BSA Kruze

[bonigv]

If the bike is bought by a serious rider, it should withstand 500-1000km a month AND be reliable. A non reliable bike is dangerous, and makes the rider lose interest in cycling. Just the other day Shreyas, who is a really strong rider, told me that a few years ago he gave up on cycling because he had a crappy Indian bike, which drove him nuts.

Its not maybe an 'Indian' thing, but like MC would point out, you get crappy bikes abroad too.

I seriously doubt that this bike would be able to do 12K km a year. I may be wrong but thats what I think.

Doc, somehow I did not quiet follow your reasoning. In the context of this thread I am the only one who rode the bike. IMO, the weak link was the brakes. Also I feel price point should have more appropriately been around 16.5K. I do not know how the bike will take a 1000k a month. How will we know it is impossible unless someone tries to do it for couple of months and fails? After some long test rides I recommended the bike to my friend with a fair reasoning that he will be able to use the bike for a year or so with a easy to medium intensity 500-800 Pune km a month till he gets the keeda and goes for a Carbon

I do not think BSA designed or manufactured this frame. It has actually become so shameless nowadays that it doesn't even rivet on the BSA logo. This bike also comes out with BSA logo as a decal.

[deepakvrao]

Like I said, I dont 'know', but I 'doubt' that this will be any better than the FF Roadpro or the LA Urbano. Both of these bikes have been pretty troublesome for people I know.

If its a great bike then fantastic. Like Rushi said, the KHS is available for just 5K more, so why buy an unknown?

[themadman]

Was at SO's place in Banashankari so checked it out. IMHO the shop was overpriced, we were shopping for her (bought one without a very long thread mind you )
Boni 19k in Pune is it? Agree with you on the price point. Thing is this bike will have access to markets KHS wont, so TI Cycles will get away with it. Otherwise 25k is excellent for a nice steel frame (ananth you better be reading this ).

As far as the frame goes, I guess whoever made the frame for my Mach made this one. I ran my hand over it (a.k.a molested it) and it just feels so similar. The thickness of the tubes. The slight bulge on the seat tube. The head angle.

[kadalpura]

Any updates regarding BSA Cruze review...

[akshay200x]

The thickness of the tubes. The slight bulge on the seat tube. The head angle.

cntrl+V from some techno-romantic novel???

[Maninder Singh]

The bike looks good and value for money. I Think if we ask for discount we can even get for 18.5k also. Now fire fox road pro will have face some problem.
Dose any one knows what frame size are the BSA offering.

[kadalpura]

Hope BSA Kruze is released in one size. Hope to be 53(Not sure of it).

[bonigv]

BSA Kruze will workout with some tweaking for 5'5" 5'10".

Another gripe I have but forgot to mention earlier is the long crank. I mean the BB is so low and the crank I think is 175, is almost touching thr ground. May be a clearance of 10cm. I feel it can hit somewhere on a hump and cause a topple.

[abhi]

I saw this one too in Bangalore a while back. But this bar tape is hideous. would have remembered if I had seen it on the bike. Looked like a decent build, though I didn't get to check it out as well as I would have liked. Hope more manufacturers go this route and make a bike for every budget. I think there's a bike every 2-3k in the sub 25k market now.

[Puneet Rai]

Reviving a thread that's almost 2 years old. The BSA Kruze is now discounted by about Rs.3k or so (before negotiations) at most stores, TI doing the inventory clearing routine, I guess.

With this pricing, do folks who have experience using the Kruze and other road bikes extensively think its an investment worth making, bearing in mind the following:

- That the Kruze has an alloy fork and not steel. Is the difference in road buzz so stark between alloy and steel? I'm asking because I have used steel (KHS flite 220 flat bar).
- That others have already indicated that its just VFM , and they reckon its good if usage is about 500 kms or so per month.

I'm asking coz prices of road bikes from other brands have skyrocketed thanks to the govt's skewed taxation policy from 2012.

Venky the Veloracle thinks its better to hold off and make a wiser investment later.