[Mr.Boss]

TVS 50, carrying 1000kg load

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZs9zyC2h40

[Raghu M]

I simply love the Bajaj ads. Yeh zameen ye aasmaan, hamara kal, hamara aaj! this one was pure gold. Then multiple ones after that.

Pulsar - Definitely male (this was a cult)
Wind - Wind Biking (the guy coming out of shower and riding this bike directly)
Caliber - Ooodi baba!

All these bring back great memories. The Kinetic Luna ad was also great. I also remember the Suzuki Shogun ad, that was a craze during my childhood. Suzuki Samurai - the no problem bike was the hilarious one of all!

[hemanth.anand]

Originally Posted by Raghu M

All these bring back great memories. The Kinetic Luna ad was also great. I also remember the Suzuki Shogun ad, that was a craze during my childhood. Suzuki Samurai - the no problem bike was the hilarious one of all!

Oh the Shogun and Samurai ads...as a high school boy, that was what I wanted to have as soon as I entered college...

https://youtu.be/FCdv5FBu1d4

https://youtu.be/mUAC1wUHSgk

Even the Shaolin ad. The way they show 5 is how we used to count what we saw out of the classroom window

https://youtu.be/okMx2uuhti0

But if you ask me what I got in college... see below

https://youtu.be/odJC-JC8rLg

Between "Hamara Bajaj" and "Definitely male", "Chal meri Luna" was probably the most famous two-wheeler tagline

[DriverNo.420]

Definitely agree with others about Bajaj making the best motorcycle advertisements. In 2016, they created quite a buzz with the 'V' advertising campaigns claiming the fuel tank was forged with metal from INS Vikrant.

https://youtu.be/gTED3sGtC0w

And here is another new advertisement from Royal Enfield of the new-gen Classic 350 that enthralled me. It's quite soothing.

https://youtu.be/2I-Fdc4w6is

I have both vehicles

[Raghu M]

Originally Posted by hemanth.anand

Oh the Shogun and Samurai ads...as a high school boy, that was what I wanted to have as soon as I entered college...


Even the Shaolin ad. The way they show 5 is how we used to count what we saw out of the classroom window

Between "Hamara Bajaj" and "Definitely male", "Chal meri Luna" was probably the most famous two-wheeler tagline

Thank you sir. Feels great when I look at these ads. Though I was very young, I was fascinated by the sheer look of these machines.

[saitvsk23]

There's a bit of a story to my reply over here, please bear with me:

I am presently studying automobile engineering now, and all the credit goes to one ad. The Hero Honda Karizma R's TVC.

It was 2007. I was in first grade. My dad had bought our home PC new back then, with all the goodies. A fast internet connection, an LCD monitor (a brand new thing for a kid who was used to seeing CRT monitors in his school) and an amazing keyboard (it had all the shortcuts for word, excel and all).

My dad had a red Splendor+ back then. It was quite a rare color. And for some reason, my dad still can't understand how, but I loved that bike. Every inch of it.

My dad then introduced me to something called websites. It were these magical windows which showed you anything you had asked it for. Naturally, I had asked him to show me the Hero Honda Website. He did, and had asked him to show all the bikes.
The site used to run on flash components backk then, and it had this gorgeous way of allowing you to select the vehicle you wanted to see. All the vehicles were lined up and were running, and if you had selected one, it would come forward, asking you to click the link there, and it would redirect you to its main page.

Ask any kid from 2003-2008 what his favourite bike is, his reply would probably be Karizma. So was mine. Especially in the metallic cyan, red and chrome yellow ones (this was before the R version). So he showed me the main website of the Karizma R, and I WAS BLOWN AWAY. The way it was presented, I had never seen anything like it. The sections (colors section was named as SHADES OF ENVY) were very, very radical to see.

And then came the TVC. Hrithik Roshan. Chilling with his bike opposite to him. Have a look at what happens next here.

https://youtu.be/Ge_H_FIdLww

Also, as I had grown up with the Hero Honda Brand, their 25 year Dhak Dhak Go ad was something else. Hrithik Roshan jumping out of a helicopter, that too while astride on a Karizma R. That appealed to my 9 year old self more than anything else. Have a look at that too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GssmSnKBF-c

I'd like to leave a pic of my dad's erstwhile Splendor+, which gave me a solid life goal to end up at Hero Honda, no matter what.

[TwerkyC0ffee]

Adding one more from Bajaj:

https://youtu.be/ZztFl57pxzM

[sramanat]

Bajaj Pulsar 'definitely male' commercials have aged like milk in today's world with more awareness about toxic masculinity...
TVS 50 moped commercial showing small business people hauling stuff is still relevant. You can see many small bakers carrying biscuits and buns deliver stuff to roadside tea shops regularly. A nicely done utility vehicle commercial.
Bajaj had a brand level commercial with all their motorcycles. That was good too.

[Goku_YNWA]

When TVS tried to demonstrate Newton laws with the Apache 160.

https://youtu.be/Ixh3KE4UXpo

[techdarshan]

Classic and my all time favorite - Rajdoot ad featuring Dharmendra

https://youtu.be/affoUDmbXy4

[govindremesh]

Maybe not the best ad, but as an ex-owner of a Honda CB Trigger, I found the ad very relatable

https://youtu.be/_acCVBQwu6Y

Another funny Bajaj Platina commercial

https://youtu.be/j58DNZUk0kw

[highway_star]

Originally Posted by aargee

This was once considered hilarious, but Suzuki Samurai lived to it's commercial in reality, it was a true no problem bike
https://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=VaMF_Go3tqk

This was actually the second one in the series of "No problem" ads. In the first one, the same Japanese guy takes a lift from an Indian on a Samurai. He says many things in Japanese unrelated to motorcycles, while the Indian thinks he is asking about Samurai and replies "No problem" to everything he says. So this second ad is showing that now the Japanese has started saying "No problem" to everything. I am not able to find the first ad online.



Another memorable one was the Rajdoot ad with the song that went "Ye Rajdoot, hai ye shaan ki sawaari". I am not able to find this online either.

[b16h22]

Originally Posted by INJAXN

Bajaj will be super happy seeing this thread. One of my favorite two wheeler advertisement is also of Bajaj Pulsar ( Pulsar Mania).

I had Pulsar 150 DTSI during my college days. After I finished college and moved to different city for job, my Dad rode it for few years, he also loved it.
Then eventually Dad moved to Activa and we sold the bike.

I had MP09-XX-2009 number plate in the year 2005, it was quite famous in the college .

https://Youtu.be/6rgLwYpFWm8

Hands down the best bgm in any Indian motorcycle ad. Especially at the end with perfect sync to the bike choreography

[ArTigor]

Best two wheeler ads for me:-

1 - Bajaj Avenger Feel like god! this advertisement is akin to the reclaim your life ad to me in terms of motorcycle ads.

https://youtu.be/y10OJ1pNW3o

2 - Bajaj Pulsar 220, today this bike may have merged in the ocean of other bikes, but 13 years ago there was no other Indian bike which came close to it. this Ad accentuated the feeling of pride.

https://youtu.be/ZJVuk0VGLuw

3 - Bajaj Avenger - Brotherhood day with Royal Enfield, this ad gives me a different pleasure.

https://youtu.be/GGqPQCfXIPA

4 - Royal Enfield - Yeh bullet meri jaan, the modern iteration

https://youtu.be/2U6uYzCay5o

[dhanushmenon]

Originally Posted by hemanth.anand

The new series of Ather ads are beautifully made. from the concept to the background score to the the video, all convey the message clearly without even uttering a single word

Wow. Superb ads. I hadn't seen any of these. Brilliant conceptualisation and had me quite gripped.
These ad directors would really be paid well right?