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A lot has changed in the decade introduce our in-house millennial, 1987 Yamaha RX 100. No prizes for
just gone by. There are now dedicated Aadil (1992 born!), to some gems of guessing who got the keys to which.
adjectives for the new generation, the bygone era of motorcycling in Thankfully, Aadil has spent
people known as ‘millennials’. Back in India, right before he takes the big enough time around our in-house
the day, if our generation demanded a leap, leaving us and going seven grease monkey, Kyle, and he knew
motorcycle or a mobile-phone, it was seas away to the snowy pastures that filling petrol in a two-stroke
unanimously referred to as ‘spoiled’ of Canada for further studies (by motor had something to do with
in all available languages. This was the way, no motorcycle riding for oil-mixing. The oil reservoir on the
mostly accompanied by the physical six months of the year there, Aadil. RX 100 was already tanked up and
application of ‘slap’ followed by a Just saying). So here we found it only needed petrol. The RD 350
stern instruction ‘go study!’ ourselves, Aadil and I, standing next needed 2T premix. Aadil intently
Anyway, as we’re now into a new to two pristinely kept motorcycles watched as I poured in the mix and
year in a new decade, it felt ideal to — a 1984 Yamaha RD 350 and a gave the remaining 2T oil back to

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