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Bike or Motorcycle Maintenance and Repair training

I was about to join a Motorcycle maintenance and repair, service training. But I consciously skipped it.

I was obsessed with bike and riding for a while. I spent on bike servicing and maintenance expensively. The maintenance expense of expensive bikes, stressed me to think, why don’t I learn bike mechanism and service my bike on my own. So, I can reduce or avoid biking servicing and maintenance cost.

The increasing service and maintenance cost of motorcycle in India let me to think such way. So, I googled which institute offer hands on practical training on bike maintenance and servicing.

I stumbled upon few institutes and enquired them.

I was caught up by a new “current” called DIY biking servicing. I was about to jump into that current.

Then, I realized, riding is my passion or interest, not laborious manual works like servicing and maintaining bikes.

One has to meticulously spend 3 to 5 years to earn money in any career. I have to complete bike mechanic training for 6 months to 1 year, then engage in trial and error for another 3 years to become professional bike mechanic to make money out of it. I have to spend great deal of time, money, energy to master bike mechanism in 3 to 4 years.

What I have to learn is Battery maintenance in motorcycle and car, not full fledged end to end bike mechanism. Since 2020, all bikes have Fuel Injector in India as by government order. Bikes dependent on battery heavily from 2020. Prior to 2020 mostly motorcycles in India had carburetor, which does not dependent on battery. Even in dead battery condition, we can “push the bike” or kick start the old bikes manually. Nowadays most of the bikes do not have kicker. So, kick start option is eliminated.

Post 2020, all motorcycle have fuel injector, and most bikes do not have kicker. So manual starting of engine is eliminated in case of low or dead batteries. To start the engine of the bike, we have to depend on stable sufficient power supply from battery is must as base line. Starter motor, fuel injector, etc, are next level investigation. First checking point is battery incase of bike not starting up.

So, from 2020 or BS6 onwards, every one who owns a latest motorcycle, should be aware of battery checking, charging, removing battery from bike, and putting battery inside into the bike after charging it. We need to have minimum tools required to check or remove the battery out from the bike. Otherwise, you have to tow the motorcycle to the service center or workshop. Towing cost is extra.

This battery management knowledge is enough for vehicles from BS6 onwards. If any major or other problems occur, then we have to go to service center or local mechanic. Leave the motorcycle maintenance and servicing to the expert who have spent their time, energy, resources for years to become professional in their field.

Let the professionals handle your bike. You focus on your career where you make money to live, where you have spent your time, energy, money, youngness, all resources to become professional in it.

After realizing this, I dropped the idea of joining a motorcycle service and maintenance training. I have other plans on learning meditation and Hindi language instead.

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Explaining an Experience

Don’t try to explain an experience, which can be only experienced, can not be explained.

Experience can not be explained, it has to be experienced.

Experience is subjective, not objective.

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Monotheism or Paganism

Can we worship deities as per Paganism or Can we worship God alone as per Monotheism?

Paganism worships deities/wants. Monotheism instructs acceptance, not expectation.

Paganism worships expectations/wants/deities. Paganists say deities are important, they represent God, they execute duties on behalf of God, they are like postman who hand over the parcel to you from God. So you have to create rapport with postman(deities), so you will get your parcel promptly.

Monotheist says postman delivers the parcel only and when/if God sends you parcel. If God does not send you parcel, then whatever rapport you have with postman, nothing will be delivered. Postman does not send and deliver parcel on his own, if God sends parcel to you, postman has to deliver it to you even if you don’t have rapport with him.

So, it is not mandatory to worship a postman(deity).

Deities are like your immediate supervisor who administers you, recommend you to Super Boss for hike/promotion/increasing provisions. Super Boss knows about you and your performance, your needs, your wants. Super Boss does not depend on deities to know about you. HE knows you. What Super Boss approves, immediate supervisor will deliver them to you. Immediate superviser will not deliver anything to you which is not approved by Super Boss.


It is upto you to whether create rapport or not with deities.


I will not create rapport with deities. I am a Monotheist.

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Dynamic World

Our world is dynamic, inhabitants of earth are changing every second, earth is changing every second.

If we take snapchat of the world every second, then no snapshot will look like other snapshots.

Around the clock our body is changing. Our body is not the same as the previous second. Our body cells are dying every second, new cells are born  every second. We don’t sense the birth and death of cells, so we don’t have any emotions over the life of cells.

Every second, there are controlled and uncontrolled changes happening in our body. There are intentional and unintentional activities in our body. Can we say these changes/activities are happening by a disciplined law or by irregular chaos? Are cellular and organ level activities happening by code of conduct or random behaviors/responses?

Our body changes/activities are by law. It looks like random changes/behaviors, but it is actually by well disciplined law. There are many cellular level activities  which we cannot feel/sense,  but they are happening every second. We cannot say nothing is happening at cellular level, because we don’t or can’t feel it. Can these cellular activities be randomly driven? No, it is by a rule or law, which we can’t or don’t understand.

We cannot say, no law governing us because we don’t know about it. Law exists even if we don’t understand the law. “I don’t know” is not an excuse to law.

In the same way, if you take the earth or world as a functioning body and every living being is it’s cells, there are countless infinite cellular and organ level changes happening every second. Every second many cells are dying and many cells are born. They happen by a disciplined law. It looks like world is changing randomly, but it is not. It is changing by a law, not by chaos.

There are human activities, animal activities, plants activities, fish activities, insects activities, worm activities, sea activities, river activities, changes in water bodies, earth activities, bacteria and virus activities, and many many activities happening every second in world. Is all happening out of randomness or by law. It is a law,  a discipline is governing all activities.

We do not know the driving force behind the changes/activities, but changes are driven.

The world is dynamic and this dynamic nature is driven and governed by a divine dynamic discipline.

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Ownership Reviews are Important

I am a motorcycle enthusiastic. I owned multiple motorcycles with a desire to ride in highway and long distance touring. Without knowledge about bikes, I used commuter and sports bike to tour in highway, but they did not match highway requirement. I tried this and that. Later I gained knowledge about different motorcycles and their purpose made for. Then I bought a touring bike, which is very comfortable, confident inspiring and fatigue free, able to cruise long hours in highway. I tried different bikes, spending money, spending time, spending energy to understand about motorcycles/bikes.

I bought a small, light weight, low powered city car, but drive it mostly in highway. There is a difference between what we need and what we want. Moreover, we have to choose our vehicle based on what is available in the market and what is affordable. The affordable, available do not match with our want. What matches with our want/need is different from what is available, affordable, and popular or highly selling. First we should have clarity on what we need and what we want. Then we have to choose a vehicle which matches with our want/need. This require knowledge and guidance. You need know about vehicle and it’s purpose made for. This is where ownership reviews after certain years of usage, helps you a lot.

A rev friendly, light weight, agile, powerful sports bike is good in city roads and streets. But it will not be a best fit in highway or long distance touring. For highway and long distance touring, a heavy weight bike, with surplus torque will match. But it may not be fit in city roads and streets. I bought a sport bike and worried why it was shaky or wobbling in highway. I bought a heavy weight cruiser and worried why it was not easy to ride it in city roads and streets. Lack of awareness about what we want/need and lack of knowledge about what vehicles matches with our want/need is leading to confusion, frustration, waste of money, waste of time, waste of energy.

Cost of maintenance vary from segment to segment – commuter, premium commuter, sports bike, street fighter, cruiser, super bikes differ in their maintenance cost. Don’t regret at maintenance expense after owning a vehicle either new or used.

Either new or old, purchasing a motorcycle or vehicle is very easy nowadays as you will get loan sanctioned. But the challenge is awaiting at servicing or maintaining it. Authorised Service Centers or Local mechanics…which bike is easy to get serviced will keep you cool. Maintenance and Servicing, spare parts availability will make lot of difference in ownership experience. You may ready to spend, but no guarantee that, your vehicle will be serviced properly. You have to rely on “belief, faith, reputation, luck” in this section.

You can tour on any bike. This is a popular, but wrong statement. This is a false notion and not adhering with safety. You should tour on proper bike made for touring, not any bike.

So I thought ownership reviews dedicated to spread/share knowledge about bikes, cars, bicycles, automobiles, will help the buyers to understand what they want, and what matches their want.

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I sold my Pulsar NS160…

I sold my Pulsar NS160 after 4 years of usage and purchased a 6 years old Dominar 400

Domi Boy

I sold Dominar 400 after 10 months of usage.

I am cured from the diseases called “Biking”, “long ride”, “Cruising”, “Highway”, “Stability”, “Weekend Ride”, “80 KM/HR speed”, “100 KM/HR speed”, “120 KM/HR speed”.

Riding pleasure is a mirage, bikers “feel” joy, pleasure, ecstasy while riding. This is sort of belief magic or feeling expectation happening. Brain simulates biking mirages are attained.

Bike is a tool to move from one location to another location, rest are all biking mirages never attained or we “believe”, we are “experiencing” biking mirages. Happiness in bike riding is an illusion, it does not exist. But we feel happy while riding, because we believe bike riding is happy, so our mind simulates happiness while riding or we convince ourselves as bike riding is a pleasure and we “believe”, we have pleasure while riding.

Don’t ride to experience mirages, such experience never exist.

A child is joyful when playing with toys. But an adult or old man is not joyful with the toys. If toys give happiness, then everyone should be joyful when playing with toys. Happiness is nothing to do with toys. While playing with toys, child’s brain releases chemicals related to happiness mood. That’s it. Toy is just a material.

What is the relation among toy, child, happiness? It is the same relationship among bike, rider, happiness. Brain is “patternised” to release happy chemicals while riding bike or playing toys. In reality, bike or toy does not create happiness, but the happiness of rider or child while riding bike or playing toys is true to them. They enjoy truly. It is a sort of “real hallucination”.

I am back to commuter bike.

If you are limiting your speed to 60/70 km/hr in highway, then you can try scooter too. A 110cc or 125cc scooter will be more comfortable, easier, relaxed than motorcycle. Scooters are city friendly, they cope up well in city traffic as well as highway within 70 km/hr speed. I tried my Jupiter 110cc scooter in highway ride. It went smoothly around 65 km/hr speed with stability. Confident inspiring. Less or no fatigue compared to bikes. I realized I wasted money on buying higher CC motorcycles and riding them in 70 km/hr speed. I wasted buying a brand new Pulsar NS160, I wasted buying an old dominar 400, I wasted money buying a old Classic 500, then I wasted money on buying an old Pulsar AS150. Instead of all these bikes, I should have tried out my Jupiter 110cc scooter. I could have avoided all the biking purchases, and motorcycling emotions, motorcycle maintenance expenses. Jupiter scooter cost not more than 1500 rupees for general service as on date (October 2025). The scooter is a gem within 70 km/hr speed. Less maintenance cost, easy to maneuver in city, easy to ride in highway. I am learning from my costly experiences. I don’t have wisdom, I rely an experience for realization. No more bikes/motorcycle in my life henceforth for my riding speed and riding distance(within 150 kms range).

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Pulsar NS 160 Ownership review


I purchased Pulsar NS 160 last year. I have clocked around 5000 kms till date. Mostly high way rides. I have shared my ownership review with pulsar ns 160 comparing with my previous bikes. Here is my experience.

I purchased Pulsar NS160 BS6
Realisation after riding Pulsar NS160
Cruising in Pulsar NS160
Realisation with Pulsar NS160 continued – More Speed
Realisation continued with Pulsar NS160 – Matured Cruising speed
Can we tour on Pulsar NS160?
What to buy – NS 160 or Hornet 2.0
Chennai to Kanchipuram on Pulsar NS 160
I sold my Pulsar NS160…
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Shell City Ride oil change to Pulsar NS160

I recently changed Shell oil (city ride) to my pulsar NS160. The bike runs smoothly now, looks like low end torque/punch improved a bit. Oil cost me 599 rupees when I purchased.

After thrashing my bike to cruise at 100 km/hr in highway continuously during my last highway ride, I noticed some roughness in engine. Moreover, service interval/due time also arrived. So I approached service center for servicing the bike. But, the service center where I regularly give my bike for servicing, was too busy with other bikes, they were not able to attend my bike for the next few weeks or month so.

So I decided to change oil at least. Let my bike run in new oil until service center guys called me for regular service. So I went to Shell petrol bunk near my home, They showed me two types of oil, City Ride, and Shell Advance. Shell Advance is for racing performance. City Ride oil is for city ride. I am not going to ride above 80 km/hr, so I do not need Shell Advance. I purchased Shell City Ride oil one liter costing 599 rupees.

The staff at petrol pump drained old bajaj oil from my bike and poured new oil.

Then I took the bike to highway and ride at 80 km/hr speed. The roughness of the engine got cleared, and bike becomes butter smooth. My Pulsar NS160 glided smoothly with new oil in highway in moderate speed(80 km/hr).

Now, the problem is lubing bike chain. Chain is lubed during regular service. Now service center is not able to attend my bike, my bike’s chain is dry and dirty. I am doubting whether any road side mechanic will do Chain lubing alone, not full service. Full service, I will do with Service Center once they resume their business.

I am going to enquire with my nearest street mechanic for Chain lubing alone. If they agree, then I will have cleaned and lubed my bike’s chain. Let us see.

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Practice, Repeat, Habit – NS 160 Comfortable cruising at 80KM/HR

Nowadays, I am able to comfortably cruise around 80 KM/HR speed in Highway, When I purchased the bike, initially, I feared to ride at 80 km/hr speed. My body and mind was so tense at those speeds. I thought my comfortable speed is around 50km/hr.

But years of repeated riding in highway, gradually increased my comfort zone in speed. I was comfortable around 70 km/hr for a while. That time I thought 70 was the safe speed. I continued to ride at 70 km/hr in highways. Without my effort, now my comfortable cruising is around -80+ km/hr in highway. I am bored at 60 / 70 km/hr speed now.

Initially, I thought 50 km/hr speed is my limitation both physically and psychologically. But years of repeated riding improved my limitation. Now I am thinking to upgrade to 300CC or 250CC bike to cruise at 100 or 120 km/hr speed in highway. But due to safety measures, I consciously nullify my desire to upgrade higher capacity bikes, I confine myself to cruise at -80+ km/hr speed in highway. Let it be my comfortable speed. Moreover, that is the legal speed limit in highway in India as on date. Respect the law.

I do not want to push myself to cruise at 100+ km/hr speed, though I can practice, repeat, and make it a habit to become comfortable at those speeds both physically and mentally. Non-fenced or no-barrier Indian highways are not safe at such speed even though I can be comfortable and confident at those speeds.

I do not say You are safe at 80 km/hr speed and you are at risk at 100+ kn/hr speed. You can reach your destination at any speed. Accident can happen at any speed. Even at 40 km/hr, accident can happen. Even, when you are walking, some vehicle may hit you. While walking you may skid or slip. We can not say walking is risk. ( Example : https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/ahmedabad-parag-desai-wagh-bakri-tea-groups-executive-director-passes-away-at-49-due-to-accident-402952-2023-10-23 )

God controls life and death.

I have realized that by practice, repeat and making habit, provided God willing – we can master anything. If I sold out the NS160 when I purchased it, I would have been riding within my limitation – that is 50km/hr in highway. I continued to ride NS160 at 60 few months, then gradually my riding speed increased to 70 and now I cruise at -80+ km/hr in NS160 in highway. It took overall 2.5 years to get out of my limitation. Now I am confident, I can experience 100+ km/hr speed too comfortably provided God willing. But I do not want, and I do not have money to afford for new bike now financially.

We can acquire any skill, knowledge by practice -> repeat -> habit <- provided God willing. I learnt this out of my biking experience with Pulsar NS160.

My sub-conscious mind is re-programmed to cruise at -80+ km/hr speed comfortably both physically and mentally by “practice, repeat, habit, God willing”.

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Can we kickstart Pulsar NS160 BS6 with a Dead Battery?

Can we kickstart a Pulsar NS160 BS6(Fuel Injection – FI) with a dead battery?

NS160 comes with a kicker even though it has FI – Fuel Injection. When starter motor has problem or push button (self start) has problem, then you can use kicker to start the bike provided battery in good condition.

FI – Fuel Injection and it is controlled by ECU – both require steady current/voltage from battery to function. If there is no current/electricity from battery to Fuel Injector or ECU from battery, then you can not start the bike using self start and kicker and manual push start. Nothing works with a dead battery to BS6 motorcycle including NS160 BS6.

Sometime, battery may be low and it may not have enough current to rotate starter motor/self start, but battery has some low power which is enough to function the FI and ECU. In such case, you can use kicker to start the bike temporarily. You should replace new battery soon.

In short, as long as steady sufficient current flows from battery to function FI and ECU, you can use either self start, kicker, manual push start – whatever is working. If the battery is dead, no current from battery to FI and ECU, then nothing will start BS6 motorcycles.

BS6 or Fuel Injection – FI motorcycles need a good battery to start even with kickstarter. Kickstarter is an alternate to self start, but not an alternate to battery.

We can not kickstart Pulsar NS160 BS6 FI with a Dead Battery