I also picked up the Oinker chain lubing attachment, I have seen their product on Instagram, and seemed to be a pretty well-designed product
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As for the update on the bike. I took the bike to Karthik to assess the damage and to make sure the inner fairing stay is not damaged as the mirrors are directly mounted onto the fairing stay bracket. He quickly popped the visor into its location and no damage was found on the fairing stay, that was lucky.
Next, I had an immediate issue to address, during the last ride, before dawn broke, the headlight suddenly stopped working, I was pretty sure it was the switch that failed, and then the bike was parked for 3 weeks or so, the other day when I turned on the bike the headlight turned on and the next time they didn’t. Anyway took it to Karthik to change out the switch with a proper one, and chose the MadDog Switch Pro at Rs 1.5K.
Maddog Switch Pro
I was surprised with the build quality of it, the wiring and the wiring cover also seemed pretty good, and they had multiple mounting hardware given to use on different bike setups, all in all happy with the quality of it, and got it quickly wired in and it’s working fine since then.
Wiring kit
Decent quality
Multiple mounting hardware options
Wired and mounted
They claim it to be fully waterproof and yesterday’s ride was the perfect litmus test, 300kms of pure pouring rain and it survived without any issues. So I guess it is waterproof as claimed.
Next, I also picked up the Oinker chain lubing attachment, I have seen their product on Instagram, and seemed to be a pretty well-designed product, this tool allows one to direct the chain lube/wax directly to the O-rings this way reduces wastage of the lube/wax and makes a lesser mess on the chain/swingarm/rear wheel too. It’s a bit costly at Rs.1,900/-
The product comes with 3-4 tops that go on different brand chain lube nozzles and spray tubes too, luckily the product is designed to fit as in for Maxima cans so I didn’t have to try any of those. As for the product, it works as advertised. Also to note, you need to pick one up based on the pitch of your chain, mine is 530 pitch so I picked up the Oinker 530. Highlander sells them officially at their stores, picked mine up from there.
Now for yesterday’s ride, it was a wet one, got drenched to the bone, but we pushed through regardless and completed our usual 300 km circuit in the heavy rain, was it a smart move? Maybe not, but that’s how much we enjoy riding. Adds some extra spicy flavor when it’s on these fire-breathing liter-class monsters.
The only spot we got without any rain.
Barely clicked any photos this time, a V4R too made an appearance for this ride.
That’s a tasty lineup at the breakfast spot parking space
This is the condition of the bike after yesterday’s ride, took it to Glossfactor to get a detailed wash and they did a fine job as usual. I forgot to take pics of the bike post the wash.
Customary ODO shot to end the post.
Cheers
Krishna
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