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Hero Honda Motors Ltd. (HHML) on Wednesday rolled out its fourth offering in the 150 cc motorcycle segment — Hunk — with a starting price of Rs. 55,000 (ex-showroom Delhi).

The earlier offerings in the premium segment are: 156 cc CBZ Xtreme, 150 cc Achiever and 225 cc Karizma. At present, the company has a 15-20 per cent share in the premium bike segment.

Two versions of Hunk, kick-start and self-start, are being offered. While the former carries a price tag of Rs. 55,000, the later will be available for Rs. 57,000.

Already talks about it and specially its name, Hero Honda could have used some better name. Well, Hunk is still, if you look into dictionary then it is a very manly word.

This machine has almost similar power and torque to CBZ xtreme, ie. 14.2bhp at 8500 rpm and 12.8 nm at 6500 rpm. Then engine displacement is 149.2 cc . And the engine is set to have tumble flow.(like swirl, but vertical). If I understand correctly, that should have boosted torque. Maybe the torque curve sits higher everywhere, but has the same peak.

Lets talk about other things of the HUNK, ie. its look and fairing and its styling.

First thing you will note that it has gas charged, adjustable rear shok absorber, it is I think first in Hero Honda Bike. One thing I loved about CBZ from beginning was its saddle position, it just made you sit so sporty that you feel like GOD on road. .. here in Hero Honda Hunk, saddle position is nice so it feels so sporty while sitting on Bike.

Front Disc brake is fine, I wished if they could have increased its size as TVS did in Apache RTR 160, it looks so nice and somohow makes feel bike more powerful (physcologically).

Looking over design, the bike has over all a big look as we had with CBZ xtreme. This time grab rail is single piece ie not like CBZ xtreme which as splitted one looked really cool. One thing I noticed here that they wanted to bike to look shorter and sporty and hence you can see on back that they have kept seat little shorter though ideally should stretch a bit more, anyhow it is looking unique.

What I think that there was something missing in CBZ xtreme and Hero Honda thinks that to compete with Apache RTR and new pulsar, they should work around and hence we have “Hunk”.

It has body coloured leg gaurd, I have seen first in Hero Honda bikes and rather in any bike yet. another nice thing about design is its fairing covering the tank, it really makes it feel big, sit over and it is really big. Headlamp is good but again could have better in design. I don’t know why Hero Honda people can’t create a appealing front look but its satisfactory this time.

As most part of bike is gray so other color create different look than whole gray bike. As you look in above pic, the bike is in red colour but touch of Gray , black makes it appealing.

Looking at the meter console, we have no digital instruments there, looks like Hero Honda wants to make it traditional style manly stuff, only raw power. After all, you can’t feel the adrenaline in those digital meter as you feel when the niddle spindle over the meter .. wraoommmm…

Image Courtesy - rearset.blogspot.com

Fuel consumption is said to same as CBZ but with little improvement.But the thing is , if some one asks you whats your ride, you may have to answer as - “I ride Hunk !”

Is’nt that wierd? Unless you are a gay? Hero Honda guys should have worked much more on naming a bike!

Note : All pics here are taken from hero honda site . Except one which i took from rearset.blogspot.com > please pay a visit to his superb motorcycling blog