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Let’s be honest, there isn’t much to say here. The bike, especially, the S looks exactly the same as the 125ST (now discontinued). And in that sense, this similarity robs the 150s of any sense of newness, of novelty value of the premiumness that should come with being the top of its line. This is, in my book, a miss. But it is a card Bajaj have played before. The F does look different thanks to the half-fairing but I’m not a fan of the busy designs which stick faux mesh panels and what not to create that sense of busy-ness. Classically pretty the F isn’t. I also found that it is a hard fairing to clean when we started to shoot photographs after riding in the rain for a bit. Point is, they’re finished and built well as we have come to expect Bajaj’s bikes to be. Unfortunately, the styling is also expected and that will cause a lower perception in value in the showroom. Finally, the dull palette, according to Bajaj, is a reaction to the wishes of the customers who wanted non-flashy bikes, quite at odds with the smaller Discovers
Bajaj have been rolling their four-valve heads out and the 150s also get it. Bajaj say the bottom-end isn’t necessarily all-new but the longer stroke on the undersquare engine did mean that quite a bit of work went into the creation of this 144.8cc engine. Other changes include detail design work in the gearbox and the engine head is metal once again. The tuning is for the commuter, which means NVH control, low and mid-range punch and a relatively less important top-end performance. What we found is that this bears out. 60kmph comes up in a reasonable 5.45s even with a 90kg rider but 100kmph takes a vastly more leisurely 19.20 seconds.