Thursday, November 22, 2007

Weekend Misadventure @ 1800 rs

well i think it was mostly boredom, sitting at home on an weekend and not the curiosity which took the toll this time. though the intentions were right but a slight impatience spoiled it.
Though it got salvaged in the end but ended up me buying a new keyboard for around 1800 rs (i was lucky)
Started with cleaning the fan as it used to or still makes a lot of noise and then generally thought to CLEAN the keyboard too, and doing so managed to get the cleaning solution generously all over it. so some of the keys stopped working, and if at that point i would have left it aside to dry up it would have survived but being top of my class i tried to dry it up with a hair dryer on hat air - and and the damn plastic of the keys were to sensitive! they kind of melted and deformed and came off!

Added a few more years to my Bike

Time to revive my bike out of the sheer neglect and decay.
Got new clutch plates & cable, new throttle cable, cleaned the carborater, new air hose pipe, new mud guards and the most difficult of the jobs - got rid of the rusting on the chassis and applied net coat of spray paint myself, fixed the leaking fuel tank (again due to rusting) with a layer of epoxy and a new coat of paint (though picked up a bad quality paint) polished the chrome and other parts - costed me 2 complete days and hell lot of an effort. but now it runs like a beauty - btw it still does 110 kmph easily with the same yamaha rxz spirit.

The Dream Machine - was never mine



I don't know whether i regret not buying it but it was surely the best experience driving this amazing machine for almost a week before i gave under all kind of LOGICAL pressure.
For the interested:
It was a soft top, folding front screen, Mahindra 340, modified to Willy's look with a 2800 cc Turbo Toyota Pirus engine, with front disc brakes, 300 mm wide tyres with alloy rims and would have costed around 1.75 lac rs.
Minor glitches: Issues on legal transfer & registration, a little over the edge decorations. May not be worth anything in resale and oh..........tiny little thing about not starting on its own for 4 out of 7 days i drove it.