February 2020

BIKE India

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Jumping On The E-Bandwagon
ELECTRIC TWO-WHEELERS SEEM TO BE ATTRACTING A LOT OF ATTENTION NOWADAYS. Every other day we hear of a start-up getting into the manufacture of electric scooters or motorcycles. This is courtesy of the Chinese component and battery manufacturers who s
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Damon Hypersport: EV Superbike That Transforms on the Fly
CANADIAN INNOVATORS DAMON and BlackBerry, the makers of some of the most popular mobile phones in the 2000s, have built a production electric superbike that looks like an absolute scorcher on paper. Unveiled at the CES 2020 in Las Vegas, the Damon ha
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F.B or RE?
I am a huge fan of Bike India and I have been following you for over 10 years now. I love your reviews and the latest information about motorcycles that I get from reading the magazine makes me very popular among my biker group. I have been saving up
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Seven States in Seven Days at Seventy
Who I Am: Tehemtan Bhagwagar Riding: TVS Apache RTR 180 Route: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka ‘AGAIN?’ SAID THE WIFE incredulously. ‘Seriously? I thought you were done with all your ego
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Into the New Decade
ABOUT THE TIME THIS ARTICLE HITS THE PRESS, we’ll be entering the main 2020 buying season for many markets in the northern hemisphere. In fact, when I lived in Bavaria, there was just one month, April, when the bike market came alive. From November e
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Much More Than Meets the Eye
I’M JUST A FEW LAPS INTO MY SECOND SESSION AT JEREZ aboard the Panigale V2 and already Ducati’s smaller super-sports bike is in its element. It rips round the Spanish circuit feeling well sorted, entertainingly quick, and, most of all, supremely cont
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Orange Is The New Braaap
YES, SHE’S FINALLY HERE! STANDING BEFORE ME IN THE FLESH. NO, NOT AT the EICMA show in Milan where I first made her acquaintance a few months ago, and not at the India Bike Week where she was introduced to the Indian public at the capacious KTM stand
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Shine On
S-VI IS THE BUZZWORD FOR NEW two-wheelers in 2020 and Honda are leading the charge, first with the new Activa 125 that we reviewed in the last issue and now with their first BS VI-compliant motorcycle, the SP 125. Honda have taken this opportunity to
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Fighting Prejudice
RANDOM STRANGERS APPROACHED ME DURING MY TIME with the CF Moto 300NK with queries about the motorcycle and most of the time the exchange went like this: Stranger: ‘Hi, is this a new KTM?’ Self: ‘Nope. That’s the CF Moto 300NK.’ Stranger: ‘CF Moto
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The Lite At The End Of The Tunnel?
AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THE number of people chanting “EVs will never be as fun as engines” has fallen. In fact, some have even defected to the battery camp, going “ooh” and “aah” over 0-100 km/h figures and futuristic designs. Obvious climate change
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The Adorable ‘Flying Brick’
IT WAS WHEN THE BMW HIT TOP GEAR THAT THE memories came flooding back. Until that moment, admiring the gleaming condition of this unrestored K100RS had done little to make me recall riding one decades ago; nor had trickling through traffic at the sta
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Best Of The Decade
THE BEGINNING OF A new decade is always a time to reflect on the old one as well as looking forward to the future. And while in broader terms the last 10 years will, perhaps, be remembered for economic austerity, fake news, and climate change, the tw
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Farewell, Paulo
EVERY YEAR, RIDERS from across the world gather to take part in what is considered to be one of the most treacherous rally races of all time. The Dakar Rally is the ultimate test of endurance that tests a rider’s mental, physical, and emotional capab
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TVS Racing at Dakar 2020
OUR VERY OWN TVS RACING made a strong showing at Dakar 2020 alongside their partners, the Sherco Racing Factory Team. This was the sixth Dakar appearance of the Sherco TVS Factory Rally Team, although they were facing new challenges with the rally mo
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
CONSIDERED THE TOUGHEST race in the world, this year’s Dakar rally was held in Saudi Arabia, bringing with it new terrain and new challenges. Competitors faced extreme temperatures and unending deserts as they covered over 7,500 kilometres in 14 days
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Old Foes, New Technology
HONDA AND YAMAHA HAVE dominated premier-class Grand Prix racing for the last four decades, winning 33 of the last 36 riders’ world titles and 35 of the last 36 constructors’ titles. Honda entered the 500-cc class in 1966, contested two seasons, withd
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Yamaha
The top engine hangers are now huge alloy sections, designed for excellent longitudinal rigidity, for braking stability, and reduced lateral flex at full lean to copy the track surface better and improve turning. Some sections of the frame/swing-arm
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Live Long and Prosper
WE DREAM OF ITALIAN EXOTICA, JAPANESE ROCKETS, AND precision machines engineered by the Germans. Heroes like the TVS Radeon lack a few things in the formula for becoming a dream motorcycle but make up for it with sheer practicality for the everyday r

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