Doing the Hero Impulse review, my first thoughts, since I took a good look today. There has been a great offer going on with some dealers wanting to offload some stock. Discounts have been varying from 10000-20000 based on your bargaining powers. Also syncing up with others to do a group buy has been the reason for some of the better discounts. I check out a friend’s motorcycle and it had been purchased in a neighboring state and along with a good deal, had costed way lesser than the Karnataka price for it.

The first thing that struck me when I looked at a his green Hero Impulse, was its height. As Neet pulled up, even the posture looked pretty good, not having seen it with a rider on it till then. Also the good ground clearance does make it look like it was built to take on all the little bumps and ditches that India would throw at it.

Ok, lets get this out of the way before you get yourselves all excited: it is a 150cc engine that makes 13.2 PS. (Hero Impulse Full Specifications) Okay, no great power there, but the motorcycle makes no claims about it being about speed. Where it works really well is over bad sections of the road, which you can just glide over. I rode it around for a few kilometers through traffic in the center of the city. I looked for a bad stretch and did not find any. A few decent road humps are all I got to test the suspension. Seems like it’ll do the job.

Its very clear that this motorcycle does not have any competition, since its the only one available in this class – small dual-sport of sorts. This is not a paint and fender job on an existing motorcycle in the Hero range, but a new model as far as India is concerned. Speaking of paint, it comes in green, red, blue, black and orange. The blue and orange ones interest me!

I’ve got to get a longer ride soon, maybe get Kavitha also onto it. Just thinking this may be the one bike that will do well to learn and ride around for a while, till bigger things come by.