Motorbike is one of the popular transportation vehicle in our
country. All like to have their own bike. And you may be one of them.
But before selecting your bike. You should consider the following
factors.
Budget
A common saying goes “Cut your coat according to your cloths”
in our society. Always make a budget that you can effort. And try to
select that bike which has all the facilities that you are looking
for within your budget. In our domestic market you can get a stander
bike within Tk 125000.00 to Tk 175000.00.
Choose Brand
On of the vital considering factor of bike selection is brand
selection. There are lots of brands are available in market. But
quality of every brand is not the same. So always try to select
popular branded bike. Because familiar branded bike is made of
quality parts and provide confidence to the potential user or buyer.
It also help to get a standard selvage vale at the time of sale.
Select Purpose
Selection of bike in depends on your interest of bike riding and also
on your life style. But mostly we do not think about this matter in
the time of purchased. As a result we can not choose right bike for
us. For example: if a housewife, who want to use her bike only for
daily shopping, purchased sports bike then it will be a wrong
decision. According to her purpose scooter bike is perfect.
Make a shortlist
A shortlist can make your difficult job easy. At first visit your
nearer showrooms to look your favorite bike along with details and
keep them in a list. This list will help you to make your final
selection.
Test Drive
One of the important factor of bike selection is test drive. In our
country showrooms you may not get the opportunity to take a test
drive of a new bike. In this case manage your desire bike from your
relatives or friends for a test drive. You can match your exception
with the bike performance. Test drive helps to get the riding
experience and also identify the positive and negative side of the
bike.
Bike owner suggestions
Most authentic and reliable source of knowledge about bike is owners
suggestion. You may find your relatives or friends are riding your
favorite bike. So you can asked them to know about your desirable
bike performance such as fuel cost, comfortability etc. And used
their experienced in you bike selection.
Consider Warranty
Warranty is related with the engine of a bike. You may find some
brand those are not providing warranty of their bike engine.
Generally all the reputed brand provides warranty of their engine
according to their own policy. This types of service gives confidence
to the customer.
Consider after sales & Service
After sales and service is very much related with is each other in
the matter of bike selection. You can select a stylish bike of a
brand but that brand may not provide quality service or make delay
in servicing. Actually after sales servicing facilities depends on
the policy of the company. Some may provide free service for three
times after sales or for a certain time. So a bike buyer need to be
concern about after sales and servicing facilities of the brand.
Fuel efficiency
Fuel efficiency is vary with the types of bike you are going to
select. Fuel consumption is related with the power of engine. Strong
engine consumed more fuel compare to the general engine. Sports bike
and cruiser bike have strong and powerful engine as a result need
more fuel to run those bike.
There are some bike in the market which are known for the quality of
fuel efficiency. This types of bike provides almost 70 km per litter.
There are some bike, that generally known as low fuel consume bike.
For example: Bajaj Discover 100, TVS Metro, Honda CD 80, Dayang
Runner AD80S etc.
Spare Parts
It is a common activity to change some parts of the bike after a
certain period . So it is important to select those bike which parts
is available in our country or you can easily get and not so much
expensive. For example if you select a Bajaj pulsar 200NS model
motorbike, it will provide you more speed, smooth ride etc. but you
may not find available parts of this model in our country.
Physical Capabilities
Another crucial considering factor of bike selection is physical
capability. Our physical strength and condition is not same it vary
with person to person. Some of us are tall, some are thin or may be
fat and some are old. so it is hardly possible to ride all types of
bike for a person.
For tall and short:if your hight is more then 5'.6''then it will be
quite easy to select a bike because it is a standard hight and all
the bikes sit hight will be comfortable for you accept few bikes like
Honda CD80.
Again,if your hight is below than 5'.6''. Then you have to be concern
about bike selection because high sit setup bike is not perfect for
you. It will be difficult for you to control the bike.
For thin and fat people:try to avoid heavy weight bike if you are a
thin man because you will face difficulties to control the bike.
In the case of healthy man,heavy weight and more then 80cc bike is
better.
For older man: generally they use bike to ride within the city to
carry some daily utilities and for local riding scooter bike is
perfect. 50cc to 80 cc bike is also fit for them. This type of bike
is easy to control.
For woman : nowadays bike is also popular transportation vehicles to
the woman in our country. University students as well as corporate
woman are using bike to reach their destination. According to our
tradition women are usually wear Shari. So I think for their
comfortability women can select scooter. This type of bikes provides
more space compare to others bike and easily controllable.
Finalize your decision
After considering all the mentioning factor now its time take final
decision. Remember no bike can satisfied you 100 percent. So you
should select that bike which has all the features that you want in
your bike at the same time within your budget.
We hope above mentioning points will help our bike lover in the time
of bike selection.
