For a while now the loudest question on the Pulsar threads has been an oddly small one: when does my NS200 get a proper screen? Last week the answer arrived sideways. The NS200 and the N250 have been spied testing with a 5-inch TFT, the same one that showed up on the N160 SS in August, and Bajaj hasn’t said a word officially. It doesn’t need to. The riders had already decided this one for it.
Here’s the thing, and I say it as someone who owned a Pulsar 220 for about ten minutes in 2012 and still remembers its dashboard with a wince. The 390 Duke’s colour dash is spookily good, and I still wouldn’t buy the bike for it. A good TFT is a nice-to-have, not a reason to ride. So why does this one matter? Because of who asked for it.
We at SBW have been reading the owner threads, and the striking thing is how many people were begging for this before the spy pictures ever landed. A rider who test-rode an NS200 came away calling it dated. Strange thing to want from your own bike, no? Nobody who actually rides one complains about the engine, mind you. They love the top-end rush. They complain that the bike looks a generation behind at the traffic light, next to a KTM or an R15 wearing a bright TFT. Far, far behind, in the showroom photos at least. And that, quietly, is the thing that loses a sale.
Which is where the Bajaj method comes in. Look at what these bikes already carry. The NS200 and the N250 both run upside-down forks, and the N250 has ride modes, traction control and a slipper clutch. Bajaj did not skimp on the oily bits. It skimped on the one part a shopper prods with his thumb before he prods anything else. The screen is the cheapest thing on the bike to modernise and the first thing a buyer judges, so of course it goes last and it goes loudest.
And it isn’t one bike. The N160 SS was the first Bajaj two-wheeler to get a TFT, back in August. The all-new Pulsar 125 and 150 followed weeks later. The reporting suggests the whole Pulsar range is in line for the screen in a phased way, top variant first, the cheaper trims keeping their old LCDs. This is cost engineering pointed at a dashboard instead of a price tag. Very, very Bajaj.
So temper the excitement, because as things stand there is no price, no date and nothing on Bajaj’s own newsroom about any of it. The NS200 sells from about Rs 1,32,962 and the N250 from about Rs 1,34,166, both ex-showroom Delhi, and a screen this good rarely arrives for free. Expect the top variants to cost a little more, and expect Bajaj to make you pay for the trim, not the tech.
But give them this. Makers usually add features they think you should want. Every so often one adds the feature you actually asked for. The Pulsar won’t get quicker for a TFT. It’ll just stop feeling old at the lights, which is exactly what its owners kept saying they wanted, over and over, for a couple of years now. For once, somebody was listening. Finally.
Featured in RideToday and BikeLife Magazine, Aditya Addy blends journalistic rigor with 15 years of real-world riding experience. He’s covered everything from urban commutes to off-road expeditions, offering detailed maintenance guides, gear breakdowns, and safety protocols.
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