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Marc Marquez seizes victory at the Indianapolis GP for the fifth successive time, completing a hat trick of wins at the Indy circuit. The Spaniard kept his calm as he held second place behind Jorge Lorenzo for a long time, before jumping into the lead towards the end of the race.
Marc Marquez dominated right from day 1, leading almost all the practice sessions except for one. His reversion to the 2014 chassis has proven to be a great decision, as the Reigning world champion found his long lost form right from Assen. His astonishingly fast lap earned him a fifth consecutive pole position at Indianapolis (2x Moto2, 3x MotoGP), with a 1:31.884 lap.
Team BikesIndia was present at the event, where the President & CEO, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd- Keita Muramatsu and Senior Vice President– Y. S. Guleria were also present. In a conversation with BI, when asked about the launch of CBR 300R in India, Guleria said that we will reach to CBR 300R gradually as we are bringing many new products to India.
In a rather disappointing manner Honda Motorcycles & Scooters India (HMSI) has showcased the updated 2015 models of existing CBR 250R and CBR 150R. At the event called as Revfest by Honda today at capital city unveiled the refreshed CBR250R and CBR150R and not the all new models with power tweak and face lift as they have already done in countries like Indonesia.
Today Honda has surprised us all with the showcase of new CB Hornet 160R. The new “CB Hornet 160R” is based on the same platform as of CB Unicorn 160, although the technical details are not shared by the company but the bike most probably will share the same 162.72cc single cylinder long-stroke engine. The engine would be mated to 5-speed manual transmission and capable to produce 14.7 Ps of power at 8000 Rpm and 14.6 Nm of Torque at 6000 Rpm.
Honda has showcased the legendary MotoGP bike at the press meet going on for the commencement of Revfest. There are four bikes to be launched today by Honda and here the Honda CBR 650F is already launched at a fair price of Rs 7,30,000 (Ex-showroom, Delhi).
Honda Motorcycles & Scooters India (HMSI) has launched the much touted “Make In India” sports tourer- Honda CBR 650F. Today at New Delhi in a launch event organized exclusively for media where the commencement of “Revfest” is also announced with the launch of CBR 650F.
Honda Motorcycles & Scooters India (HMSI) is going to launch multiple motorcycles on coming 4th of August'15. In an official communication Honda has disclosed that they are going to organize a grand event on the aforementioned date, where they will not only launch the much awaited Honda CBR 650F but also many other motorcycles.
Triumph Motorcycles India has launched all new "Tiger 800XR", in a spree of launches Triumph India has already launched two very capable adventure sport bikes- Tiger 800XRx and Tiger 800XCx. In an official communication Triumph Motorcycles India has told us about the latest launch.
At last after the open auction of EBR being postponed Hero MotoCorp has entered into a settlement agreement with receiver appointed by the Circuit court of USA. It is now clear that Hero MotoCorp is going to own some of the remaining assets of Erik Buell Racing including their complete and certain incomplete product units along with EBR's research and development rights.