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First ride - 340KM!

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This blog is about my first long ride experience in my new Meteor 350. It was a week back when I received the bike. In the first 6 days’ time I had completed 150 km of running. It was only for office related work. I had been looking forward to go on a ride since some days.  How much distance it is to start with was a question to me. I live along the western lines of Mumbai. Since it was the last day of the year, I was expecting traffic in the Mumbai-Pune highway. Recently, I also caught up many news related to traffic in that belt. I decided to take a different route as in picture below.  Okay. I was not very confident how much I would be able to ride. I had several checks with me. I was completely aware of the idea that bike is new & I should not drive it more than 60kmph of speed. Also, during the bike purchase I had not taken some accessories like leg guard and sump guard which now I understand are very important safeguards. Two other things are han...