Hello Guys
After driving my Pulsar 1000 Kms I am here to write about the bike, i was waiting for this day to put something about my bike. before i start with anything let me let you know which bikes i drove so far just because whatever i have written may be in comparison to those bikes i have allready driven, so the bikes i drove were Yamaha RX100, Yamaha YBX, Splendor, Honda Unicorn, TVS Apache, HH Karizma.
My initial thought was to buy performance bike so called HH Karizma but when i came to know its 17BHP against 16.5 for pulsar 180 i cancelled it and decided to wait till Pulsar 220cc comes and till than buy any 150cc bike, made choice on unicorn but after reading reviews here i changed by choice to Pulsar 150 DTSi self start and I recently finished 1000 Kms with the bike and below is what i know about my bike till now.
LOOKS
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Needless to say. right? everyone knows looks is great, sturdy. I like the look very much many of friends said why are you buying common bike but for me even Aishwariya Ray is common face seen everyday is much better than Rakhi Sawant seen seldom on TV.. hope i made my point. Looks is awesome no matter its common and its not even a reason that a good looking bike is everywhere that’s why we don’t deserve to have that look. Best thing i like about this bike that in the evenings when sun just start to rest, i switch on two pilot lamps both side of the head light and from front it looks like eyes of the bike, when i used to see other pulsars with such looks, i already dreamed to have one and now i have one.
PERFORMANCE
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Performance wise its great in 150cc segment, I haven’t drove upto its highest speed but cruising at 50-55 Km/hr is real joy of the bike, and reaching 50-55 from 0 is matter of less than 5 seconds. and engine doesn’t take that much stress too, i drove it upto 70 Km/pr and at that speed it doesn’t vibrate, drives steady with not much stress taken by engine. its good performer for everyone looking for city drive like me.
HANDLING
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Handles well, I mean very very well. Driving in city doing zig zag, sharp turns, breaking was never easy for me before. It has got 100/90 17" in rear which gives good road grip and no matter how sharp turn i have to take, I feel confidence just letting it do its job i just leaning and turning handle bar. and no fear in breaking haven’t got any skid yet onlything you need to break properly. when i use to drive 70 Km/ph i don’t feel i am on such good speed, it handles speed very well with great grip on road and being so stable and vibration free.
MILAGE
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I am wondering to have 55-57 Kmpl on this bike, i never thought i would get this much but pulsar is package of power and economy.
QUALITY OF PARTS
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I didn’t like headlight beam of this bike, i felt apache light was very bright comparing to this. except that parts are well built, quality looks great, during 1000 kms i have no problems, no unwanted sounds from bike even on very rough roads at 50 km/hr speeds. Another thing which is not real good is read suspensions, i feel they don’t work, but i am happy in the way when my wife sits a pillion and tell me that she feels too confirtable on this bike than any other bike i rode before. so as all says, rear shocks work better with pillion only. people alwyas talk about Gear Box, i would accept that gear box is not best quality but its not as bad as people as narrated (atleast not in new versions) i never had any problems with gear box so far.
MISC THINGS
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There are several other items I loved and i would like to mention, one of the thing i really liked is position of ideling screw a big screw near carburator is given and you can setup idle with your hands without looking for screw driver without having any knowledge of it, that really helps to keep bike ideling to the recommended RPM.
The fuel tank cap is desiged very good, and there is small tap covering keyhole which is nice protecting water leaking inside the tank. a mudguard given on back wheel is fragile but it does’t have any stress coming on it so its OK but looks nice there.
handle grip is really nice and thin and accelator is very smooth just little act on right hand moves bike so hard. i love it. and lower handle bar gives more confident while riding.
CONCLUSION
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This bike is for everyone who’s looking for nice bike with decent fuel economy nice handling, good breaking quality and riding quality, and to make everyone sure that this bike is not as confirtable as Unicorn while riding if your riding posture is not right but Unicorn gives you confirt at your riding posture it doesn’t ask you for any special posture that’s bigget benifit i found, but i don’t find myself in any trouble with pulsar. just take longer test ride and feel it and if you find confirtable than this bike is for you.
ALSO if i am missing to comment about anything let me know i will update the review right away.
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