Motorbike in Bangladesh

The modern motorcyclist has a tremendous variety of machines available to suit his needs, whether these are short distance commuting, long distance touring or specialized one. The machines range from basic to sophisticated and this choice has arisen due to the extensive development.

It is easy to classify motorcycles as these are done by the engine. This is given in cubic centimeters (cc). In our country the classes are 50cc to 150 cc. in our country over 155 cc are not allowed. At the bottom end of the scale 80cc Dayang Runner motorcycles are very cheap to run and extremely popular for short distance runs.

Moving up the scale the next group of machines are 100cc, 110cc, 125cc and 135cc motorcycles. There are large number of these with a great variety of engine sizes, multi cylinder and specifications ranging from basic to deluxe. It is this size of machine that most people choose for convenience and economic reasons. These motorcycles are capable of 60 to 80 Kilometer per liter. Such as- Hero Splendor, iSmart , TVS Metro , TVS Metro Plus , Honda Neo, Honda Shine, Mahindra Centuro, Bajaj Discover and many more.

At the top end of the scale 150 cc machines are also great variety such as Pulsar, TVS Apache RTR, Hero Hunk, Honda CB Trigger, and Suzuki Gixxer. This Specialist competition machines available are designed to compete in road racing, scrambling and trials riding. The great interest in sport and leisure already referred to has as produced a whole generation of semi-specialized machines. These are known as trail or off-road motorcycle and are cross between a sports road machine and a scrambles machine. Thus, they can be used for normal riding but are also suitable for use off the beaten track. In our country this verity of motorcycle is Walton Xplore though Hero MotoCorp introduces this variety as 149cc Impulse Dual Sport but they are not launching this variety in Bangladesh. An Adjunct to this type of machine is the sand bike, specially equipped for the one specific environment, this are not available in Bangladesh.

Passengers and Sidecars
From very early days, the problem of carrying a passenger and luggage was a subject of many different ideas. These resolved themselves at first into the pillion set which subsequently joined to the saddle, and finally became the dual seat fitted to most motorcycles. This provides passenger carrying ability for the absolute minimum increase in cost and weight.

Further early experiments to provide more carrying capacity, produced the sidecar.
At one time these were highly popular but are now seen as there job is more normally carried out by a small motorcar. The requirements of the machine that make it suitable for sidecar work are such that despite the high power of many today’s larger motorcycles, they are not fully suited for sidecar use.

Beside this a new class includes one of the specialist machines, the Scooter.