The CB Twister has made it to the showrooms
CB Twister which has been in the news for quite sometime now has finally made it to the showrooms. The launch event of the bike happened in December 2009 and it took almost 3 months for the bike to finally make it to the Honda dealerships.
Honda conducted various launch events for the twister in various cities in India in the month of February which I think could be because of the fact that the first launch event happened long time ago.
Today I thought to visit the Honda dealership in my city just to check out the bike. To my surprise it looked pretty much silent at the showroom and the new bike was placed somewhere hidden among the several other bikes standing there.
I expected the bike to be placed right at the front and the first thing any customer would notice while entering the showroom should have been the new Twister, but that was not the case.
I stood there for around 5-10 minutes and not a single person from the dealership came to me to ask what my query was. After a few minutes one guy noticed my presence, I asked him about the twister. Before he told me anything about the bike’s features he asked me “in cash or finance?” This meant that he wanted to know if I would be buying this bike in cash or looking to get it financed. Never thought that these people are in such a hurry of selling their bikes!
I asked them a few questions regarding the bike which I already knew the answers for, I was just behaving as a potential customer to them and pretended as if I didn’t knew anything about the bike.
In the end I was a bit disappointed with the overall treatment I got from the people in charge of the showroom.
Now coming back to the bike, there was only one CB Twister present at the showroom. The Candy Sonic Green color looked amazing and let me tell you that the bike doesn’t look like a 110cc commuter bike by any means and looks muscular enough. The drum brake version was at the display, interestingly the rear grab rails of the bike are somewhat merged with the rear portion of the bike( you would have to look at the bike yourself to understand what I mean here), it might create an impression that there are no rear grab rails at all.
The meter console was simple with analog odo meter and speedo meter, fuel indicator, turn indicator and high beam indicator.
Just in case you are interested, below is the Ex-Showroom price(Delhi) of the three version of the CB Twister:
KICK DRUM ALLOY Rs. 41,850
SELF DISK ALLOY Rs. 47,850
SELF DRUM ALLOY Rs. 44,850
Soon IMB will come back with more details regarding the bike including the test ride review of the CB Twister. So keep following IMB for more updates!
hey i am planing to buy a bike in the next 2 months or so …. so plz post an in deapth review of this bike ….. itz gonna be my 1st bike and frankly speaking don”t knw how to ride 1…. so i am real excited ….
@achilles- Yes buddy, soon we will be posting a comprehensive test ride review for the CB Twister. So keep following Indian Motos Blog for more updates.
Thankzzzz so much brother
i initially wanted to buy twister and almost made up my mind. the response in the showrooms in chennai were quite encouraging the customer to buy. instead i thought of shine because after riding bikes like yezdi, avenger 200 dtsi, etc, the twister felt like a toy. i test rode a couple of bikes. my opinion is this bike may have a good engine and thats all. the road grip is lacking and the pick up may be good and guys who are enthused may have fatal falls. so pls keep this in mind especially in crowded cities. also we may not have experience with tubeless tyres in a lightweight bike. so dont go alone by the attractive looks of twister and the good engine may not help you in a fall.
@Bala- Buddy, I think that after riding heavy bikes like yezdi and avenger its quite obvious that any bike(here I mean bikes upto 125cc) would feel like a toy to you. You should not forget that its merely a 110cc bike and comparing it to heavy bikes which you have mentioned is injustice to the Twister.
I may agree with you when you said that the road grip is not good because that is possible, however I would first like to ride the bike myself before coming to any conclusion in this regards. Thanks for bringing this up here!
Secondly i dont understand what tubeless tires have to do with light weight of the bike? Are the tubeless tires only meant for big/heavy bikes? Infact tubeless tires wil make the life easy for any bike owner irrespective of its capacity.
brother …. i am waiting for your review….. n one more thing…i heard RX 100 is gonna make a return …. is that so cause i have heard a lot about it…. many people i know consider it a cult bike … i can wait if itz worth it… watz your opinion ???
[...] Since the launch of the CB Twister, Honda has received around 20,000 bookings for the stylish commuter and successfully delivered over 50% of that volume (11,000 bikes) to its customers. The CB twister is equipped a 110 cc engine, delivering 9BHP of power. The company, with this model, is adding style to the otherwise drab 100cc options. [...]
hi frdzzzzzzzzzz,
am planning to buy honda twister 100cc bike… to b frank tel u tht i don know hav 2 ride a clutch bike… but i now feel tis s time to get a stylish twister… i dont knw anything about tis bike….will it be suitable for me to start my bike ride from tis one…..