Seems like déjà vu. We just had the Suzuki Gixxer and the Yamaha FZS-FI locking horns a couple of months back right here on BikeWale. You can read more about it HERE. And at the end, the Gixxer emerged victorious.
But here we are again with both the Gixxer and the FZ, and for good reason. The last time round, we couldn’t get a Bajaj Pulsar AS150 in time to join the test. More importantly, we also now have the Honda Hornet 160R.
And to find out how these bikes stack up, we headed to Malgund; a sleepy, beach town a few kilometres short of Ganpatipule on the coastal highway from Mumbai to Goa. The roads leading to Malgund are narrow, undulating, broken, winding, and constantly changing in elevation. Could we have asked for a better barometer to read these bikes? I think not. So, here’s what we found out…