Jojo’s World

We (me & john) were having a coffee in Aanandamandiram hotel, Kottyam at 11.00 AM today. While enjoying the hot taste of tamilians coffee, John said “Hey daa, what if we go & ride the new Yamaha FZ-16?” As we had nothing to do for the next 1 hour, I said “Yes! y not? lets go & have fun!” after finishing the coffee & a single vada each we got out of hotel. I kicked the “synonym of power on the road” (Bullet) with John on its back! After making a little sound pranks that every bullet guys will do (especially in cities with a lot of beauties) I drove the naughty green horse through the “very low” traffic of Kottayam. A 15 mins ride was enough for us to reach the Yamaha service centre @ Kanjikuzhy. As I was expecting, I met the new beauty (FZ-16) from Yamaha family at the very entrance of service centre. It seemed like 3 beauty queens standing side by side on the fashion ramp wearing chilly red, metallic black & shining orange! An outstanding design from Yamaha with all features blended to make the youth fall in “Love @ first sight” We put sidestand of the “Wild Horse” without taking eyes from the 3 beauties! We went straight to the FZ-16 & had a close look! No doubt design is awesome but that doesn’t matter to me, I need both, sexy look & power performance! will i get? We met the service executive Mr.James & had a chat about the new lady of Yamaha. As Yamaha eyes purely on the market of Bajaj pulsar (me too own one!) I had its features rewinded to my mind for a damn comparison. So after going through all its features, I felt like Yamaha manged to override Pulsar in many aspects. The new FZ-16 is 160CC with more torque than pulsar of same class (pulsar 150). It has radial tyres on both sides & tyres are of giant sizes. Front tyre of FZ-16 has almost the size of back tyre of pulsar, so there’s no need to talk abt back! LOL! Front brake is disc (better than pulsar) & back is drum. They managed to keep the bikes weight 10 kg less than pulsar, might be to attract all types of people (but I beleive dry weight of pulsar – 136 Kg (atleast) is needed for good biking!) Yamaha says a fuel efficiency of 50 to 60 KM per litre for ideal conditions. So thats all in brief & I know you are waiting to hear its price..rite? On road it will cost 72K (Rs.72000) !

ATTRACTIONS!

• Sexy design & styling – especially the “catchy” big tank
• This time Yamaha managed to design the “back” of the beauty in a unique style – which was always a headache for their design parents!
• Radial tyres & powerful disc brakes – completely digitized display panel
• Good & smooth handling – Monoshock suspension
• More over the reliable “Yamaha Engine” which’s far far better than that of Bajaj will keep Yamaha “LIVE” in the competition – an “inch to inch” race with pulsar can be expected!

DRAWBACKS!

• Dry weight is less – 126 Kg
• In order to reduce weight Yamaha made most parts in fibre & the disaster is that they made silencer too in same fashion. Even in small accidents silencer of the bike will get damaged easily & this will keep the maintanence cost heavy!
• Length of bike will not match with pulsar but height is okay!
• Design of digital meter is not upto mark though its a fully digitized display!
• To end with, most dissapointing was its “sound” – I expected a “roar” atleast like pulsar but what I got is a “whrooom” like Honda activa – LOL! (First look @ that silencer gave me flashes of scooters like Activa)

Hmmm! We have finished playing with our eyes through out her body & we didn’t even missed the color of her nail polish! hehe! Now comes the real game – “a ride“ With feelings that I m gonna ride a horse just caught from the wild I got seated, placed my hands on the tough handles & I gave a gentle trigger! Oh noo, what a damn sound!!! Soon I realised that I was not even riding a village brought up horse! FZ-16 will not satisfy the driver in you! But It will give you a very smooth ride, with full performance of Yamaha engine!

The result is, FZ-16 will give you a very smooth ride but it will not give you power biking experiance! But the very sexy design & Yamaha’s trust made FZ-16 to come out to the Indian market with a label on its head ” I AM NEXT” – Yaa! No doubt FZ-16 will raise very heavy competition to Bajaj pulsar who still struggles in engine quality.

After giving back key of the FZ-16, I asked James “When can I get one if I book today?” James replied with a sad smile, “If you book today by paying 1000 rupees, most probably we can deliver you by Xmas” wow! “So theres a damn rush for this bike, isn’t it Mr.James?” … “Yaa jojo, We already have 70 bookings in pending & we only got 18 bikes from the company in its initial delivery”

Hahaha! So Bajaj’s be “alert” – The game has begun!!!!