Before even I start writing this, I knew many of them would tear me apart after reading this review; for them - Friends, as morpheous tells Neo in the movie ’Matrix’ : You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. How true when we apply the same on this machine!!! How many of them are ready to take the Red pill here? Mostly, no one.
Before I start - Can someone tell me why we are praising this machine a lot? just one reason anyone? Is it really worth to keep it on our head and dance? Is it really worth of spending a lac plus on this bike? When Harley Davidson did a market research in India, they said, their competitor is only RE Bullets because of it’s history but not in any other sense. Nice.. wonderful.. but can someone care to tell me what the heck I do with that history?
Pros (based on my own experience) -
Seating Comfort
Chromy Looks
History
Cons (based on my own experience) -
Oil Leakages
Huge Oil & Labour costs
Pathetic service
unavailability of spares
Vibrations
Frequent adjustments are required
less mileage
No resale value
What the heck I do with the history?
Just look at the above; you can clearly see that the cons are easily out weighing the Pros.. Many of them are aware of these facts however they still don’t accept them and blindly fight with people who says anything about this / their machine. If you see, people who owns Suzuki or Honda may not keep a name or develop any attachment; however those who owns this piece of machine keep a name and love it more than anything else; weird! All for what? Even god wont know the reason. Even for oil leakages, these die hard fans says - it’s just not a leak, the bull is marking its territory.. my foot.
Finally, I would like to say for those who say I don’t know anything about this bike - I own this Machismo 350 bike, spent / still spending a lot of my hard earned money to keep it running.. If you ask - then why the heck you don’t sell it? Man, I bought this s for 1 Lac and I’m getting offers for 50K after 3.5 yrs!!! So guys, please think not twice or thrice but at least 100 times before even spending money on RE products. Rather than demanding RE to provide the best machine, if we continue to blindly support them then they don’t do any good other than mass producing these failure machines in more numbers. Please wake up and demand for the best.