If you want to compares this to the other bikes made and sold in India
Here you go
100-11.51 UCE
Pulsar 220 12.5 Sec /
R15 12.5 Sec
LB500 14.2 Sec
(eat my dust toy boys (This is my new Bumper sticker on the UCE )
So the reason why an Indian is buying the UCE has nothing to do with sound.
Or the bullet name.
We are buying it simplly because its the fastest bike made in the country.
vs the imports which come with absurd duty which prices them out of the reach of the avrage Indian.
Ron ji:
Mazaa aa Giyaa.
I really enjoyed this post about performance and Indian mentality of buying RE. Well you are right that they buy because it has been and is the fastest Indian bike. The name 'Bullet' does suggest a macho image for a bullet's ability to pierce objects and its fast speed. RE imitated that and was unstoppable and climbed mountains up the hills and drove on the dirt roads of villages of Punjab. So it built its image and aura for us growing up there.
There is something else. The sound,d of bullet "thak, thak" repeated faster and faster is what makes RE so dear to Punjabis. I have very vivid memories, since I was about 3 or 4 years old, when my dad rode his 350 cc RE Bullet into our narrow street (coming back from his work in the evening), the whole street reverberated with its sound and everybody knew that he was back. Kids loved that. At heart we are kids, only the age numbers keep spinning.
In my own opinion, its the rhythm of single cylinder that has a physiologic hypnotic effect that calms our minds so we enjoy it more than a shrill counterpart that can go as fast or faster than this.
So long. Hope you got the numbers I had sent you earlier in PM.