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