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**shelton_jh** · 11-29-2010, 01:10 PM

Wow looks good, but it's high time they launch a proper quarter litre class bike

**happybiking** · 11-29-2010, 01:18 PM

Looks great no doubt!!!

BUT where's the spec?? Am sure there must be the details somewhere near the bike. @threadstarter : By any chance you captured that?

I dont mind it being a 160cc if its got 20+bhp @ tap...As at teh end of day Power:weight ratio counts

P.S : Hope it doesn't face the same fate as the TAURAS

**bprags** · 11-29-2010, 01:21 PM

Looks like the TVS designers were given a months time to assemble a bike and what they have done is sourced parts from here and there and this is the outcome. If viewed as individual components fine, if looked as a whole bike, doesn't impress.

**Satyamzma** · 11-29-2010, 01:34 PM

hmm finally TVS 220cc bike appears

**Mohit 135** · 11-29-2010, 01:35 PM

Originally posted by REAPER View Post

Looks like tvs got bored with copying pulser.its fz s turn now. But i have to say it does looks hot, especially the inverted forks.

haha so true!

**satyenpoojary** · 11-29-2010, 01:51 PM

Fk! Its such a bad copy of [Insert favourite bike here] it has two wheels, a tank, a tail peice, a headlight, and handlebar. Just the engine is original... oh wait! its 158.x CC engine, so its a copy of [insert your favourite 150cc bike]

Grow up!

The bike looks good to me! Though a semi faired version would look insanely hot on this one!!!!
Is it just me or does that looks like the word Bridgestone on the rear!
Can see Carb, the same RTR160 mill, dual pot discs front and rear (and are they a looker or what!), USD forks, Monoshocks! and nice hot swing arm

**rennycornelius** · 11-29-2010, 02:18 PM

Originally posted by sambit View Post

first one still seem to be the numberplate light....

That's a brake lamp !

Originally posted by satyenpoojary View Post

Can see Carb, the same RTR160 mill, dual pot discs front and rear (and are they a looker or what!), USD forks, Monoshocks! and nice hot swing arm

Add a good looking end can to the list too !

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But the question is-
WHEN ?

**RanjithMN** · 11-29-2010, 02:26 PM

Looks good but should have been a 180cc at least(150cc segment has become the new commuter segment!)...anyway hope it makes it to the street!
and yeah the rear tire is the REVZ on FZ itself.

**madhav krishna** · 11-29-2010, 02:43 PM

Originally posted by payeng View Post

From a normal customer point of view.. that has been the case. There wasn't been much innovation in the design.

Till the Yamaha R15 and the FZ-16 appeared!!

Well he is saying that it is copying the pulsar. But in what perspective?? They have different top ends, power output & mileage. The apache was made out of the fiero engine (correct me if am wrong).

Originally posted by payeng View Post

The Pulsar 220 DTS-Fi got the first clip ons in India. The initial batches of the P220 FTS-Fi appeared before the RTR 160 was launched. Performance is a different topic altogether.

Well am talking about the 150cc segment. But AFAIK both apache & P220 were launched at the same time i.e. 2007.

Originally posted by REAPER View Post

Yes i agree, but still unlike unicorn,cbz, etc apache still looks a lot like a pulser. And clip ons, 220 fi concept had em. And 150 cc and 160 cc is this really a difference?

Well in that case the GS150 looks just like the pulsar. The only similarity i find in between apache & pulsar is its headlight. Otherwise they are entirely different. The pulsar is more refined, delivers better mileage while the apache delivers better performance & is less refined.

Originally posted by satyenpoojary View Post

Fk! Its such a bad copy of [Insert favourite bike here] it has two wheels, a tank, a tail peice, a headlight, and handlebar. Just the engine is original... oh wait! its 158.x CC engine, so its a copy of [insert your favourite 150cc bike]

ROFL

**nitrosatya** · 11-29-2010, 02:49 PM

Not a bad looker at all!

(But only that it reminds me of CB1000R's side scoops and FZ's headlight.)

Why doesn't TVS bring such concepts into production?

**satyenpoojary** · 11-29-2010, 02:58 PM

Here you go:

TVS Mods Velocity 160 Specs Modifikasi:
Head Lamp: TVS Neo X3i
Cover Head Lamp & Visior: Custom
Master Brakes: Kitaco
Tires Front: Bridgestone Battlax 120/70-17
Rear Tires: Bridgestone Battlax 150/60-17
Front wheels: After Market 3:00 inch
Rear wheels: After Market 4:00 inch
Front Shock: Up Side Down (Mito)
Rear Shock: YSS
Front disc / Rear: After Market
Swing Arm: Custom
Body Work: Cutom Fiberglass
Tank: TVS Apache RTR 160 DD
Muffler: Custom
STEEP Foot Forward: Yoshimura
Brake Lights, Sein & Rear Rear Rear: DRC edge 2
Speedo Meter: TVS Apache RTR 160 DD

You may continue to compare it with FZ, Pulsar and all... enjoy!

**madhav krishna** · 11-29-2010, 03:01 PM

@satyen,
Where did you got all this info from?? What about the power & torque figures??

**happybiking** · 11-29-2010, 03:23 PM

Originally posted by madhav krishna View Post

@satyen,
Where did you got all this info from?? What about the power & torque figures??

From here I guess or maybe here

None of them talk about performance figures...hence I guess we will have to WAIT

**payeng** · 11-29-2010, 03:27 PM

Originally posted by madhav krishna View Post

Well he is saying that it is copying the pulsar. But in what perspective?? They have different top ends, power output & mileage. The apache was made out of the fiero engine (correct me if am wrong).

A normal person doesn't look through a magnifying glass.. for him there is one leader for a category (in his mind) and others are followers of the leader.

For example for a mobile noob like me, "all" Touch Screen phones are copies of the iPhone. The same goes for Business Phones where I consider "all" other Business Phones to be copies of the Blackberry. And it stays with me that way, unless of course I start to get very much involved and start scrutinizing each phone with a magnifying glass.

Originally posted by madhav krishna View Post

Well am talking about the 150cc segment. But AFAIK both apache & P220 were launched at the same time i.e. 2007.

The P220 DTS-Fi appeared a couple of months earlier (at least in Pune) than the RTR 160. I was looking for a bike at that time.

**happybiking** · 11-29-2010, 03:34 PM

Originally posted by payeng View Post

A normal person doesn't look through a magnifying glass.. for him there is one leader for a category (in his mind) and others are followers of the leader.

True...but here at xBhp you would agree we get into a li'l more detailing than normal person who goes out to buy a bike looking for looks and mileage.

OT :

Originally posted by payeng View Post

For example for a mobile noob like me, "all" Touch Screen phones are copies of the iPhone.

With due respect touch screens were there before iphone too. I used one and was stolen

Originally posted by payeng View Post

The same goes for Business Phones where I consider "all" other Business Phones to be copies of the Blackberry.

Thats actually a fact

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