Bike Shifting in Hulimavu

Before you start it

Fuel first. The tank was drained before loading, so there's next to nothing in it. Bring a small can of petrol to the delivery, or be ready to push the bike to the nearest pump. Starting it with a near-dry tank and stalling halfway down the lane is the classic first-ride mistake.

Then the tyres. They may have lost some pressure over the trip. Press them with your thumb, and get them pumped to the right pressure at the fuel stop before going anywhere fast.

Look at the chain on a motorcycle. It should move freely and not hang slack. If it's dry, a little lubricant helps.

And check that everything you took off before the trip is back on, mirrors adjusted, the number plate secure, nothing left loose.

Then the battery. A bike that's sat wrapped and still for a while sometimes cranks slowly on the first try. Give it a couple of short goes with a pause in between rather than holding the starter down, if it's clearly flat a push start down a gentle slope, or a jump from a friend's bike, usually sorts it.

The first ride, in the inner lanes

Start it and let it idle for a minute. A bike that's been still for a while can take a few tries if the battery has dropped a little. If it won't start at all, check the fuel again before anything else.

Ride slowly in the quieter lanes near the lake first. Try both brakes properly at low speed, they should bite cleanly with no grinding. Turn the bars fully left and right. Listen for anything new, a rattle or a scrape that wasn't there before.

Check the lights and indicators while you're at it, and the horn. These are easy to knock during loading and easy to miss until you need them.

Only then take it out onto Bannerghatta Road. If anything feels off, a pulling brake, a wobble, a new noise, ring us and get it looked at before you commute on it.

Delivery to a Hulimavu address

Along Bannerghatta Road the apartment towers have gates and visitor bays where the carrier stops. Carriers don't drive into basements, so the bike comes off at the gate. Tell security the bike is arriving and give them the number so the carrier isn't held up.

On the inner lanes near the lake, with independent houses and builder floors, the carrier may not get close. It stops on the nearest road that takes it and the bike is wheeled the last bit.

Before signing, compare the bike against the pickup photos, then do the checks above. Late morning delivery, away from the peaks, makes the whole thing calmer.

Scooty shifting into Hulimavu

Scooters arriving in Hulimavu are mostly meant for short hops, to Arekere, Bilekahalli, or the shops and clinics along the main road. The first-ride routine is the same as for a motorcycle, just quicker. Fuel, tyre pressure, a squeeze of both brakes, a look at the lights. A scooter's tank is small, so the bottle of petrol you brought along goes a long way.

If it won't start, check the obvious things before worrying. Most scooters need a brake lever held and the side stand up before the starter will do anything, and people forget both after a few weeks away from their own bike. If it has a kick lever, a few gentle kicks often wake it up.

On the journey itself a scooty is treated no differently from a motorbike. It's photographed before anything goes on, the bar ends and mirror stems get cushioning, the wrap goes on in layers and straps keep it standing in its own space. Being smaller and lighter, it tends to cost a bit less.

Bike and two wheeler transport to and from Hulimavu

Most bikes we deliver here have travelled from Chennai, Hyderabad or somewhere in Kerala, routes with vehicles going back and forth all the time. If the bike is coming from a small town it can sit a while before anything is heading our way, and you'll hear that from us when we quote rather than later. The arrival date is fixed with you before it's loaded.

Going the other direction, bikes leave Hulimavu early. Bannerghatta Road gets slower by the hour once the office crowd is out, and a carrier that's away before then reaches the ring road and the highway without crawling back past Arekere and Bilekahalli. Within Bangalore, deliveries finish the same day.

At the collection end, whoever hands the bike over gives the crew the key, a photocopied registration certificate and a photocopy of the owner's identity card. The originals stay at home.

We price after a free survey, a short video is usually enough, and the figure we write down is the one on the GST invoice. For the flat itself, if that's moving as well, our Hulimavu packers page has the household side.