Saturday, March 17, 2007

My Bike

I am Niranjan Rao, a student of mechanical engineering at U.B.D.T.C.E. Davangere. This is my first blog on anything at blogger. This is about a motorcycle which is not so famous among the mass. I purchased this bike 2 yrs ago and I have not faced any problem or repairs until now. This is a very good city bike, very balanced and sturdy. This comes in 2 variants one is the 4 gears, electric start, drum brake option and the other is the 5 gears, kick start, front disc brake option. The bike I have bought is the 5 gears version with disc brake. I did a lot of thinking before buying this, I browsed the net, enquired about it with friends and the positive responses were too meager. I asked my dad’s permission and bought it for 50000.
I have even taken this for long rides and I have not received any problem. I have taken it for about 150 km continuously on highway and off road. On this ride I got a mileage of 68 km per liter cruising between 50 to 70kmph. It is very comfortable for long rides with its high ground clearance of 165mm, well designed dual colour, extra long, wide seat. This has the sweetest engine sound with a very stylish chrome shield muffler. This has very good looks with its very bully dome with 2 city lights in the fairing. It has a decent ride with superior suspension system. And a very rare feature in a bike, hazard warning light switch which with a flick of it will glow all 4 blinkers at a time.
Its speedometer deck consists of speedometer, tachometer, high beam indicator, blinker indicators, neutral light, and mileage controller lights. The mileage controller helps the rider to adjust the speed for maximum fuel efficiency through a red and green light alert. It has other switches which are common on a 125cc bike. Its head light is a multireflecting one with a halogen bulb gives an excellent beam pattern. This has a delta 4 engine with microprocessor controlled ignition fitted with a constant vacuum (CV) carburetor, drum barrel muffler, and port divider, all of these combined improves fuel efficiency, pickup and low end torque. The chassis is T-control frame which is not made into 2 beams below the petrol tank as in Hero Honda bikes. This engine spits 10.7 bhp@8000rpm with a maximum torque of 10.5 Nm @5500rpm. With this power it beats all other bikes in its class which are in production. The bike is slightly longer compared to other bikes in its class.
Until now I said about the positive features of this bike. Now it is the turn of drawbacks. Like every bike in India this has also got some drawbacks like poor cold startability, slightly low pickup at lower rpm, and the major one, poor paint finish at edges of exhaust clamp, fairing clamp, but these can’t be detected at first look.
Summing it up it is good buy with mileage of 60-65 km per liter.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
ENGINE CAPACITY 124.88CC
MAX TORQUE 10.5Nm @ 5500rpm
MAX BHP 10.7 bhp @ 8000rpm
TYRE SIZE 2.75x18” (front), 3.00x18” (rear)
BRAKE TYPE drum/disc (front), drum (rear)

VEHICLE DIMENSIONS
Length 2010mm
Width 725mm
Height 1080mm
Wheel base 1235mm
Ground clearance 165mm
Vehicle weight 111kg
Fuel tank capacity 12.25 liters

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