Read This Before Buying A New Bike! » MotorOctane

Believe it or not, it is the most stressful situation that we address. While many buyers just go out, hop on some bikes that look attractive or are powerful, and buy one – only to regret later. So, today we will discuss some crucial steps that you must not ignore while choosing a bike. 
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Best Bike In India – Analyse The Market & Your Need

Firstly, think about the purchase you will be making – does it have any emotional appeal, like you loved that bike from a long time and want to buy it one day. Or you want a more practical bike that serves your purpose. Emotional bike purchases happen majorly with higher CC bikes, where one wants to just have their dream bike in their garage – here, you can go to purchase the bike directly, provided you know all the stuff like maintenance, efficiency, reliability. 

Now, if you are aligned towards having a practical purchase, you would need to make a check list. Ask yourself some questions – 

• What is my maximum budget?
• What is the segment you are looking to buy? Is it a tourer, naked, sports or a normal commuter?
• Is the higher cc bike really needed? This can come in if the competitors have better options with lower cc bikes. 
• How frequently will you ride the bike?
• What will be your maximum spend on maintenance? Are the service centers having good reviews? 
• Fuel efficiency expected? 

After asking these questions to yourself, make your own check list of the items and surf the web first to find bikes that really fit into your category. 

Here’s another tip – take some advice, but don’t follow it blindly! Many just skip analysing themselves and go ahead with what their friends or the influencers suggest – and later the same motorcycle is seen listed on the used markets. 

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Markup The Top-Most Options –

Now you might have picked yourself a few options, now it’s time to go more into it. If you already have 3-4 options, it is good you can go out and try testing the motorcycles. But, if you are left with more than 8-9 options. You might need to re-work again on your considerations. This time, go into depth – 

• Which motorcycle has a better fuel tank? 
• Does it have any unneeded features? Do you want them? 
• Seat height measurements, ownership reviews, bike reviews, etc.

Once you complete this, you will finally have your top-most options. And now you can move on to the final point, that we all love it. 

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Best Bike In India – Test-Ride Every Bike

Finally, we are left with testing every shortlisted motorcycle. Book the test-rides earlier, visit the showrooms and take the bike for a spin. Make sure you test it thoroughly, take turns, try to control it in traffic, go over potholes, check the suspensions, check how it feels. While you test the bike, try to test every bike one after another – so that you can draw conclusions. 

Testing one after another will make you think, which is easy to control, which has a good power/controlable power, how it feels to ride a certain motorcycle, field of vision, etc. Don’t test a bike only once, try to test it again and again in different areas – then only you will arrive at a decision. 

After this step, you will finally arrive at a decision about which bikes suit you the most. Don’t just go onto how it looks or what the influencers say about it. Try to find it yourself – so you can be happy putting your hard-earned money on it. 

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