Lucky dude - I would have to wait for a few more months!

Enjoy your Ninja 250 and ride safe...

maximum replies in this forum is bluevolt i think, and also that garage u showed for the bike is amazing yaar, i really pray for u to get the ninja as soon as possible !

Thanks Bro...

I think you meant the Hyosung GT250 (Comet), GT250R is the fully faired sports bike version and that has a more extreme riding position than the Ninja.

@ chennai xbhpinas.. guys can anyone check and let me know with a probiking showroom if the ninja is available there or what is the approx delivery time.. am thinking of getting one but the coimbatore showroom guys are not convincing enough about the delivery.

When is the delivery starting in Pune?

22nd of this month

Another visit to the Bangalore Indiranagar Khivraj dealership to see how things stand. Same as before - no clue.

Someone mentioned in this thread that the Indiranagar Khivraj is going to be taken over by Bajaj and converted into a probiking. But that doesn't seem to be happening, or at least it's months away. Though Khivraj proudly boasts the 'probiking' signage, they are just regular dealerships. The main floor looks like a warehouse, crammed with all the models from Discover to p150 to an occasional 220.

Thanks Mate.

This is nice ...How much it gonna cost you ?

Oh no - I am not going to buy this. I was just suggesting this as an alternative to building a fence around the bikes!

If I wanted to get something like this, I would get it made locally for a fraction of the imported cost

No, actually I was comparing with GT250R only ... As both are fully faired, UK learner legal, sports focussed models...

A comparison with comet would also be a good idea, by someone who has the info...

Guys, RW figures for Ninja 250 are 26.9 bhp @ 11 krpm and 18.42 NM @ 8.5 krpm.
One funny thing - Hyosung has more power/torque upto 10.5k, compared to Ninja. I know sportsbikes are more peakier, but that's almost the entire powerband?!

Source: Bike India, (but UK Article).

That comparison is with Ninja 250 carburetor version, not FI. FI will produce around 33 BHP...

33HPs on the crank. What Samarth said is measured at the Rear wheel. but the thing about the rear wheel power is that dirrerent bikes will give different results and even different dynometers will give different results. Also dyno meters basically measure the torque and use some function to calculate the BHP figures. Different dynos have different functions so that differs too.

Also v-twins (which the Hyosungs are) produce more torque than the inline twin in the Ninja and a particular RPM (at least up till and including the mid-ranges)and thats the reason why it might show a higher curve. The Honda VTR 250 also shows a hiher torque/BHP curve than the ninja till mid-range RMPs.

Most sites about GT250 (R), confirms that the max RW bhp for them are in the 25-26 BHP range, so at the top end I'd guess the Ninja will have more power.

The Ninja is reputed to have a 0-100 kmph time of 8 odd secs, I own an Aquila and have ridden the Comets, and they do not feel nearly that fast !! Maybe because of the extra weight !!

Maybe if Hysoung water cools that engine, they can be tuned more aggresively !

Lastly there are lots of comparisons between ninja and gt250R on the net, including one on youtube done my MCN. They all almost unaniously gives the vote to the GREEN one !!

In order to cut short my waiting time for the 250R, I called up the Chennai pro biking showroom today. The phone was answered by a busy sounding girl who said that they could sell the bike to me under a temp registration and then I could register later at the Bangalore RTO. (This was also suggested by someone in this thread).

But she said that the 'minimum' waiting period was 3 months! That is too much time for a niche product like that. I can only see two reasons why:

1) CKD orders are usually pain in the behind for global factories working hard to deliver their regular export commitments. Since this is a 2010 model, the factory must be busy with first being able to ship out the global CBU orders. And then when the production pressure eases out a bit, they would start looking at the CKD orders from Bajaj. If this logic stands true, then I rather wait for the Bangalore launch to happen in a couple of months, and then get my delivery in only a month or less after booking.

2) Bajaj is trying to play safe by making the Ninja 250R only against confirmed bookings. If this is the case, then they are making a big mistake. A wait period of 3-4 months for a bike which comes off a mass production assembly line is just too long. I wonder if people will have that kind of patience. I could understand if this was a model which was selling like 50k units a year, but Bajaj plans to sell only a 1000 bikes in a year.

Though, in my personal opinion, it is point 1), with Kawasaki unable to deliver CKD orders in the few initial months of the 2010 250R production. Just my two cents...