My first love - SHOGUN. Review on TVS Suzuki Shogun

My first love - SHOGUN

This may not be a technical review but an emotional one. But what greater review can you get than this, when I have used and loved my baby for more than 7 years and when it has always been with me,no matter what !!

Well, any real bike enthusiast ( not the kids who know likes of pulsar, cbz....) will know four bikes for sure :-

1) Bullet

2) RD 350

3) Yamaha RX 100

4) SHOGUN

To start with, SHOGUN is a mean machine with drop dead looks, its stickering was the best when it came. It has 14 bhp to boot and displaces 108 cc. Its better known for its guzzling capacity ( have known to guzzle even upto 15 kpl if fitted with expansion chambers - KRP) and for its trade-mark firing. It was the first bike it offer more than 100 cc ( leavin likes of RD,Yezdi and Bullet) .... I mean the normal 100cc smal two/four strokes. SHOGUN is a unique beast, when I say beast, I MEAN IT. It is also called the ''BOSS'', because it was advertised that way, saw only two advts and they were hardly aired because the youngsters were enough to popularise what ''BOSS'' actually was, it was really very popular with the generation -Y , for instance in pune and bombay...

When compared to yamaha rx-100, it had wider tyres and better height and ground clearance. Shogun/Samurai are know for their electricals which are really good and the engine kill switch which came really handy during frequent stops at signals ( saves gas man ). The fairing really gave it the japanese bike look, although have changed about 4 times ( every time I went to the ground with a thud ), cost me 950 bucks, but now I do good with the samurai headlight.

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If you love your bike and maintain it well ( one-hand atleast), its bound to give you good return figures. But shoguns are known to be abused, you would know what I mean if you ride a second hand shogun for sale. GO above 80 kph, you would hear Zakhir Hussain playin from the BLOCK area, and enough vibrations to make you feel you have been struck by a lightning. Now these people then complain about low figures.... (sic), I can't help it. SHOGUN is a mean machine, ''UNDERSTOOD AND ACCEPTED'', don't be mean to it yaar, lol. Well I have used engine additives (Nulon) from time to time and loved my baby. I get 40 kpl atleast for every highway trip I take at speeds 70/80. I can vouch that if you are willing to sell your bike, you haven't loved your bike as much I do. I wouldn't sell my bike even if God gave me the resource to buy a S-CLASS, coz when gfs come and go , your bike stays with you no matter what [once it got stolen ... :( ] and when u are 2 kms away from petrol station and your tank is almost dry and when ur baby makes it to the station everytime .... LOL

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Well I own a RX 100 and a shogun. Both have been very dear to me. We have owned - sold 3 cars during the last seven years while my shogun has always been with me.... and it runs atleast 40 kms for a litre.

Still remember those days, when shogun and rx-100 were treated as arch rivals, when at every signal people used to see likes of shogun racing against a RX-100, ofcoz the firing of shogun was like a ferrari on two wheels. N-number of wheelies, circlies and dragging, my baby still keeps fit with the least hiccups.

Well, I have ride the pulsar 180/150, Fiero ... ( 4 strokers) but ask any two stroke enthusiast how it feels to ride a 2 stroke over a four stroke, its like a diesel over a petrol.

Shogun feels shear power and it roars and when you drag ur baby up 70 kph in your second cog, it surely makes you noticed, it sounds like a concorde on the road. I have had my 'good times' impressing girls with my shogun and not one time I wasn't noticed.

The pick-up and the firing along with it make you feel on top. The pick-up on the shogun is still breathtaking, I was just wondering if TVS could release some damned cousin of shogun with some 18 bhp to boot I would be the first to go and buy it, PROVIDED : I CAN HAVE THE SAME FIRING..... OOOOO........ ITS THE MALE THING :)

Well, the four strokes are here for sure, when the two strokes are all RIP. CBZ was a hit, now Pulsar is a HIT, but lets see if these four strokes can live as LONG AS TWO STROKES, then they are a HIT.

My shogun survives on three things

1) petrol

2) 2T oil

3) My LOVE

All though I don't race my bike anymore (coz I drive safe now, LOL) the BOSS , has surely given the way to the newbies like pulsar, but given any moment I give some hard times to unsuspecting pulsar enthusiasts ( who wonder and keep wondering, LOL).

The Bullet, RD 350, Yamaha Rx 100, Shogun still survive and are legends, lets see if

the new ones survive long enough....

P.S : I am sorry for the 4 stroke bashing and all pulsar,cbz..... enthusiasts pardon/forgive/damn me.... lol (c'mon I can stand against the whole world for my sweet baby)