Being a pulsar fan from start I have owned all the models of Pulsar (except 220cc) .Comparimg with the old pulsar with round headlight all the 150cc are worthless - no power , less weight and comparitively short. I saw this bike at my friends place and had a ride without any delay . This was my greatest mistake as I was totally impressed by the looks and pick up .I bought this bike (blue colour) on 15th July 2008 and started using it for my daily office route .First the mileage I got from this bike was around 25-30 km/ltr as my route was full of traffic , after doing all the three servicing the mileage just increase by 5km/ltr.
After crossing 5000 km the front shock abosorber got a crack and oil started leaking .i have shown the same to the service guy and came to know that this was the major problem in the 200cc segment.After a few days the chain started getting loosen every now and then for which I need to regularly visit the garage .the digital meter suddenly stops working and was to be replaced by a new meter costing around 1800Rs.
The front pannel attached to the tank are deattachable and can be easily taken out without any hurdles, no kick that means if u get stuck in rain or ur battery gets drain then u prepare urself to push down ur bike till the next garage (better to joing a gym before buying it ). the pulsar sticker is of very poor quality and fells down after a few months.I will not quote mileage as this bike is not for those who need average .
Overall I will say that intsead of putting 78k in this bike u better go for a karizma or a unicorn