TVS Jive first ride review and road test

TVS gives you a reason to Jive as you drive through chaotic traffic

Words: Amit Chhangani

Photography: Eshan Shetty

The Jive should give us Indians riding on the most miserly two-wheelers in the world a reason to rejoice. After about 30 years of clinically copying a Japanese design to the T for making commuter machines in India, I see something that can be termed innovative in the functional sense of the word. The Jive is a new experience for the commuter rider. It’s a different bike. It’s not revolutionary, but it’s ingenious. It’s not ground breaking, but it’s substantial enough to make the competition think and act fast. It’s not about a discovery or an invention, it’s about application. The Jive is proof that TVS is a company of thinking people who are not afraid to experiment.

So what is it about the Jive that makes me go gaga over it? Didn’t we have one Hero Honda Street which featured a similar tech and which bombed miserably? What’s so much to rave and rant about the Jive’s clutch-less rotary gearbox? Well, I think the Street featured a novel tech on a platform which wasn’t very popular with the Indians. And just because no one else had the wisdom to incorporate the tech on a conventional platform doesn’t mean that there was no need for it. With the Jive, TVS have done just the right thing – introduce the technology where it is actually required.

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