I’ve been getting emails about troubles with RD350s which prompted me to bring back this REALLY old post from the dead. Give this a go and it may help you out. Your bike might not catch fire when you’re riding, but no harm in being prepared. 😉 Continue reading Your Yammie 350 acting up?
Hero Impulse Specifications
Hero Impulse specifications is one of many posts that detail information about Hero Impulse. I have put up the details as seen in the Owner’s Manual provided with the motorcycle. I did look at the Hero Moto Corp website, with the intention of just linking out to it, but it is incomplete and erratic. Moreover, given that they may phase this motorcycle out, it makes more sense to have it here.
Isn’t it great that the manual also has an orange motorcycle? And, the woman at the showroom left no space for doubt about who owned this.
Continue reading Hero Impulse SpecificationsOur big 2009 trip – Pre-ride craziness
A month to go:
It all started when we got to know through one of those crazy forwards at work about how one could get a long break by coupling a few festival holidays and some paid leaves. We thought we can make use of one of them, from the 19th of September to the 4th of October. Initially, we dint really know what we would do with so many days off from the office. After visiting all kinds of places on the internet, we thought we’d ride from Delhi to Bangalore, via Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharastra. We decided that we would send the bike on the train to Delhi, we would fly to Delhi and then ride down from the desert to the coast and back home. It sounded great and we almost immediately tried to book tickets with Jet Airways to Delhi, which did not happen.
Continue reading Our big 2009 trip – Pre-ride crazinessHero Impulse Review – First look
Doing the Hero Impulse review, my first thoughts, since I took a good look today. There has been a great offer going on with some dealers wanting to offload some stock. Discounts have been varying from 10000-20000 based on your bargaining powers. Also syncing up with others to do a group buy has been the reason for some of the better discounts. I check out a friend’s motorcycle and it had been purchased in a neighboring state and along with a good deal, had costed way lesser than the Karnataka price for it.
Ducati 1199 Panigale wins at Red Dot Design awards
Ducati may not be lighting up the MotoGP grid on fire with well performing motorcycles, but the company is sure churning out some really beautiful motorcycles. Not sure how I missed this earlier, but the Ducati 1199 Panigale won at the 2013 edition of the Red Dot Design Award competition where 4,662 products went through a rigorous selection process. With the Bologna-based manufacturer clinching the award for the innovative motorcycle, has further underlined the company’s status as a design icon within the motorcycle industry.
Ducati 1199 Panigale Superbike will be exhibited for four weeks at the red dot design museum in Germany initially. Then it will be exhibited in Taiwan and, for one year, at the impressive red dot design museum in Singapore. The red dot design award is the only international award that boasts two dedicated design museums, in Germany and Singapore, thus giving further visibility and added credibility to awarded product designs. I love visiting museums that value design as a discipline. This will definitely be a place for me to visit, if I ever go to Singapore.
And man! Check this motorcycle out. I would gladly buy all my motorcycling gear on closeouts to be able afford something as beautiful!
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