The Problem Bike... . Review on Bajaj Saffire

It was one unfortunate day when I first saw the ad in a motor magazine of this stylish trend setting(?) scooter on the road. My girlfriend was looking for a scooter to purchase and I was there to suggest her to this new scooter which was new on the street with its stlyish looks and promising features like 92CC, great mileage, Auto Clutch etc.,

I managed to convince my girlfriend to buy this one inspite of the SCOOTY which was doing really good for girls that time. It is almost 2 yrs now and all we have faced is problem, problem and nothing else. And not to say of the BAJAJ SERVICE center. In the beginning it was all fine, unless after a few months we started to notice the poor suspension(single suspension!) in the front which will for sure dislocate ur shoulder joints in some good indian roads!.

And the great Autoclutch facility was another issue. For some reason after the second free service the autoclutch was not to function properly many times. It will soon disengage and get us stuck in the middle of the road, refusing to move ahead unless we switch it off and restart. The Electric START is another headache we could hardly bear. It refuses to start once in 3 days though we have properly charged the battery as per specified intervals. To add to this, the improper LOCATION of the kickstart really gets us to our nerves when we try it.

Troubles continued with the poor design of the hand brakes, the highly angular foot res(the bike inclines very acutely due to this. The bike fell twice in this position), The poor usability design of the indicator lamp(it never indicates which side of ur indicator is ON). Many of these issues might've been common with other vehicles too. But the frequent visits to the Service Center is making us really sick of this vehicle. Atlast when we decided to sell off this vehicle we could hardly find any takers. And if any, they were willing to pay 10,000Rs which is just 1/4th the cost of the vehicle. We are totally in soup.

May be it rides good for maddy (madhavan) for one good ride!!!!