Blue Smoke of Death Arpan and Alok were on the last leg of their South India ride and had stopped at Bangalore yesterday for servicing at AS. Left for Mumbai today morning. I 'escorted' them from their hotel in Jayanagar 4th block to the start of the NH (Metro on Tumkur road). Just after we bid good bye, I saw a distinct blue puff of smoke from Alok's bike. My reaction was to call Arpan and tell him. I then thought 'it's Arpan, and it's been serviced from AS, obviously they'd have checked. Probably it's nothing'. Big mistake.
I messaged Arpan while having breakfast - 'where are you now? I saw Alok's bike emitting blue smoke. hope all ok'. Next minute Arpan calls to say Alok's bike has given up. 20 kms before Chitradurga, the bike lost power and just died and did not fire up again. If I had informed them of the blue smoke earlier, there's a good chance they would have done something about it before the engine died. /when in doubt, call, inform. -- Kailas Shastry. -- !! -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
