Perhaps the first performance bike to catch the heart of thousands of youngsters in India was the RX100. Lets not even talk about the RD and the Fury. After the 2-strokes were seen to be doomed at the wake of global warming, the next gen power bike came in with the CBZ. For many college students this became the dream bike, the one machine which was guaranteeing a second look from the fair sex and a crowded rear view mirror with an empty road ahead. The 13 Bhp power with the flickability of the bike worked like a charm.
This was perhaps the first bike which was not forced on the customer, but was desired. The sad part is that these customers did not know that there existed two-wheeled machines capable of much much more at some far flung corners of the world, hell why go that far – even Korea had much better styled and powered stuff going on.
You can perhaps feel the frustration and mucus collected inside me ever since I first touched a bike 4 odd years back.
My first bike was a Classic Bajaj Pulsar 180. I had never ridden any bike before that, no RX100s no CD100s. For me the bike was powerful enough in those days, well of course I was fortunate enough to have a brush with the Honda Blackbird 1100XX in Delhi. I wouldn’t have dreamt up on those fat tires, the huge build and of course no one could explain me the kind of power that machine could posses. Until that day I was in a cocoon whose inner walls were pasted with glossy posters of thin tyred mopeds being sold in India with cheeky names. |
