Yamaha Gladiator Vs Hero Honda Glamour F1

125cc segment is crowded with many products such as TVS victor GLX, Victor Edge, Bajaj Discover, Hero Honda (HH) Super Splendor, Hero Honda Glamour, Suzuki Heat, zeus and Honda Shine. These are commuter bikes and are of usual kind but Yamaha’s Gladiator J.A(Gladiator J.A is a cosmetic changed version of Gladiator) and Hero Honda’s Glamour FI – Fuel Injection stands odd in the crowd, one with its masculinity and other with its technology. Gladiator and Glamour FI may not be mass sellers but if you need something special these two will be your options.

Gladiator is powered by 123.7cc four stroke engine, the engine puts out a peak power of 10.72bhp at 7,500 rpm and the peak torque of 10.4Nm sets in at 6,500 rpm. As usual performance of this engine is unquestionable, Gladiator reaches 60kph in 6.5s and the top speed is little over 100. In the refinement too Gladiator scores high, Yamaha ensures better refinement with counter balancer for the crankshaft which enables the Gladiator to even out a lot of the vibrations that are usually felt at higher speeds. Yamaha knows performance and refinement is not only enough to sell the bike it has incorporated a sensor called YTPS – Yamaha Throttle Positioning Sensor which works with BS carburetor to offer better mileage. Gladiator engine has been mated to a five-speed gearbox (one-down, four-up shift-pattern) with comfortably spaced out ratios.

First a lot of thanks to Hero Honda (HH) for incorporating Fuel Injection in smaller bikes, with Fuel Injection Hero Honda has not only made its bike different but also pushed its peers to follow the same (Bajaj Pulsar 220cc will feature a FI engine, shine, unicorn and many on the cards).Glamour PGM-FI (Programmed Fuel Injection) makes 9bhp@7000rpm and a healthy torque of which will help you to ride glamour in city easily. Cold starting is where the technology kicks in which helps you to start easily. Glamour features conventional 4 speed gearbox and reaches 60kph in 7s and its top speed is little over 90kph.

Yes both the engines are technically superior, but when comes to mileage, as usual Yamaha loses to its peer it returns a combined figure of only 49kpl (YTPS doesn’t makes any magic for Yamaha) even carbureted glamour scores better than Gladiator. Fuel Injection makes Glamour FI to deliver class leading mileage of 62kpl. Though transistorized ignition system helps glamour in pick up, with much lesser power to weight ratio Glamour FI is no match to Yamaha’s Gladiator on the performance front.