New Head From India

[chinmay]

Hey peeps, This is Chinmay from India. I am a mechanic and works on Indian motorcycles. Soon will try to establish my self with SB's for repairing..

Looking for help either from our junior/senior members who are mechsss..

[Motorcycle_salesman]

Originally Posted by chinmay

Hey peeps, This is Chinmay from India. I am a mechanic and works on Indian motorcycles. Soon will try to establish my self with SB's for repairing..

Looking for help either from our junior/senior members who are mechsss..

How many hayabusas do you see in india? Didnt you watch the movie Dhoom with John Abraham?

[chinmay]

Originally Posted by Motorcycle_salesman

How many hayabusas do you see in india? Didnt you watch the movie Dhoom with John Abraham?

I never tried out to find the statistics of busas.
Secondly what is it with John's movie?

[Motorcycle_salesman]

Originally Posted by chinmay

I never tried out to find the statistics of busas.
Secondly what is it with John's movie?

He had a busa in that movie. That made me buy one. How much do these cost over there? 20 lacs?

[rockscaler]

I think I read in cycleworld that there is a huge import tax into India on Japanese sportbikes and that Busas cost an equivalent of something like $30K

[ridinhome]

Welcome Chinmay. Yeah, the tax on imported bikes is huge, unless you import it in Knocked Down condition. I knew a mechanic in Bombay who made a good living out of importing bikes and then putting them together. He once put a Busa together in 7 hours from opening the boxes to first firing.

[chinmay]

Originally Posted by Motorcycle_salesman

He had a busa in that movie. That made me buy one. How much do these cost over there? 20 lacs?

The busa which was used in John's movie belongs to my city. The provider did give these all the motos for the movie...But all are hidden now...lol..

busa is costing not less than 14Lacs in India....Well but all the illegal bikes ( illegal=custom is not paid) are seized by Indian government and wot ever left in here they are hidden....
coz the import duty is near to 100% of the main cost...but i still want to work on SBK's

[chinmay]

Originally Posted by ridinhome

Welcome Chinmay. Yeah, the tax on imported bikes is huge, unless you import it in Knocked Down condition. I knew a mechanic in Bombay who made a good living out of importing bikes and then putting them together. He once put a Busa together in 7 hours from opening the boxes to first firing.

Due to CKD issue only now government is banned all the imported bikes...N ot only japs but also european too.....

[Motorcycle_salesman]

In places like pakistan and india bike displacement bikes are somewhat rare. As a matter of fact its hard to see anything over 500cc (whether its a cruiser or a sportbike). Do you see big displacement bikes there on a regular basis, Chinmay?

[chinmay]

enough but due to custom people raid some of thebikes are hidden n some are seized by government..coz duties are not paid so these bikes are illegal

[hondajunkie]

to SBN!

[Scratch33]

Originally Posted by chinmay

Hey peeps, This is Chinmay from India. I am a mechanic and works on Indian motorcycles.

Welcome. What's your opinion of the new electronic fuel injected Enfields?