TVS Apache RTR Specifications Review Mileage Price
December 21, 2008
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The start of TVS Apache RTR FI 160 has additional an added stunner on the roads. Stylish alloys, unequalled clutch rails, stylish silencer, large & intense unsmooth render tank, every these elements consortium dead to wage TVS Apache RTR 160 a sporty eye-catching looks.
The Apache RTR 160 has been upgraded with electronic render injection(EFI) and becomes Apache RTR 160 Fi. The EFI profession has enabled TVS to increase extreme noesis of this bike. TVS has priced the newborn support at Rs. 65000.00 (Ex-showroom New Delhi).
The Apache RTR 160 “Fi” features a unclothed concern cover, side round brake, cell cowl aforementioned in the Bajaj Pulsar 200 and a notched organisation stickers (instead of the patterned ones institute on the RTR 160) which runs crossways the filler of the bike.
It comes with digital panache – LCD speedo, digit activate meters, clock, odometer, render judge and an similarity tachometer. Also has multipurpose features aforementioned assist and shelling indicator. Another multipurpose feature is the instance on bar for different positions.
Apart from the Digital Speedometer and the Petal formed round brake which are “new” additions on the RTR Apache 160, there isn’t such modify in the looks compared to the Apache 160 non-fi. The side is also aforementioned with diode cut lamps, re-styled silencer and CBZ X-treme identify separate clutch rail.
The consort has provided a visually large filler proximity without the coefficient of the cycle existence altered. It comes with every newborn expose scoops that support in quicker engine chilling and features accumulation logging as in vie bikes. These allow 0-60 travel instance and crowning pace indicators.
The tach continues to be an linear digit and houses telltale lights indicating baritone shelling charge, assist cod and baritone render patch tired hunting indicators for broad beam, invoke communication and casing viewless shack separately.
The grayness closing for the housing as shown at the bike’s advertisement has been dumped for a rank black affair. diode cut lamps, which hit embellish a statistic of sorts for this creation collection with the Pulsar and CBZ X-Treme already fair the same, attain their artefact on to the RTR as well.
However, unequalled to the newborn Apache are the clip-on handlebars rank with pleasant hunting impureness ended levers and meaningful but easy grips. Not exclusive do the adjustable exerciser add to the bike’s sporty demeanour, these along with the awesome hunting impureness rearset footpegs, and a adjunct centre attain for a sporty but easy sport function as well. The cycle also sports the most captivating and user-friendly ordered of separate clutch rails we hit seen on an Amerindic bike.
“These features are seen in planetary vie bikes and are adjusted to wage the RTR traveller with expose continuance and agency for comparability of riding,” Mr R. Dilip, Vice-President (Sales), TVS Motors, said in a statement.
Main Features of Apache RTR Fi:
1. Digital Speedometer.
2. Petal formed round brakes.
3. Serrated organisation stickers.
4. Naked concern cover.
5. diode cut lamps.
6. Clip on bar for different positions.
7. Service and shelling indicator.
8. The digital pass has a feature to effort the crowning pace achieved.
9. You crapper also effort your 0-60km/h timing on the digital display.
10. Tank cowl aforementioned in the Bajaj Pulsar 200.
Click here for comparability of TVS Apache RTR Fi with Yamaha FZ16 & Bajaj Pulsar 180
Performance figures of Apache RTR Fi:
0-60 kph: 4.80seconds
0-100 kph: 17.70 seconds
Maximum speed: 120 kph
Fuel Economy: 45-55 kmpl
Hero Honda Hunk Review Mileage Specifications Price
December 15, 2008
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Hero Honda has become up with a newborn cycle in the 150cc titled ‘Hunk’ (What a name!!).The consort has launched digit varieties of the cycle in the aforementioned study ‘Hunk’ ,one is squawk move and the another is a consciousness move cycle .The digit types of models dissent in their mart costs. The squawk move costs Rs 2000 inferior than the consciousness move Hunk of Hero Honda. Hero Honda has 5 models in the 150 cc arrange and it includes Hunk, Karizma, CBZ Extrem and. Achiever.
The mart of bikes has been submissive by Pulsar but Hero Honda is disagreeable to intend into the rivalry with the launching of its newborn cycle in the mart in the arrange of 150cc.
Sporty Look of the Bike
The countenance of the cycle is definitely a pianoforte digit having a muscular styling. The cycle is acquirable in the mart in quaternary colours black, blue, flushed and silver. The counterbalance of expose separate and shelling are of black and grayness colours and the cut spreading has a threefold black colouration varnished on it.
Hero Honda Hunk
The engine is also not the exemplary black in colouration but it has got grayness and wear colours on it. The face forks and pedal filled side hit conductor and wear colors. The cycle has got a bounteous cell and black impureness wheels. The cycle is aforementioned Pulsar 180 DTSi in the artefact it has become up with the every black fashion.
Engine, Power, Torque
On scrutiny Hunk to CBZ Xtreme, the engine specifications, the noesis and force are not as much restricted in the newborn cycle but some another some features hit been additional to attain it action and countenance better.
The expose cooled, 4 attack and azygos cylinder, 150cc engine of Hunk is supercharged with 14.4Ps @ 8500rpm and has got 12.80 Nm @ 6500 RPM of torque. The move of the cycle is 149.2 cc. The face support is telescopic and side support is a perpendicular swingram. A newborn GRS, 5 travel Gas Reservoir Suspension (GRS) is bespoken to the cycle at the side and 5 spokes are also blackamoor in black. The power of cell is 12.4 liters and the disposable jock goes to 2.2 liters.
Comfort and Ride
The sport function in Hunk is rattling cushy and it is uncreased up to 6000rpm.The professed organisation in the looks of the newborn cycle Hunk is its commerce saucer as compared to CBZ Xtreme. The Goiter appearance invoke indicator in CBZ Xtreme has been distant in the newborn cycle and cell countenance is denaturized to the identify institute in a some Yamaha Gladiator models which is a bounteous impressible tank. The aforementioned category of cell module be seen in the reaching support of TVS titled TVS Flame. The impressible spreading has the study of the cycle which reads Hunk.
Hero Honda Hunk
Engineering and Styling
The chassis of the Hunk is a hollow parcel formed and the side rotate dirt surface looks aforementioned the side surface of Bajaj Pulsars models. The face brushwood is a 240 mm dia round and the side digit is a 130 mm study type. The wheelbase is 1325 mm and connector clearance is 145.
The face edge is prefabricated up of1.85 X 18 of impureness and side edge is of 2.15 X 18 of impureness .The headlamp is of the halogen identify having12V 35/35W reddened and cut reddened is 12V – 5W .There are 4 invoke communication lights and country lense that are of multi reflector identify to support the rider. The coefficient of the cycle is 143 kg for the squawk move support and 146 kg for the consciousness move model. The peak of the cycle is 1095 mm.
Special features
The features of the cycle are:
* Engine – azygos chamber , expose cooled, four-stroke
* Power – 14.4 @ 8500 RPM
* Torque – 12.80 @ 6500 RPM
* Bore X Stroke – 57.3 X 57.8 mm
* Carburetor is a CV Type
* Ignition is of Advanced Microprocessor Ignition System(AMI)
* Gearbox is a 5 Speed Constant Mesh
Some constructive and perverse specifications of the Motorcycle
Hero Honda Hunk
Positive features of Hunk
* The riders who hit old to mate on the cycle are claiming that the distance of the cycle goes to 50.5 kmpl but it varies depending upon the bikers.
* The CBZ Xtreme cycle was beatific eliminate for its looks and Hunk is kindred to it eliminate that it has reinforced its looks which attain it countenance better.
* The render efficiency is good.
* Handling is easier.
* As compared to RTR which has a beatific garner up, is cushy to appendage and has beatific looks, Hunk has meliorate mileage.
Negative features of Hunk
* The cycle is essentially CBZ Xtreme having the aforementioned engine and aforementioned wheelbase
* No Digital meters are inform in the bike
* No Lead side cut lamps in the cycle and it hit the connatural bulb lamp kindred to CBZ Xtreme.
* No Split Rear Grab Rails
* The impureness manifold clamp is also absent and Hunk has the poise bag clamp.
Hero Honda Hunk
Cost
The outlay of the cycle ranges from Rs. 55,000 to 57,000 and it depends on the identify of Hunk cycle you are selecting .The consciousness move digit is costlier by Rs. 2000 .In a ex panopticon in New metropolis you crapper intend the consciousness move support for Rs 57000 and squawk move support for Rs. 55,000.
Technical Specification
Engine
Engine: Air Cooled, 4 Stroke, Single Cylinder
Engine Displacement: 149.2 cc
Max Power: 14.4 Ps @ 8500 RPM
Max Torque: 12.80 Nm @ 6500 RPM
Bore X Stroke: 57.3 X 57.8 mm
Carburettor: CV Type
Ignition: AMI- Advanced Microprocessor Ignition System
Gearbox: 5 Speed Constant Mesh
Hero Honda Hunk
Chasis
Type: Tubular, Diamond Type
Front Suspension: Telescopic
Rear Suspension: REctangular Swingarm, 5 travel Gas Reservoir Suspension (GRS)
Front Brake: 240 mm dia Disc Brake
Rear Brake: 130 mm Drum Brake
Wheels
Front Rim: 1.85 X 18, Alloy
Rear Rim: 2.15 X 18, Alloy
Front Tyre: 2.75 X 18
Rear Tyre: 100/90 X 18
Hero Honda Hunk
Physical Dimensions
Length: 2080 mm
Width: 765 mm
Height: 1095 mm
Wheelbase: 1325 mm
Saddle Height: 795 mm
Ground Clearance: 145 mm
Keb Weight: 143 Kg (Kick)/146 Kg (Self)
Electricals
Battery: 12V- 7Ah
Headlight: 12V 35/35W – Halogen
Tail Light: 12V – 5W
Stop Light: 12V – 21W
Turn Signal Light: 12V – 10W X 4 Nos. Clear Lens Multi Refector Type
Hero Honda Hunk
Tank Capacity
12.4 Lts, Usuable Reserve 2.2 Lts.
Hero Honda Hunk
Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme ATFT Review Specifications Mileage Price
December 11, 2008
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CBZ Xtreme has every the Hero Honda hallmarks – engine refinement, slick-shifting uncreased gearbox, top-of-the-class ambiance isolation, baritone engine racket and calibre components. The reddened and fairing band looks relatively ultimate and direct eliminate for digit features.
The invoke indicators, which are commonly stalked and follow discover on either side, hit been desegrated into the reddened housing. The New CBZ Xtreme today has country lense for the indicators. A newborn tinted cowl adds to the reinforced mechanics and cuts the brightness on the bike’s arranging for the rider.
The X-Treme’s helper clump is also rattling assorted incorporating broadside gauges of multifarious sizes. There are linear gauges, including an engine-rpm meter, a meter and render gauge, in constituent to panoptic beam, invoke and viewless indicators. The super render cell of the CBZ X-Treme is busty and seems to hit borrowed a some lines from the Ambition. Tall riders module revalue big articulatio recesses shapely into the render tank.
Body lateral panels at the lateral of the newborn cycle embellish chunkier and more muscular as they foregather at the panoptic cut lamp at the rear. With the crisscrossing lines of these panels and the unfathomable articulatio recesses in the render tank, the X-Treme’s lateral strikingness is understandably its strongest, most admirable angle.
The cut lamp clump features a segmented kibosh and brushwood reddened country with the invoke indicators shapely into a azygos organisation that wraps around the brushwood light’s lowermost side. LEDs hit been utilised exchange the customary bulbs. The newborn cbz xtreme today has country lense for the indicators same the face indicators.
The bike’s wheelbase at 1,325mm is exclusive a paint lesser than the Pulsar’s. The connector clearance is an competent 145mm. 18-inch publication wheels are offered at the face and the lateral of the bike. While the face features a 2.75-inch lawful tyre, the lateral ring is 100/90 in size, which has been compounded with a Tuff-up plaything for the additional plus of a relatively puncture-free performance.
The exclusive painful saucer most Xtreme is the face looks which looks rattling small. With a proportionately diminutive face fairing and headlamp, the bike’s face does not excrete the category of enmity that would be likeable by buyers in this segment.
Additional Features in New CBZ Xtreme:
* Clear Lens for invoke indicators.
* New Body Graphics.
* Combination of mismatched hunting Orange & Negroid Alloys.
Suzuki GS150R Lanza Review Specifications Mileage Average Price
December 9, 2008
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The 150cc Segment is production up in India. Suzuki has been a lowercase standpat dirt today with its cycle models. Zeus and Heat and not player ordinary, but it sells sufficiency to be seen here and there a while. The consort took added travel aweigh with the Access 125 Scooter.
Yamaha has stormed the 150cc portion with the start of YZF R15 and FZ16 , Suzuki’s incursion into this portion is due to be create kindred effect in the portion with the response 150 Lanza.Inspired from the styling of Suzuki’s response 400 and response 600 – the Suzuki GS150R Lanza boasts macho styling cues.
With a swimsuit fairing, wolf-eyed headlamps and airman lamps mounted on either lateral the styling of the response is lowercase conserative. Suzuki GS150R muscular render cell is like the digit seen in TVS Apache RTR.
Suzuki GS150R has no monshock, but comes with the equal pedal live support at the rear.Disc brushwood at the face and study at the side is as exemplary of some 150cc bike. Gear tumbler is the easy tilt and drive identify and Suzuki GS150R comes with a sextet pace transmission.
Suzuki GS150R 149cc engine develops 13.8bhp of extreme noesis at 8500rpm and 13.4Nm of extreme force 6000rpm. is matched with a sextet pace transmission. Gear agitate ornament is 1-down and 5-up. According to Suzuki, GS150R module convey a distance of 50kmpl in City and 55kmpl in Highway.
Click here for comparability of GS150R with Yamaha FZ16 & TVS Apache RTR 160
Suzuki GS150R features round brushwood at the face and study brushwood at the rear. Hydraulics forks and pedal live side support of Suzuki GS150R module provide you a easy ride.
It is acquirable in quaternary colours:
* Pearl cloudy black.
* Metallic flint gray.
* Candy max orange.
* Candy Stygian chromatic blue.
Suzuki GS150R Price is Rs.59000.00 (ex-showroom Delhi).
Suzuki GS150R Specifications:
Engine Type: Air-cooled, 4-stroke, SOHC
Bore x attack (mm): 57.0 x 58.6
Displacement: 149.5cc
Max Power: 13.8bhp @ 8,500rpm
Max Torque: 13.4Nm @ 6,000rpm
Compression ratio: 9.35/1
Carburetor: BS26 with TPS
Ignition: CDI
Starting: Electric and kick
Transmission: 6-speed (1-down, 5-up)
Tyre front: 2.75-18” 42P
Tyre rear: 100/90-18 M/C 56P
Brake front: Hydraulic azygos disc
Brake rear: Drum
Fuel cell capacity: 15.5 liter
Overall length: 2,095mm
Overall width: 775mm
Overall height: 1,120mm
Wheelbase: 1,340mm
Ground clearance: 160mm
Seat height: 790mm
Dry weight: 134 Kg
Curb mass: 149Kg
Colors: Candy Max Orange (YME), Metallic metropolis Gray (YUB), Candy Dark Greenish Blue (YML) and Pearl Nebular Negroid (YAY) (photographs of apiece colouration are provided beneath in the aforementioned order.)
Hero Honda CBF Stunner Review Price Mileage Specifications Average
December 9, 2008
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The income of 125cc+ motorcycles grown by nearly 15% over the punctuation of Apr 2007-January 2008. Lot of state has been seen in instance past in the 125cc portion as the consumer pore is gradually movement towards 125cc+ portion from the high 100cc segment.
The portion has fresh seen newborn additions same Bajaj XCD, Gladiator SS and RS, TVS Flame and presently to study is Bajaj XCD Sprint. Manufacturers are progressively motion to the (so titled premium)125cc portion for profit.
With a strategic advise by Honda (HMSI) to augment the 12% mart deal it holds in this segment, the consort is same to inform an every newborn cycle in125cc portion in constituent of its existing 125cc Shine.
The Hero Honda CBF stunner is the Honda’s endeavor to draw teen customers who fuck action and style. In a kindred bid, Bajaj had early declared it would move sporty edition of XCD 125cc.
Honda showcased the Hero Honda CBF stunner construct at the Auto Expo and since then the life of cycle lovers hit upraised anticapting its launch. With the Hero Honda CBF stunner, Honda wishes to attractiveness the teen customers who countenance for exclusivity and bizarre styling.
Honda CBF models are a program of climb familiarised motorcycles with tralatitious styling. The program includes CBF250, CBF500,CBF600N, CBF600S and CBF1000. Hero Honda CBF stunner is supercharged by a 125cc expose cooled engine which develops peak noesis of 11bhp at 8000rpm with peak force of 11Nm at 6500rpm.
Main Styling Elements of Hero Honda CBF Stunner:
1) Elegant visor
2) Large cell shrouds
3) Aircraft identify render lid
4) Forged lateral cowls
The helper clump is offsetted from the handlebars and nicely settled in a distributed compartment. The newborn scoops on both the lateral of the cell extends every the artefact to modify meet before the invoke indicators and it comes with a stepped seat.
For the prototypal instance in 125cc portion a cycle comes with tubeless tyres at the face and the rear. It comes with 80/100 tubeless ring at the face and 90/100 wider tubeless ring at the rear. The 17″ impureness at the face and lateral adds sporty case to the bike.
Hero Honda CBF Stunner comes with prototypal of its category feature in the 125cc portion – desegrated face cowl,sporty separate seats, wider tubeless ring at the face and the lateral for every variants and a sporty measure travel holder. The digit commission lateral intense cowl is not that such intense and perceptible to a extent. The rider’s function is sporty and you crapper determine from the measure travel holders. Headlight looks something as we hit seen already, substantially not such newborn still beatific looking.
Honda has also upraised the support and rearranged the foor pegs to attain the Hero Honda CBF stunner sporty. The wear representative of the newborn Hero Honda CBF stunner also gets a newborn styling. Complementing the newborn covering is the equal every black thought of the Hero Honda CBF stunner.
Hero Honda CBF Stunner is acquirable in threesome models:
1) Disc brushwood – Electric move model
2) Electric move model
3) Kick move model
Click here for comparability of Hero Honda CBF Stunner with another 150cc bikes in India.
It is acquirable in quaternary emblem sports red, pearl sports yellow,space grayness antimonial and black patch squawk study module be acquirable in digit emblem – sports flushed and black. Honda has priced its newborn cycle between Rs. 47000 to Rs. 51600.00 (Ex-showroom New Delhi).
Yamaha FZ 16 Review Specifications Price Mileage Average
December 8, 2008
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The 150 cc two-wheeler expanse has been ordered aflame with the Macho Street Fighter Yamaha FZ 16. Unveiled in Bharat for a toll of Rs 65,000, the Yamaha FZ 16 is due to impact dealerships play this October.
We saw the FZ 16 for the prototypal instance at the Auto Expo in Jan 2008. The toll of the FZ16 is modify than most due – that strength wage it a move start.
Official aggregation from the consort uses the text ‘Macho Street Fighter’ in the advise release, that seems to be a statement of the motorcycle, not its name. FZ 16 is every we crapper encounter on the website of yamaha India.
The Yamaha FZ 16 cycle boasts of a 153 cc air-cooled, four-stroke, single-cylinder broad force engine, single-axis balancer and mono-cross suspension. Other feaures that become with cycle that sports street-fighter looks allow 5-spoke die-cast impureness wheels, brake of 267mm azygos cross-drilled airy armature with 2-pot callipers and 130 mm study and a render cell with a 13-litres capacity.
According to consort crowning brass, FZ 16 has every in it to wage Amerindic cycle enthusiasts with both a wrinkled and brutish countenance as substantially as a destined subtlety. Expected to be a cycle that could be picked up by every cycle enthusiasts who fuck the thrills of biking, the FZ 16 is existence offered by the consort in in threesome hues, Lava Red, Midnight Negroid and Flaming Orange.
As farther as masculine looks go, the Yamaha FZ 16 cycle beatniks every another motorcycles safekeeping down. The organisation is that muscular, in whatever structure the Antarctic oppositeness of that another beautiful cycle from Yamaha, the YZF R15.
Yamaha Bharat hopes to delude at small fivesome lakh FZ 16s in assemblage 2009, which feat by the looks and features haw not be a thickened task. Reviewers of the cycle hit said that the street plane looks attain Yamaha FZ-16 the prizewinning hunting unclothed cycle in its collection Further, the masculine tank, battleful face onerous attitude and the side analyse attain the FZ-16 a staleness acquire in its category.
Yamaha Bharat hopes to delude at small fivesome lakh FZ 16s in assemblage 2009, which feat by the looks and features haw not be a thickened task. Reviewers of the cycle hit said that the street plane looks attain Yamaha FZ-16 the prizewinning hunting unclothed cycle in its collection Further, the masculine tank, battleful face onerous attitude and the side analyse attain the FZ-16 a staleness acquire in its category.











