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Maxabout.comEditor ReviewIt's Really Very HOTWednesday, October 17, 2007
Features and Design
Flame sports a new design and embraces the contemporary black theme. Flame borrows the headlamp,front fender, attractive rear view mirrors, body coloured shock absorber springs and special engine cowl from its big brother apache. Flame is packed with exciting features like attractive body graphics, alloy wheels, disc brake at the front, electric start and handle bar weights to control vibrations. Ithas been designed to capture attention in one go. The bike has been given a contemporary urban look by having a black theme. Much of its features like headlamp, front fender, attractive rear view mirrors, body colored shock absorber springs and special engine cowl are designed like the Apache.
Engine
The Flame is technologically the most advanced motorcycle in the country with a 3-valve 125cc engine and sports the india’s first three-valve CC VTi (controlled combustion variable timing intelligent) engine. The engine’s produces maximum power of 10.5 bhp at 8,250 rpm. TVS has patented the CC-VTi technology in Austria and rest of the world. It has sporty deltaedge exhaust that is not just a styling element but also to deliver the smoothest of sounds,lowest emissions and excellent performance.
The engine has two different in take ports, swirl and power port. A swirl motion is created of the intake air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber, which leads to efficient burning of lean air-fuel mixture and helps improve the bike’s fuel efficiency. The power port opens to allow a high flow rate of the air-fuel mixture to deliver high power in the power throttle mode. The bike gives a mileage of around 65 km/l on road and performs quite well in heavy traffic conditions.
Instrumentation & Features
It features an analogue speedometer but other gauges such odometer,digital clock, fuel gauge, mileage meter are embedded in the digital console. The sporty deltaedge exhaust is not just styling element but also to deliver the smoothest of sounds,lowest emissions and excellent performance. also sports a neat lockable, water-bottle-sized cubby hole ahead of the tank, which will prove really useful in daily use. The plastic tank adornments incorporate the indicators and complete the look, but they have their own utility value too.
Click here for Flame's comparison with other 125cc bikes in India
And here is a Commercial of TVS Flame; presently being aired on TV.
We found it on You Tube.
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