Recommissioned warhorse, tweaked for duty.

With medical advances today a heart from a defunct body can be transplanted into a needy body to give it a fresh lease life. The Discover you see here seems to have been just discharged after a successful heart transplant; and the new ?heart? appears to have adapted nicely to the new body.
This tried and tested engine that carried the ?Hoodibaba? tag line, has been detuned to produce 8.51ps of power at 7500rpm instead of 9.6ps at 8000rpm in its earlier avatar. The torque developed is 9.37Nm at 4500rpm instead of 9.12Nm that the Caliber made at 6500rpm, endowing the bike with better zip. The engine having been tuned for the low and mid range Performance, coupled with Exhaustec makes this bike extremely rideable in traffic infested conditions.
Though the engine sports similar dimensions for bore and stroke, it now runs a lower compression ratio of 9.0:1.Bajaj has also gone in for a Keihin PB-16 carburettor here as on the CT 100 instead of the PB-20 used for the Caliber 115.
The 4-speed gearbox is a new affair with revised gear ratios as well as a different final drive, which harnesses the engine?s new found torque characteristic optimally. It?s also among the better gearboxes from Bajaj.