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Hero Honda to launch all New Hunk

Hero Honda is all set to launch the New 2010 Hunk. It is expcted to be launched in few days. Hero Honda New Hunk appears to be a decent looking motorcycle with its small fairing and has tank shrouds.

Changes/Additional features of New 2010 Hero Honda Hunk:

- Rear Disc Brake
- Digital and Analog Speedometer with clear fonts
- All New visor
- All New front fender
- Tubeless tyres
- LED tail lamps
- Attractive graphics on the tank
- Bull Logo on tank shrouds
- Maintenance-free battery

The tank shrouds are big and New Hunk’s tank has good knee recess. Similar to some popular international bikes, New Hunk’s telescopic fork is golden in colour. This nicely gels with the 5 spoke black alloy wheels. The gas holder of the rear suspension is also golden. Hero Honda’s New Hunk embraces the contemporary black theme – the handlebar weight, alloy wheels, silencer guard and the grab rail of the New Hunk are painted black. Suspension is through telescopic fork at the front and the rear suspension is a 5 step adjustable gas charged one.

New Hero Honda Hunk is expected to feature digital plus analogue instrument cluster which is the latest trend among premium bikes. New Hunk’s battery is the same 12V-7Ah and the ignition is through AMI(Advanced Microprocessor Ignition). New Hunk’s engine is same as the X-Treme’s 4 stroke 150cc engine. It develops 14bhp at 8500rpm of power and 12.8Nm of Torque. Hunk’s 150cc engine is mated with a conventional 5speed gearbox. Similar to the TVS CVTi engine the Hunk’s 150cc engine produces tumble induction for efficient burning which means more efficiency.

Yamaha India stops the production of G5, Gladiator and Alba

Today Yamaha India announced the close the production of of G5 and Alba (both 106cc) and Gladiator.Also Yamaha made it clear that the models won’t be upgraded to BSIII norms. Yamaha launched the three new bikes in last week for the Indian Market, so company want to concentrate more on the new launched, said by Yamaha India.

Suzuki India Launches Slingshot in India

Suzuki India has launched the Slingshot in India. Its is powered by a 124cc engine and is available in two variants – Slingshot Alloy and Slingshot Spoke. Both the models are kick start and have drum brakes. The prices are Rs. 53000 for the alloy variant and Rs. 51000 for the spoke variant. In terms of design and styling the SlingShot 125 looks very plain jane and simple in comparison to other bikes available in this segment like recently launched Pulsar 135 and even the smaller segemnt bike – CB Twister looks better than the SlingShot 125. The instrument cluster of Suzuki SlingShot 125 is plain jane with a large speedometer and fuel gauge with other tell tales on right side of speedometer.