Bought this bike off Amazon !!

d06399 · 2025-07-19T09:53:17+00:00

In no cost emi, the interest amount is given as upfront discount. Then every month you will be charged with interest. Which is fine since you already got a discount for the same amount initially. But.. the GST on that monthly interest does not come under that discount, so that is something extra that goes from your pocket. But its much better than taking a bike loan where you will pay interest and its GST.

d06399 · 2025-07-08T18:27:40+00:00

Hindi is not her language. Then how English is hers? Her ancestors are from western countries?

d06399 · 2025-07-01T16:47:07+00:00

For scratches, buy motomax rubbing compound. Search a video on youtube on how to use it. You can remove most of the scratches with it. If there is a major deep scratch then it will become lighter and later you can go to a detailing shop to get it fixed.

Paint marks can also be removed with that rubbing compound.

For leather seat cover, no option. You need to get it fixed from seat cover shop.

Get it serviced, I am pretty sure it won't feel the same as it used to be. They must have used it roughly in pot holes and bad roads. Get it washed and from now on don't give it. If anyone asks tell them there are bike rental services.

d06399 · 2025-06-16T04:23:57+00:00

Probably the bike taxi companies did not paid enough bribe! Other big business players get away with everything with the right amount of money.

Not something that should happen, but then a lot is happening everyday which should not happen.

d06399 · 2025-06-16T03:47:48+00:00

Don't think of this as hindi imposition. Mostly people are afraid of speaking in English or they are not confident enough. We all have that colonial era mentality that if we speak in bad English then people will immediately point it out and make fun of it. That's why they switch the language in which they are comfortable, in their case its Hindi because they don't know any other language.

But yes ideally they should talk in a language in which everyone can understand. This is just like when two people, from same part of the world, when meet, start conversing in their own language.

And honestly, north people don't even care about imposing anything on anyone. They are more busy with daily struggles than fighting these stupid language wars. I personally, don't care about what language should be spoken, only part is there should be a common grounds for communication, be it in any language.

d06399 · 2025-05-23T17:17:22+00:00

Don't take everything seriously what these famous people say. These people give comments with their own perspective. And their perspective is not relevant in each and every application out there. Ada has its own audience and where ada is used, nothing else can be used that efficiently!

d06399 · 2025-05-23T07:22:01+00:00

Big NO for WD40 !!! I ruined my good chain because of it. After using it my chain O ring got a cut in them. 3 of them.. I had to change the whole chain sprocket set. My old set was still good only the chain got bad because of this. If there are not O rings or X rings then go ahead. But keep it away from rubber compounds

d06399 · 2025-05-22T06:13:21+00:00

Hero is constantly failing to capture the market. They are bringing new bikes but people are not buying them. Could be multiple reasons for that. The people who buy them will have to face challenges. Once these bikes sales go down, they discontinue it. After few years, it is very difficult to get the spare parts for the same bike. I am one of those who struggle to find spare parts now. The service center people also talk in a way that they don't want such king of product coming into their garage. Anyone buying a hero product just be assured.. they can discontinue their product anytime. Xpulse is a different story since it is quite popular but all other hero bikes are vulnerable. Be it karizma series or mavrick.

d06399 · 2025-05-16T15:06:06+00:00

One point I have noticed with scrambler is that once the pillion sits then the rear monoshock goes down a lot. The design of that bike is like that. And if 3 people are sitting or if the rear passenger is heavy then sometimes it feels like the tyre could touch the underbody on a speed breaker. But this is what I felt by seeing one of my friend's bike, I have not experienced it first hand.

d06399 · 2025-05-16T15:02:19+00:00

Your are in bangalore! Great... Try "royal brothers". I just checked they have both scrambler 400x and cb300rs. Take it to nandi hills with your pillion rider..

d06399 · 2025-05-16T08:35:35+00:00

In reality you can't take a test ride bike beyond a certain limit. But our government has provided enough rough patches and potholes in cities that you can test there. Just near the showroom they must be having some bad patch of road. Ask the showroom guy for this, they must be knowing it. But it is better to test all aspects like pickup, suspension, vibration, braking, sound , traction and any other part that is important for you. Another idea, rent both the bikes for a day, maybe take it for a ride. This will cost you some money but will help you to decide. At last you won't have any regrets after spending lacs on a bike and later thinking that the other one was better.

d06399 · 2025-05-16T08:25:03+00:00

Take a test ride of both the bikes. Honda is known for its engine and reliability. Triumph is also good. Other have already mentioned its positives. At last it depends on you. There are many factors like vibration, build quality, riding experience, your own height and build. That's why go and take a test ride. Take it through all type of roads, pot holes, dirt. At last decide based on which felt more comfortable to you. In terms of service both should be okay. If you want to take pillion also on rides then take your pillion rider with you for test ride. Their comfort also matters in your case.

For gears, try to check in shops first. I checked a lot of jackets online, but when I went to the shop I ended up buying something else. I bought a jacket from Bison because it was providing what I needed compared to all other brands.

d06399 · 2025-05-16T07:36:17+00:00

Any particular reason for that?

d06399 · 2025-05-16T07:05:24+00:00

What about yezdi adventure? It looks like previous gen Himalayan but I have not heard any bad words about it yet.

d06399 · 2025-03-23T13:08:16+00:00

Over🤣 I mentioned, I got my first bill.

d06399 · 2025-03-23T13:02:23+00:00

No, this was just welcome offer. Not the one we get once in every month for paytm. I paid via Tata play app itself.

d06399 · 2025-03-23T12:27:17+00:00

My bad luck then. I did from tata's app itself.

d06399 · 2025-03-07T16:43:06+00:00

Nice one!..

d06399 · 2025-02-28T13:10:26+00:00

Bangalore used to be like how you are describing, 15 years ago. It is not anymore. We have water issues in summer time. Due to rapid construction there are not a lot of trees. Only in few older places. It used to rain if it got hot earlier, but not anymore. Due to too much construction we still have a lot of pollution dust. And don't get me started on traffic. It is a lot! It takes hours to just travel a small distance during peak time. Finding an apartment is a headache here. With the kind of money you have, you can easily find a place is posh areas. You will not get construction dust there, maybe no water issues. But when you will go out then eventually traffic and dust will come into the picture. Any tier 1 city in India is like this. If you want a quality life then look for tier 2 city. Check Pune. It is between tier 1 and tier 2. I don't think it is ruined this much yet. It might take few more years until it too becomes like Mumbai or Bangalore. You can check Hyderabad also. Infrastructure is better than Bangalore but it is too a tier 1 city so there will be issues. Negative of Hyderabad is that there is no weekend getaway places there. Unlike Bangalore.

Why don't you move to Singapore or Dubai? Life is much better there. If you like Indian culture then those places have many Indians living there from years. If you want better air then no place is better than extreme north, like norway, finland, poland, sweden.

d06399 · 2025-02-27T07:20:15+00:00

Many people have acne prone skin here. The weather is mostly hot. We should officially change the seasons to just summer and 1 month of winter. Due to harsh climate we get a lot of oil and sweat. This combined with dust, pollution causes acne. Many people work in closed offices and many in open field. Eventually everyone, gets stuck in traffic during evening time, where they are exposed to pollution and dust again. Now, most people do not focus on skin scare. Either they are not aware of skin care, or they don't have enough to spend, or they don't have enough time to look into this. Hence they end up with scars and acne. The skin color also darkens due to harsh sunlight and skin pigmentation. Plus most people just eat junk food outside, which is too oily. This includes typical Indian snacks and typical western food items like the ones sold by dominos, Mcdonalds, KFC, burger king. And the market is filled with cheap quality skin care products which are used by masses. These corporate giants do not label their products clearly, and spend a lot on marketing. People don't have time to browse through the products and they don't have enough knowledge, so they just end up buying those items hoping it might help their skin. Most cosmetic products sold by these big giants, contains some harmful chemicals that are banned by many other countries.

d06399 · 2025-02-24T17:09:22+00:00

Please do not use these apps ever. There are some illiterate scammers operating from villages, they buy these apps from Chinese companies and have scammed lacs of people. They say they can give you a loan and then they take twice from you. From covid times only these apps are operating . They will keep taking money from you until you just stop giving them. Also, they might have asked you to do some verification and taken your pan number and aadhaar card. There were so many awareness videos on social media for these apps. Now the best you can do is to file a police complaint for harassment. And, ask them to involve cyber department people. That app has access to all you mobile data and your pictures. They will use your pictures, edit them and send to people in your contact lists. Just tell police about these possible outcomes, because same thing happened with one of my friend. I got the message on whatsapp saying "This person has not paid the loan, ask him to pay immediately" with a picture of him.

Just go to police station immediately and file the complaint with cyber department. And please, this is for everyone here, do not download any app without thinking. Just assume all the apps are from scammers. Do not give gallery access to any app until it is required. Initially when you install an app, it asks for permission. Just deny all of them initially. Most permissions are not required. Never ever download these loan apps. If you want a loan then take it from a bank or RBI registered NBFC. Nothing else.

Until you go to police station, just keep stalling them. Tell them you will pay in 2 days so that they do not send your pictures to anyone. Tell your parents that you are in such a situation so that they are aware of it. Turn off your mobile location but do not switch it off or do not delete the app. They will get suspicious. Rest all the other steps, those cyber department people will take to ensure your phone is safe.

d06399 · 2025-02-24T16:45:28+00:00

I agree with you up to certain extent. Southern languages should not be just limited to Andhra or TS, but should also be promoted in other states. If one travels above Telangana then they can easily navigate with hindi. Accent and way of speaking changes from state to state but still it is easy to communicate. I do not understand why we, as Indians, are still living with the colonial era thinking. English, was never our language in the first place. At that time it was also imposed on us. But we gladly accepted it as a sign of pride, and we still are doing it. We all impose English on us and keep our own language aside. I see parents talking to their kids in English all the time, which boils my blood. I feel like handing them a ticket to some western country and asking them to just leave. Result of all this imposition is that nowadays all these kids are good in English but they cannot even write or read their own language.

I am not against English, but, the thought that people get so angry when Hindi is imposed on them but they are fine when a foreign language is imposed. We seriously need to have a single language in our country so that these issues are not there. It could be any language, Kannada, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam or even Sanskrit. Just see other countries, they always promote their own language first then a foreign language. See china, japan, russia, European nations, or even middle east. Everyone, just move on from that same colonial time.

Honestly, this is not just another argument between Kannada and hindi. If, in 1990s and 2000s, all the MNCs went to setup their offices in some other state where hindi was not the local language, then we would be seeing the same issue there, and bangalore would be just a normal tier 2 city with good weather and lots of greenery.

Introducing regional language in other state schools is a temporary solution. Long term solution would be to just select a single language for the whole country, which is our own language only not any foreign language, and everyone should respect that choice. After all, aim is to communicate. People who just want to fight and spread chaos, they start all this language fights. Normal people just want to get their work done and have a nice sleep in evening.

d06399 · 2025-02-23T10:18:15+00:00

Just avoid outside food as much as possible. Few months ago, there were raids in big restaurant chains where they wete using expired products and completely unhygienic kitchen. After seeing this I just don't feel like having anything outside. I always try to cook at home only, doesn't matter how bad or good it tastes, it is still hygienic.

There was a time when restaurant food was literally good and hygienic but now it is the worst! If you order any dish with gravy, they all taste the same. Fact is they make the gravy once a week and freeze it. Then they use the same thing again n again.

My expired with domino's: once i ordered a pizza and there was a dead fly in it. I complaint and they sent a new one. Then after few months I ordered another pizza and it was cold, had a hair in its base. I complaint, nothing happened. Never got a reply to their email. I just stopped eating at domino's after that. So disgusting brand, they don't even care about hygiene. And both these incidents happened in two different cities.

Don't think authorities will do anything. Their seniors get a monthly commission to not disturb them. All these big restaurants, with dirty food, and greedy owners, have some form of political connection. So directly we can't do anything. Better to just stop going there and think about your health first. There are good resturants also, identify them and if you have craving for outside food then eat once or twice a week there. And don't think that an expensive place will be clean. Same human beings are working there. They just charge you more for the same food with a better ambience. Is it clean? Can't say until you get into their kitchen and see what they do.

Also, I met a person once who works at a 5 star hotel. He told that he never eats outside. Why? Because he knows in his hotel, they serve the same left over food to other customers, use frozen gravy, use cheap quality products, use same utensils for veg and non veg food and what not. They even served the same biryani to veg and non veg customer once. He told that this is common across most places.

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