Flying Kinetics!

Kinetic sent out this release today…
Buy a Kinetic scooter this festive season, get two roundtrip air tickets to anywhere in India Mumbai, October 11, 2007: Kinetic Motor, pioneers of gearless scooters in India, is celebrating the festive season by offering two roundtrip [...]

Norick Abe: 1975-2007

It’s taken me a day to come to grips with it, which is why this obituary comes so late. Norifumi Abe, popularly known as Norick Abe, burst into the 500cc class with a wild, wild ride as a wildcard at the 1994 Japanese GP. He left quite an impression, and I’m not just talking about [...]

Suzuki Access 125: More Info

Like I promised, here is the official word on the Suzuki Access.
The Access 125, the latest offering from Suzuki has set new benchmarks in technology, benchmarks, and styling to address the growing demand to fill the existing gap between the 100 and 150 cc scooters in India. The mid-sized scooter Access 125 is sporty and [...]

Just a ride home

The end of the day began as a perfectly normal beginning of the end of the day. The Blaze, my ride for the day, trinned to an uneven sort of start without problems. The ride home was uneventful to the extreme (just like yours Sriku), the Blaze surprising me with the amount of grip it [...]

TVS Scooty Teens EV: The full details

I don’t have a pic yet, but it doesn’t look any different from the usual Scooty, so that pic, is a normal Scooty Teenz – that’s the remodelled original Scooty with a few bits and bobs, slashes and stuff. The text is from TVS
Scooty Teenz ELECTRIC VEHICLEThe new Scooty Teenz Electric Vehicle has been designed [...]

Kinetic Flyte: First details

Sorry about not posting more content recently, but it’s been a bit wild at the office. Here’s the release on the new Kinetic Flyte, the first Sym scooter for India.
It gives us great pleasure to introduce the first two-wheeler from the Kinetic-Sym association – the Kinetic SYM Flyte. We believe that Flyte takes the scooter [...]

Domestic sales: Stats from SIAM

I’ve always had trouble finding sales numbers. So I decided to post what I’ve got. Data is courtesy of SIAM. The graphs are OpenOffice. Any mistakes are mine, and mine alone. In case there are errors, I will try to fix the graphs, failing which, I will mark the errors in bold red in the [...]

Domestic sales: Stats from SIAM

I’ve always had trouble finding sales numbers. So I decided to post what I’ve got. Data is courtesy of SIAM. The graphs are OpenOffice. Any mistakes are mine, and mine alone. In case there are errors, I will try to fix the graphs, failing which, I will mark the errors in bold red in the [...]

Bipasha Basu to endorse Kinetic scooters

Oh nooo. rearset’s plan to start selling a line of Indian-made scooters (actually copies of Chinese copies of European scooters) has come to nought even before it began. The hunt for an appropriate brand ambassador began, but it seems all the prospective act-stresses are already taken. Preity Zinta was gobbled up by TVS, Priyanka by [...]

Hero Honda Pleasure: Freshened up

Hero Honda announced that it managed to hold dropping sales to -8.4 per cent over the year. Selling 2.55 lakh bikes, India’s biggest bike maker is still selling around a lakh more than Bajaj, and reported 50+ per cent market share as well. Hidden in the release though was the news of a re-freshed new [...]