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i would say honda shine...used it for 1 year..no problems at all...not even a minor niggle...got mileage of 60 in city conditions if proper run in is done...

stunner is another good bike but if cost is not an option then go for this...its stylish and does everything a shine does if not better.

Is Pulsar 135LS not yet launched in Bangladesh? That would give you the best of both worlds.

My 2 cents of thoughts & questions for you:

Not sure if you call all these BIG difference, as there're quite few differences in terms of power, performance, FE apart from looks. So it depends for which points you give more weightage & that makes the big difference.

1. Will this 125CC be your primary and one & only bike?
2. But for what factor are you settling down for 125CC? Why not 150 or more CC again?

From your point of vibration free rides, you may want to reconsider Pulsar 135LS & forget the Gladiator. From your ownership experience on Unicorn, you can settle down for Shine or (or CBF 110 CC) as it has overall good build quality & a good all rounder all the more - it's from Honda.

Its got to be the Honda Shine , it offers everything that you need.

BTW why are you downgrading ? You may feel a significant decrease in power in an 125cc after riding an 150cc for such long . Why not upgrade to a bigger cc bike ? Why you going backwards ?

I'll go with antz....has the P135 not yet been launched over there?...it offers the best of both the 125 and 150.Or else,go with the stunner...

@Aryan:
Thanks for the approved.

@stan69in:
Thanks for your opinion. But some unknown reason I don’t like the stunner’s look and also in Bangladesh only 1st generation stunner are available. So maybe I’ll check the shine. Is shine smooth as unicorn?

@antz.bin and @srini:
Nope, Pulsar 135LS isn’t launched in Bangladesh yet. Importer doesn’t have plane to do soon.

@aargee and @Penno:

1. Yes this will be my primary and one & only bike.

2. The reasons for I’m settling down for 125cc or downgrading:

In BD there aren’t allowed more than 150CC We’ve Pulsar 150, apache 150, Unicorn, CBZ-Xtreme, Hunk and Yamaha R15 in 150cc segment. Those are highest cc bike in BD right now.
I had pulsar 4 times since 2003, CBZ-Xtreme one time, Hunk one time and Unicorn twice. I’m 6 feet tall so apache isn’t suitable for me as I’ve found. R15’s cost is 3,20,000tk ($4600us). So as you see I’ve had all the 150cc bikes more than one times except two (R15 and apache both are smaller for me), I’m little bit bored with these right now.
I really want to go for higher cc but there aren’t any options. Heard Kornofuli motors (importer of Yamaha in BD) manage the government and increase 5cc more for bring in Fazer or FZ. But price will be 2,20,000 taka ($3150us) with registration, which is too much in my opinion for those bikes. And also It takes 2 months more for available.
The bikes prices are too high in BD, pulsar 150cc cost 1,70,500 tk ($2435us) with registration. You don’t believe that we have to pay 16,500tk for registration which is equivalent to US 236 dollar.


If there will be much significant decrease in power or other’s area than I don’t mind to go for pulsar 150cc again or wait for Fazer. but if it won’t be much then I want to buy a new bikes which I haven’t and try to test something different.
For this reason, here only downgrading is only option left for me.

That was very well explained. Appreciate it & thanks for helping me & Indians realize the value of these bikes

From my observation, you'd owned Pulsar 4 times in last 7 years which is average of less than 2 years excluding the other bike ownership, is that because you wanted to exchange or you'd disposed them due to any problems? Pls let us know.

Let me start putting few things on paper & start comparing to help you understand. You'd Hunk earlier right, that one had 14PS motor. Shine & Stunner(Carbs) has almost the same engine (with a negligible difference on the higher side of Stunner), so these puts around 11PS & Glamour(Carbs) has about 10PS also Glamour has 4 speed gear box & I would eliminate this here.

Now we're left with D135, Shine & Stunner. When compared to D135, Shine & Stunner, D135 is a good VFM bike (the mill has a good 13PS but with 4 speed box) & no doubt about it. However since you'd ownership of P150 earlier, you might know the build quality of Bajaj & also assuming that you need a change this time, we can look into Shine or Stunner. Now the Shine gives you a good mileage with a slight compromise on top speed, while Stunner gives a compromise on the mileage slightly lesser than Shine. Having said this, both Shine & Stunner are good in terms of your basic requirements being met on

Hope I was able to narrow down your choices to great extend. I leave the choice to you to select the bike you like the most.

adnansanni
u said u want to upgrade and u r going in for a 125cc when u havnt yet tried the R15?

8bikes in 7yrs u might be a rich man.

He's not upgrading, he only want to buy a new one I suppose.

he wants to upgrade, but there arent much options...so downgrading is the only option. This is what he have said