Bajaj Sprint – a TVS nightmare?

The Bajaj Sprint may give TVS a few nightmares, particularly, the Flame’s development team. The Flame as you know is still to witness a nationwide launch. But before it could get going and bag its own clientele, that of an image conscious but slightly miserly Indian, the Sprint has already torn through the curtain.
Bajaj has announced the bike will debut this year. And alongside, has done just enough showcasing the bike’s styling and the engine output to hold buying decisions in favour of the Flame.
Now, not everybody might wait for the Sprint, but for the enthusiastic bunch on a budget, more horsepower is always welcome. Cause we in general relate it to better performance.
In this particular case, I think we are right- the Sprint will surely chew the Flame on traffic light gps and insignificant drag events, thanks to both more power and possibly less weight.
So what is TVS to do now? For starters maybe work towards giving the Flame a couple of variants – and not in the conventional sense of slightly different stickering and instrumentation, but offering the bike in different state of tunes. Along with some visually differentiating bits.
The sportier version for instance, can carry a better, more aggressive looking and sounding exhaust. The front fairing of the bike isn’t beauty pageant winning either, so maybe extend the aggrieve look to the front too.
And just so that it doesn’t seem like trailing Bajaj and stopping at the formers goalpost, bring in a third variant! Maybe like the RTR, a slightly higher capacity, fully blown Flame for the hardcore enthusiast. Again, on a budget!
Or maybe, like car companies, do a stripped down version! Who knows, with our mindsets, either can work!