Originally Posted by Flyer
(Post 4460791)
A Pegasus owner have filed an RTI questioning government about absense of ABS in the motorcycle. |
Originally Posted by Geo_Ipe
(Post 4461024)
Let me add some fuel to the already raging fire!! |
Originally Posted by rascalangel
(Post 4461064)
ABS! |
Originally Posted by Geo_Ipe
(Post 4461024)
Let me add some fuel to the already raging fire!! |
The Royal Enfield Pegasus 500 saga never seems to end. Owners of this limited edition motorcycle are still dissatisfied with Royal Enfield's response to the issue they had raised about the Classic 500 Pegasus not featuring dual-channel ABS even though the cheaper Classic 350 Signals edition motorcycle received this crucial, life-saving feature. Now, a Pegasus 500 owner, Anuj Singh, has gone a step ahead and filed a Right to Information (RTI) application with the Indian government's transport ministry. Here's a video where he explains the reasons for doing so. In the RTI application, Mr. Singh has questioned the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH). In the application, he asks why the Royal Enfield Pegasus 500 sold in India does not have ABS despite an April 2018 government circular asking all two-wheeler makers to equip new two-wheelers with engine capacities over 125cc with ABS. Confusion is rife on whether ABS is mandatory only on completely new motorcycles launched after April 2018. or if even new variants need to feature this technology. It's likely that the former is true for now, as a lot of motorcycle makers have launched new variants of existing motorcycles without ABS even after April 2018. In fact, existing motorcycles have time until April 2019 to comply with the mandatory ABS norm. It is expected that the RTI application may clear the confusion surrounding the exact date from which all 125cc+ motorcycles sold in India would feature ABS as standard. As for Royal Enfield, they could defend the Classic 500 Pegasus not having ABS at launch by stating that the motorcycle is merely a new variant of the Classic 500 - which has been on sale in India for nearly 8 years now. Royal Enfield has begun equipping motorcycles with dual channel ABS. While the Classic 350 Signals Edition was the first Royal Enfield motorcycle sold in India to receive this safety feature, the Himalayan and Classic 500 models have now been equipped with this technology. By the end of this year, all Royal Enfield motorcycles sold in India will have dual channel ABS as standard. In fact, the brand has been exporting ABS-equipped motorcycles to Europe for many months now. |
The company is reportedly planning a buyback program for the dissatisfied (angered) customers. Dealers will take the units off the disgruntled owners' hands and resell them to informed customers who know what to expect. According to Business Today, however, the number of angry customers who manifested themselves is overall pretty low, which shouldn’t represent a major expense for the manufacturer |
Originally Posted by Malyaj
(Post 4457232)
The complaining owners of Pegasus ‘limited edition’ are getting roasted here, but pause and think for a moment. ===== Of course, not all owners are like that, but for me there is too much of superficial stuff going on around these bikes. This Pegasus saga is a result of such behaviour. |
Originally Posted by OrangeCar
(Post 4455933)
With the aforesaid debate.. one RE lover is so heartbroken, that he throws his limited edition, INR 2 lakh rupees bike into the garbage dump! Source (Article in Kannada essentially summarizes the discussion in this thread). Attachment 1796271 |
Originally Posted by pacman2881
(Post 4464752)
RE may be planning to buyback Pegasus 500 |
Originally Posted by Neo18
(Post 4464830)
As for the current Fiasco, RE is a company which considers any publicity to be good publicity, so the disgruntled Pegasus 500 owners have not only burnt their fingers financially but have also unwittingly saved millions for the RE Marketing Team! |
Dear Mr Siddharth/Rudratej/Royal Enfield team, We all Pegasus buyers were recently contacted by your team and given the following options: 1. All the buyers can return their Pegasus bikes and take back a full refund. 2. Pegasus owners can return the bike and pick any other bike, and also the difference amount will be given back to buyers. 3. If a Pegasus buyer wants to keep the bike, he will be given a 1-year extra warranty and 2 extra free services along with a helmet. With all this, your company is nowhere talking about any action taken to save the limited edition of Indian Pegasus bikes as committed by Royal Enfield during the Pegasus launch. Your company has used almost everything (including the Round RE logo, stenciled unique number designing on petrol tank, positioning and designing of regiment number logo and TP 28 at the back of the rear wheel guard) from the Pegasus to the Signals 350cc bike launched in India. But, during the Pegasus bike launch, you and your team informed customers across the world and in India that all these are taken from Royal Enfield's bike used in WWll by the British Pegasus regiment. I myself and my whole team of Pegasus buyers as Indian customers want to know, what is true? Did you tell us lies during your marketing of the Pegasus bike, or you yourself and your company stole everything from Pegasus to the Signals 350cc, and you told lies to Indian customers that Royal Enfield Pegasus would be a limited edition bike and only 250 of such bikes will be sold in India. I myself and my whole team of Pegasus buyers as Indian customers want to know who will compensate for the mental and emotional trauma suffered by all the Pegasus buyers in India with your action of marketing lies during the Pegasus launch and launching a copy of the Pegasus in India as mass production within weeks of the Pegasus delivery, and destroying the value of limited edition for Indian buyers. Even if any Pegasus buyer returns the bike due to cheating done by Royal Enfield, how will you make sure that the limited edition of the Pegasus bike will be preserved by not copying/stealing the Pegasus limited edition design to Signals 350cc for buyers who will take the ownership of used Pegasus bikes. How will your organisation justify the discrimination done by Royal Enfield, by denying the ABS feature to Indian buyers, when the same feature is provided in UK, USA, Australia, Argentina and European customers. |
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