Best city bike. Review on Hero Honda Splendor

Ahh. There have been so many review about this bike. As has been pointed out by previous reviewers, this bike delivers a very good mileage and looks stunning. The gear shift is absolutely smooth and the bike suspension is also very smooth. It would be stupid to compare this bike with two stroke vehicles and other power-packed meaty 4S vehicles. For, I believe that this bike has been built not for power, speed or pickup but for smooth ride, mileage and low maintenance.

As always there are two sides to any coin. Let's see what's there in the second side of the coin. One of the biggest and irritating problems this bike has is its allergy with rain. Park this bike in pouring rain for around 10 minutes and then this bike calls for a small world's effort to start it again. I had to undergo this torture twice. Once I was returning home from a theatre late in the night. It started to drizzle and as it started pouring I had to park my bike in the rain whereas I had to take cover in a bus stand. After nearly 15 minutes, the rain stopped and attempted to kick start my bike. Whoa...

It didn't and it wouldn't. Almost all the other two wheelers that were parked along side never complained much and their owners zipped away, probably after an additional 2 or 3 kicks. For the first time, I cursed my bike for having let me down. Until then, I was a proud owner of this bike and I had to slightly change my opinion after this.

Also, the performance of the bike drops down by nearly 50% if there is a heavy person sitting in the pillion.

Apart from this, I've not had any serious maintenance problems. It is a cool bike to drive in the city.