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Today I was at the Takashimaya National Library and found that they subscribed to the Cycle World magazine.

The magazine open my eyes to more things I do not know about motorcycles and motorcycling. New vocabularies like rake and trail as well as technical concept like progressive, straight-rate and dual-rate damping. Not only that, there are many products that I do not know exist.

While the Internet is a treasure chest of information, separating the gold (valuable information) from the rocks is still hardwork. Paying for a good old printed-paper magazine may be well worth it.

Any other good magazine you read to recommend?

From its beginning as Honda parts assembler for domestic market, Daelim is now exporting its motorcycle to the world.

In Singapore, I first came across the name while looking for my first bike.

Since I was restricted to the 125cc category, the Daelim Magma 125, with it’s good look was a natural candidate.

It was again a candidate when I upgraded to the Suzuki Marauder 125. In the end I did not choose it because I wasn’t convinced enough to try the Korean quality. The other nagging thoughts was whether maintenance and parts are available.

Do you own a Daelim? Let us know your thoughts.

(daelimmotor.com/eng/)

The group had been working on this project covertly over the last month or so. It was great fun and excellent learning experience working with a group of so diverse and talented. (More about this in coming posts.)

If you are dropping by for the first time from MBI welcome!

The Shadow was brought used from the same shop that I brought the Marauder. I basically traded in the Marauder and got the Shadow.

Having ride 2 smaller motorcycles, the Shadow gave me a taste of what power “pull” is like. Of course compared to motorcycles of similar capacity, the Shadow is really heavy and slow.

I remembered my first time on the Shadow, the handle bar was so wide and low and it to ok a while to get use.

Nice and stable, I had no accident with it except once I slipped while waiting at the red light. Boy, was it heavy to right the Shadow. I learnt never to ride with a flat soled business shoe.

Over the weekend, I spent some time to work on a new design based on K2 and rolled out to a few of my sites.

How do you like it?

The Old

The New

As with the first bike, there were many things to learn. The most important thing was run in.

What is “run in”? At that time I did not have any idea and the shop just gave me a vague clue. The idea is that a brand new motorcycle had to be “eased” into usage. The shop told me it meant no full throttle riding for the first 500-800km.

If you know how small Singapore is, you will realise that doing 500km is not an easy feat. A friend to me what he did was to ride his bike to Kuala Lumpur. That’s up the Malaysia North-South highway, a distance of about 700km. At that time I still do not have the courage to ride outside the tame traffic that is Singapore. (It was destined for the next bike)

Anyway, it was an excuse for me to take the Marauder out for a spin, riding aimlessly on the expressways from west to east, south to north.

The sound of a new engine was music to the ears. As the throttle turns, the engine purred to life like a concerted piece.

The shiny chrome parts were candies to the eyes. After looking at the rusty RXS for so many years, riding the shiny Marauder is such an uplifting experience. Just imagine floating along the road.