Re: AE14: Bajaj Auto at the Auto Expo 2014

No. 400 CS is not a concept. It is also a production ready prototype AFAIK. And If my sources are right, they claim, these bikes are not mass manufacturing kind and we will see the first lot of the bike on roads in Maharastra and then gradually as like 200NS. Seems like BAL likes to keep a premium tag for the bike meaning the SVC that does the KTM bikes and Ninjas will (only?!) be given the service training for this beast.

Re: AE14: Bajaj Auto at the Auto Expo 2014

Bajaj already setting new standards aggressively for performance motorcycles in India ...... Hoping to see serious competitions here ..... So we get lot of choices

sent when the wheels took a break from rolling....

Re: AE14: Bajaj Auto at the Auto Expo 2014

Alright. Alright. Second bike in the world. (Ducatis headlights are only partially LED)

Re: AE14: Bajaj Auto at the Auto Expo 2014

The Panigale S and Panigale S tricolour sport full LED headlamps.

Bike Specification - Ducati 1199 Panigale S

The standard model has conventional lamps plus LED position lamps.

Re: AE14: Bajaj Auto at the Auto Expo 2014

my sources are telling that the cs version will come first and no no to the ss version God knows what is going to happen. Let the time pass then we will come to know the exact what we will be getting first in the hand.

well pune people will see this bike first as what ever bike or car well pune is the main hub where they launch every machine first over there then anywhere else.

yes the cs version is ready when it will come god knows.


touch wood. let them grow like this and give us good products but the prices should be less so that everyone can buy it.

good one.

also learnt from the internet of the headlights of the vehicle

Those stunning new headlights are an eight piece unit. While that bit of information is pretty evident, what’s not, is that Bajaj have employed two different technologies in different sections of that headlamp assembly. While the two central units are HIDs, the surrounding six pieces are lit by LED technology.

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Well someone back mentioned that both multistrada and panigale had LED headlight. So searched on this and found multistrada has a conventional lamp for high beam. I thought it would be same for panigale too.

from @arjunB25 post it seems third position for full LED headlamp bike is vacant.

Leave it. I'm seriously mad at 'auto journalists'. No matter what website they are from, all they do is take some photos and copy paste the feature sheet provided by the company. They see the real thing from just 1 foot away and still can't deduce one single thing out of it.

I've utterly no idea why they want to keep mum when we are struggling to make out the details from photos.

They could have told us that main headlight was HID.
They could have told us that bike had dual console.
They could have told us stuff like tyre profiles, front shocks, ABS, approx raking angle, indicator type, approx seating posture, disk brake size + 100s of things.

On half of the websites, auto journalists said the bike had 400cc engine.
I think these journalist were data entry operators once.

Re: AE14: Bajaj Auto at the Auto Expo 2014

90% of the reviews and other articles you find on those automotive websites are written by freelancers who barely knows anything about vehicles. I know I have written many reviews on various motorcycles without even riding them. They take some photos and give us the info, and we write it.

This reminds me of one of the well-received article I wrote years ago, it was about 10 most pleasurable sexual positions one can try. Well, I'm still virgin, hell, I've never been in a relationship with any one. That sums up the credibility of those articles, I guess

Back on topic, those headlamps do not have any glare which is unusual with HIDs. Well, we can not tell anything till one of us goes out and checks out the bike in person.
[MENTION=10454]MG[/MENTION] I guess you are in the expo, could you take a look and inform us about the headlamp?

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Most reports announced, all Indians want is photos of new bikes and the cc.

It was painful to read some decent sites this time.

Three most painful for me were,

1. A site claimed both ss and CS have same swing arm.

2. A sentence: " we are wondering why endurance logo is there on the wp forks on CS "

3. Another sentence : "Only concern we have with swing arm on CS is the wedding mark towards the end "

I don't remember which site it was but, all are ridiculously mediocre statements.

Reporter have no ability to distinguish between swingarms. We can even do that from photos they posts!

Reporters don't even know that endurance is making wp forks under license.

Third example is a plain case of lack of experience. Looking at some superbikes will help.

Any way Indian auto journalism is at a laughable level now.

I agree.

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Re: AE14: Bajaj Auto at the Auto Expo 2014

Both bikes design are way similar to transformers... CS is more like Megatron.... and of cource SS is Bumblebee...no doubt..

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These are NO Journos.. they are "Bloggers": with an internet connection, a laptop, some free time and an Opinion.

By the way, the 3rd line is a funny.

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Yes it was welding.
Its hard for me to type something properly from phone!

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And I was hunting for some mark(print/emboss/logo) by zooming n staring at the pic