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Honda CBR150R: Road Test
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The CBR150R is Honda's attempt at populating the 'middleweight-in-India' sportbike segment, which till date had been occupied by a grand total of one bike. But how well does it hold up by itself? Nothing that a quick bout in the saddle can't sort out...
So, what’s the word?
In one word, brilliant! I mean, yes, there are some slight niggles here and there. The plastics and switch gear quality is not becoming of a bike with this large a price tag. And the price tag? Well, that’s a cool Rs 1.19 lakh ex-showroom Delhi – that’s over ten grand more than the Yamaha R15 V2.0 and a couple of grand more than the extremely desirable KTM 200 Duke. And yes, below the powerband, it moves like a little commuter bike. I guess, the biggest gripe with the CBR150R is that when you get on the bike, it doesn’t feel like something that should cost over a lakh and thirty thousand rupees. But that, by no means, is the complete story and leaving it there would be doing a great injustice to this bike. All you need to do is take it for a ride on winding roads (or even a race track if you have access to one) to realise the point of this bike – a realisation which doesn’t creep in, but in fact hits you like a fully loaded freight train coming the other way.
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Simon
I am sure that it is time to launch 400-800 cc motor cycles in India, The buying power of Indians is increased. All of them have good cars, now they look for good motorcycles range from 4 lack - 6 lack. Ideally all Indians will be interested in road bikes .Honda NC700SA, CB400SF , CBR600F. Indians look for quality bikes.
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suresh babu
cbr is my dream bike2 no 1 is unicorn
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eman
Hi guys my cbr 150r makes some screaching( chark..chark..chark) sound during acclaration around 5000rpm usually 3gear. Like the chain rubbibg something or I don't know what? Is it nomal .. please give me some tips.
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syam
yea now am the owner of cbr 150 but now am just struglng to reach 80-90 kmph the time period of frst servce is not reached and am not using the bike on highways is these are reasons for poor performance ??will it give more power in future???
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Bappa Dey
nice ................................................
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