The Pulsars

With Bajaj's flagship biking brand in the midst of some rapid morphing in terms of features, upgrades & models, I thought I'd take a snapshot for keepsakes. Sort of like what they do in case of databases before a release. So here goes ....

First up is the lightest entrant in the lineup, ...


... the 135 LS. Said to possess 15bhp on a dry weight of 120 kilos, it's got a power-to-weight ratio better than some 150s currently in the market. No wonder it's been a hot seller since the launch.

Then, the original, ....


.... the 150. Now sporting clip-ons in UG IV guise.

The 180 soldiers on ....


.... with a miniscule price difference from the 150. The all black styling which this model spawned has now spread all over the Indian biking scene. So much so, that the 135 LS was launched with the 'conventional' silver engine to differentiate it from the clutter.

The 200 is dead.

The 220 ...


.... now comes sans fuel injection but with an 'F' attached to the monicker, at an unbelievable ~80k on road price. Launched in August 2009, being billed as the 'Fastest Indian' with a whacky ad to back it up, I haven't seen too many of these on the road.

And the newest member of the pack ...


... the 220 'S' for StreetFighter. Evrything from the 220 'F' bar the projectors. Looks killer.

So it's a whole family of models now. Who'd have thunk it when they launched it?