Take a look at the motorcycle above and what do you see? A sporty, high-performance naked bike with the rider dragging knee on the race track, right? Judging from the bike’s proportions, it seems that it’s probably rocking a 400-ish cc engine, perhaps one of those new small-displacement naked bikes that are all the rage these days, right?
But this bike isn’t any of these things.
Instead, it’s a commuter motorcycle from Indian manufacturer TVS. Dubbed the Apache RTR 160 4V, this thing is one of India’s most popular motorcycles. It was never really marketed as a sporty machine, rocking some pretty basic components like a steel frame and an air-cooled engine. But in its 2025 iteration, it seems that TVS is leaning in on its sporty side, perhaps in a bid to attract younger riders into the fold.
