need not bring rx100 here, its gone for good!

hmmm, I am sure ZMA is still selling more than p220s and p200s. i still c more new ZMA-Rs!!!

I was just walking the other day and i came across a HH CD100, which normally wouldn't even have been in my line of sight had i been riding my bike (and for that reason i beg the SVC guys to give it to me soon), and the oddest thing struck me, the engine had a boxer layout (lateral) just like the splendour and this had got me thinking that whether CD100's mill is the same in the Splendour and it's variants too? Anybody care to clarify this?

The CD100, CD100 SS, Sleek, Joy, CD Dawn, CD DEluxe, Splendor, Splendor Plus, Passion, Passion Plus are all based on the same engine architecture. i.e the Horizontally laid out 100 cc Honda Engine originally found in its Internationally best selling Honda CUB.

In Bajaj's case the Boxer, Caliber, Caliber 115, CT100, Platina 100, Discover 110 all share a common engine architecture which originally came from the KB 4S Champion (the external lubrication line is the obvious cue here).

How many XBHPians have a Passion?

I'm not a Passion owner ... (Thank God!)

If you race ahead & search every profile on Xbhp, you might find 2-3 of them.

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MODS, forgive me ... That's why they call me "Chalta Firta Vivaad" !!

Why would anyone visit or even bother to go through a forum like xbhp if he wants to buy a passion/splendor. what's so wrong about these bikes? what's wrong in giving just a refreshing look to these bikes? if Bajaj say's they want to do away with 100cc then its their problem, probably they realized that they will never beat HH passion/splendor!!!

have u all forgotten that Honda's largest selling bike has been a Honda Cub 50cc? correct me if i am wrong?

HH has done a right thing with the passion!

I am really interested to know that how many of you performance enthusiasts have gone for R15 since its launch???

OT : plz read the text fully then only ll you know what the other person intends to say.every comment was made in a particular context which i feel u missed completely.picking up a line or two will not serve anypurpose if its not viewed in the right context.the gist of the whole comment was only one thing and that has been highlighted in blue fonts in the previous posts coz i always expected this reply. Bro the discussion should be healthy and in the context we are not here to gain brawny points over each other.

the Rx and bajaj scooter comment was made coz splendor sounded the death knell for these two.here iam not comparing RX with splendor what iam saying is if yamaha had read the market well then, things would have been different,and when the market was shifting towards performance bikes yamaha was waging a lost battle against the might of hero honda and let bajaj take the initiative and if HH is not careful enough some otherbike may do the same to splendor if it doesnt improve with time like what happened to CBZ.the trend is changing and now customers need more than just mileage from their 100cc.

i said 150 and higher performance bikes.sirji, you forgot a bike called pulsar 180 which unfortunately also comes under the performance segment in india. 180, 220 200- now plz dnt tell me ZMA outnumbers the sale of all these in the performance segment.now you know who rules the roost in the performance segment.

Bro plz dont make generalised conclusion coz you have seen a particular trend in your place ,in my place i see a lot of 200s far far more than the ZMA and the number of 220 is fast catching up.dont think i need to remind you of the 180. the reason iam telling you this is because such type of comments hijacks the very purpose of this thread and number of OT increases like it just did.

now shall we stick to the thread pls

Well i know am being a lil off topic! but I would like to add this...
Its a fact that ZMAs sale had not been affected a bit, by the arrival of p200s, n p220s... it seemed like it will but i didnt. But yes, the Ps made their own place n created a new generation of buyers, without affecting the sales of ZMAs. I dont know where "your place" is! But where i live is, in 3 cities simultaneously... (MUMBAI/PUNE/NAGPUR...)
3 places, one a cosmopolitan, another a city mostly crowded by Outside students n IT professional, n last but not the least, a city known to be calm n an upcoming metropolitan...
I can say, that I can better judge with My eyes wide Open looking at the traffic to spot BIKES n different BIKES n new BIKES.
So I personally can say, I can compare n judge right (I hope so)

Am not trying to tell you who rules the roost, but dude a reality check might HELP!
No hard feelings, this is just My personal view based on some solid facts...

Bro! i never said that 220 and 200 sell more than ZMA. BTW when i was in Delhi i saw a large no of ZMA. does that mean that ZMA sells more than any other performance bike. or for that matter i know the HH dealer here who is my freind who told me that selling 6 ZMA's a month is a big task, all HH wanted them to do is to sell a minimum of 10 splendors a day. but if i say from this that ZMA is a bad seller would be naive.my point is lets not generalise things by seeing a trend that exists in your or my place.check out the statistics from any bussiness journals or newspaper and tell me who shares a significant share of the market in the performance segment(180 and above)

when i said bajaj shares 50% of the market share in 125cc i got it from stats published by different newspapers and magazine. all the thing i have said about who is ruling the roost is from the different statistics published in newspapers. well 1st of all you got the wrong impression of things. why i told about "my place" is to tell only 1 thing which has been highlighted in blue and you did the same mistake. India is not only about metros a sizable portion of buyers are also located in other so called small places of India and 2nd is iam too small a person to travel all over India to get my facts right so a poor guy like me has to rely on statistics published in newspapers and business mags nyway thanks for the reality check

I am really interested to know that how many of you performance enthusiasts have gone for R15 since its launch???

Guys, let's stay on topic ... Unfortunately, "Passion" is the topic ...
Still guys, I'm sensing a change in HH ... Think about it! Disk Brakes in 100cc??

I think (actually hope) HH is changing towards performance ... What do you say, Guys?