Random News Thread From India!

[mallikarjunsadanand]

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How's the rider? Hope he didn't have any major impact

Don't know buddy..... I was just reading the news and it caught my eyes... Sad it happened...

[reeavees]

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New Yamaha SR400 showcased at the 2017 Bangkok Motor Show. Hope they launch in India. It would be a hot cake

https://www.rushlane.com/new-yamaha-sr400-bangkok-12239372.html

[Deathwing]

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Yamaha need to release the Mt/fz 07 or the tracer model, but no news at all on that front

[blaw]

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Bike Stunt on public roads is illegal in india.

[IamAditya]

[Satyamzma]

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Honda discontinues CBR 150r & 250r in India.

http://news.maxabout.com/bikes/honda/honda-cbr150r-cbr250r-removed-from-the-official-website/

[abhiiceman]

RS 200 on fire

https://www.rushlane.com/bajaj-pulsar-rs-200-catches-fire-12178688.html

Dhanish Ahamed from Pasumalai, Tamil Nadu is a proud owner of Bajaj Pulsar RS 200 since the last 16 months. Earlier this week, when Dhanish was riding to his college, just like any other day, Dhanish noticed that there was fire spewing out from the engine area.

Not sure of what to do, he immediately brought the bike to a stand still and parked it on the side of the road. Within minutes, the fire engulfed the fuel tank, post which the entire bike was on fire. By the time help arrived, the bike was completely gutted. Locals tried helping by throwing water, but it was of no help.

[MotoBlizzard]

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[hypheni]

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The true fact of RE which gets ignored by many RE fans. Really this needs to be stopped for the sake of bike lovers and this company should be punished hard for poor quality.

[Satyamzma]

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The true fact of RE which gets ignored by many RE fans. Really this needs to be stopped for the sake of bike lovers and this company should be punished hard for poor quality.

Yes i agree
this is a company which sells poor quality bikes at very high prices & people are blindly buying their bikes just for macho styling.

[marcussantiago]

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Yes i agree
this is a company which sells poor quality bikes at very high prices & people are blindly buying their bikes just for macho styling.

Royal Enfield still have the attitude that it's 1998 and that Indian bikers have no real choices in the market. It used to be, back in the day, that you could get a scooter, a simple sensible commuter bike... or an RE, a "real" motorbike. That's all. Unless of course you were so filthy rich you could afford to import something exotic and ride it a dozen times a year on special occasions.

This is of course not true anymore. Things have changed and now we have actual choices and options.

Nearly every Enfield owner I personally know, even the most die-hard Bullet-loving maniac, is sick and tired of the way the company treats them. I have never seen ANY company treat its customers with such open distain and blatant apathy as Royal Enfield does. And Royal Enfield have the most ferociously loyal, devoted customers! It's almost a religion to them. What other companies would not do to earn a customer base that was even half as loyal. It's like a textbook example of Stockholm Syndrome. It makes me quite sad.

Now, even the most die-hard Enfield guys I know are being tempted by the likes of KTM, the Mahindra Mojo 300, the R15s and so on; and those with more spending power are being drawn to the entry-level Triumphs, Benellis and Harley-Davidsons.

RE better wake up and smell the coffee.

In my opinion, the future for RE is that they either start building actually good bikes; OR, they simply continue doing what they're doing and follow the money. Which makes me wonder if they may soon become export-only, selling their WWII-era quasi-vintage bikes to hipsters and antique-lovers in the west, where they've been raking in a ton of cash from that whole retro craze hipster nonsense (Disclaimer: this is just a guess). That crowd doesn't pick RE for any reason other than that old-fashioned appearance. Admittedly, this is the one thing RE does exceptionally well - they do know how to make a beautiful bike, let's give credit where it's due.

The Himalayan was unveiled as a bold response to critics that RE couldn't engineer or try something new. It has since proven to be typical RE: Beautiful looks, and a lot of talk with no action to back it up. You buy this to show the world you're a daring, fearless adventurer biker bad-ass, but in reality you can't even ride this to work for a week without it breaking down

Cue the screaming and downvotes from the die-hard zealots, but I say all this as a dude that owned two Enfields that gave me nothing but misery; and then switched to a KTM and have not looked back since. And I wasn't the first guy to do this, and won't be the last.

[lockhrt999]

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Honda replaces Bajaj as second largest bikemakaer - The Hindu

[dkaile]

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For all the Himalayan haters (and lovers) out there...

http://youtu.be/3OZSPJklpqI

Cheers...

[Duoscribe]

Yamaha to launch Fazer 250 in India by mid-2017

The new Yamaha Fazer 250 will be the semi-faired version of the FZ25. The motorcycle might get ABS as optional along with AHO.

India Yamaha Motor is currently testing the Fazer 250, a semi-faired version of the FZ25, which was launched in the country in February 2017. The new Yamaha Fazer 250 will be powered by the FZ25's engine, a 249 cc single-cylinder, air-cooled unit that produces a maximum power of 20.6 hp at 8,000 rpm and churns out a peak torque of 20 Nm at 6,000 rpm. The engine is paired to a 5-speed transmission.

The upcoming Fazer 250 will take design cues from its naked sibling and will be equipped with a twin LED headlamp as well as split LED tail lamp. The Yamaha FZ25 does not get ABS (Anti-lock Braking System) even as an option, however, considering the upcoming legislations set to make ABS compulsory, Yamaha might offer ABS as standard on the Fazer 250.

With the addition of the fairing on the Fazer 250, it can be positioned as a tourer motorcycle. The two-wheeler manufacturer will also offer the new Yamaha Fazer 250 with a monoshock rear suspension, dual disc brakes, all-digital instrument console and Automatic Headlamp On (AHO) function, all of which will be shared with the FZ25.

The new Yamaha Fazer 250 is likely to be priced higher than the FZ25 and is expected to be launched at around Rs 1.30 lakh, ex-showroom. The upcoming motorcycle is expected to be launched in the country around June, 2017.

Source: http://www.financialexpress.com

[Satyamzma]

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I think the design will look similar to this!