Since the launch of Yamaha's R15 version 3, it stayed as top of the line and its sales never dropped down till now. Its former version so called as version 2 and version 1 also never failed to pick a separate place in the market. If you are going to look for a motorbike in 150 CC segment, surely this motorbike will be the first one in many of your lists. Simply saying, this machine is purely worth for money and its performance can be felt always if you maintain it in a good condition. It has a 155 CC single cylinder liquid cooled 4 valve SOHC VVA motor which tend to churns out 19.3 PS of power at 10,000 RPM and 14.7 Nm of torque at 8500 RPM. The BS-VI version is slightly tuned down and mainly concentrated in reducing the tail pipe emissions. Yamaha has done a great job of implementing the Variable Valve Actuation (VVA) mechanism to improve the breathing efficiency of the engine at higher RPM band. In this post, we're going to see the experience of the owner of Yamaha R15 V3 which is BS-IV complaint bought in March 2019.
The owner of this machine is also a friend of mine where i've ridden this beauty for several kilometers. He also studied Automobile Engineering and we always talk about motorbikes and about modifications. He always ends up in doing something with his machine and spends most of his money in maintaining it. As we all know, we work hard and invest a lot of money to buy our dream motorbike. So i would say, its not a wrong decision to spend money on our machine and to maintain it. Instead of buying a pack of cigarette and puffing it, its more than better to spend much on motorbike and to maintain it.
First of all, his motorbike has covered 30,000 kilometers and he used his bike for going to college which ends up in doing 100 kilometers a day on the highway. Now, his college days are over and he's cruising down for work in the same highway which also ends up in doing around 70-80 kilometers a day. From this, we can conclude that he had been using his bike daily without keeping it in rest for a long time. In all his years of riding, he never experienced any back or wrist pain. Riding posture decides the both aerodynamics and pain that we experience while riding. Riding it in the correct posture will never gives us any kind of pains.
While riding to his college, he'll be maintaining his speed of 80-100 kmph around 7000 RPM which resulted in obtaining a good mileage of always above 40 kmpl. And out there in the freeway, he claimed the maximum mileage of 52.3 kmpl. Running the engine smoothly at moderate RPM and cruising in the average speed always gives a good mileage. Leaving his bike regularly for the scheduled service and self maintenance kept him away from major problems. The problem he faced is the development of small vibrations around 4500 - 6000 RPM on the rear foot pegs. The other thing which appeared to be a problem for him is the headlight visibility. As he said, though the beam is powerful, the reach of the beam is poor and keeps him bothering very much at night times.
He reached the top speed of 147 kmph on the highway. Up to 25,500 kilometers, he haven't faced any major problems. After 25,000 kilometers, he noticed some amount of oil leakage in the front fork and some unusual vibrations in the handlebar. The problem of oil leak is rectified by replacing the oil seal in the front fork. Regarding vibration, he came to know that the bearing in the cone set has been damaged fully. He was thrown to the situation where he had to change the entire cone set due to the misalignment. In my old posts, i've written about the effect of tire wear due to the parameters like suspension, load etc.. In our case, due to the leak of fork oil, dampening at both sides of the fork became unequal and resulted in wear of the tire only at one side. So, he had changed the rubbers to Michelin pilot street. At his last general service, several parts has been replaced including clutch hub, clutch plates, rear sprocket, chain, rider foot pegs. When last service was done, the motorbike has done 30,000 kilometers and its normal to replace parts like clutch plates, sprocket after covering these much amount of kilometers.
Instead of leaving his motorbike for service in showroom, he himself periodically maintained his machine in home itself. This maintenance process includes changing of motor oil regularly, cleaning and lubricating the chain, replacing the air filter etc... In addition to that, he used Liqui Moly's performance pack which includes fuel additive, motor oil, motor oil additive and engine flush. Doing the maintenance work periodically and taking care of his bike always led to the smooth running without problems. Other than that, he also added several other parts like racing visor, winglet 1.0, canard and rear LED indicators. I like to mention about the replacement of original stock brakepads to the ceramic brakepads. I remember where both of us replaced the brakepads by ourselves. After changing to it, he said that the braking action is increased and the friction material lasts for long time.
Finally, what i like to mention is, every motorbike is special and unique in its own way. Just like that, we can't say one motorbike is better or greater than the other one because, lots of hard work and time has been put together to design, test and develop a motorbike. Every motorbike is built with a purpose. As i said previously, its our job to take care and maintain it periodically after buying.
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The owner of this machine is also a friend of mine where i've ridden this beauty for several kilometers. He also studied Automobile Engineering and we always talk about motorbikes and about modifications. He always ends up in doing something with his machine and spends most of his money in maintaining it. As we all know, we work hard and invest a lot of money to buy our dream motorbike. So i would say, its not a wrong decision to spend money on our machine and to maintain it. Instead of buying a pack of cigarette and puffing it, its more than better to spend much on motorbike and to maintain it.
First of all, his motorbike has covered 30,000 kilometers and he used his bike for going to college which ends up in doing 100 kilometers a day on the highway. Now, his college days are over and he's cruising down for work in the same highway which also ends up in doing around 70-80 kilometers a day. From this, we can conclude that he had been using his bike daily without keeping it in rest for a long time. In all his years of riding, he never experienced any back or wrist pain. Riding posture decides the both aerodynamics and pain that we experience while riding. Riding it in the correct posture will never gives us any kind of pains.
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While riding to his college, he'll be maintaining his speed of 80-100 kmph around 7000 RPM which resulted in obtaining a good mileage of always above 40 kmpl. And out there in the freeway, he claimed the maximum mileage of 52.3 kmpl. Running the engine smoothly at moderate RPM and cruising in the average speed always gives a good mileage. Leaving his bike regularly for the scheduled service and self maintenance kept him away from major problems. The problem he faced is the development of small vibrations around 4500 - 6000 RPM on the rear foot pegs. The other thing which appeared to be a problem for him is the headlight visibility. As he said, though the beam is powerful, the reach of the beam is poor and keeps him bothering very much at night times.
He reached the top speed of 147 kmph on the highway. Up to 25,500 kilometers, he haven't faced any major problems. After 25,000 kilometers, he noticed some amount of oil leakage in the front fork and some unusual vibrations in the handlebar. The problem of oil leak is rectified by replacing the oil seal in the front fork. Regarding vibration, he came to know that the bearing in the cone set has been damaged fully. He was thrown to the situation where he had to change the entire cone set due to the misalignment. In my old posts, i've written about the effect of tire wear due to the parameters like suspension, load etc.. In our case, due to the leak of fork oil, dampening at both sides of the fork became unequal and resulted in wear of the tire only at one side. So, he had changed the rubbers to Michelin pilot street. At his last general service, several parts has been replaced including clutch hub, clutch plates, rear sprocket, chain, rider foot pegs. When last service was done, the motorbike has done 30,000 kilometers and its normal to replace parts like clutch plates, sprocket after covering these much amount of kilometers.
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Instead of leaving his motorbike for service in showroom, he himself periodically maintained his machine in home itself. This maintenance process includes changing of motor oil regularly, cleaning and lubricating the chain, replacing the air filter etc... In addition to that, he used Liqui Moly's performance pack which includes fuel additive, motor oil, motor oil additive and engine flush. Doing the maintenance work periodically and taking care of his bike always led to the smooth running without problems. Other than that, he also added several other parts like racing visor, winglet 1.0, canard and rear LED indicators. I like to mention about the replacement of original stock brakepads to the ceramic brakepads. I remember where both of us replaced the brakepads by ourselves. After changing to it, he said that the braking action is increased and the friction material lasts for long time.
Finally, what i like to mention is, every motorbike is special and unique in its own way. Just like that, we can't say one motorbike is better or greater than the other one because, lots of hard work and time has been put together to design, test and develop a motorbike. Every motorbike is built with a purpose. As i said previously, its our job to take care and maintain it periodically after buying.
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