Also please tell us how is it technologically more advanced on and off paper compared to R15. How is it more thrilling. How is it a better package and what is the most suitable application for the R125 compared to the R15. I would really like to know as I feel you have a very informed opinion about these two bikes.

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You mean you have brought an R125??


Although this question is not directed towards me but i feel that the R125 looks much better than the R15.

My post is directed at abhichotu.abhi. And i'm not talking about the cosmetics of the bike. I like the way it looks too but lets not get there. It has nothing to do with my post or that of abhichotuabhi.

No! There are atleast a couple R125s in Vasai, had seen them right when the r15 was being launched. Was trying to decipher the changes on the bike (and the owner was probably there to find the parts similarities :P )

The bike gives a proper big bike feel unlike the R15, and has a more aggresive stance. Havent ridden it yet, but that owner was pleased with the R15s performance is all that I know. (I guess that could be termed thrilling, rest I dont know.. so wont comment)

Do you mean owner of the R125 or R15?

Interesting bit of info Satyen, didnt know there were R125s imported/sold during R15 launch. But it only relates to the cosmetics and ergonomics of the bike. Did the owner of the R125 you saw comment on the difference in performance between the two bikes?

These are all those illegit imports I guess, the r125 owner was curious to see the first r15 at the showroom and hence was there (and so was I)
He didnt comment anything on comparison (lol who would considering he must have spent a fancy amount on getting it here!)

Yes, I have ridden. "Thrilling" (as the word says its thrilling, nothing to describe about), technologically advanced on and off paper well...I am not into all those technical thingies, but, I was told so by someone off xbhp who owns a R125 (not in this country ofcourse) now. As I rode the bike I felt it thrilling and more aggressive than a R15 (if we donot compare the paper power figures of 14 and 17 as said by you, yes the power figures have their significance, but there is more than power about a bike), Ride it to believe it is what I could say, No more arguments I have to do, lets finish this topic here, as it will go nowhere and does'nt serves the purpose of this thread.

No I have not ridden both the bikes on track and varying terrains. Just in normal conditions as all the riders do. And I am confident enough that normal riding does serves the purpose that I am able to tell the tid-bits about the two bikes.

Please! If you want more technological reasons, I donot even have one of them, I was told by the owner of R125 who is a friend of mine and has ridden the R15 too. If you find my posts misleading and unappropriate than I am sorry. Lets close this discussion here only.

Got news from a freind who works in the showroom that a new 15bhp R15 will be launched in Jan 2011 with a lower price tag.

I would urge Yamaha to please name this new bike a FZ-15 Fazer and launch it with a Fazer(Half) Fairing instead of the R15 (Full) fairing. That way, we get a better Fazer, and the brand which is R15 and the ideals it stands for is not diluted due to this lower powered product.

a "lower price tag" is most certainly not true.

what lowered product?

do u really think Yamaha will mess up an "upgraded" R15?

A 15bhp 'New' *I hope its not called*R15 vs current 17bhp R15 is a lower powered product. We can never be too sure about anything..

Another school of thought: The latest R1 (2010 crossplane crankshaft) is also lower powered than the old R1 (2009)... bit it still manages to go around a closed track faster so it might not be such a bad thing after all...

P.S.: But seriously... 15 is just too low for an R15.. P150 UG4.5 dishes out 15 Ps.. I sincerely feel an R15 HAS to be more powerful than an air cooled Pulsar 150..

The current R15 already dishes out 17PS. Why would Yamaha tune the engine to reduce the power output (15bhp=15.3PS) instead of increasing it!
Just to reduce the price, Yamaha wouldn't de-tune the bike for sure!
Its a YZF-R series bike c'mon.

oh Yamaha you can't do this.......Already you are selling a low power 17 bhp bike...now don't jump to 15 bhp instead launch a proper 250cc learn a thing or two from Honda

So you agreeing with the lower BHP part eh ZOMG, Now R15 is getting downgraded ... Not an upgrade -___-

Maybe the 15PS part is true, but it might after all be the R125!