Honda has done it again! After wooing the masses with its brilliant but conservatively styled Activa, Honda now plays the style card with the Dio. And squashes the opposition in emphatic style. A pertinent question which I must ask. Do real men ride scooters? Those girly, electric-start, un-geared, twist and go scooters? No? I would have yelled an emphatic 'no' if this question was posed to me a year ago. Come on, men ride motorcycles, preferably big brawny Bullets! Ask me this question today and you will hear me coo a different tune. Maybe it's just me becoming old and boring but everyone in the office seems to concur with my view. And for that the Honda Activa has to be blamed. Spoilt us it has, over a year of leisurely riding. But there still was that one little reservation I had against the Activa. Being young in years most of my waking hours are spent trying to impress the ladies and the conservative, even boring, styling of the Activa ain't going to cut much ice. Which is why the Activa has been in Aspi's possession (he being of the married type) for all these months while I have been breaking my head over a succession of Bullets. But didn't someone say there always is light at the end of the tunnel and in this case the light ain't of an oncoming train. Rather it has 'Dio' splattered across its sides. You all know the story about the Kinetic Honda, the parting of ways between the two and the major players in the scooter segment, the Saffire, Nova and Activa. So I shall not bore you with a history lesson on the same, rather shall get straight down to road testing the Honda Dio.

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