First let me introduce myself. I am Rahul Kharade from mumbai. Age 22. I decided to buy bike which gives me best milage in feb 2004. At that time tvs just launched its new tvs centra with funky features (like vti engine, 100 km/l, better look etc). and even better price. I bought it from numeer eins-mumbai at mrp (on road) @42650. right now mrp is Rs 44375.
In 100 cc bike I had 4 choices.
1.hero honda splender+ -price arond Rs47000.
second one is passion+ @49000 &
third one is baja boxer ct (k-tech) @39300.
So I decided to buy tvs centra by taking too much risk (because that time I could not find any single review of bike). So I booked my tvs centa on 20th feb 2004. & my bike is delivered to me on 8th march (MH-02-AE-7432). For first 1000 km I never crossed 40km/hr. becuse of run in period. That time I got average beteen 60-62 at every time.
First let me tell you the driving conditions. My 60% runnig is on main roads.10 to 15% on inner roads & 25-30% on highways. From first day pepole askes me about average. By telling them 60/62 average they could not satisfy. Even me also. So I waited up to first servicing. But average remain same. Even I asked 7/8 centra pepole about their average.
Their average is 65-75. So I frusted that why bike is giving me 60 not 70. Even my friends told me it must be 70-75. So I told them it must give at least more than 94-95km/l in ideal conditioned. & decided to take test drive in ideal conditioned. For this I want the proper place where I can drive continiously at 40 km/hr.(idle speed of centra is 40). So I decided mumbai ahmedabad road for my test drive.
So I took exact 1 ltre (speed) petrol bottle with me. & on 9th june at 4:45 am I started my journey from andheri on 2378 km on my speedometre. But actually my journey started on 5 am. Because on 5 am it comes on reserved at the metre reading 2385. So I took metre reading as 2385 and filled exact 1 ltre petol in fuel tank which was in bottle.
And started my journey by maintaining constant speed of 40 km/hr. First 65 km I did not decrase or increase speed or a single break. After 75 kms I took u turn and started my journey returned to the mumbai. At the metre reading 2487 it comes on reserved. And I shouted happily. Because I got average of 102 km/ltr.
Now I don’t have any complaint. My all doughts are cleared.
THANK YOU TVS
YOURS FAITHFULLY
RAHUL KHARADE