Internationally Kawasaki service history turning digitize

 All Kawasaki bike's which  getting out of showroom floor onwards next month's will come with free USB pen drive to bike's service history and other parameters.

It's just like ordinary pen drive with some software level encryption

Computerized service system are widely used and accepted around world with central database access to all dealers.
With this new Kawasaki's pen drive, customer's can add their personal notes regarding service and their bike's too.
It's yet to see such type of Digital service book system in among Indian manufacturer but sure it'll come in next 7 to 10 years, till that day keep your service books safely !

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Yamaha India introduced new colors for r15

Yamaha the Japenese motorcycle giant has brought new colors for their R15 version 2.0 , which is available across countries showrooms, GP blue and Streaking Cyan  are two colors Yamaha India have launched, You can see the binary color combination are just fantastic to eye's.

 However there is no words on mechanical update so bike is carrying all previous spec sheet ahead.
These new colors comes at slight extra costs at rs. 1.17,260 (ex showroom Delhi), where racing blue and Invincible Black are cost's at Rs.1,10,003 you can also get Grid Gold pattern for Rs.1,12924
   

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Benelli now in India!

Benelli one of the oldest motorcycle brand in world is going to enter in Indian motorcycle market. the market which is constantly changing due to various products and constant competition. Binelli have it's origin roots in Italy but recently Chinese Qianjiang group have purchased Benelli. Company will start sales on 19th March 2015 with Benelli's Indian partner DSK Motowheels. Bikes which Benelli going to introduce in our country are TNT 300,TNT 600,TNT 600GT,TNT 1130.

Checkout their bike's below

TNT 300

TNT will be entry level bike in from Benelli with twin cylinder power plant.

 

 

TNT 600

 
TNT 600 will be cheapest 600 cc inline 4 cylinder bike.

TNT 600GT

TNT 600GT is tourer version of TNT 600.

TNT 1130

TNT 1130 is will be flagship Benelli bike in India with it's massive 3 cylinder motor and dry clutch for quick engagement.

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KTM's 390 twin's to get slipperclutch feature In India

KTM's flagship streetfighter the duke 390 and track focus RC 390 is going to get slipper clutch for Indian market, for those who don't know what is slipper clutch , It's a clutch that doesn't get's engaged while aggressive downshift like when you approach at corner while riding bike, at the point where you downshift your gear from higher one , the rear end section or more specifically rear tire of bike tends to lose traction if you're going from high speed due to engine braking. Where bike equipped with slipper clutch doesn't loses its traction cause clutch engages when match engine rpm is meet with actual running sprocket's speed ratio due to which rear end stay's planted.

Duke 390

Getting slipper clutch to RC 390 and Duke 390 not only going to help ride these bike at fast peace but also making Duke 390 cheapest bike with slipper clutch (previously ninja 300). Both of these bike's are getting slipper clutch for no extra cost ! but bad news is existing users won't able to upgrade their existing setup of their 390's.

RC 390

Other things are carried same like 373.2 cc single cylinder liquid cooled motor, fuel injection mapping, upside down forks, Bosch 9M anti lock braking system (abs).  having said that these KTM's twin 390's are value for money products, adding slipper clutch to its feature list will sure attractive thing for buyers.

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Why Honda's CBR 150R is not selling well ?

CBR 150R looks almost exactly like 250 R from side profile

Right from the introduction of CBR 150R in 2012 , baby cbr's sole purpose of birth was to take on Yamaha's razor sharp R15. CBR have Mighty 150 CC motor 4 valve with dual overhead camshafts everything seems all right until we compare sale figure of baby CBR with R15. From the very beginning CBR 150R has been selling 200 units every month with respect to 3000 units of R15.

 let's see stronger points of CBR 150R
shorter wheelbase for quick direction flick ability.
close loop fuel injection for precious fueling.
Dual overhead camshaft for quicker revving engine.
balance riding position for corner attacks as well city commute . 
And that's all about it nothing out of box. compare to this,

Yamaha R152.0 side profile look's like race ready super bike

Yamaha's R15 have greater overall advantage.
Aggressive stance, bike looks absolute beauty from every angle, it's proper track focus bike. Yamaha India have took customer's feedback very seriously and created magic out of canvas in form of R15 v 2.0.
Longer cast aluminum swing arm for better high speed stability.
Top notch switches quality (CBR150R don't even have engine kill switch)
Good torque availability in city.
link mono shock provides better stability on corner.
Dual headlamp at front.
lower price tag.
 

CBR 150r instrument cluster

So where did Honda went wrong with CBR 150R ?
  first of all bike is expensive than handsome looking r15
Switches quality is substandard  and kill switch is absent which is essential feature.
Bike have very bad city drivability due to 2 main reasons first of all its bore is 63.5mm and stroke is 47.2mm which give's this bike very short stroke nature motor add to that duel over head camshaft becomes recipe for high revving motor, these two things together make almost non existence torque in lower rev range till 7000 rpm, believe me in city traffic even passion plus feels better bike than CBR 150R , peak power comes at 10,500rpm thus you really need to wring the throttle to squeeze out of that engine. Inversely this turns out advantage on highway's cause this motor just goes on and on even after it's redline, motor is absolute smooth.
Bike look's very similar to CBR 250R in fact one may get misunderstood it as CBR 250R  which is itself looks like VFR. So biggest tragic thing happened with this CBR is, it looks like VFR rather than Fireblade.  

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200 AS spied in India

It appearing that Bajaj is planning to take whole range of pulsar in second generation phase, first there was 200 SS spied all year long in 2014 and then came 150 NS in second half of 2014 and now what we're seeing is bit unexpected , we thought 200 SS will be successor to the last generation flagship 220f  but no. The name evokes 200 AS in India just like Indonesia.
back in few days we have reported that Bajaj have displayed 200 AS to some Indonesian communities and this time we're seeing this camouflage model of 200 AS , AS stands for Adventure sports which means bike is sport tourer version of 200 NS, all the elements of 200 NS is carried forward to 200 AS with change in front semi fairing which houses projector headlamp for high beam just like 220 f.

This is the same bike which is spotted few days back rigorously testing at  Bajaj's private test track.    

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Mahindra Mojo spied in lonavla

And again Mahindra Mojo has been spied and this time at Lonavla, It's the bike which is being under testing phase from past five years. When Mahindra have displayed bike. Bike was surely revolutionary for it's time back in five years but alot is been changed in past five years mainly when orange street fighter arrived in market, people who were hoping to get hands on Mojo, changed their choice for duke which is fantastic bike. I think Mahindra have lost it's many of customers due to heavy delay in launch process , This delay may cause due to SUV oriented company or not so well knowledge in two wheeler engineering but surely Mahindra have lost many prospective buyers, also the market situation is very competitive at current, there are many performance products in Mojo's territory already present such as CBR 250 R, Duke 200 ,Pulsar 200 NS  and many more.

Picture source : motorbeam.com

From the visuals we can see bike have same twin ribs pipe as  Mahindra Centuro but in case of Mojo those pipe's actually works as chassis, there are inverted fork at front which is good, rear is monoshock for sure but we can't figure out much about it, rims are 17 inch format with front having 110 section tire while rear appears 140 section, side slung cylindrical exhaust give's muscular appeal to Mojo. Both front and rear have employed disk brake's , front having 300 mm roto petal disk for greater heat dissipation while rear seems 230 mm disk with twin piston calipers. Somehow front headlamp have some degree of resemblance to flagship Z series Kawasaki streetfighter's.

picture source: motorbeam.com

At it's heart Mahindra Mojo have 295 cc single piston liquid cooled engine which producing modest amount of power of 27 bhp at 8000 rpm with peak torque of 25 Nm coming at 6500 rpm engine is powered by 4 valve setup with single over head cam shaft rather than twin cams for better low end torque and keep price well under control. Mahindra Mojo will take launch in early mid of 2015 with price of 1.6 lakh inroad expected, anything above this will result in customers going towards more appealing bike's such as KTM's RC 200.

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Hero's HX250R launching around festival season of October

Hero's flagship machine HX250R was uncovered in last year's Delhi expo. Machine got overwhelming response from not only Indian's but also from all over world auto enthusiast. This quarter liter machine have its own charm, from muscular tank to under seat exhaust. Hero and EBR have done excellent job to design this machine as unique as possible and surely they have hit the nail. This bike will be the first complete ground up product from EBR and Hero join partnership. Though exact date of launching is not revealed but sources say's bike will be launch at October month in festival season. On the specification sheet bike is absolute blast. while dry weight is just  139 kgs and peak power goes up to 31 bhp and 26NM of peak torque, believe me these figures are overwhelming for any 250 cc single cylinder engine. with such power to weight ratio HX 250 is capable to hit 100kmph mark under 9 seconds with top speed close to 165 kmph. Bike have 2 ignition maps while full power mode give's 31 bhp at very high 9000 rpm, the low power eco mode provides 24 bhp on tap with unknown rpm, probably around 7000 rpm as this engine is short stroke revving characteristics. Engine said to have dual overhead camshaft for precious and lightening revving capabilities to give race engine type capabilities.  This bike have inherited many of its trait's from flagship EBR 1190 RX such as tall tail section.
HX 250's cost is said to have increase from 1.5 lakh to nearby 2 lakh territory. this make's this machine natural rival of RC 390 , Duke 390 , RC 200 and upcoming Honda CBR 250R .     

Rear section is inspired by flagship EBR bike

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Honda Developing low cost bike for India

dream neo for display purpose only

During launch event of new CB Unicorn last year in December, Honda India have spoke about upcoming low cost motorbike for the domestic land. The project is being under development on Honda's Research and development center at Manesar. The work upon this small low cost bike is seems to be under progress as Honda have imported fresh 110cc motors from Japan to India. the detail about engine is said to have 7.37 bhp . With such low power , seems like Honda wants to keep this new bike below Dream series.
This new bike will be heavily localize for its manufacturing process for keeping its cost low , with those power figure's bike can hit top speed of 70 kmph. Currently this bike is under development phase to we cannot see this thing hitting streets anywhere soon.

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Bajaj to Launch Pulsar 200SS in 4th March with availability of 4 colors

After Enormous waiting period , 200 SS is seems towards ongoing public launch. through out whole past year we have seen 200 SS is being excessively tested through different climate and conditions of our country .While we have also seen fully production bikes which have displayed around globe: such as Indonesia and Turkey. The launching of 200 SS is said to taking in March in our country and it's very important product launch for Brand Bajaj as well as enthusiasts like you and me!
As seen in overseas display models, now we know in what colors Bajaj is going to offers 200 SS. Red, Yellow, Blue and Black  in duel tone scheme. The black color is possibly offered in golden strip vinyl as Yamaha did with FZ and r15 color treatment. after all color variations plays very important role in appealing factors, thus boosting selling figures.
200 SS shares it's most of hardware with 200 NS such as frame, rims, fork, monoshock and most significant element 200CC triple spark motor with fuel Injection setup which will help motor to produce power slightly above 24 bhp, Other highlights including projector headlamps, LED daytime running lights, slight more forward lean position over 200 NS, side slung exhaust  and optional single channel abs from Bosch.
 Bike is expected to have on road price tag of 1.25 lakh for non abs as well as 1.35 lakh for abs version.

See more color options below.

Blue color scheme

Red color scheme

Bike's highlight

Black color scheme

Yellow color scheme

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Yamaha Moto GP team Showcase 2015 GP Bikes officially along Movistar and fiat sponsorship livery

 

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