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Hi, my name is Gurtej and I live in city of lakes Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh). I have been a motorcycle enthusiast ever since my childhood. I always get infatuated towards the big bikes specially cruisers, Harley Davidson is being an iconic brand always had a special place in my life. My dream came true when I got my first Harley early this year, it was the Iron 889. Before I could make myself comfortable with my Iron stallion my dad gave me a surprise of my life, he gifted me another Harley. And this time it was the perfect cruiser from Harley Davidson's Dyna series- the Super Glide Custom.
KTM, for the masses this name appears as the name of an Austrian motorcycle brand. For me KTM stands for Kamaal Tez-tarrar Motorcycle. Since the day one KTM offerings were the most desired, brute, and the powerful motorcycles in their respective segments.
In a recent foray of updating the entire product lineup Yamaha Motorcycles India has launched the updated 150cc commuter bike- SZ-RR Version 2.0. Yamaha has plonked the newly developed 149cc engine equipped with its patented "Blue Core" Technology in the bike. Yamaha has also updated the FZ series with same engine.
Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in Mission Impossible 2 chased the villian, a rogue agent Sean Ambrose on a bike that sounded brutal and gave the aural pleasure like no other till then. A lot many of us wanted to become Agent Ethan Hunt and be the suave gentleman like him, getting things done with unmatched sophistication. It not only inspired us to be more Agent-ish but also carved a spot in us, the biker spot.
We often heard about terms like Supercharging and Turbocharging in cars but motorcycles like recently launched Kawasaki Ninja H2 have associated these terminology with bikes as well. The Supercharged Kawasaki Ninja H2 has gained tremendous name and respect in supersports motorcycle industry. The term Superchargers and Turbochargers are also used interchangeably quite often but in reality there is fundamental difference between the two.
It was all going smooth until someone noticed that the technical details of CKD (completely Knocked Down) bikes have been changed in the official website of Triumph Motorcycles India. The performance figures of models like "Street Triple" have been shown drastically reduced on the site. Initially when this matter was came into limelight many of us thought that there must be some kind of misprinting happened.
After introduction of Royal Enfield Continental GT as cafe racer bike in our country, we not only get to know about these cafe racers but experience them also with their virtues like peculiar styling and ability to travel short distances in shortest possible time.
It was all started back in 1999 when Hero Honda introduced CBZ in the market, very few people were knowing that Bajaj was actually working on a very ambitious project. Bajaj launched a newly developed bike manufactured INDI-genously in 2001 by brand name "Pulsar" surprisingly there were two variants of Pulsar introduced, one with 178.61cc Pulsar 180 and the other with 143.91cc Pulsar 150.
The drive chain of your motorcycle is often neglected while it is one of the most important parts of your bike as the power transmits from engine to the rear tyre through drive chain only. However there are other types of final drives also present like drive belts and drive shafts but chains are more popularly used in all types of motorbikes. The drive chains are more rampantly used throughout the World despite of its few drawbacks like it is more noisy, messy and requires relatively more maintenance.
The Drive Chain also known as Final Drive Chain is the ultimate part of any motorcycle responsible to transmit the energy/ power of engine to the rear wheel. The drive chain is actually an integral and penultimate part of the complex Drive Train of any engine which is comprised of Transmission Gears, Primary Drive and Final Drive.