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Most of us have confusion about choosing the bike.

Some prefer bikes with lesser mileage and some prefer bikes which provides lesser mileage but low maintenance cost.

Which is better? A Bike with Better mileage? or A bike with Better maintenance?

For this debate let's assume a Story.

The Hero is a commuter who needs to travel 50Kms daily to travel from his home to office and from his office to home.
He travels 20days in a month and in Saturdays and Sundays he wont use his bike.
So for a year He need to travel 50*20*12 = 12000Kms.
Of course all bikes needs regular oil change within every 3000kms since he is using a poor grade engine oil just for Rs. 150.

If our Hero buys a bike that provides a better mileage,
say 70kmpl and more will be his bike's mileage and his bike would give him quite charging maintenance say he spends around 500.Rs extra for each service to make his bike better every time he changes oil. (Rs. 500 is too (too, too, too...) much for a new bike. but its just an assumption.

The Total expenditure will be:

Petrol Charges - 12000/70*50.Rs(price of petrol)= 8600. Rs (nearly)
Servicing and Engine oil - 4*(500+150) = 2600. Rs
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Total = 11,200. Rs
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Suppose if our hero buys a bike with lower mileage and lower maintenance,
say 50Kmpl and more will be his bike's mileage and Rs.0 will be his maintenance cost but still he need to change the engine oil. Still "Rs.0" is not possible for the new bike since it might require at least small screw change or bulb change.

The Total expenditure will be:

Petrol Charges - 12000/50*50.Rs(price of petrol) = 12000.Rs (nearly)
Servicing and Engine oil - 4*(0+150) = 600.Rs
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Total = 12,600.Rs
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This means that an average bike with 70kmpl+ mileage will save you nearly 3600.Rs a year and 1,400.Rs comparatively even if it has poor maintenance cost.

Which means Mileage is more prior than Maintenance for a bike to be owned.

So Make wise plans accordingly...

The Economic 100cc Bike award goes to Discover 100

TVS Jive, the new comer for the TVS Automobile, is the first entry towards Hands-free (Clutch-free) two wheeler segment.

It has been a strong competition in India in the two wheeler segments with the giants (Yamaha, Suzuki and Honda) rocking the market. Questions arose whether our Indian manufacturers will survive. But as an immediate action Indian manufacturers Bajaj and TVS placed some strategy that is nothing but innovation.

Bajaj and TVS has been constantly innovating and Jive is also a result of innovation.

The Jive bike is an intermediary between Scooter and bike, but the convenience of Bike and driving experience will be just like scooter changing its gear automatically.

The Bike offers a very good output power and pickup. Hence the performance is also not an issue.

Specifications:
Engine Displacement: 109.7cc
Engine Type: 4 Stoke, Air cooled, T-Matic
Output Power:8.4Bhp@7500rpm
Engine Torque: 8.3nm@5500rpm
Weight: 105Kgs
Gear: 4-speedT-Matic Gears
Top Speed: 98Kmph(approx.)
Mileage: >70Kmpl

Due to its good looking and revolutionary T-Matioc gears. the bike would be an real success. Also the T-Matic not only just decreases the lead time for the gear shift, the bike also performs well in terms of pickup because of it.

I would like to consider the 150cc Bikes only in entry level. So I wont be including R15 in this range since it is an absolute Sports bike.

Now in India we have 6 Major 150cc Branded Bikes they are:

1. Bajaj Pulsar 150
2. HeroHonda CBZ XTreme
   
3. Honda Unicorn
4. TVS Apache RTR 160 RD
   
5. Suzuki GS150R
6. Yamaha FZ-S

I have considered only the leading models so i neglected Hunk and Discover150. RTR 160Fi goes a bit higher than the 150cc price and so i have not included it too.

I would like to analyze the best bike on each and every aspects that a bike should be in my following post of Best 150cc bike.

Based on the overall aspects I have ranked the 6-bikes below:

1. Suzuki GS150R
2. TVS Apache RD
3. Yamaha FZ-S
4. Pulsar 150
5. CBZ XTreme
6. Honda Unicorn

The reasons and the performance of the bikes will e followed in my upcoming posts on Best 150cc Bike.

Ofcourse it's really a difficult task to ompare two great warriors who are rebels knocking out meach other in various aspects.

Pulsar180 - All time hero, won many awards and races. But UG4 upgrade had a big change in the bike's performance, looks, handling, etc...

Apache RTR180 - Racing bike just took a step ahead and with unlimited performance packed with the same old sturdy body design.

Lets start the comparison with the Engine:
Pulsar has the bigger engine with 178.6cc, where as Apache has got only 177.4cc. Also considering the performance of the engine Pulsar is more efficientnt than Apache.

Top Speed:
Both the bikes carries a tag of top speed of 125Kmph. But actually pulsar 180 will not cross 119 where as Apace has some speedo - errors which inturn will equal the top speed of both the bikes. But i personally feel that Apache will be 2 or 3 Kmph faster than Pulsar 180.

Pick Up:
The Racing Throttle Response wins here, since pulsar will have very low torque at higher rpm (say above 9500rpm) where the bike will not reach better speed within its 4th gear. Once 4th gear is reached Pulsar will start ruling the road.

Mileage
Pulsar wins Apache in terms of mileage. Apache cannot provide you a good mileage (at max you can expect 42kmpl). But pulsar can make you feel better with its 47kmpl mileage on city roads and above 50kmpl on highways)

Price:
Both the bikes are ost effective and not much costlier. but a solid difference of 5000 persists between the price of Apache and Pulsar.Apache can be bought for around 71,000.Rs and Pulsar can be brought around 67,000.Rs incluive of Tax,regn. and insurance.

Final Decision:
Best Value for Money: Pulsar 180
Best Racing experience: Apache 180

The best bike of the two is none and i consider both the bikes as equal competitors and announce that both the bike has won the race in Indian Bikes Review.

Hoping that am Honest!!!

Suzuki Fiero was the first 150cc 4-Stroke bike launched in India. The Bike was the best 150c bikes of that time. Even when the CBZ powered with an 156cc, it can produce an output power of oly 12.8bhp. where as the TVS Fiero with 147.5cc produced an alarming 12bhp more or less similar to CBZ. even though CBZ gained the market, the Fiero won the tracks.

The Quality also outperformed which was not faded by CBZ. but after the launch of Pulsar Twins(150 and 180) the entire story changed.

Pulsar came up with the same 12Bhp overtook both CBZ and Fiero with its muscular body and latest design.

Even though Suzuki lost its market, it was in a position likes by all the Indians. Even today it stands as a classic bike in the hearts of Indians.

Specifications:

1. Engine Displacement: 147.5cc
   
2. Engine type: 4 Stroke, SOHC
   
3. Output power: 12Bhp@7500rpm
   
4. Engine torque: 10.5nm@6500rpm
   
5. Fuel Capacity: 13Ltrs
   
6. Weight: 115Kgs(dry)/127Kgs(wet)
   
7. Gear: 5 Speed
   
8. Top Speed: 110Kmph

Even now there is a better name for the Suzuki Fiero and the same was expected in GS150R.

Until now no bike has come in the market as good as Fiero except Unicorn which sacrificed the engine power.