YAMAHA FZ16

Hunks on your city road
The Yamaha FZ16 is a mid segment street bike from Yamaha that gives its riders the feel of riding a high end, muscular sports bike. A fine blend of looks, technology and comfort make this bike different from others. This is also the bike that has won many of the prestigious popular awards for bikes of this category.

Looks and Design
The looks are indeed robust and macho and give the mid segments bike a fresh new take. The tyres are wide, tank is huge (and shaped uniquely) and the forks are beefy. The bike is designed for ultimate rider comfort and a balanced design provides stability.

Key Features
It is powered by a good displacement, air cooled, 4 stroke, SOHC engine with an envious power and torque. It is a bike designed for the urban rider and its design as well as technological features makes it give a feather smooth ride in city traffic. This revolutionary machine by Yamaha is also great on pick up and reaches the top speed in no time.

Other Features
The steel bodied large fuel tank is covered in plastic to maintain a polished outside appearance. The suspension is perfect and provides excellent shock absorption giving great rider and pillion comfort. The wide tubeless tyres are also balanced perfectly with each other and the rear one is actually the widest in all the bike of this segment.

Cons
The only missing element in this muscular bike is the crash guards. But still negligible for those who love such an eye catching and sporty look bike.

Final Verdict
With the new FZ16 Yamaha is all set to take over the Indian street bike market. If you are used to seeing mostly Pulsars and Hunks on your city roads get ready for a revolution. The FZ16 is very well prepared in every aspect and will soon be seen every where. It is big on power, technology and has some real mean yet powerful looks. Who in his right senses would say no to such a bike? If you ask me for flaws, there is really one thing that proves th saying 'nothing is perfect'- no rear disk brakes. Else, it's a perfect bike!

Yamaha YZF R6

Fly High with the Speed
This is one bike that really needs no introduction. Since a long time it has been catching the fancies of street riders and track racers alike. Yet the new YZF R6 has got such a stunning make over that it has become all the more drool worthy for all the sports bike lovers out there.

Looks and Design
The YZF R6 looks like one of those science fiction machines from the future that take your breath away the minute you see them. It gives you a feel of sharp lines flying in the air turning into a marvelous sports bike. It not only looks good but is also extremely comfortable to ride on. Front and rear disk brakes and a sturdy chassis give a smooth suspension and precise ride. The bike is designed to give an equal weight distribution and easy ride.

Key Features
The YZF R6 is a powerful sports bike with a four cylinder, DOHC liquid cooling fuel injected engine with a high displacement. It guns down the tracks and catches on speed with amazing swiftness. A six speed gear box and multi plate slipper clutch provide for excellent transmission.

Other Features
The YZF R6 by Yamaha is a light weight sports bike with great power. The forks and even the disc brakes are light and aid in providing the precision it is known for. It is a fine blend of a stylish street ride or a fierce track race.

Conclusion
The R6 has almost attained a cult status amongst its fans and is really an awesome, awesome bike to ride. However it is not a bike to be handled by novice riders and is clearly meant for more seasoned ones. The looks of the latest 2009 version are even more razor sharp and stunning. The bike only leaves you wishing for at least one or yet another ride soon after the first one!

Bajaj Pulsar 220 dts-i

Heart on race, wheel on fire.
Get ready to go dusty with the agile new Bajaj Pulsar 220cc with Digital Twin Spark Ignition or DTS-I, garbed in a devilish look that?s all game to grab the road.

Key Features
Get ready for some stunts now! The The Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTS-I has great agility and has a digital twin spark ignition that makes the bike ?jump off? with better combustion when you twist the throttle which gives a great adrenaline pump. Blessed with a 220 cc, single cylinder, 4 stroke, EFI and air coolant, no wonder you would love to show it off!
The Bajaj Pulsar places itself on par with other high end bikes and has a full throttle feel. Featured with 12.8:1 compression ratio, this bike can whoosh upto a maximum of 135 kmph and has a torque of 19.13 N?m. which means better and powerful rotation along an axis. And you have a lot more to expect. Blessed with 260mm front and 230mm rear disc brakes, this makes you feel more planted on the road and gives you the chance to put a brake and most improbable situations.
Whiling away, in its own devilish glory, the Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTS-I has a unique 37 mm telescopic hydraulic type front suspensions and elliptical section swingarm with twin hydraulic gas-charged shock absorbers in the rear back so that you can ignore everything else and just ride it on!

Design
Robust, tough and looks like a devil that?s set to devour, the Bajaj Pulsar DTS-I is really on, in the look section. With a carefully designed headlamp that adds a life to the bike, take a look at the tell tale tail lights, which look like eyes, that knows all your weaknesses. This also happens to be the second bike in India which has isolated handle bars like the real sports bikes and can position itself as a unique category, and a higher status of machines.

Conclusion
Good looks, stunning style and great performance make the Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTSi, a great bike. It?s sporty, it?s functional and its fuel efficient. But on the road, it behaves a little light which makes the biker feel a little less planted on the road. But on the whole, its just what you would like to have if you want a bike, that?s both roaring in engine and stealing in style.

Yamaha R 15

Heart on race, wheel on fire.
An open invitation for public display of amazing power and engine performance is right here and it?s knocking on your pulse. And, every motorbike lover will love to own the head turning Yamaha R15 from the Yamaha?s portfolio!

Key Features
Watch it voodoo and cast a spell of magic with its forged-piston engine as the powerful 150 cc engine rides past you. If the look doesn?t, the sound will make you crazy about it. The R15 comes with a 150cc Liquid-Cooled robust Yamaha engine which gives you possibly the best ride over rugged terrains, gullied stretches and Indian roads. So who goes to Ladakh next?
The Yamaha R15 is a classic 4-Stroke, Single Cylinder and 4-Valve, Fuel-Injected Engine, which means you?re contributing in the anti pollution movement with the world! The bike is equipped with forged aluminium pistons in the engine which is usually a sports biking technology, a Delta box frame that offers you solid rigidity and 6-speed gear box, which lets you, well, just zoom through the road.
Great features and outstanding style constitutes this functional genius, which comes directly from the workstation of one of the largest automobile giant, The Yamaha has an awesome torque of 17 bhp from the advanced liquid-cooled 149.8cc engine and you can be sure that it wouldn?t let you down. Featured with liquid cooled engine, that is first of its kind for a two-wheeler technology in India, it performs amazingly well on a rough terrain, without giving much noise. And what more, the absorption of shocks is superb and a rider rarely feels the shocks transmitted to him. No wonder it?s a hot favorite.

Design
The most discussed bikes amongst the bike circles and even the college goers, the Yamaha R15 is stealing in looks. Bestowed with a perfecto envious body, the Yamaha R15 is all set to hit the road. And soon in the near times the competitors may have to run for their money in the bike market. With the dreamy thing that R15 is, no doubt, the R15 is every bike lover?s dream-come-true bike, at least on roads of India.

Conclusion
No wonder, with its monocross suspension, its superb features and eye ogling style, this is just ?whoa, what a bike?.

Hero Honda Hunk

Today morning I went to the nearest Hero Honda showroom and I got myself a test ride of the new Hero Honda Hunk. Hunk is a 150 cc bike from Hero Honda and costs Rs.55000 (ex-showroom). It has a self start and kick start model.

How does it look?
I was really astonished by the great looks of the Hero Honda Hunk. Stylish and majestic are the first words that anyone would utter from their mouths on the first looks of Hunk. The side skirts (called shoulders by Hero Honda) in the tank are the most noticeable feature of the bike. It is sharp and curved which gives a really good muscular and sporty look. In my opinion it looks better than Pulsar, CBZ or any other bike in the 150 cc range.

The butterfly like head light design looks like the head light of Karizma but, it is slighly smaller in size. While riding the bike I felt that that the doom is slightly smaller compared to the size of the tank, but this does not affect its external appearance.

The alloy wheels look great. Nowadays alloy wheels have become the standard in every bike in the premium segment. The tail portion of the bike looks unique and some may like and some may not.

How does it perform?
When I took the bile out for the test ride, the first thing that I noticed was the responsiveness of the throttle. It is very sensitive and the engine responds even for the slightest twist. Even though it is just 150 cc, the pickup is quite good in comparison to other bikes. The bike does not vibrate until the speeds of 80 kmph, but after that it becomes a little unstable. For Indian riding conditions, most of the time we would be driving the bike only around 60 kmph!

Hunk boasts a 5 speed gear box with the usual 1 down, 4 up gear shift pattern. The clutch is smooth and gears can be shifted with the slightest effort in the foot. The front wheel has a 240 mm disc break and rear wheel has a 130 mm drum breaks. In my opinion it gives enough safety for Indian road conditions.

How does it feel?
The cushioned seats are very comfortable and in my opinion you can use this bike for long distance travel. The handle bar positions and foot rests are ergonomically designed to keep your body comfortable as much as possible. Hero Honda Hunk is most suited for youngsters, especially college students. The front seat is separated from the back seat by a step and hence it makes a bad choice for a family man to buy it (when he needs to have 2 kids and 1 wife in the same bike!).

How does it stand out?
The bike claims to have a 'big bike feel' which is the most sought after feature in the Indian bikes today. It boasts of puncture resistant tires for tough riding. Many bikes feature 'gas reservoir suspension' nowadays and the Hero Honda Hunk is no exception! Gas reservoir suspension claims to give a 'smoother' ride. Hunk features tumble flow induction technology which combines air and fuel to give a surge of adrenaline pumping pickup. The bike comes in red, blue, black and silver.

The new BMW active hybrid X6

Even more efficient and powerful

With the new BMW Active Hybrid X6, you’ll never need to sacrifice power for efficiency. The newest hybrid houses a 400 horsepower TwinPower Turbocharged V-8 engine, has 450 lb-ft of torque and uses 20% less fuel than comparable gasoline-powered vehicles.

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