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Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme Atft Ownership Review
Hi Everyone! This is my first ever review of a bike in a website. As I am a regular reader of BikeAdvice.in, I have decided to publish it here. I thank BikeAdvice million times for all of the valuable reviews and the ownership experiences.

Let me tell all of you that my review would be based on my feeling, observations and it may be biased due to my love that I have for my bike. Here goes my review.
Year 2002: Learnt bike driving on my father’s Honda CD80 and started to become passionate about bikes. Then I started to ride one of my friend’s Splendor. Then I started to beg to my father for a bike.
Year 2004: I got my Bajaj Caliber 115 was really amazed by it for its acceleration because displacement was only 110CC but delivered power like a 125CC bike. It was may be due to its engine producing 9 BHP and had a top speed of 100KMPH.
Year 2006: Sold my bike due to some unavoidable circumstances.
Year 2010: After waiting for almost 4 years finally bought another bike and that is none other than CBZ- Xtreme. Well, I live in Bangladesh & bikes over 150CC are not legally available here. I had the following choices only:

Hero Honda hunk
Hero Honda CBZ-Xtreme
Honda Unicorn
TVS Apache 150/ RTR 160
Yamaha FZ16/FZ-S/Fazer
Yamaha R15
Baja Pulsar 150 UG4.5

After researching for almost 6 months & test riding all of them I selected Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme. Well many of you may ask why didn’t you select other options? Here goes my answer but it’s just my personal opinion and no offends to anyone.

My first choice was Hunk but I didn’t go for it because I felt pronounced vibrations after crossing 6000rpm and it was very hard to take it to 9000rpm. I really like Honda Unicorn because of its super refined mill; its smoothness just blows me away.
But I don’t like its styling. About Apache 150, it was not refined & it produces the least power among all of the above. RTR 160, it has got great power but sporty riding position has never been to my liking because I go for long trips every now and then and the vibration issues.
About the FZ? Well it’s a real fun to ride but because of the mileage factor, pillion comfort and stressed engine after crossing 90kmph I removed it from my list. R15 has always been my favorite but I just can’t afford it.
About Pulsar? Reliability, maintenance is a great factor in case of Bajaj and also never liked the handling, feels too heavy. So finally settled down for CBZ Xtreme & this are the following reasons why…

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