Wow. This gets better and better. The bike is yet to hit the roads and already it is faster than the ninja. When it actually hits the road it'll be even faster. Please dont overtake me.

Where did you read this mate? Or did you ride both the bikes and come to this conclusion?

Please state facts.



I can safely say that the CBR will be faster than the pulsar 200.

Aditya, he said it the other way!
Ninja is faster than CBR!

where is the market for N250? I can see only a very small % now -

1. Posers who like the look of N250 over CBr250 and have more than 3 lacs in pocket, but note that they will think thrice as CBR cost almost half with similar looks(sporty, fairing wise etc.).
2. A very enthusiast who can't sell out more that 4 lacs on upcoming 650cc, but can afford atleast 2 to 2.5 lacs easily or else he would also be inclined for a CBR after all money matters :P

PS: only for indian market.

I think you should also consider ZMR here in this equation. It also has fairing, looks and is much much cheaper than both CBR and Ninja. For a shortfall of just 30 odd cc, you save 40k as compared to CBR. It works out to 1300 per cc.

Have you thought that there are people who -
a. do not want to buy bigger bike or
b. feel that that N650 or GT650 are not much better than N250 to justify price difference.

but if want more power than why not a bigger bike?

I mean one would consider N250 if he has lots lots of money

Why a bigger bike everytime? Top speed in most western countries (leave alone Autobahn) is limited to 80 mph on highways, which works to 128 Kmph. Ninja 250R does cruise in 140 kmph. This is much more than sufficient on our roads. Anything above this standard is welcome with cost, otherwise Ninja 250R is more than sufficient & IS THE BENCHMARK.


If one has lots lots of money, they might go for Duc/HD/R1/Busa or anything that money can fetch. For that matter a Ninja 250R or a CBR 250R also!!!

Last but not the least, buying a motorcycle is one time affair, but maintenance is for lifetime. Feeding, customizing & not to mention the morons in this country who're watching to damage your prized possession at a drop of a hat & maintenance of big motorcycles requires much more than a fat wallet. In all those aspects + the benchmarking aspects Ninja 250R gives best of both the worlds.

Can someone help me clear my doubts? May be noob question.
Ninja is considered as the best 250cc in the world. I just want to understand, with whom does Ninja compete?
What are the other twin cylinder 250cc bikes available worldwide?

A common mans thought would be to get two CBR 250 for the price of one Ninja 250

here are a few...

here are a few...

2009 250cc Streetbike Shootout - Motorcycle.com

I was searching for this one very desperately to show this to some blokes here on what Kwacker 250R meant. Excellent. Thanks.

Except the Hoysung the rest of the bikes in comparison are crap, the Ninja 250R has a clear advantage.

The next couple of years are going to be very interesting, Yamaha is definitely coming up with a R series 250, knowing the peaky nature of yamaha bikes, and yamaha styling, I am sure the competition for the best 250 is gonna hot up.

all the bikes in the comparison barely come close to the N250R.

in fact... taking into considering the other bikes in the link...
the CBR250R is definitely worthy of being the called the 2nd be st 250 of the lot.

The Honda CBR250R will definitely win the numbers game. No doubts about that.
With the base variant of the CBR250R being available for almost half the price of the Ninja 250R, the difference in sales volumes will be much more than twice. A price difference of 1.2L (Ninja 250R: 2.7L ex-showroom, CBR250R: 1.5L ex-showroom) is a huge sum of money, & that is what will pull in more numbers for Honda.

Unfortunately, I foresee a lot of difference in (majority of) the kind of people riding both the bikes. The Ninja 250R will definitely have a more matured & enthusiast set of owners who understand the capabilities of the bike, while the Honda CBR250R will definitely be dotted with the poser kind of riders, riding helmetless & with flip-flops.

All said & done, the biking scene in India is definitely changing for good for the enthusiast rider. I'm waiting for the day when the import regulations will allow the 600s to enter our shores, or when the litre class bikes will become affordable (than they are now).



You just dropped a bomb.
Have you ridden the R15 (not in traffic that is), & what bike(s) are you comparing it with?



Bajaj has done enough to stop people from generalising about their service. I guess you should too.
The mechanics who service the Ninja have been trained specifically for it & I hear (& read) are very good at what they do. I don't think anyone on our forum has faced issues with servicing of their Ninja.