Like I said, theoretically both the bikes are on par but the similarity starts and ends on paper. On the Road the Pulsar is by far the quicker bike, pulling away smartly and purposefully giving no quarter to the Ambition. The 150 has been tuned to deliver better mileage than the 180 but no efforts have been spared to ensure that she is on par with the rest of the 150cc bikes in terms of outright Performance. The figures aptly illustrate the Pulsar 150's outright superiority on the drag strip blasting to 60kmph in 6.61 seconds and 80kmph in 12.61 seconds. The quarter mile is cracked in 21.01 seconds, the VBOX II data logging gear clocking 93.3kmph at the quarter mile mark. Top speed is an impressive 105.5kmph.

The Ambition on the other hand got to 60kmph in 8.08 seconds while 80kmph came up in 15.03 seconds. She clocked the quarter mile drag in 22.21 seconds registering 90.1kmph at the 400m mark. Top speed registered was 98.7kmph.

Braking on both bikes is handled by 240mm ventilated discs up front and 130mm drums at the rear. There is not much to distinguish between the two in terms of feel, control and lack of fade, all of which are excellent. However the Pulsar sneaks ahead thanks to better rubber. Though both of them are shod with 3.0 rear and 2.75 front, the MRF rubber on the Pulsar offered much better grip than the Ambition's Dunlops, explaining the huge stoppies and also the braking figures. The Bajaj braked from 60kmph in 2.3 seconds covering a distance of 18.5 metres while the Hero Honda took 2.5 seconds, traversing 19.8 metres when the anchors were thrown at 60kmph.