List price (ex-showroom,
Mumbai) Rs 45,883/
51,994 (disc + self-start)
Top speed 105kph
0-60kph 6.77sec
Kpl 45.77 (overall)
For Neat styling, overall refinement
Against Lack of box-section swingarm, pass-light switch and tachometer.

With this year barely having slid past the half-way mark, Indian bikers have been treated to a whole fleet of new motorcycles. Each major player has spewed out new models in some form or the other, and attention has particularly gone into the 125cc segment, where the competition has reached a boiling point. With this category suddenly squinting under a dazzling spotlight, we have conducted several comparison road tests in a quest to find out the best bike money can buy for you — the customer. Yet, in all the excitement surrounding the new entrants, one motorcycle has simply been left standing behind the door.
Long before anyone had a presence here, numero-uno Hero Honda had its model sitting pretty just a slight notch above at 135cc. The Ambition has recently been refreshed and rebadged the Ambition 135, with a cosmetic job borrowing make-up from the CBZ wardrobe. Let’s take a peek at what this old timer has and does not.