Tuesday, October 26, 2004

My entires here are becoming few and far apart. Need to do something about it.

Changed the rear tyre on Blurr from the stock MRF Zapper to a 120/80, 18inch FKR Ranger 2. Cost me 2000 bucks. I had done some 14027 kms on the Zapper before changing. There were lots of problems fitting the FKR. The extra 2cms width meant that the tyre wouldnt fit with the chain guard on. Now, the chain guard needs to be modded to fit this tyre. I've removed the chain guard at present. The rear looks very macho. I guess it will look better minus the saree guard too.

Talking to the guy who sold me the tyre has fuelled the fire to mod my bike for performance. That plus the fact that nowadays her top speed has come down :-( from something like 120.3 kmph on the sigma to around 108.7 kmph, on the same road. Maybe a good racing exhaust and bigger jets might help. Now, if only I can find the money to mod my bike :-((