10 THIS MONTH WE CARRY TWO comparative tests. In one we have THE pitted the new Hyosung 250 Comet R BIKE India Magazine, 401B, Gandhi Empire, against the bike of the year, Honda 5th Floor, 2 Serene Estate, Kondhwa Road, Pune 411 040. INDIA CBR 250R, and in the other the all-new Tel: +91-20-32930291 / 2 Fax: +91-20-26830465 Honda CBR 150 against the Yamaha Email us at:
[email protected] R15. We also carry the report of a EDITOR Aspi Bhathena RIGHT LINE ASSISTANT EDITOR Sarmad Kadiri comprehensive road test of the COPY EDITOR Deepak Upadhye Maestro scooter from Hero MotoCorp. EDITOR AT LARGE Navroze Contractor MOTOGP EDITOR Mat Oxley The Comet R is the same motorcycle SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Adhish Alawani that was sold by Kinetic back in the CORRESPONDENT Ravi Chandnani SENIOR STAFF WRITER Saeed Akhtar 1990s. The air-cooled, four-valve, V- STAFF WRITERS Sridhar Chari, Rommel Albuquerque, Piyush Sonsale, twin engine is a copy of the Honda VT Gasha Aeri Alawani, Mohnish Bose 250 from the 1980s minus the liquid ART DIRECTOR Ramnath Chodankar SENIOR DESIGNER Ravi Parmar cooling. The Comet is going to find it DESIGNERS Varun Kulkarni, difficult to compete with the likes of Santosh Wadhai, Shajib Shamim SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Sanjay Raikar the CBR 250 and Kawasaki Ninja 250 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS DPPI with its dated technology. PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE Dinesh Bhajnik ADMIN. EXECUTIVE Roshni Bulsara CREATIVE DIRECTOR & HEAD PRODUCTION THE COMET IS GOING TO Atul Bandekar FIND IT DIFFICULT TO EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Hoshang S Billimoria, Aspi Bhathena, COMPETE WITH THE LIKES Navroze Contractor OF THE CBR 250R AND PUBLISHER Marzban Jasoomani MARKETING & SUBSCRIPTION HEAD OFFICE KAWASAKI NINJA 250 WITH Next Gen Publishing Ltd.