The Zma turned one year old a few days ago and with 13,300 kilometers on the odometer, it has been an eventful year. But my only gripe is most of it was logged within the city. I haven't been able to sample the highways as often as I had hoped to when I bought the bike. The appalling thing is, I have never clicked a single picture of the bike since I bought it. Not on the day I took delivery, not afterwards, not ever. I don't have a single picture! Also, I have never bothered accurately keeping track of the fuel consumption, I did check it a couple of times and found (to my utter surprise) that it is returning 38-40kmpl! I have kept it absolutely bone stock, although it is becoming evidently clear that the tyres are perilously hopeless, especially after thirteen thousand kilometers. I don't know which ones to go for, I am an absolute Michelin M45 fanboy, but is there something in tubeless that is equally awesome?
I lust after many bikes, I have a huge list of bikes and scooters that I would like to own one day. I am pretty sure many of them will never be ticked off that list. But, every day I find myself getting back to the zma and I find no reason to have another bike from utility point of view, it does everything you could ask of it and with such aplomb! Each time I slot it into first and pull out, I invariably tell myself (and I have done it on every single day over the last one year) it is more important to have the time and energy to ride than to sit around wiping the dust off a dozen bikes, bikes that hardly see a few hundred kilometers on the odometer throughout the year. But nonetheless it is my dream to build a collection of my own some day.
Getting back to the zma, after two Hondas, I am a Honda fan for life. To borrow a concept from a Honda advertisement "it loves you back" really. I will end with a popular quote for good measure.
I lust after many bikes, I have a huge list of bikes and scooters that I would like to own one day. I am pretty sure many of them will never be ticked off that list. But, every day I find myself getting back to the zma and I find no reason to have another bike from utility point of view, it does everything you could ask of it and with such aplomb! Each time I slot it into first and pull out, I invariably tell myself (and I have done it on every single day over the last one year) it is more important to have the time and energy to ride than to sit around wiping the dust off a dozen bikes, bikes that hardly see a few hundred kilometers on the odometer throughout the year. But nonetheless it is my dream to build a collection of my own some day.
Getting back to the zma, after two Hondas, I am a Honda fan for life. To borrow a concept from a Honda advertisement "it loves you back" really. I will end with a popular quote for good measure.
You meet the nicest people on a Honda !
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