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Holy Moly was my expression when finally that day arrived to get my new machine home.Lot many questions and lot many arguments at home, with friends that after this long years of giving up on bike why again onto it.
My TVS jupiter is serving me superbly but nothing exiting when it comes to going on long rides cross cities,long runs then on a bike.Having owned soo much of bikes before and getting onto a gearless scooter was a hard decision but that was the need for time and was bought. All these years my wish of owning a proper crusier bike never left me, more then the 150-200CC segment and below 600CC cause that's what i find ideal power to travel any long distance on our condition and roads across country.
Having good friends around and some amazing bikes to ride the itch would never leave you to get one for yourself.Tough part was to decide on the budget first and stick to it along with the segment of bike.So my hunt started with Honda to Bajaj to KTM to royal enfield to kawasaki to harleys. The more you look into brands and variants more you keep getting confused.One fine day stopped looking at bikes at the showrooms and decided to try and ride the ones available with friends and to find out which one i want.
Started up with royal family as its the common ones to find and lot many in group, classic,thunderbird and thunderbirdX and rejected all of them for their own set of issues, nothing new to buy one again and neither i was exiting for me to own and ride one.Drove friends interceptor and believe me its a beautiful machine RE got but the small niggles RE gives you their machine along with uneasy riding posture for me with heavy body and height did not worked.Next came Duke390 and boy what torque the engine produces is once to feel it.Right from the word go its a mad bull ready to fire and fly out the road.It is a superb bike from duke and one of the best selling in this segment for them but those fancy colour with not so comfortable seat for rear passenger was a bit let down for me.
Then came down to CBR250-300 as well as TVS RR310.I loved both the bikes for the way their engines are mated with right balance specially honda which never fails to impress but fairing body all around is a big no for me.Naked versions is what i was looking for and if any of these machines were available without the plastics around i would have picked them eyes closed.
Brand new Kawasaki ninja was costly and a rarely used one was available with a friend who was shifting to USA for further studies.Loved the engines kawasaki makes but again the same issue with fairing style along with uncomfortable rear seat and very and i mean very costly affair to maintain these machines was a downer for me, else for someone who can afford these their ninja series are beautiful machines to ride around.I had driven a friend's Versys650 extensively and believe me these machines are made to crunch miles without putting your body to feel tiredness.
I was not sure which one to look for that can make me happy of owning the machine and can enjoy this mid life crisis of biking when a friend told me to check out bajaj dominar which somehow was completely missed by me, twin brother of duke390. New launch had just happened across India for 2019 versions and somehow i don't see much of this bike running around city.Went to check this bike at the showroom but none of the city showrooms had the new launched version but 2017 and 2018 variants at display.Checked them, had short test drives and came back with waiting to see, ride the new launched version before putting yes or no to this bike.
One of the showrooms near my factory had just received the new lot bikes along with this new shade for 2019, Savaana green. Bajaj surely misses its kawasaki tie up:-). Nonetheless once i received the call from them went on the lunch hours to check the bike, green surely looks good and different from all other shades launched now and 2019 was launched with only 2 shades, green and matt black.Matt was strictly no for me as our cities are neither non polluted not dust free and matt ones are magnets to maintain.Plus i really liked the new green shade.Asked the SA if test drive was possible to which first he was no to it as they had not received their test vehicles and all those talks but looking at how serious i was he made one of the new batch bike from display available to test drive and in front of all clearly instructed their staff that only this bike is supposed to be given for test drives, impressed with his way of not giving TD and selling same bike to another fellow.Took more then 7 to 8 kms of test drive of this bike and boy i was impressed, the way power was linear, comfortable seats with pillion, enough torque distributed with right gears and not that insane power like duke with few changes to the older versions made me like this bike for sure.Came back kept the bike took the pricelist along with quotation and came back with giving a final day to think about it.
My TVS jupiter is serving me superbly but nothing exiting when it comes to going on long rides cross cities,long runs then on a bike.Having owned soo much of bikes before and getting onto a gearless scooter was a hard decision but that was the need for time and was bought. All these years my wish of owning a proper crusier bike never left me, more then the 150-200CC segment and below 600CC cause that's what i find ideal power to travel any long distance on our condition and roads across country.
Having good friends around and some amazing bikes to ride the itch would never leave you to get one for yourself.Tough part was to decide on the budget first and stick to it along with the segment of bike.So my hunt started with Honda to Bajaj to KTM to royal enfield to kawasaki to harleys. The more you look into brands and variants more you keep getting confused.One fine day stopped looking at bikes at the showrooms and decided to try and ride the ones available with friends and to find out which one i want.
Started up with royal family as its the common ones to find and lot many in group, classic,thunderbird and thunderbirdX and rejected all of them for their own set of issues, nothing new to buy one again and neither i was exiting for me to own and ride one.Drove friends interceptor and believe me its a beautiful machine RE got but the small niggles RE gives you their machine along with uneasy riding posture for me with heavy body and height did not worked.Next came Duke390 and boy what torque the engine produces is once to feel it.Right from the word go its a mad bull ready to fire and fly out the road.It is a superb bike from duke and one of the best selling in this segment for them but those fancy colour with not so comfortable seat for rear passenger was a bit let down for me.
Then came down to CBR250-300 as well as TVS RR310.I loved both the bikes for the way their engines are mated with right balance specially honda which never fails to impress but fairing body all around is a big no for me.Naked versions is what i was looking for and if any of these machines were available without the plastics around i would have picked them eyes closed.
Brand new Kawasaki ninja was costly and a rarely used one was available with a friend who was shifting to USA for further studies.Loved the engines kawasaki makes but again the same issue with fairing style along with uncomfortable rear seat and very and i mean very costly affair to maintain these machines was a downer for me, else for someone who can afford these their ninja series are beautiful machines to ride around.I had driven a friend's Versys650 extensively and believe me these machines are made to crunch miles without putting your body to feel tiredness.
I was not sure which one to look for that can make me happy of owning the machine and can enjoy this mid life crisis of biking when a friend told me to check out bajaj dominar which somehow was completely missed by me, twin brother of duke390. New launch had just happened across India for 2019 versions and somehow i don't see much of this bike running around city.Went to check this bike at the showroom but none of the city showrooms had the new launched version but 2017 and 2018 variants at display.Checked them, had short test drives and came back with waiting to see, ride the new launched version before putting yes or no to this bike.
One of the showrooms near my factory had just received the new lot bikes along with this new shade for 2019, Savaana green. Bajaj surely misses its kawasaki tie up:-). Nonetheless once i received the call from them went on the lunch hours to check the bike, green surely looks good and different from all other shades launched now and 2019 was launched with only 2 shades, green and matt black.Matt was strictly no for me as our cities are neither non polluted not dust free and matt ones are magnets to maintain.Plus i really liked the new green shade.Asked the SA if test drive was possible to which first he was no to it as they had not received their test vehicles and all those talks but looking at how serious i was he made one of the new batch bike from display available to test drive and in front of all clearly instructed their staff that only this bike is supposed to be given for test drives, impressed with his way of not giving TD and selling same bike to another fellow.Took more then 7 to 8 kms of test drive of this bike and boy i was impressed, the way power was linear, comfortable seats with pillion, enough torque distributed with right gears and not that insane power like duke with few changes to the older versions made me like this bike for sure.Came back kept the bike took the pricelist along with quotation and came back with giving a final day to think about it.