STAR POWER!
Motoring World|January 2022
A nostalgic investigation into the worthiness of the newest Pulsar. Will it light up your world as brightly as the 180?
Kartik Ware
STAR POWER!

The two Pulsars stood side by side, their motors idling in unison. Their reverberations infused the air with a sporty beat, and it was incredible to note how the original and the latest motorcycles sounded so similar. That’s when I knew for sure the Pulsar spirit pioneered by the 180 was truly alive again in the N250, enough for a cheesy reincarnation reference. And I couldn’t be happier. You see, the Pulsar 180 was my first bike and I learnt life on it. And when I was handed the key to this beautiful one that lives at Bajaj’s Akurdi facility, memories from 20 years ago came flooding back. The 180 will always be the reason why I keep falling in love with motorcycles again and again.

What makes a Pulsar a Pulsar? For me, it was always all about solid and clean shapes, a torquey motor, a flickable short wheelbase, and fun down to the bones. I just defined the Pulsar 180 there, and I can imagine how difficult it might have been for Bajaj engineers to take all those attributes and mix them with the dreary demons… er, demands of ‘customer insights’. I looked at the company’s first 100/90 rear tyre on the 180, the very same that my youth once pushed its luck on, and wondered if market surveys could ever match original out-of-the-box ideas. That’s what Pulsars after the first one were missing, in my opinion. And my bias is only as real and deep as the Pulsar 180’s character.

この記事は Motoring World の January 2022 版に掲載されています。

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この記事は Motoring World の January 2022 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。