Bikes Reviews

Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) has stopped sales of the Honda CBR150R and the Honda CBR250R motorcycles. The two models have already been taken off the company's website and are no longer available on sale, although they haven't been discontinued. HMSI officials said that the two motorcycles are yet to be upgraded to meet the Bharat Stage IV (BS IV) emission norms which came into effect from April 1, 2017.

TVS Motor Company has been involved in the development of an all-new scooter, which is going to be launched in the second half of 2017. Although company officials are tight-lipped about this new model, it is expected to be a completely new scooter with a 125 cc engine. The new motorcycle to be launched is the TVS Apache RTR 310, which will be launched sometime in July 2017.

The new Benelli showroom in Pune is the third in the city and 25th across India. Motowheels, which sells Benelli bikes under the Benelli brand in India, plans to increase its showroom footprint to 40 across the country by the end of 2017.

KTM is all set to bring out an updated version of the 1290 Super Duke GT, sometime in 2018. If you look at the spy shots that we have, you will see that the headlamp unit resembles that of the Super Duke R, but is a tad more bulbous and juts out more. Keeping in mind its touring abilities, the windscreen has been made slightly bigger and has been mounted higher and no doubt, it will deflect the wind better off the rider. We guess that is why the rider is wearing a jacket with lots of equipment, to measure the windblast.

According to Reuters, VW has started reaching out to potential buyers for Ducati, including India's Hero MotoCorp and a few China-based firms. The move is seen as an attempt by VW to raise funds to pay for the shift to develop electric vehicles and new mobility services following the diesel emissions scandal

The soon-to-be launched TVS Apache RTR 310 has been spotted testing on a dyno and the latest images are the clearest we have seen of the production-ready model.

We pit two 110 cc automatic scooters on the spec sheet against each other - the best-selling Honda Activa 4G and the Hero Maestro Edge. Both scooters are evenly matched with similar engines and near identical output. Does the Hero Maestro Edge have what it takes to take the fight to the market leader?

In March 2017 alone, Yamaha grew by 27 per cent, selling 76,144 units. In the entire financial year (April 2016-March 2017), Yamaha sold over 7.8 lakh two-wheelers, with scooter sales accounting for 56 per cent of those numbers