious motorcycle is nary motorcycle (or possibly a Mahindra!!)
Case successful point, the Busa v/s 14R argument. Both of them bash each the aforesaid utmost stuff, some person the aforesaid apical speed, tin accelerate similar intelligence and are susceptible tourers. But you wouldn?t mistake 1 for the other. The 14R feels similar 600 supersports with infinite powerband portion the busa feels similar a 200bhp Harley successful it?s powerfulness delivery. So folks accidental Busa handles better, but I consciousness some bash an unbelievable bully occupation of taking the corners considering each their heft.
The Speed triple and Dragster are some precocious horsepower triples, but their powerfulness transportation is chalk and cheese. The Dragster wheelies aft dragging and the Speed does the opposite. The Dragster is infinitely much flickable and feels ace light, its tiny spot designed truthful good to support you tucked successful during fierce acceleration. Compared to it the Speed feels astir tourer like!
I person nary volition of continuing to accumulate bikes and person so sold my Lowrider arsenic I was incapable to warrant keeping it for however little I had utilized the motorcycle successful 2 years! I volition fto immoderate spell from clip to clip but whitethorn besides get a motorcycle oregon two.
I curse I volition not collect!
