Oops that bad. Blue Smoke. I want to know the details of what exactly happened. I hope they come back properly and soon and the bike is fixed. Amen.
Regards, Jayaram On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Kailas Shastry R <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
