Thank you for your attempt at educating me, now let me offer my rebuttal to your defence of substandard bikes being offered to local market.
I have been riding bikes since 87, both in Pakistan, Asia-Pacific and UK.
Do you know the average price of a latest model 125cc Honda or Yamaha or Suzuki in UK? Let me enlighten you .. a 2019 Honda CB125F is £3k!!! Now who will pay nearly 6lakhs in Pakistan for this??? Latest offerings in 125cc from Japanese are all £3k and above ...
Honda CBF 125 as per its spec is a 4 stroke 2OHC engine with relative modern looks with disc breaks, that is the bare minimum. Not only the bike is modern looking but being 4 stroke single cylinder gives better economy. Of course I am not gonna compare it to a sub 100cc bike.
Since you had been riding for decades, you will also acknowledge that no attempt by the assemblers had been made to modernise their motorcycles in any meaningful ways, accept for very minor aesthetic changes. The same assembly lines had been used for decades and decades without any real effort being made to modernise the design or tech. I am also very sure there was no R&D efforts being made.
I can not comment with certainty, but I am sure 125 available in UK are not manufactured in UK, instead being imported. Further adding to the cost of the machine, where as assemblers in Pakistan very well be assembling almost 90% of the bike locally and if they still are not than it is clear they have no interest in providing better quality products to local customers.
When the purchasing power of the consumer can't even touch 6 lakhs for a motorcycle, you are expecting manufacturers to shoot themselves in the foot by getting rid of what's selling and introduce what will barely sell??
These assemblers got a strangle hold on the local market with no incentive to change their behaviours or business practices, the excuse being used oh the local buyer lacks the buying power. This excuse can only work up to a certain level beyond that it wont work.
And let me tell you something, this new CB125F won't be able to withstand the "off-road' like situation in Pakistan. The alloy wheels on these new bikes can't take the hammering spoke wheels can take, ask any 2p worth adventure rider!!
That is why the local manufacturers need to do R&D for providing better quality designs with higher reliability. We have spoked wheels, better and modernised suspension setup to coup up with such roads. There is a lot that can be done. Not these bikes are handling off road situations any better, they do tend to break down very often.
And stop being silly comparing Motorcross bikes to road bikes. Can those bikes carry 4 passengers like local bikes in Pakistan do?
Bear in mind, motorcycle in Pakistan is not for one rider use, it's for the family and business and everything else.
You're the one hell bent on defending an inferior product and I am the one being silly? These assemblers for all the money they are charging, provides an inferior and dated design to their customers and Pakistani customers are stuck in an infinite loop of this misery.
No two wheelers is made to carry 4 to 8 people, if we are utilising it in that function it is beyond the capacity and intent of that design, unless you can prove that Pakistani manufacturers specifically designed along those lines.
Your attempts to justify such behaviour is beyond silly. Your last statement regarding bikes being used for everything else is applicable to every other country. But feel free to defend such parasitic behaviours.
To ensure that pakistanis keep buying those teen daba suzukis for millions
That pathetic mehran was still being sold in Pakistan with carburettor for over two decades, and Suzuki refused to modernise it. Pakistanis are being made to pay exorbitant prices for sub standard junk, while these mafias are getting richer and richer and our subsequent governments allowed them to continue with this practice.
