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Bajaj Pulsar AS200 first ride review

The Bajaj Pulsar AS200 does hold a lot of promise. Here is why

Overdrive|May 10, 2015, 08:00:37 IST

Bajaj announced prices and sales plans for their new line of Pulsars, the Adventure Sports' a little while ago. I rode the AS200 today and it holds a lot of promise! Both the Bajaj Pulsar AS150 and AS200 are available on sale now and are priced at Rs 79,000 and Rs 92,500 respectively, ex-Delhi.

What is it?

Despite the name, the Bajaj Pulsar AS200 isn't really an adventure tourer in the sense of long travel suspension, vestigial (if not full-on) off-road ability etc. In that sense, it's barely more than a re-skinned 200NS.

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Bajaj says that the long term intent for the AS lineup is the whole adventure thing, and they're happy to note that the full-on enduro is a part of that chain of logical thought.
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