Pulsar RS 200 or NS 200 , which one to choose?

 By: Pranit    06:58  1 comment

After today's launched of RS 200 many awaited rider's wishes must be came true as some of them were waiting for Pulsar RS 200 from more than year before but many of the budding riders don't knows much about which motorcycle to buy, The two obvious value for money sport bikes in market are RS 200 and 200 NS , As for hardware of RS 200, bike shares many of it's parts and components with 200 NS ,

 So let's have look below what's major difference between RS 200 and 200 NS.

Price

The very first thing considered when we go out to purchase sport bike is price point, We try to figure out what features bike is offering in given price point , There isn't much price difference between RS 200 base model and 200 NS. 

If you choose RS 200 , you get state of the art fuel injection system for crisp throttle responses. With F.I. no matter in what condition you're riding your motorcycle cold or hot  the F.I. provides consistency in engine response and thus you don't have to calibrate right hand with accelerator for your riding style. 

Fully fairing is another advantage of RS 200 over NS, you get nice amount of wind protection for long highway hauls. RS also comes with twin projector headlamp at front which gives good illumination for optimize night riding's.

If you choose 200 NS , you get naked muscular bike which come's with old school carburetor which obviously have lagging throttle response compare to F.I. but still carburetor have advantage over F.I. The bike with carburetor can be repaired at any road side mechanic shop as there is no electronics involves whereas bike such as RS 200 can't be repaired at roadside mechanic if there is fueling problems.

 Naked bike means there is no fairing which saves lots of weight , the reduction in weight helps to achieve more fuel efficient operations thus surely NS will have edge or RS in term of fuel efficiency.

In the accidental situations naked bikes requires less repairing and maintenance cost so there again 200 NS have edge over RS 200.

Performance

It is very important criteria for enthusiast or sport rider, and the bike which have more power is obvious choice for them , but there is more to it than just outright power figures!

IF you choose RS 200 you get state of the art liquid cooled motor which is been used in 200 NS with 24.5 bhp at 9750 rpm and almost same 18.6 Nm of torque at 8000 rpm, The 1 bhp increment doesn't sounds much but bike will have significant amount of top end thrust because that 1 bhp increment comes at top of the rev range which is good for highway blasts and racing conditions. 

But what you're going to sacrifice is traffic riding low end force. The NS was already pain to ride in traffic due to short stroke motor, urges you to pull clutches in traffic and we recon with RS 200 the traffic affairs are going to be worst and to make matter even critical RS 200 is good 20 kg heavier than 200 NS, So it's our advice if you're a rider who frequently rides through heavy city traffic you should avoid this bike.      

If you choose 200 NS you get straight line acceleration advantage and acceleration advantage in twisty turns compare to RS 200 but you'll loose top end performance and high speed stability of RS 200 due to higher weight and fully faired design of RS 200.

You'll get better off-road capability with 200 NS due to higher ground clearance. RS have low ground clearance which is vulnerable to off roading and thus increases risk of scrapping beautiful fairing. So if you do frequent off roading NS is definitely bike to go with

Safety 

Having fun on bike and returning home safely is something which make's us worry every time we take risk of aggressive sport riding, so lets take look into this criteria. 

If you choose RS 200 you get ABS enabled brakes ABS stands for anti-lock braking system. No matter how hard rider holds brake leaver , The tire never get's lock under hard braking situations, the ABS modulates braking force at disks according to motorcycles speed and saves rider from skids. Therefor if you choose RS you gets safety assurance of ABS.

RS 200 gets sticky MRF rubber which helps to grip road surface better than Eurogrip tires , which will give you more confidence for hard riding's and aggressive corner entries.

If you choose 200 NS you don't get ABS even as an option,  leaving out very good safety bracket. You have to modulate braking force on your own , something which is only experienced riders can do perfectly during sprinted ridings. The Eurogrip tire's on 200 NS makes matter even worst you have to be very cautious in lean to lean transitions, The front end feel of 200 NS during corner entries isn't enticing either again due to Eurogrip tires. So if safety is your priority we recommend you to take RS 200 over 200 NS.

So that's our comparison over newly launched RS 200 and Existing 200 NS, if you still have questions you can drop in comment box.