insanebiker

70k is the speculated ex showroom price. And u are comparing it wit the on road price of a 200!

Great going, both of u guys!

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abhijeet080808

Will Bajaj pull out the P200 now? Or will the Pulsar range be just extended to P250 DTS-Fi?

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prabhubravo

now that the P220 fairing have come to the P200.. I wish the P220 is half fared, with a good street bike look. I feel Carb is a plus here, can do some mods easily. wish a 6th cog too.

If all this, then the touring section will get goose bumps..

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Devilpulsarian

Overall, a nice write-up but if we look closely in our market. Who is the leader in terms of volumes- Honda...!
They are the largest sellers and by far with a 97cc engine which has not been upgraded (rebored/retuned) since 1980s
Unicorns,karizma etc all of them are way too old...but people buy those bikes....
So, you cant expect one (or two) companies to keep investing in R & Ds and the others taking the major pie of the market....!
Bajaj is moving on its own pace and I am proud to say that TVS and Bajaj (along with Yamaha) have taken our Indian biking scene to new horizons otherwise our children would have also ridden those 97cc horizontally mounted 7 bhp hondas....!







I loved these lines...





Wish ALL the other compnies also take these lines to ther boardrooms for whatever storming....
they need it more than Bajaj.....








and quite ironically....THOSE are the very people, (most of whom) have never owned a BAJAJ.......

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rahuldevnath

I doubt Bajaj is gonna pull out 200. If 180 can stay so can 200. What ever the speculations say, I would rather stick to price of around 85-87K on road in Bangalore, where the current 220 sells for 93K on road!

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KwokFist

Pardon my ignorance and please throw in some statistics as to when and where by whom? If its on the streets then please each one can have their own experiences. Mine being overtaking a 200 and a 220 when both of them were struggling to reach their top end while i was cruising past them, so to speak. One of them being friend and xbhpian himself. But lets not get there. I'm not aware of any drag/race stats so if u have any please let me know where the 220 scores over its competition.
Not self contradicting, but indulging in some comparison yet making it brief. As you can see in the past few pages that's all that has happened. No one is comparing an apple to an apple here, i don't see why i shouldn't have a bit of fun myself, but being realistic while at it. But your last line is true though.

Let me take R15 for example, it was supposed to be better than anything on our streets and though its not perfection, its pretty close. If the matter here is subjective then this argument doesn't not hold true. But the fact is R15 does beat the shit outta any bike on the track, straightline speed and performance from a tiny but efficient mill. But for some reason it does not blame it on the rider Now i wont divulge more into the 'ideal' factors such as weather,rider etc etc but from a product point of view it does what it was 'supposed to' and matches up to the claims.

But i dont deny that Bajaj has had a great run, and they have done a great job with the Pulsar platform but it seems to have come to a saturation point where they don't have anything more on offer than what they already have on their bikes. It was also the pulsars that got me crazier about bikes. I dont hate them.

Some here speak of upgrades over upgrade, if that is what satisfies you then good for you. But these are entirely subjective in matter.

And these are my take on things, so no need to get personal

Wasn't it supposedly speculated to be the best handling bike in the Indian market during its launch(rtrs, zma etc heavily disregarded at that point in time) atleast it was of popular opinion. What happens when the owners take it to the tracks or the twisties for some extreme action, it disappoints as the competitions seems to be having it easy, im not taking HH or H or TVS or Y or any xyz. Bajaj didnt claim it to be a track tool, neither did i assume. Last line, i beg to differ, The Japanese and another Indian can very well beat it at the signal light game. Depends on the rider, the bikes being more than capable at it!

Maybe my posts imply to you that i mean everything else is better than the P220,not true. But what i truly mean to say is that Bajaj needs to get back to innovating. Make a better package. Offering insane amounts of goodies does not cut it for me. Better engine, handling package is what that makes a good deal, for me atleast!. Why because that is what they are 'claiming' (faster, requires engine performance) this time around. And my arguments are solely based against their 'claims'. Not against what you have to say pal or your experience from riding the p220. Its just that Bajaj has been claiming a lot and not owning up to them that's all. Its criticism, constructive in nature, purely towards Bajaj.

But i would really love to see what extent the claims hold true with members already speculating that it will be faster. I have no issues with it being faster, i just want it to be faster this time around and not just on paper!



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insanebiker

Can u prove it otherwise? Am speaking about drags.

It beats every other bike on track, agreed.

Straight line speed? Nopes.

Again , this can be better proved by drag results.

Why did the R15 come into the picture BTW? I thought this thread was about the new 220.

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rahuldevnath

Wow, by the time you reply and then come back after visiting few other sites, you already have a few replies!

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KwokFist

I agree. It was my dig at Bajaj, that's it. Its nothing personal. Bajaj has achieved and accomplished and has been a trend setter for a long time. But the competition has learned from it, and exceeded it. All i want Bajaj to do is better the competition in anyone way as opposed to trying to do it all. Bajaj and TVS are the two indian companies whom i really love to see come up and they have in the past few years. But i'm taking one aspect where i feel Bajaj has saturated. Performance biking, they coined it perhaps and for a while they aced in it. But now they are lagging behind. I want them to lead once again, set new standards for performance biking as they have before. It wont be easy but they should try and be focused on one aspect (performance) while giving attention to others (cosmetics). If im wrong, arent we the same people here who want more power, efficiency, reliability, handling etc etc.

Can u please provide me with some statistics from officially held drags, because i'm not aware of any. Pardon my ignorance here.

But if your speaking of city and drags that we all have from time to time then i beg to differ from you. I've had a different experience where my 'storm' has left the 200,Zma,220 way behind during a normal highway run from roll ons each and every time during trips, especially with the others taking the initial lead and there are some xbhpians here who have experienced this, and they are my co-riders on every trip. But speaking of personal experiences from the streets make no sense here, because to each his own. Anything can happen on the road.

So if you have any factual statistics where the p220 scores over its competition esp. R15 in this case in a drag please let me know. Not because i dont think so, im not aware of any, i'll correct myself if there is a record of such an event. Anyway this is all OT so i'll leave it at that.

Praful

Well I am not one to believe motorcycling magazines! But if you are one of them, then you would have read in one such magazine about a track shootout of the R15, 220, RTR Fi & ZMA. How far behind was the 220 there, 2 seconds IIRC? Thats called 'beating the shit out of it'? Beating, yes I agree...

Thats just the track, the 220 does not even belong there. Now how about stock vs stock of both bikes? Hasn't it been dragged countless number of times by xbhpians all over the country. It din't beat the shit out there?? And it has never conclusively beaten it too in a quarter mile. Over kilometers and kilometers of road where the 15's superior topend comes into play maybe, but then thats not a drag!

Well if you put on some weight and become 80Kgs like me, then I can show it to you on the street too.

Read my above reply!


No one is getting personal over here! We are discussing the bike's and their manufacturers...not the riders!

If your bike is still stock and you can manage find me a rider who weighs as much as I do....I can show you otherwise! I know so, coz I've been doing so, for the pas 38K kms!

Anyways all this is acutally pretty much OT Land!

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