All the latest happenings in the Indian bike industry, latest information on new bikes launches and what the grapevine has about the bikes to hit the Indian market, BikesMedia's news section covers it all.
Everything seemed to be going on very good for Erik Buell after they had partnered with Hero, who had bought 49% stake in them until April 17th 2015 when disaster struck. It came as a shock, not just for the company, but also for everyone when EBR announced that they are closing the company as they went totally bankrupt due to very little/no funding.
Bajaj Auto Ltd is playing the cards of relaunching their once used to be best seller models in Indian market. After relaunching the entry level "CT-100" now Bajaj silently launched "Discover 125" in its old attire, the company updated their site with this entrant as "New Discover 125".
You read it first at BikesIndia, Honda has officially asked main dealers in Metropolitan cities to start taking bookings. We called up few of them and confirmed that it is true. The booking amount is Rs 50,000/- and the bike is expected to be launched by this month end/next month.
Honda recently have started posting teasers of a tank with a 3D Honda badge. We further got images from the below website of banners being put up in showrooms for promotional activities. The last thing being the theme "TIME TO LIVE" makes us pretty much assured that this is sure to be the all new Livo (well almost sure).
We recently got a picture floating on Facebook of the Honda CBR650F being spotted in an Indore showroom. On further investigating, we found out that it was taken by a technician when they were called for training. So Honda calling technicians for training, definitely means that the launch date is nearing.
Your read it first here at BikesIndia. Yamaha India has imported a new scooter, code-named XC155 for R&D purpose. We worked on the story and found out that it's actually another scooter from Yamaha, named worldwide as Majesty S and Majesty SMAX, depending on the countries it's being sold.
In a race which could be the last Saturday race in the history of Grand Prix racing, Valentino Rossi won at Assen. In a battle which went all the way down the wire, Marc Marquez went in too hot at the last chicane to overtake Rossi, causing him to cut the corner and take victory.
Valentino Rossi secured his first pole position of 2015, the first one after Valencia 2014 by breaking the old lap record. The 36 year old Italian set a scorching 1:32.627 laptime with over a minute and a half to spare. The qualifying session was action packed for the last couple of minutes, with the whole grid being changed by faster laptimes.
Here we have, the first completely sans-camouflaged pictures of the 2016 Speed Triple, spotted near the company's factory in England. As we can see in the pictures, the changes to the 2016 model looks like it gets a complete overall both in terms of design and technology.
Honda Motorcycles and scooters India (HMSI) has updated the current lineup of scooters Aviator and Activa-i. The 2015 Aviator and Activa-i is considered as remaining two more launches out of promised 16 launches this calendar year. Including these two models Honda has now already launched 8 new two-wheeler models in just 6 months.