I'm the owner of one of them. Incredible piece of machinery. I have owned it for 5 years. Ducati could learn a thing or two about how to build a reliable bike from them. I keep the bike in India, take it on 1000 mile rides, on hot dusty rough roads, apart from oil changes and chain maintenance it never gets touched. Each year I take it out of storage, turn on the fuel tap, prod the kick-starter a couple of times and it bursts into life
Horses for courses - I totally understand that its job isn't a show bike - but, ive gotta say you have surprised me with your comments - I half expected that kind of bike to have a shelf life of about 5 years max...
The truth is that Bajaj; like many other things in India ,is the company that makes them under licence from Kawasaki. My 'Pulsar' is a 180cc single ohc, and the engine really is a fine piece of modern engineering. I take it off road, giving it more punishment than a motox bike and it just keeps on going. Very common to see at least 10 year old similar bikes still going strong. Here's some Indian lads doing what they do best, having fun on their bikes.
Once upon a time we would pull our cheap Christmas crackers (my parents were poor...) and get less than cheap plastic bits of tosh fall out of them - stick-on green mustaches or inch-long red plastic battle ships that didn't float in the water when you had a bath. Be careful, the government is too busy with it's thumbs stuck up it's arse and is letting them (along with the Russians) buy up large chunks of London real estate these days - (didn't they buy that glass boil on the Southbank near Guy's hospital where the Mayor now resides? and half of Canary Wharf?) and they are sticking big burly bouncers on the pavement and not letting passers-by take photos of the architecture any more!....be afraid....
