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**vijaycool** · 06-17-2015, 08:23 AM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Ballistic View Post

Now that is a proper technical evaluation, so does it mean bad or good.... the guy at Cycleworld was gungho about this arrangement, though I could not figure out the technical part of it much.

No Idea unless we see decent long term review. Also it looks like mileage is pretty decent and better than honda cbr 250r. If you noticed in other regions Benelli 600 priced pretty close to honda/kawa 250 price. Here its TNT300 is priced same as kawasaki. Ideally the pricing should be atleast 50K less and right between D390 and Kawasaki

**dhawz29** · 06-17-2015, 08:48 AM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Ballistic View Post

Today I managed to ride 10-12 kms in extreme rains in Mumbai, it was raining cats and dogs. I was impressed with the way the Benelli handled, even in these extreme rains, the pirellis outperformed itself, never gave away on tarmac, potholes, small and large puddles and even on cemented roads. The handling was pitch perfect and never did I lose balance throughout the hour long 10 km odd ride. Also, there was no engine shutdown at traffic halts. The only problem appears to be slotting into N.

That is really very re-assuring.

Originally posted by vijaycool View Post

Your wish come true. I am trying to find answers on the engine longevity. You guys are wondering what made tnt300 sound like Inline 4. The answer is the usage to 360 degree crank shaft, which means both pistons move up and down at the same time. This makes consecutive firing at every revolution of the crank. Hence continuous exhaust sound like inline 4. This arrangement will create lots primary and secondary vibration, hence stronger internals is necessity.

Thanks for explaining that [MENTION=11406]vijaycool[/MENTION]
I have seen and read almost all reviews on the Internet but nothing even close to cycleworld's review.

**Shreeni0403** · 06-17-2015, 09:39 AM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by ZMAtic View Post

#Noob Query#

Can the TNT 300 exhaust be swapped with D390/RC390?

If not can it be swapped with Ninja 300 twin?

Will the aural effect will be all the same that of the original Benelli?

Please respond with whys if possible

Originally posted by ZMAtic View Post

Did that annoy you?

It's not about annoying, but killing your new machine.

Every exhaust will be designed keeping that particular bike's internals in mind. So plonking any random exhaust from any other random bike is foolishness. I would say, take a look at free flow exhausts made for that particular bike.

**experimentalhead** · 06-17-2015, 10:58 AM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Shreeni0403 View Post

It's not about annoying, but killing your new machine.

Every exhaust will be designed keeping that particular bike's internals in mind. So plonking any random exhaust from any other random bike is foolishness. I would say, take a look at free flow exhausts made for that particular bike.

I completely agree with Shreeni.
Please establish a bond with the bike and put some thousands of miles on it before you think of mods as by then you would have understood nature of the bike and where to tweak and where no to. That's my thought.

**Harisankar** · 06-17-2015, 02:01 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by vijaycool View Post

Also it looks like mileage is pretty decent and better than honda cbr 250r.

Are u sure the fuel efficiency of TNT 300 is more than CBR250R? CBR manages to give 30 in city and 34-35kmpl on highway(around 90-110kmph cruising) .

**vijaycool** · 06-17-2015, 03:22 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Harisankar View Post

Are u sure the fuel efficiency of TNT 300 is more than CBR250R? CBR manages to give 30 in city and 34-35kmpl on highway(around 90-110kmph cruising) .

Neighbor told me 25 inside city and 30 on the highways.

Does anyone know the cost of Pirelli Angel replacement set and How long does it last?

**neoonwheels** · 06-17-2015, 03:48 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Why the service interval is 3 months? Every service is around 3-4K, so thats a 12K per year only for service irrespective if you use your bike or not. Isn't it too much?

**dhawz29** · 06-17-2015, 03:56 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by neoonwheels View Post

Why the service interval is 3 months? Every service is around 3-4K, so thats a 12K per year only for service irrespective if you use your bike or not. Isn't it too much?

It's every 4 months.

**neoonwheels** · 06-17-2015, 04:41 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

4 months is not much a time in my opinion. If you are using Synthetic (Or even mineral) oil, why you need to change it every 4 months? If my running it only 2K KM every 4 months, isn't it loo less a time for oil and filter change ?

**dhawz29** · 06-17-2015, 05:40 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by neoonwheels View Post

4 months is not much a time in my opinion. If you are using Synthetic (Or even mineral) oil, why you need to change it every 4 months? If my running it only 2K KM every 4 months, isn't it loo less a time for oil and filter change ?

True. You've answered the question youself.

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**vijaycool** · 06-17-2015, 05:50 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

This is news for me. The service interval is too short.

**Gunslingin_Ridr** · 06-17-2015, 06:40 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Harisankar View Post

Are u sure the fuel efficiency of TNT 300 is more than CBR250R? CBR manages to give 30 in city and 34-35kmpl on highway(around 90-110kmph cruising) .

I'm pretty sure that isn't the case. My friend's CBR250R gives about 24-25 in city and 30 on highway.

**theironhorse99** · 06-17-2015, 06:47 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Gunslingin_Ridr View Post

I'm pretty sure that isn't the case. My friend's CBR250R gives about 24-25 in city and 30 on highway.

nothing to offense but 24-25 for a cbr seems to be abused and not cared for else he is giving you wrong info. a decent maintained cbr will give anything between 30-36 in city and 28-46 on highway and i have personally seen those figure.

28 with WOT on speen run for 200 km .. speed above 130 most of the time and 46 while keeping below 80 for same 200 km in return. average at 38-40kmpl on normal highway usage and 33-35 for my city usage.

**Divya Sharan** · 06-17-2015, 07:01 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by neoonwheels View Post

4 months is not much a time in my opinion. If you are using Synthetic (Or even mineral) oil, why you need to change it every 4 months? If my running it only 2K KM every 4 months, isn't it loo less a time for oil and filter change ?

Regardless of the oil type used, 120 days is enough for gunk to start causing chemical decomposition of the oil. Even if you ride 1 km a day for 120 days, you'd have ridden 120 km, which trust me is enough to remove the dirt and gunk from crevices inside the mechanical bits. These get accumulated over a period of time in the oil filter and if left for long durations, may start forming sludge.
Remember, this is not a splendor we are talking about that you can run on coconut oil and change oil once a year (not saying that Splendor is superior but it being made for villages and being simple machinery w.r.t most modern bikes handles abuse better).

Originally posted by theironhorse99 View Post

nothing to offense but 24-25 for a cbr seems to be abused and not cared for else he is giving you wrong info. a decent maintained cbr will give anything between 30-36 in city and 28-46 on highway and i have personally seen those figure.

28 with WOT on speen run for 200 km .. speed above 130 most of the time and 46 while keeping below 80 for same 200 km in return. average at 38-40kmpl on normal highway usage and 33-35 for my city usage.

Well, you know how much a KARISHMA gives? 23 kmpl! That too a very knowledge-able chai waala educated me seeing my own KARISHMA (not realising the same). He challenged me to ask the owner if he got >23 kmpl and report back to him. He also educated me that "drivers" of such bikes are absolute jerks.

So, your CPR may give even 18 kmpl.

**theironhorse99** · 06-17-2015, 07:09 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Divya Sharan View Post

Well, you know how much a KARISHMA gives? 23 kmpl! That too a very knowledge-able chai waala educated me seeing my own KARISHMA (not realising the same). He challenged me to ask the owner if he got >23 kmpl and report back to him. He also educated me that "drivers" of such bikes are absolute jerks.

So, your CPR may give even 18 kmpl.

hehe.. sahi hai.. i agree CPR can go that low too.. initially it was a modified r15 with ambulance colors.. as what people told me..
i don't blame them.. some very educated super genius road side mechanics teach them all this...

but KARISHMA is nice... hopefully he didn't tell you more details bout her....

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