Kawasaki Ninja Marching its troops into India

Following Ninja 250, Kawasaki is all set to action to introduce a variety of sports bike into the Indian Market.

Yes Obviously it's true...

After the success of Ninja 250R which eventually rocked roads, but due to its higher price for a lower capacity bike prevented many to go for Lesser priced R15, Pulsar or just go a step beyond and buy higher end bikes.

After looking into the thirst for higher end bikes in the Hearts of Indians, Kawasaki wanted to quench the thirst by introducing its further ninjas (bigger than 250c). The most expected was the 650R.

Definitely 650R is going to be priced above 4Lacs which will be too costly for most of us, but still who wants power to rock around will not be a deal for them.

To be frank, there is no objection from the Govt. for driving these monsters on our roads provided we follow proper traffic rules.

Also plan for getting Z750 and Z1000 are also confirmed by Kawasaki.

The question is CKD Kits (Completely Knocked Down kits) can be brought at a price of nearly 1.5 Lacs (estimated) for Ninja 250 to be imported to india but the bike costs more than 2.5Lacs. So its again a onfusion that prices would make the bikes unreachable by customers.

Why can't Kawasaki has its own Marketing Zone in India?

Its not my question, its probably the question from all the Kawasaki fans of India...

Lets expect for the best.

Cheers!!!

Best Buy Bikes - Options chosen for you

Below are the list of Best bikes which has been selected based on the Three factors which has been discussed in our previous post.

I believe that detailed explanation are not required for why the bike has been chosen.

1. Less than 100cc- Economy - Discover 100 DTS-Si from Bajaj
2. Less than 100cc- Performance - Splendor NXG from HeroHonda
3. 101cc to 110cc - Economy - Star City from TVS
4. 101cc to 110cc - Performance - CB Twister from Honda
5. 111cc to 125cc - Economy - Platina 125 DTS -i from Bajaj
6. 111cc to 125cc - Performance - Gladiator from Yamaha
7. 126cc to 135cc - Economy -XCD 135 DTS - Si from Bajaj
   
8. 126cc to 135cc - Performance -Pulsar 135 LS from Bajaj
   
9. 136cc to 150cc - Economy - Discover 150 from Bajaj
10. 136cc to 150cc - Performance - R15 from Yamaha
    
11. 151cc to 160cc- Economy - Apache RTR from TVS
    
12. 151cc to 160cc - Performance - Apache RTR EFI from TVS
    
13. 161cc to 180cc- Economy - Pulsar 180 DTS - i from Bajaj
    
14. 161cc to 180cc - Performance - Apache RTR 180 from TVS
    
15. 181cc to 230cc- Economy - Pulsar 220 DTS - i from Bajaj
    
16. 181cc to 230cc - Performance - Pulsar 220 DTS - i from Bajaj and Karizma from HeroHonda
    

Above 230cc are pure performance oriented bikes and cost jumps above 2 Lakhs. Hence they are not considered in this list.

Discrepancies may exist and kindly post them as comments. Let's discuss...

Cheers!!!

Best Buy Bikes - Just to Help you to identify your bike

Dear Friends,

It is not new to get confused to choose a bike in India whose automobile market is well diversified. Even when everybody says that it is easy to choose a bike but definitely it is not. To be frank i have noticed many of them including my colleagues who just bought a bike because of his uncle's word suffered a lot with it and sold it within six months for the price which made me to feel for him.

While choosing a bike one should think about three major factors, they are:

1. Physical ability
2. Usability
   
3. Maintainability

Physical Ability: refers to the ability to drive the bike. Usually these factors can be easily met as a tall person will know that he can't drive a short bike and short guy will not choose a tall bike. even when some people make wrong decision, the probability of the people who make wrong decisions on physical ability factors will be less than 2%. So this factor need not be considered as a priority factor.

Usability: refers to the usage of the bike. In detail, how the rider's traveling patterns will be? Generally, people choose bike by their external appearance. But that is not fair. The Patterns of your usage requirements play a vital role here. (e.g: A professional reasonable doesn't need more than a 100cc motor cycle if he travel for short distance say within 10Kms, But it depends... because a merchant who need to travel 100 - 150kms a day will also choose a 100cc bike for him for good mileage). So we have the options to choose but choosing your option will be influenced only by you.

Maintainability: refers to the level of care a rider pays to his/her bike. more than 50% of the people forget this or not aware of this factor. let us consider a person who bought a fuel efficient 100cc bike and use to travel for 150kms daily, he needs to change his engine oil more frequently (once in 1000Kms), bike needs to serviced every month so as to improve the life of the bike and quality of the bike. else the characteristics of the bike will soon begin to fade out. If he had chosen a bike with engine capacity of 150cc or more, he might not have to worry much about the bike provided proper maintenance plays a role there also but not as frequent as e have to do for a 100cc bike.

Hope you got the important points to identify a right bike for you, we will discuss on the Best buy bikes in the next post.

Cheers!!!

Question from Arun - Pulsar 150 or Apache RTR160

Q:Hi,

I want to buy a bike please suggest me which bike should i buy

1.Bajaj Pulsar 150 or

2. TVS Apache 160.

Bye

A: Dear Arun,

First of all I would like to know about your choice either raw power or fuel economy combined with power?

If you say raw power and you don't worry about mileage - opt for Apache RTR160. Because it will give you the raw power than what you expect. The engine delivering 15.2 Bhp is much better and fruitful when it comes for traffic roads for you to overtake your opponents.

Pulsar 150 on the other side with new looks (but not new engine) comes into picture with better mileage with power enough to compete with Apache RTR160 but cannot overdrive it.

But the price of Pulsar will favor you to buy it, since you can get a Pulsar 150 2009 edition for just 65k but you need to spend minimum 70k for Apache RTR160.

Also i would like to give another option Pulsar180 which will perform better than Apache 160 and priced lesser than. Better engine power with right looks.

Unless or Until you are a fan of Apache i would suggest you to go for Pulsar 180. You wont feel bad for sure!!!

Cheers!!!