Sepang MotoGP Ride, 19 Oct 2008

Kawasaki Malaysia invited all Kawasaki bike owners to join the 'big ride' to Sepang MotoGP 2008 on 19 Oct 2008. An opportunity that I couldn't miss to be part of the big Kawa family. Their target was to gather 300 bikes (all kinds) in Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur and ride together on a 6okm journey to Sepang International Circuit (SIC). The ride started at 930am and we reached SIC at around 1015am. And we had brilliant day afterwards.

Picture : Starting Point - Dataran Merdeka, KL / 800am to 930am

Picture : Sepang International Circuit / 1015am to 500pm

In the end, Rossi won the race with such a big gap from Stoner. And we were all wet going back home due to Thunderstorm!

Port Dickson Ride - 12 Oct 2008

It was a hot day in the morning and raining in the evening but we endure all for our very first long ride together for the first time. To sum it up ... it was FUN! There were some incidents but it won't cover our grin from ear to ear (though you couldn't see it as we were all wearing full-face helmets with tinted/iridium visors).

The Ride trivia:

• 37 Ninja 250R joined the rides
• Other bikes : 1 ZX10R, 1 ER6N, 1 KLE and 1 D-Tracker
• 2 Rep from Kawasaki Malaysia lead the convoy
• 3 guys from Media joined our ride (you should start buying Berita Harian from today)
• 5 ladies joined the ride as pillion (we will convert them as riders soon)
• We had free lunch at Port Dickson and free food again at Sungai Pelek on the way back (TQ Bad for the open house)We were all wet when reach home!

Now, let's the pix do the talking ...

Thank you to the Ninja 250R riders, Kawa Reps and Media Team in making this a memorable ride. Thank you to Kirana for holding a special open house at his bungalow. You All Rawk!

pix 2,3 and 5 is by keylinkshukry.

Answer - The thing under the plastic wrap.

OK, the thing under wrap was indeed an aftermarket windshield for the Ninja 250R bike. It is actually a double-bubble windshield from MRA. Don't ask me why they call it double bubble in the first coz I don't have any idea. But that thing really deflect alot of wind resistance from the front of the bike. Wow!

Just look at the pictures of the double-bubble and the OEM windshield and you might understand how well it will perform. After a couple of high-speed ride, I can vouch for its effectiveness. Recommended by me!

Ninja Gathering #5 - BBN Cafe, 20/9

It was our biggest gathering with 28 bikes came for the session at Nilai. Me and Pron rode together from Bukit Jelutong GCE Tol Plaza and it took us 30 minutes to reach BBN Cafe, Nilai. There were only a bunch of guys at 10pm mostly from Seremban and Nilai. Then at 1030pm, guys from Cheras/ Wangsa Maju arrived. We chat a bit then decided to move to a more quiter place - I called the new place Roundabout Joint. Around 11.30pm, the other Shah Alam clan arrived .... sesat kot! Then the meeting proceeded as planned.

It was a great time for us to see each others in such a big crowd. As always happen in a big gathering - it is hard to remember new names. We shall create attendance log after this. Not all of us joined our online forum by the way. We really appreacite members that come last night - it was the the furthest away ride for some of the members. Well done!

Pix is on the way!

Pix by keylinkshukry.Pix by keylinkshukry.

Moreh @ PakLi Shah Alam - 19/9

'Pron' (yupp... i write it correctly :) ) requested a meet-up at PakLi Shah Alam for moreh session on Friday Night 19/9. So we came there like a flocking birds. Total bike attended = 11 bikes. After makan-makan, we headed to Dataran Shah Alam for a photo-shoot. Here goes:

Pictures courtesy of Along7 (curi dari ninja250r website).

Quiz - What's inside the plastic wrap?

Guess what's inside the plastic wrap?

Hmm... Baju Raya, Langsir Raya, CK undies, kerepek ubi? hehehe...

Ninja Gathering #4 - NZ Wangsa Maju & Dataran Merdeka

It supposed to be a small gathering with only 3 members confirmed to attend the moreh session at NZ Curry House, Wangsa Maju (next to Carrefour) on 13th Sep 2008. However, it turned out to be a mega gathering with 12 bike owners appeared from nowhere (bunian bulan Ramadan). We managed to attract more cyber members to attend our tt session and recruit more members as well - great job to the headhunters.

As always we talk cock like nobody business while watching footie games on the big screen -Blackburn vs. Arsenal and Man City vs. Chelsea. Liverpool had beaten Man United 2-1 earlier (just a reminder to Man United fans that run to the bedroom and cried the whole night). Back to serious note, things that we discussed as follows:

1. Discuss about the get-to-know ride to Port Dickson on 12th Oct 2008 and MotoGP Sepang on the next Sunday (this is sponsored by Kawasaki Malaysia).
2. Plan to make official T-Shirt for Ninja 250R Malaysia. One of the members is a big towkay of textile business. But none of us knows to draw even a straight line (semua nak corner).
3. Argue on which exhaust is the best (helmet throwing/ carbon fiber knuckle gloves punching/ alpinestars boot kicking....... love to see this but it didn't happen).

Around 130am as everyone getting bored, we went to Dataran Merdeka - a place where people that couldn't sleep gathers in KL. So many cars and bikes .... Really. We did some photo-shoots as below:

Welcome to the new members. Hope this is not the last time that we are going to meet you. As always, the tagline 'We shall meet again'. And not forgetting 'You'll never walk alone' ;).

Ninja 250R Makeover #1

I've done some minor makeovers to my bike yesterday. Thanks to the weather (raining), I arrived at NKS Sentul around 630pm. Met with William at the shop, gave him the bike key and his assistant Sam rode my bike away to .... err I didn't know where exactly. First thing is to install the 'rear hugger'. William insisted that it is called 'inside fender' ... Whatever lah. Steps taken in installing the 'inside fender' by Sam (guide to other Ninja riders):

1. Attach/ Weld a small steel bracket at the right swing-arm to hold the rear hugger using a screw nut. To do this, Sam send the bike for welding somewhere out there. I didn't really know.
2. Sam then made some small holes at the rear hugger.
3. He took out a portion of the bike stuffs behind the front-right foot peg
4. Put the rear hugger onto position - all screw at the hugger aligned with the mount at the swing-arm.
5. Screw the nut at the small steel bracket first and adjust the hugger as not to let the tyre scrap the hugger. I asked him to make some space allowance to accomodate wider tyres.
6. Screw all the nuts together onto the swing-arm. Use cable-tie to hold the hugger onto the swing arm bar
7. Re-attach the front-right foot peg assembly and it is DONE!

Then William got some ideas and told me "Itu signal lamp manyak besar, lu mau tukar kecil punya? LED manyak terang ooo" And I said OK. Again the steps taken for guidance to other members:

1. Take-out the rear seat
2. Unscrew both the the rear signals from its mounts
3. Cut the wire cable connecting to the signal lamps ..ouchh!
4. Install and then re-wire the new teeny-meeny-mini LED signal lamp
5. And then test it ....... both LED signals lighted up but they didn't blink. We had a problem
6. Sam discuss with a guy (I believe he is the electrical master technician) and he asked Sam to change the blinker relay (or someone called it condenser).
7. Next step is to find where the hell is the rear blinker relay located inside the bike. It took Sam around 5 minutes to take-out the middle cover (black in colour) and the front seat. Another 10 minutes locating the condenser.... and he found it on the left side below the front seat.
8. Change the blinker relay and the LED blinking like a christmas tree!

Job well done. Time taken is 1 hour, can be faster if we know the location of the condenser. Damage to my wallet was RM180. If everything works fine, then I will certainly change the front signal lamp which looks like Mickey Mouse ears.

Ninja 250R Gathering #3

We had a gathering at our normal spot at Bintang Sidewalk Cafe, Shah Alam on last Saturday night (23/8/08). Not many turn-up for the gathering compared to our first gathering but still we had fun. Thanks to wanpuma, amad, trono7, along7, kacho, lionninja, keylinkshukri and roslan for spending the time talking cock non-stop till midnite. hahaha...

Point of discussion as follows:

1. We had someone with entrepreneurship skill in selling biking stuffs - Fox Knee/Shin Protector and Alpinestars Pouch bag at such a low price. Wow!
2. Next week gathering will be at Cheras or ampang area - expand our coverage area!
3. Someone is upgrading to a bigger bike, ZX6RR to be specific! Hmm...
4. It was the last gathering for Wanpuma in Klang Valley as he's moving to Kuala Trengganu. All the best in the new city my friend!
5. ... and Liverpool won 2-1 over Middlesborough.

We shall meet again for sure. ;)

Ninja 250R Owner Gathering

A bunch of macho Ninja 250R owners is calling for a meet-up with the other owners on August 3, 2008. So for all Ninja 250R owners residing in Kuala Lumpur or anywhere in the world (if you don't mind travelling that far), you are all invited to the inaugural session. Kudos to 'Wanpuma' for initiating it and hopefully act as the host as well (we expect free flowing drinks on your tab ... hehehe).

Details as follows:

Date : 3rd August 2008, Sunday

Time : 900pm (Malaysian Time)

Location : Bintang Sidewalk Cafe, Section 7, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

My contribution is nicked the map from Google Map, add the buildings and paste it in all relevant Malaysian biking websites. And er... plus the pix of the Cafe as well.

Hope to see you there!

The Ninja Has Landed

The Ninja already arrived safely at my home on 31st July 2008 around 715pm. A bit delay at the shop as comtemplating whether to buy a protective jacket. However, after nearly 1 hour of trying all the jackets available in the shop, Ben the salesman agreed to give me the price that he needed to argue first with his boss for 10 minutes. So, i bought one of the jacket but i couldn't mention the price here ;) (for fren-fren sake!).

Back to the topic, the bike is now part of the family. Welcome to your new home big brother!

p/s : the jacket that i mentioned here will be my #2 jacket ... my #1 just arrived from Singapore on 2nd August 2008. Yes, I'm that crazy!

My own Ninja!

The chap at Chear Klang called me at around 330pm and told me that my bike has arrived. Yeahhh..... 'Buat-buat busy' while waiting for the clock to tick at 5, then suddenly my boss asked me to help a colleague to explain on our business improvement plan to the consultant ... and it was already 430pm.. HUH! I packed my stuff and straight went to the meeting location at 12th floor. Instead of meeting the guys at the discussion corner, I met them at the entrance door as they already concluded the meeting coz the consultants want to go home early. So chit-chat a lil bit, hug-hug bye-bye and I'm back on track. Lucky Me!

I managed to get out from the office at around 450pm before the exodus and arrived at Klang after 30 minutes journey on my ever reliable horse - Yamaha Legenda. I entered the shop, met CK, discussed about the final payment with one of the pretty clerk, signed the cheque and they showed me the way to the 'back office'. And there she was ... standing forever waiting for the right guy to push the right (err.. start) button. Whatever lah....

Here goes the pics of my Kawasaki Ninja 250R with Candy Plasma Blue colour. Ain't she so lovely .....

Pics taken using my PDA Phone. I should bring my Digital Camera instead!

Ninja 250R - Ready For Delivery

The Ninja 250R line-up and ready to be delivered to its new owner. Green, Blue, Red and more Green as usual for Kawasaki bikes.

But the site is not located here in Malaysia, it is however somewhere in Big Sam country :P Hope that the demand is great in Malaysia, and we can find this scene on each bike shops all over the country. Not just kapchai and scooter anymore.

Ninja 250R - Blue Colour?

I did mention in previous entry that I would choose the Passion Red colour for the bike. Red emulates bravery ... but in actual fact I like it cause it resembles the Ducati livery - I couldn't afford the Duc 1098S but at least got the same colour. Hahaha!

Since Kawa (M) will not bring in the Red colour, I have no choice but to choose Candy Plasma Blue instead. Candy means yummy. The pix below justify my choice of colour.

Sweet as the yummy candy!

Ninja 250R Colour

Kawasaki (M) Sdn Bhd will only produce the bike in Lime Green, Candy Plasma Blue and Ebony colours for Malaysia market. One colour scheme missing from the line-up but available in other countries is Passion Red.

1. Lime Green

2. Candy Plasma Blue

3. Ebony

4. Passion Red

My heart tells me to go for Passion Red. But it won't be available until Kawasaki (M) decides to bring it the red livery. Pity me!