Hero set to launch own bike sans Honda tech in 2013

[hackernewbie]

This will be interesting to see if Hero can really match up to the current standards, sans the technology of Honda.

Hero set to launch own bike sans Honda tech in 2013 - The Times of India

 

[jeetcp]

what is sans

 

[Mangesh Bramhe]

@ jeetcp

sans - without the help of!!

 

[hacket]

2013? That's just months away! Wonder how they are going to develop an engine from scratch in such short notice. HMC has been ambitious,but rubbish at the same time.

 

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Doesn’t take much time to develop a bike, if you outsource R&D to companies like AVL. Not sure if Hero is going to follow that route, but it is something which is done world over, including here in India.

 

[hackernewbie]

2013? That's just months away! Wonder how they are going to develop an engine from scratch in such short notice. HMC has been ambitious,but rubbish at the same time.

They have a CORE R&D team working on developing biks(s) by themselves for almost a decade now.

 

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Really?

I thought they were there to develop stickers

 

[darkside_of_d_sun]

HMC have tied up with Eric Buell and also AVL, I hope they manage to launch a real nice sport/sport touring bike.

 

[hacket]

^Do those brands have engines for Indian market?

AFAIK,they make large capacity engines.

Developing might happen quickly,testing it n putting it on road takes longer.It took years for TVS to develop victor and put that on road,all of that before the jv broke off,from that perspective,I don't see HMC making any effort.

 

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Current crop of RE engines are developed by AVL and if I remember it correctly, TVS and Mahindra are using them as well (not 100% sure though). And it isn't like Hero has just started working on this, they have been planning for it from the time they separated from Honda and in all likelihood, even before that as well.