Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Dear brother,
What's your say about acceleration and achieving top speed on the bike???

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

It's saddening to see that manufactures like honda are compromising the quality to reduce the cost. If they don't improve, I am sure hornet will meet that same fate which trigger or dazzler saw. Discontinuation...

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Really Don't know why Honda does the same even after experiencing failure with dazzler and Trigger

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

My rear wheel rotates for all gears, even when the clutch is fully pressed(with bike on main stand). Is it normal?

And when the rear wheel is made to rotate freely( bike on stand) the chain wobbles up and down making so much tuk tuk noise which is not present when riding.

Can someone clarify on these issues.?

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences


get the chain slack adjusted, this should resolve the chain sound.

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Dear Ravi, acceleration is not an issue and top speed, I had achieved 100 only once and 90 many time that too at correct RPM band. I am a sedate rider and mostly ride at 70-80 band.

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Sorry its 10w30 available at honda showroom..

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

First, change a gear at a time. Press the clutch in fully, downshift, release and repeat. When you change multiple gears at once, it feels stuck unless you release the clutch a little. Try to slow down gradually instead of suddenly trying to slow down at the last moment.

Second, that tuk tuk noise on main stand is normal. When you sit on the bike or the bike is on its rear wheel the slack changes due to the compression of the suspension and consequently the swingarm.

Third, when the bike is off, and you press the clutch fully and try to rotate the wheel, it will rotate.

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Is the rotation of wheel (when clutch fully engaged) normal?

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

I think my new bikes engine is damaged,what should I do now..??
After getting engine heated, making throttle off doesn't let revs down and sorts of sound comes from the engine and seems it is damaged..

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

If you feel so, show it to the svc. First compare another hornet to yours.
Finally if you haven't done the 1st service, wait and see after the first service.

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

I meant when the engine is ON, in gear, and clutch pressed fully , the rear wheel rotates.

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Baymax, Even when the clutch lever is fully pressed the rear wheel will rotate when bike is on main stand and on any gear, the power slipping through the clutch is enough to rotate the wheel. But when the bike is resting on the rear wheel it will not move the bike as the power transferred is not sufficient to rotate the rear wheel.

This is not the case with clutch lever release as the power transmitted is enough to move the bike and that is how we ride our beloved bikes from place A to place B .

You can understand this behavior better if you fully understand how the clutch works, try googling it.

Ram

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

There have been many posts about bike performance in this thread recently. So how many of you feel you did mistake buying Hornet?

There are few common issues and solutions for them. I being ridden bike for 8 months and 4900 km, I have gone through and frustrated for such issues.

Over the time, you'll understand bike's behavior and how to adjust accordingly.

I'll address issues one by one.

1) Run in period
Make sure you ride gently and don't stress bike for extended period. Let's say riding above 5000 RPM for long time.
Ride bike at top speed once or twice when bike is sufficiently warmed up. Gradually increase and decrease speed.
Apply brakes with ease. Until break pads worn out, bite can be rough. After 2-3000 km, brakes will get smoother.

Keep tyre pressure 25/25 and 25/29 if pillion. Always check air pressure in morning and within 5-10 min of riding.

Give choke to engine after first start and use kick start every day when used for first time. Give choke for 30-45 seconds.

Gears can be clumsy. To smoothen them out, try to shift gears frequently or ride in traffic.

2) Headlights
Yes, they are worst! Best you can do without voiding warranty is to use Lower+Passing when needed. Excessive usage may drain battery.

You may install Phillips/Osram headlights as some members have claimed.

3) Pickup
True that bike lags in 1st gear to 15 only, but then 2nd gear is good for 30 and 3rd onwards pickup is very good.

4) Top speed
I've observed many times that if we stress the engine for high speed it makes very discomfiting sound..
But it you gradually increase speed, engine runs very smooth.
I've touched 110 many times with this method.

5) chain
Please keep chain well lubricated and slack of 2.5-3.5 cm.
Depending on your road smoothness you may adjust slack every 600-1000 km.


6) Oil
Honda mineral oil is okay and lasts 2000-2500 km only based on usage. Don't stress the oil.
I've not tried FS yet.

7) mileage
45-55 depending on riding conditions


Please feel free to ask any questions.

Hope this helps

Re: Honda CB Hornet 160R Owners Experiences

Dear brother,
I love my bike very much and so I opted for it...
But after ridden 703 kms ,the engine after getting warm or coming down from 60 kph doesn't make revs normally down and still they take time to go to normal and they retrict braking feedback too ,also acceleration has also become poor.
I have done 1st service at 650 km.
Also I made it once go to 103 kph,and avg speed was 60-65 kph and avg rpms were 4-5000 during run in period.
The problem is making me in great tension as I love my bike very much and I want to relieve my bike from this condition.
Please help me in solving my problem..