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Originally Posted by undergroundrider
Hugge demand in the sense performance bikers will definately buy it. you cant sit out here and judge the depth of peoples pockets..
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To make it an economic feasibility you need numbers. You cannot sit on your haunches and just bring out a bike speculating people have deep pockets. We were clamouring for Superbikes. The R1 came here 18 months ago. How many R1s sold? Less than 200. In a population of 1.3Billion!!!
I was part of a survey with Bajaj some months ago when they were seriously thinking of bigger bikes. The estimate that the survey had come out with for a 250 twin mill at INR 2.5L was less than 4000 buyers in a calendar year. And that is an optimistic figure. Do you think that that makes economic sense to set up shop here? There is NO huge demand. There is "some" demand currently. And this will gradually grow as people will become progressively less conservative.
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Originally Posted by pranay
If they do bring a YZF-250R it will be a dual cylinder setup with 6 gears. Don't you think so?
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You mean go back to the drawing board? Just for India? Not happening!