The Haulay Haulay Bikes!
Country’s best lightweight contenders come together for a three way battle
Words: Mihir Gadre
Photography: Eshan Shetty
This story is about three prospective first time bike owners, Mr. Mukharjee, Mr. Rathore and Mr. Deshpande. On the left is poor Mr. Pradeep Mukharjee, a marketing executive, who was ordered by his wife to pick up ‘few things’ from Big Bazaar, on his way home from the office. His ancient Bajaj Priya has given up on him yet again. He desperately needs a new bike. At the centre is Amit Singh Rathore, a free spirit. Moved to the city a year back, owns a small business that is picking up rather well, and parties hard every night until the bars shut down. He wanted to buy a Karizma or at least a Pulsar. But thanks to the recessionary times doesn’t have the cash for anything above 45k. On the right is Mr. Mihir Dixit, just graduated and works (not really, he is on bench) in a big software company. He is fed-up of waiting for company bus and has a fat pay packet. He can easily afford a bigger bike. But he doesn’t really have any inkling towards performance. He just wants a bike that will be completely hassle-free to own and run, just an interim solution until he can afford a car.
Motoroids being deeply concerned about these three lost souls, decided to help them chose the right set of wheels. We tested the bikes extensively on the traffic logged and pothole strewn streets of the city for a week. And then to push things to their limits; we took them out for a spin (a rather long one, 200 kms.) on the worst possible roads to inflict a months worth of wear and tear on them in a single day.
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