Aprilia Dorsoduro 900- Overview
Aprilia unveiled the new Dorsoduro 900 and Shiver 900 recently in India. With the launch of these two motorcycles, Aprilia now has motorcycles across all the ranges for Indian market. The stable now has liter class race bikes, liter class nakeds, Adventure bike, Supermoto and a street fighter. Though the Dorsoduro 1200 is already on sale in India, the younger sibling would be much affordable to a wide audience. Here is an overview of the newly launched Aprilia Dorsoduro 900.
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) launched the much awaited Africa Twin CRF1000L yesterday, which is the first big bike to be assembled under their "Make in India" project. The Africa Twin was the first bike in our list of "Top 5 motorcycles that badly need an Indian launch". We expected the bike to be priced around 13 to 14 lakhs ex showroom, but Honda has actually priced it at 12.90 lakhs making it very competitive. The Africa Twin is to be brought via CKD method and assembled at Honda's new Rs. 1,000 crore manufacturing plant. Here is an overview of the all new Adventure motorcycle from Honda's stable.
Turn on the engine, you hear a little different exhaust note, not very similar to the regular RE motorcycles. The exhaust sounds pleasing with popping noise (clangs) that it makes often. RE have fitted a new engine called the LS410, LS meaning long stroke and 410 stands to its cubic capacity.
TVS- BMW has done an extremely sensible thing in the motorcycle market in India by introducing the baby GS, also known as BMW G310 GS. As per me, this is probably the most sensible thing a motorcycle manufacturer has done after KTM launched the Duke 390 in 2013. Speaking of the looks first, it looks like a typical baby GS, very similar to the BMW F 800 GS. If you look at it aesthetically, it looks ugly as hell.
The recent sightings of the BMW G 310 R tourer version has already caught a ton of attention, especially in India. The adventure touring market has been left wide open as riders eagerly wait for manufacturers to launch motorcycles that they could tour on through different kinds of conditions and terrains, with different kinds of luggage.
Royal Enfield has unveiled their much awaited 400cc adventure tourer motorcycle few days back with the name 'Himalayan'. Royal Enfield has a huge fan following and this is the motorcycle, which made fans of Royal Enfield and hardcore tourers wait with so much eagerness. So lets have an overview to find out about the much hyped adventure motorcycle.
Here is what probably is the World’s first and exclusive first ride impression of the upcoming Royal Enfield Himalayan. The ride of the new RE Himalayan was not pre planned and neither was it scheduled as a proper ride but since our Correspondent Geet Singh Bindra got himself a chance to ride the new dark horse of the iconic Royal Enfield, he didn’t miss the opportunity to enlighten all our avid readers.
The Pulsar 150 was and is one of the most favorite bikes in India and with the addition of the all new 150AS, it's going to carry the legacy forward. The AS is definitely way better than it's previous Pulsar 150I.
If you see the faired bikes, you can observe 2-3 bars of hard metal fit perpendicular to the bike. The length of the bars varies according to the bike’s width and other factor. The reason behind this is because when the bike tips over, the crash bars bend inwards. This is very much risky in case of faired bikes because that will damage the fairings of the bikes, and they surely don’t come cheap.
Today bikes are getting faster and more powerful by the day. Travelling at scorching speeds is the new way to travel for many. The roads becoming smoother and wider has allowed for quicker travel. But we know that staying in a country like India, however wide the roads get and the smoother it is, one can never know what might jump out in front of you out of a sudden.
