After doing more than 4000 km, including two journeys of 300+ km, I’ve got to know my Avenger fairly well. And I wish I’d bought a Karisma, or even a Unicorn. Below are some of the problems I’ve had.
If you buy your bike at a non-ProBiking outlet, you don’t get an engine warranty.
The manual sucks. It’s got factual errors (it’s got the location of the engine number wrong, for instance) and lots of typos, the paper is see-through. Mind you, this is a piece of paper that’s got to last five years: the length of the engine warranty.
The right hand side vibrates a lot more than it should. The dealer says it doesn’t. Fact is, it vibrates so much it shakes the mirror loose on the right-hand-side.
Mileage at any speed upto 60 kph is good. Over that, it’s the pits.
Performance is poor. Top speed is about 105kph but at this speed it gives you just 30-32 kpl.
The bike is really uncomfortable on poor roads. It gives you a backache like nobody’s business.
Leave it alone for more that two days and you have to fight to get the engine going. Kick 20 times with the choke on for the first sign of life.
I contacted someone called Amit Pawar at Bajaj with some of these problems. He hasn’t got back to me yet.
So if anyone from Bajaj looks up this review, pal, your product sucks. Never buy a Bajaj again.
This is added after 12, 000 km. The speedometer cable broke thrice. The bike is shit, man, for a serious biker. If you just want the appearance and style of a cruiser, small and substandard, this is for you.