Fuel injected Motorcycles in India: What it means

I've now heard that there are at least two fuel injected motorcycles in India's near future. The Glamour F1, will be a fuel-injected version of the Hero Honda Glamour 125, while the Pulsar DTS-Fi will be the other, probably a 225cc motorcycle. The former is supposed to be launched anytime now (Economic Times report from the Hero Honda 05-06 results announcement). The latter, everyone already knows, is due Diwali.

I checked out what the advent of fuel injection will mean to us. In cars, when they moved over to fuel injection we saw, roughly, a 10 per cent rise in fuel economy and a 15 per cent rise in performance. But here is the thing. I am told that that figure can vary widely (big surprise, eh?). The chap I spoke to said the improvement is dependent on what the state of the carburetted model was. How well it was tuned, what sort of carburettor it used. He said, 'you can almost take it for granted that motorcycles that show the largest gains in the power/economy were the worst tuned ones on the market. The motorcycle that shows almost no numerically quantifiable difference was already running a superb carb setup.'

He went on to add, that if the carburetted motorcycle was already very well tuned, then what fuel injection will bring to the table is the opportunity for the manufacturer to alter power delivery. By that, the implication is maybe a wider powerband, fewer compromises needed between the top-end-mid-range-low-end power balance of a motorcycle. It means motorcycles like the Shine, could in theory, make power at the top-end without sacrificing the low/mid grunt. The words he used were 'modulate' and 'versatile.'

Will the Glamour F1 be an earthshaker? I'm thinking no. 125cc is too small, too general purpose to evince any great rise in interest or performance or both. The fuel injection kit is also rumoured to cost as much as Rs 10,000 per unit, which is steep no matter how you slice that pie.