Hero, yamaha, Honda, tvs, etc have lots of ground to cover with the advent of ktms, benellis n kawas. Last year when I had been to a Honda dealer to book cbr250, they informed me to wait saying that 300 was on it's way. Likewise even the HX250 was supposed to be launched in the last quarter of 2014. Even the Draken, yamaha r300, cbr300. Thank god I bought a ktm D390 and even after 6k kms on it, the above mentioned bikes r still nowhere in the picture. If people still think that they are on their way then probably they might be coming from Mars Some of the finest motorcycling companies in India are busy churning out the jupitors janitors aviators sanitors dormitors and what not :banghead: They show you the missiles at Auto expo n then sell you diwali rockets at their dealerships. EBR 1st murdered the Karizma n now with their premium product getting delayed, Hero business will always remain a volume driven model. Tighten your seat belts and forget your senses, you are about to be assaulted with splendour, passions, passion gtr, passion rc110, splendour superlow, passion girl, splendour superglide And not to be left behind Honda will come with their unicorns, dicorns, sweetcorn, popcorns

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Oye yaar come on....I mean what sort of yardstick do you use for "Built to last" ?? A Bajaj of all things?
If you said Honda OR HH OR Suzuki then yes you could have set an appreciable benchmark in build quality.

Why consciously select a manufacturer which is right at the bottom in this department? Ok maybe second last with RE taking last place.

My Friend, I have owned Hero and Honda motorcycles (Glamour and Unicorn to be precise) and I still believe Apaches are built way better than those. Haven't had much experience with Suzuki. If we are truly setting benchmarks then we should consider Kawasaki or Triumph but then those aren't exactly built-to-the-budget motorcycles commonly sold here. So let's agree to disagree.


Cheers

Do you mean Honda build quality is better than TVS. Or I am getting it wrong ?

Hero, yamaha, Honda, tvs, etc have lots of ground to cover with the advent of ktms, benellis n kawas. Last year when I had been to a Honda dealer to book cbr250, they informed me to wait saying that 300 was on it's way. Likewise even the HX250 was supposed to be launched in the last quarter of 2014. Even the Draken, yamaha r300, cbr300. Thank god I bought a ktm D390 and even after 6k kms on it, the above mentioned bikes r still nowhere in the picture. If people still think that they are on their way then probably they might be coming from Mars Some of the finest motorcycling companies in India are busy churning out the jupitors janitors aviators sanitors dormitors and what not :banghead: They show you the missiles at Auto expo n then sell you diwali rockets at their dealerships. EBR 1st murdered the Karizma n now with their premium product getting delayed, Hero business will always remain a volume driven model. Tighten your seat belts and forget your senses, you are about to be assaulted with splendour, passions, passion gtr, passion rc110, splendour superlow, passion girl, splendour superglide And not to be left behind Honda will come with their unicorns, dicorns, sweetcorn, popcorns

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Honda's switch gear quality is pretty bad. And I had experienced water seeping inside the turn signals and console, but I haven't experienced any problems with Apache. It has been abused way more than Unicorn and still is in the pink of its health. So I've had a rather bad taste with Honda's build quality and also the Cbr250r being an expensive product feels cheap at times given its near 200k price point (or it might have been a badly kept machine). But then again each to his own.

Back to the topic, I found this. What exactly do they mean by receivership?

My Friend, I have owned Hero and Honda motorcycles (Glamour and Unicorn to be precise) and I still believe Apaches are built way better than those. Haven't had much experience with Suzuki. If we are truly setting benchmarks then we should consider Kawasaki or Triumph but then those aren't exactly built-to-the-budget motorcycles commonly sold here. So let's agree to disagree.


Cheers

Hopeless company. Never came up with anything good and even axed which probably look the only future launch