| I have recently been riding around on the | | | | engine is smooth but anything coming from the |
| Hero Honda Achiever, as part of my fun-job of | | | | Unicorn's womb would be. Sure the Achiever |
| an automotive writer for Hindustan Times. The | | | | irons out all of CBZ's deficiencies, but that |
| Achiever is a good bike but is caught in the | | | | is too little, a too late. |
| quicksand of mediocrity. It would have been a | | | | |
| great bike about a year back but now with the | | | | So will the Achiever sell? Sure! An average |
| Pulsar DTSFi just around the corner and the | | | | Hero Honda showroom gets as many footfalls as |
| Honda Unicorn firmly established, the | | | | my neighbourhood mall and some of these |
| Achiever is nothing but a plug, a plug for | | | | should fall for the Achiever. But is the |
| the premium segment hole left in the Hero | | | | Achiever going to achieve anything? Nah! |
| Honda boat, rocked by falling sales of the | | | | |
| once-wonderful but now Triassic CBZ. | | | | Talking of Achiever using a Unicorn inspired |
| | | | mill, I am a bit confused about Hero Honda's |
| Sure, the styling is good but it looks done | | | | place in Honda's plans. Or maybe I am not. |
| half-heartedly. The bike lacks the edginess | | | | Have you noticed that nowadays Hero Honda |
| of the Apache, the hormonic imbalance of the | | | | gets every design after Honda (or HMSI) has |
| Unicorn and the swoopiness of the Pulsar. The | | | | already used it beyond its use-by date. |