
8 Jul 2006
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Doc this post was posted on BCM Touring a while back by Manas from Mumbai
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Some of you might remember I had nicked a truck sometime back, and the headlight just touched the truck and broke. I had put it off for sometime.
Today, dad took the bike to Axis motors, Thane(w), and the guy tells him the front alloy is bent. I've gone through two services before that and I mentioned this to them both times that the bike's having some wheel-alignment problem or something. I even thought about the Alloy being bent (infact that was the first thing that came to my mind), but never having really had any "moment" it was just hard to believe that an alloy can bend so easily.
There are two incidents I recall, one was with a 70KG pillion when I hit a ditch, and I was doing 30-40 kph then.
Second was when the road was being contructed near my college and it had a "step" in it from the strip under construction to the existing tarmac. I was doing ~50kph when I hit it and the bike kinda jumped out of it.
Now I've ridden the splendor for more than 5 years, and I've abused it terribly. I've gone through three terrible monsoons (implying the endless potholes) and I've ridden through them like a typical motoX bike. Like I said, abuse.
But all I ever needed was to get the rim aligned once.
The karizma, I havent even ridden it through the monsoons yet, and it's already costing me Rs. 5550. If this is how bad the quality of the ENKEI's is, what's the point in paying for a wheel that costs approx 4 times that of a pulsar's.
I just fear what would happen in the monsoons. Gimme spokes anyday.
Two thumbs down to Hero Honda. Quality <> HH.
http://www.bcmtouring.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60
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