Maintenance of bike is cheap as compared to any other brands of 150 to 400 cc bikes break pads, other parts are cheap and reliable eg for r15 the disc pads cost more then rs. 900, where as in ns 200 its just rs. 400 for both front and back, sprocket cost less than 2000 rs, while in r15, cbr, duke its above rs. 3500. And I done have more than 50000 kms. In any other bike it will more than rs. 6000.