re: Living an evolved dream: My 2019 Kawasaki Ninja 1000 ownership review. Edit: 4 years up! Quote:
Originally Posted by audioholic I started reading this review in the morning and finished it now  Great write up Karthik and you have not left anything uncovered. Now when do we have that four wheeler upgrade coming which will make yours an enviable collection of vehicles at home. Happy touring saar and let this COVID mess get over soon so that we can get back on the road! |
Thanks a lot audioholic sir., glad to know it took up your entire weekday  Four wheeler needs to wait till the covid situation settles down. No point buying anything for a while now when travel and highways are shut off. Quote:
Originally Posted by AtheK What is cooking here, which ducati is being sold now!!  |
Mihir back to his usual self I suppose, lol! Quote:
Originally Posted by KP56 Oh my god! What a fantastic review!
It is indeed a big leap from the karizma but then your heart always longed for it..
It was the same case with my dad, but he now regrets that he took a bit too long to materialize his big bike dream because his body isn’t coping well with his passion. And the bike is rather become a showpiece now than a mile muncher. |
Thanks a lot for your kind words KP56! Interesting indeed to hear about your dad's story, what did he get and when? It is always inspiring too see seniors live their (enthusiast) dreams Quote:
Also,even though you opted for an regular registration number, it is as fancy as it could have been for me because it has my initials on it |
Now that you mention it, if I had bought the bike 3-4 months earlier, I would have ended up with KK in the series which are my initials, lol! Quote:
Originally Posted by SnS_12 Firstly, congratulations on your Ninja 1000 and  for such a detailed and informative review on it.
When you read a ownership review, which doesn’t end on the first page is when you know that some serious writing and time has been spent on the assembly line.
To write in such detail with so many pictures is just commendable and I am sure it will help many future N1K buyers and even people buying their first big bike. |
Thank you for the kind words SnS_12 Quote:
Some things that really caught my attention are the beautiful pictures clicked by deepfreak15
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He is a wiz at clicking automobile pics. deepfreak15's pics of my thread are on the index page, the pros and cons page and the expenses page, and were all shot at a homestay in Chikmagalur which we had gone to along with our better halves in Feb this year. If you want to go through the complete set of pictures you can check out his thread below, I believe he has updated the rest of the trip pics somewhere there. https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/super...any-roads.html (My Silk White Ducati Multistrada 950 - One bike for many roads) Quote:
I had been to the Dainese store in Chennai and the prices quoted for the jackets were in the range of 60k a piece. Had no clue that they have an annual sale in India but as rightly mentioned, that is the best time to buy it or else get it from abroad where you have a wider range at a much cheaper pricing.
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Yeah same with me. I had visited their outlet long ago casually and had got scared seeing the prices. Their year end sale is pretty nice, CrAzY dRiVeR told me about it because he also picked up some of his stuff during the year end sale there I believe. It was a coicidence that my purchase also happened around the same time so everything went well. Quote:
But still a bill of close to 4 lac will give a reality check to many who maybe considering walking down this route.
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Yeah. The OE Panniers are 25% of that cost, but the rest of the stuff (I mean the items) is still something most riders will need to spend on, only the amount will vary depending on what brand they buy. I fondly refer to this big bike world as quicksand for the same reason Quote:
P.s - What if the Suzuki guys had not treated the way they did and you had test ridden one back then. Could we have been reading a brilliant Busa ownership instead??
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Nice question, but maybe eventually I will have overlooked the busa for being dated in today's age 
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