We ride the latest offering from the Honda stable - the CB Hornet 160R - in Goa to find out if this bike is good enough to compete with the likes of other 150-160cc motorcycles available in the Indian market.
The Bajaj Avengers have grown in strength. This family of urban cruisers from Bajaj Auto now includes the Cruise 220, the Street 220 and the new Street 150. The last two add city riding dynamics to the cruiser range. We rode the Cruise 220 and the Street 150 to check out what these bikes had to offer.
When you name a bike Mojo, you better make sure it lives up to its name or else you are asking for not so happy headlines hitting the press or social media. Well that they should be justified in doing so considering the long period of development, Mahindra Two Wheelers has taken to make sure the Mojo is 100 per cent on target.
It's a contender in the 150 cc bike segment and though there may be capable rivals like the TVS Apache or the Bajaj Discover F, Suzuki has gone all out to hit the Yamaha FZ Version 2.0 with the Gixxer.
Someone at the launch was saying that it was a late entry by Yamaha in the entry-level performance segment with its R3, but is it really true? I don't think so.
Yamaha and Honda have had their respective one-make motorsport series going for a while now, so to say Suzuki entered this area wouldn't be incorrect. But then, it's perhaps also good timing because Suzuki made its comeback to Moto GP as factory team this year. The Gixxer cup bikes will also flaunt the official racing livery of the Moto GP bikes.
Yamaha rolled out the FZS FI 2.0 - the latest variant of the FZ - a few months ago, while the Suzuki Gixxer is a comparatively more recent entrant. This was then followed by Bajaj adding more power and displacement to its Discover range, thus making it more desirable.
