@yaswanthkonga: Thanks for the reply, i hope you'll get back to enjoying your motorcycle soon enough. My only purpose to ask these questions is to know the experience with bike on daily basis. Honestly, I don't believe that the missing engine kill switch and the pass light switch would make any difference in the ownership experience. Regarding quality of other parts, I have seen the motorcycle personally and all looks pretty good to me. The primary thing is that everything should be put together well enough to withstand the daily abuse.

test rode 3 times this bike.

some observations=
1.looker,specially in green.
2.headlight spread is good.
3.feeble horn.
4.throttle response linear.
5.extremely stable .
6.long turning radius.
7.frequent gearshifting with pillion.
8.quite comfortable riding stance compared to r15.
9.front brake has enough bite,same can't be said about the rear brakes.brakes are from nissin.

dugar honda gave a statistics that they have recieved 200 odd booking,and sold 22 bikes.

Dear Payeng.
Like i've been telling you for almost 6 months now. Keep visiting the 250R ownership thread more often before you stick to your "Initial" view on the 250R's fit and finish quality.
Just FYI the 2012 250R spares are priced higher than what they were priced last year because the "quality" of the 2012 lot has improved.


Brilliant Stuff. Almost crossed my mind but yeah the 150R owners actually end up saving a whole lot on maintenance even if the Initial cost was high. And + with the 150R sharing most components with the 250R, availability of spares shouldnt be a problem either.

I visited the showroom yesterday where both the CBR250R and CBR150R were kept side by side.. I still did not find much change in the quality and finish of the "black" plastics, seat cover material and the footpeg rubbers on the CBR250R (unless the showroom guys had not changed the display vehicle since it was launched).

The "look, touch and feel" of the fit and finish of the parts mentioned above has not changed much on the CBR250R... and comparison of the same with the R15 and the 200 Duke isn't that hard.

I am not commenting on the ownership experience since I have not owned the CBR250R.. I have not owned the R15 V2.0 or the 200 Duke either. I am sure that the ownership experience of the CBR250R must have improved over the first lot (honestly I have not bothered to keep a tab of the issues that the owners faced with the initial batches).



Actually between the CBR250R and CBR150R:


And about the CBR150R owners saving up more.. well how can one comment without actually owning it.

Are you kidding? lower maintenance costs compared to what, R15? You are already spending 20k more to start with, do you know how much lower maintenance costs need to be to offset that amount or how high they should be for an R15 to offset the 20k difference when compared to CBR150. There is a limit to fanboyism, if you bought the product well and good. It's overpriced, period! accept it and enjoy the bike. There is no need to justify the price by cooking up lame excuses. As you already mentioned it shares components with 250R, which might mean spare costs would also be similar to 250R!

Usually I refrain from commenting, but how did you conclude that? Do you have any figures or facts?
How do you know CBR150R is more economical to maintain than say R15 or Duke 200?

First and foremost to talk about Fanboyism here there are few of them around ! So I guess Nithesh made a point as a owner of CBR and he is quite right with his post !
Well ok let me work out for you
CBR 150r has 3 free services within one year
(1150 for every service * 3 = 3450)
R15 has 6 free services within one year
(1000 for 6 = 6000)


After free services

CBR has 2 services every year a gap of 6 months - so let say for basic things service it comes around 2000 !

2000*2= Rs 4000
R15 has 5 services every year
1750*5= Rs 8750

So within two years you are losing = Rs 7300
So what if you own a bike for lets say 3 years = 12050
So what if you own a bike for lets say 4 years = 16800
So what if you own a bike for lets say 5 years = 21550

The point is its too early to judge and one must retrospect in all possible ways to get the best out of it

At the end of the day if you think its x cheaper than y but think about this too X will be heading more for service than y as well !

at the end of the day you get both products at almost the same price if you own atleast for quite sometime !

I took the cost of maintanance of CBR 250r ... Who knows CBR 150r might be little less than what actually it would be

I have only compared with R15 and I am not aware of the cost of maintanance for the duke

Bottom line
I also wonder why that we have so many carb 150's around and each of them has different price tags but then you cant have a discover owner say that why is FZ's are priced high ! FZ is FZ , Discover is Discover ! So it goes to all range of motorcycle for its uniqness !

So lets stop arguing about price tags ... We concentrate more on the ownership !

Rest everything is alright, but what is your source for this information?

AND going back to topic.
What oil grade is recommended ?
What is the engine oil capacity (means how much oil is required for oil change) ?

And then we will cross the spares bridge when we reach it.

Service | India Yamaha Motor Pvt. Ltd.

Thats direct from the manufacturer itself!

Looks like you are good cook of numbers, but bad with math..

Check the bold part, you will lose only 4750 when you compare with CBR150 coz you are spending only that amount over and above CBR150 even per your assumption. So, even by that measure you will have to wait a good 5 years to cover the investment as you got free services in first year. Add to that 5 years is a lot of time my friend, 20k will become 40k if you invest in kisan vikas patra or NSC (well almost, I believe it's 5.5. years) However, I highly doubt 5 services per year to R15!! doesn't it depend on distance you covered? what if you do just 3k kms in a year, will you still go for 5 services, certainly not!

Again, if someone wants to buy CBR150 it's their choice, there is no need to justify the price. If someone is going for it knowing that it's overpriced and after considering all other options, it must be fitting their requirements much better. I don't think anyone should've problems with that. At the same time even owners shouldn't be jumping around when others say it's over priced or plastics are of not premium quality.

Replies in BOLD brother !
And I would certanly like to end my Discussions here as I find its not appropriate to compare here in this thread .. and I hope CBR 150 owners would resume their ownership details !

Again, no offence, but another silly mistake by you. Warranty is only till 30000kms or 2 years whichever is earlier on R15. Check here if you want to verify.

Service | India Yamaha Motor Pvt. Ltd.

After that, who is stopping me if I want to take 2 services in a year or no services in case i'm not doing much on the bike. Same goes for CBR150 too. Now tell me how are you going to offset the initial difference??

CBR150 is grossly overpriced compared to competition, accept it and move on. There is nothing wrong with the bike as such, it's a two wheeler version of Jazz from Honda. If you are aware of Jazz story you will understand what I mean.

Its not silly mate most of the owners opt something called extended warranty which is highly recommended and also it comes with nominal price and to be active you need to be maintaining the schedule .. Now can we stop discussing it here ? Because we are both being silly discussing it here !

As for the price of CBR 150, its overpriced. I accept the fact. Well all Honda products were overpriced when they were launched. But im ready to give the money since it has very good quality in their products. I own a Dio since 2006 and im pleased with its quality.

Well, no one I know of opted for extended warranty coz it costs money. And frankly there is no need for it if Yamaha's record is any indication.
Yes, we can stop it here coz you don't want to accept CBR150 is overpriced. Just remember that 20k would have become 40k in 5 years and you would still have another 20k to offset