Hello everyone I am piyush arya, from new delhi. I am a CLAT aspirant, just turned 20 and got “THE LOVE OF MY LIFE – R15 ”. I didn’t specify v1 or v2 as I love both the models seamlessly. This isn’t exactly a review, it is a sum of my experiences n lil knowledge I have about bikes.
I am a novice in writing reviews so please pardon me for grammatical mistakes n technical too. I am sharing my views n plz feel free to correct me ??
I have divided this experience in different parts
My story
My experience with other bikes
My experience with love(r15)
My Story
I was fond of automobiles right from the childhood but I had a special place for cars in my heart, bikes weren’t much of an appealing thing to me. When I turned 13, I was in 8th that was the time I was given the freedom to ride alone my mom’s activa 2004 model.
Yea riding two wheeler was a proud moment n full of excitement too but as I said earlier I had a special place for cars I was more keen in learning to drive cars which I did learn the same year.I was in Itarsi with my chachu. He owns a HH passion plus, one fine day he asked me to drop him to his bank n take the bike back to home assuming I knew how to drive a bike, & what I didn’t know how to ride one, but I knew how to drive a car n it was a bit same like driving car I gave it a try n I rode easily n came back home…this bike riding thing n doing broom broom changing gears amused me then n there….
When holidays were over, I was back to Bhopal n was watching RAFTAAR(automobile show) on NDTV N in one episode I saw MR SAMBHAV KRANTI riding this beautiful sports bike which was about to be launched in India it was in black color. I fell in love with it instantly n dreamt of owning it one day.
Years passed n I started to see the bike on road in Bhopal, only a handful people owned it because of its price, that was the era of Pulsars.
Now I was 15, 10th class the urge to own an R15 was on its peak, cause I started to go on long rides with my friends on my activa n I told that I am asking dad to buy me R15. Everyone was waiting as no one in my group owned a bike n all loved n were always looking to ride one. But same year I met an accident on my activa n I crashed it like hell it had cost me around 26k to get it repaired.
It was a major accident n even the chassis was broken then in 2011. I again met a major accident n again there were lot of injuries n my friend also got hurt this time it had cost around 16k, in total I met almost 7 accidents 3 major 4 minor most of them were because of over speeding. There was a strict denial on buying me a bike cause of this n instead a Suzuki access was bought.
I felt bad but then again access was the best n fastest among the scooters I clocked 101 km/hr on it easily. My activa(stock) did 86/87 but when I changed spark plugs it could easily pull up to 97.
Throughout the 11th class, I was a speed freak n altered my rides to get the max out of them including to filters to get some sound ??
This year the dreams of owning a r15 were shattered but sep 6, 2012 it was and a new model of r15 was launched. As I am a regular follower of BikeAdvice I saw the pics from the launch n at first glance I was like YUCK what did they do to that beautiful bike.
The new rear wheel hugger to me appeared like a cycle’s mudguard.
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The next day I woke up n started acting stubborn n asked my dad to buy me a r15 v1 in 1 month as its production would stop n I didn’t like the new version n ol… everyday I tried to convince him to buy r15 v1 before the last stock is finished.
But nothing happened n later on when I saw r15 v2 on road in red n white color “o my god” were my expressions it was so dam beautiful n I felt I was so wrong.
Finally I was 17, 12th class n this year I had a feeling that I will be buying a bike. I had various disputes with dad regarding this n I was so so obsessed of owning a bike because each year I announced among my friends that I was going to buy one n at last nothing happened so I thought I would instead buy other bike because they would cost less n my dad would agree to buy me 1(although price wasn’t an issue, but was a great convincing factor to buy bikes other than r15)
This year again wasn’t any good for me n there was a huge burden of studies too, finally I controlled my obsession for bikes N came 2013. Dad agreed this year he would buy me a bike if I get 85% n above. I was so happy but on the other hand I knew it is bit of an issue as I was a bio student n I had no interest for bio n was looking forward to prepare for CLAT n didn’t know a thing regarding bio ??
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I passed but didn’t cross the benchmark set.n was disappointed., but surprisingly dad still had in mind of buying me a bike
but my mom was keen in gifting me a HERO SPLENDOR ??
I was like…what is this I m better off with my activa n access.
Finally dad gave me two options; either I buy a Splendor for 1 year for going clat coaching and the following year he would buy me an r15(cause I was like dad plz plz buy me a r15 just for I day n u could sell it the next day itself but once in lifetime I want this bike.)
or I could wait till next year n crack CLAT and the same day I will get a NINJA 300. NINJA was 1 bike me n my dad always adored.
Time passed n it was 7th July 2013.
I was in INDORE(my hometown) n came to know that one of my childhood friend owned a Yamaha r15 v2 midnight black(my fav color is racing blue) he came to my home n took me for a ride n surprisingly asked me to ride it.( I was on 7th cloud, as I rode Apache rtr180, Pulsar 200ns and cbr 250 several times but all those years I had never ridden an r15 neither v1 nor v2 n this was the chance) I rode the bike n it was so awesome.
I remember I was standing at the signal with a r15 with custom exhausts n was revving it hard to seek attention and as soon as the signal turned green n I accelerated n I was already doing 90 in 3rd gear within seconds the 150 cc engine was so much different from the normal 150 like that of hunk or RTR or any other bike.