Now in its fourth generation, this is a tech-packed 150cc bike that pretty much costs Rs 2 lakh and still manages to sell about 10,000 units a month. In a market where sensible, cost-effective bikes reign supreme, Yamaha has managed to carve out a modern day icon with the R15. I’m sure it’s a similar story for so many hundreds of thousands others – the numbers tell the story. ![]() It took a few years, but the power of dreams ensured that my very first motorcycle in 2011 was, in fact, a Yamaha R15. One was the mighty Yamaha R1, which symbolised the distant ‘someday’ dream, and right next to it was a magazine cut-out of the Yamaha R15, which had just gone on sale in India. Funny enough, I still have the very same motorcycle posters from my college days in my hometown bedroom cupboard and there were two that really captured my imagination. ![]() Riding these two bikes transported me 15 years back to when I was an undergraduate college student supposedly studying business management but mostly just dreaming about motorcycles.
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