Two Wheelers News

Honda Two Wheelers has announced its tie up with HDFC Ergo as its preferred insurance partner. The two companies have signed an MOU with regards to the same. The benefit to all Honda Two Wheeler customers will be that HDFC Ergo will provide customers with aggressive insurance premium. Also, customers can save up to 40 per cent on the 'own-damage' premium over the erstwhile tariff.

Aprilia has finally launched the SR 150 in India. Needless to say it is the most radical looking scooter in India at present. Aprilia has kept the introductory pricing of the SR 150 at Rs. 65,000 (Ex-Showroom, Delhi).

Ducati is working on expanding the Scrambler family even further with a more powerful engine and is coming up with a flagship version powered by a 1200cc motor.

Achieving a new milestone in the country, India Yamaha Motor (IYM) produced its one-millionth scooter at the company's Surajpur facility in Greater Noida. The one-millionth scooter to roll off the assembly line is the very popular 'Fascino', which has been one of the company's best selling models ever since it was launched last year.

With more and more new products launching almost every month in the premium motorcycle segment, here are some of the top imported bike sold in India.

Royal Enfield is riding a wave and enjoying much success from its recently launched Himalayan seeing a demand of 1000+ motorcycles a month. This has boosted earnings at Eicher Motors for the first quarter of the current fiscal. Consolidated net profit in Q1 stood at Rs. 376.3 crore, which is a generous jump of 58.7 per cent from the same quarter a year ago. Here is the real kicker - of that profit a solid Rs.337.1 crore (or 89.5 per cent!) came from the motorcycle business.

Riding gearless scooters from the age of sixteen could soon be legal as a group of ministers have forwarded a proposal to the parliament to allow license for scooters after 16 years of age.

The Activa has now officially become the highest selling two-wheeler in India by having beaten the Hero Splendor for the last 6 months. This is the first time in 17 years that this has happened.