Took the bike for a ride after a long while last weekend.
The plan was to hit the new Satellite ring road and do the full length from Dabaspete to Hoskote. Since I left home later than planned and after losing time in a traffic jam getting out of the city, I decided to do the Hoskote to Dodballapur stretch instead.
The bike has been running fine and I use it for short trips within the area or to drop my wife to her workplace which is a 20 kms commute. The engine runs smooth now with the only annoying part being the chain noise and vibrations which I have made peace with.<\/p>\n
The ride up to the cut-off before Hoskote to the old Hoskote-Devanahalli road was uneventful. I had done this road sometime earlier this year and kept away from it as it is a two-lane road with heavy truck traffic. This time it was totally different. It was around 15 km up to the Sate ring road from the cut-off from Old Madras highway and it was after a long time I had a nice ride on the Bullet on a well-paved, two-lane road with no traffic since the truck traffic had moved to using the SRR.
The ride on the new Satellite Ring road was to have a relaxed ride and I was doing around 65-70kmph on an almost empty road. I was missing a fast car or bike, made worse by a few superbikes ripping up and down. I increased the speed gradually and was able to do around 80kmph without much stress. The digital speed read-out boards on this road are a good way to check if your speed is accurate. The 65 on my speedo was accurate, but as speeds climbed, the speedo was showing +5 so I was doing around 75 comfortably for the most part. On the way back, I went WOT and hardly anything happened and I thought finally the engine was not going to rev high for whatever reason.<\/p>\n
I headed back home via Airport Road and tried opening up fully again and the bike did start revving high like before and the speedo did hit some decent speeds for the age of the bike. Revving through the gears helped. I was doing around 80+ when after a while the engine missed a few beats after which I slowed down.<\/p>\n
Rode around 100 kms and was pleasantly surprised with the engine performance although it takes a while to reach some good speeds. No issues either after the ride except for the usual head gasket leak on the cooling fins when riding hard.
The bike has run 1,28,200 kms.<\/p>\n
Some pictures of the ride and after a wash\/polish today.<\/p>\n
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