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Hero-BMW Funduro 650 Hero once sold India’s “first” real ADV bike, in the form of the Funduro 650? Yes, this bike was priced at a princely 5 lakh rupees back in 1996. By Indian standards, 48 Bhp was a lot of power that this bike put out, but it bombed. The reason is easy to see. The market simply wasn’t ready to afford a motorcycle that competed with the Maruti Esteem in terms of pricing. Royal Enfield Mini Bullet For those who found the 350cc Bullet too heavy, Royal Enfield came up with an alternate: the Mini Bullet. The smaller bike featured a 200 cc two stroke engine, and was intended to rival the upcoming Indo-Japanese 100cc two stroke motorcycles that were soon to be launched. The Mini Bullet never really took off, which explains why you may have never heard of, or seen one. Rajdoot GTS The Honda NAVi isn’t India’s first mini-bike. That status firmly belongs to the Rajdoot GTS, a bike that borrowed the 175 cc two stroke engine and a 3 speed gearbox from the regular Rajdoot. The GTS acquired a sizeable fan following after the movie Bobby featured it, with Rishi Kapoor riding the bike to serenade Dimple Kapadia. Royal Enfield Explorer Royal Enfield collaborated up with German bike maker Zundapp, for a brief period of time in the 1980s, and the Explorer was a result of this collaboration. The Explorer featured a 50 cc, two stroke air cooled engine and a 3 speed manual gearbox Yezdi 350 Ideal Jawa could never really match Escorts-Yamaha and its RD350, but the Indo-Czech motorcycle brand did try hard. The Yezdi 350 was one such effort from the Mysore based bike maker. The Yezdi 350 featured a two stroke parallel twin petrol engine with 21 Bhp on tap. It was no patch on the RD350, and wasn’t really bought by those who wanted to go fast. Bajaj SX Enduro Bajaj used to sell a two stroke bike called the Kawasaki RTZ100. The SX Enduro was essentially an on-road bike based on the RTZ100. However, the Enduro just featured off road styling and didn’t really benefit from better suspension or a more power state of tune for the 100cc engine. Royal Enfield Fury Royal Enfield’s short lived tie up with German bike maker Zundapp saw the Indian brand building the Fury, a 163 cc two stroke engined bike that was meant to compete with the Yamaha RX100. The Fury used a hydraulic disc brake, a 5 speed manual gearbox, and a hard chromed cylinder barrel. Kinetic GF170 Laser The GF170 Laser was the most powerful bike that Kinetic ever built for the Indian market. The bike was powered by a 165 cc four stroke petrol engine with 14.8 Bhp-14.2 Nm. A five speed manual gearbox was standard on the bike, and so were 4 valves/cylinder. Yamaha RD 350 The Rajdoot 350, or RD 350, is a two-stroke Yamaha motorcycle made in India by Escorts group from 1983 to 1989.7-port two stroke parallel twin engine, Yamaha's patented Torque Induction System using reed valves, 6-speed transmission, autolube system, mechanical tachometer, 12 V electrics and 0-60 km/h in less than 4 seconds. In the interest of cost, the front disc brake of the RD350B was substituted with a 7" twin leading shoe drum brake from the Yamaha RD250. Rajdoot 350 was made in two models - 'High Torque (HT)' and 'Low Torque (LT)'. 'High Torque (HT)' The HT was made from 1983 to 1985 (until 1989 for Government). It develops a respectable 30.5bhp@6750 rpm, detuned from 39 bhp (29 kW) by restricting the exhaust ports of the Yamaha RD350B. Some HTs have mufflers with flatter ends. HT exhausts make the raucous "RD growl" compared to the more toned-down LT beat. 'Low Torque (LT)' LT was made from 1985 to 1989. It develops only 27 bhp (20 kW) because the exhaust ports are restricted even further. Carburetors are jetted small in the interest of fuel economy. All LTs have the left engine cover marked "Made in India". The mufflers have slightly tapered or conical ends. The build quality is inferior to that of the HT models.[citation needed] The only notable upgrades to the LT in 1988 was slightly stiffer front forks in 1989. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Time Is Now by HookSounds http://www.hooksounds.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ioyaTll2r-E