Can a Street Bike, Super Sports and a Sports Tourer.. honestly be compared..??
A casual search over the internet will land you on many virtual/keyboard comparo between the KTM 200 Duke, Yamaha R15 and CBR250R, courtesy auto blogs and sites. Even not actually seen the models in flesh (forget riding them) doesn’t deter these online gurus to give you expert gyan.
Comparing a "Street Bike" (200 Duke) with a "Race Track Focussed Bike" (R15) and a "Sports Touring Bike" (CBR250R) is as useless an exercise as trying to find out which a better student between someone who is "brilliant in science" with one who excells in "sports" and another who is great in "fine arts" (in no particular order).
Blogs have freedom of speech and are free to publish whatever they want. But pick up a couple of this month's reputed "desi" auto publications.. and voila similar comparisons have been published in these reputed publications as well..!!
I trust our auto journalists to know better that comparing these models are like trying to compare the proverbial "chalk and cheese". But one can't really blame them as they are merely playing to the gallery.
Actually even the audience at the gallery aren't to be blamed as these models (200 Duke, R15, CBR250R etc.) are nothing but "Premium Commuters" (a.k.a glorified commuters). Super Sports, Sports Tourers, Steetfighter.. whatever. At the end of the day, they are all used for commuting right..??
Comparo of "Premium/Glorified Commuters" in that case isn't that illogical.
I trust our auto journalists to know better that comparing these models are like trying to compare the proverbial "chalk and cheese". But one can't really blame them as they are merely playing to the gallery.
Actually even the audience at the gallery aren't to be blamed as these models (200 Duke, R15, CBR250R etc.) are nothing but "Premium Commuters" (a.k.a glorified commuters). Super Sports, Sports Tourers, Steetfighter.. whatever. At the end of the day, they are all used for commuting right..??
Comparo of "Premium/Glorified Commuters" in that case isn't that illogical.
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