Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Ninja 250R....

Today i needed to take bike to office as some cab drivers were on strike today. Don't ask me the reason, i do not know why they are on strike! So, along with a colleague of mine who weighs a good 90Kgs i set out to office at 8AM. I was riding along when i sighted a Yamaha YZF R15(Tech Specs) ahead of me. It was a three lane traffic to one side. I wanted to zip past him. But then i knew it wouldn't take him long to beat me. :( The bike is light compared to mine and more over i was carrying more weight remember. A bit of turn on my throttle bought me near to the R15 that was just ahead. The bike looks a cool cool one i must admit. The rear of the bike is a bit ugly as it tapers towards the end. But then the whole chassis and the fairing i must say steals a breath or rather a couple of them for me whenever i look at it. Needless to say i would like to own one. I kept close proximity to the bike as long as i could watching the lean machine. But then once i reached office, i was left thinking on what kind of bike would satisfy my hunger for power here on Indian conditions. Well, sanely considered the fact that i would double the bike as a commuter and weekend trip vehicle. When a thought like this comes in your head, well all you need to do is Google! The search engine that has invaded our life threw some good results. And i liked this one a lot. This model has been in production for a long long time. almost 20 years! That is great. And it's one of the top sellers from Kawasaki. Cool! The pictures are satisfying and i wish i could get to ride this bike someday. And as I've heard, this bike might just make it to the Indian shores soon with Bajaj trying to market it here in Indian market. Don't know how true this is. Good, keeping my fingers crossed.
More search on the bike revealed a good review. And also this. ;) The bike in the wiki picture looks good. Hehehehe...

2 comments:

Sathish Shanbhogue K said...

You are right, Bajaj going to introduce Ninja 250R in Indian Market, cost of the bike is approximately Rs.200000. About Yamaha YZF-R15,if it uses latest technology still it is not good for tour purpose or city riding because it is more race oriented one. It produces power and torque only in high rpm, in city you can drive maximum speed of 60kph (safely). Under this speed power and torque figure of this bike is not impressive it means you have to keep changing the gear more frequently. In highway you can you can keep the study speed of 80 - 90 kph but once you slow a bit then again same problem comes here culprit is it low cubic capacity and tall 6th speed gear.

myLogZ said...

Hmm, true Sathish. You have a very good point in that higher torque at higher RPM. It looks stylish. So all the guys who want looks will surely will buy this. But then they'll know the pain of gear shifts once they start driving in cities like Bangalore. :) It gets too nagging to shift too many gears at frequent intervals. I found many R15s on Bangalore roads.