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The TVS Apache RTR 4V twins have gone under the knife to get BS-VI approval. We ride the new versions to see if the stricter norms have made them any less exciting.

BS-VI! That's the buzzword in the Indian auto industry right now, and understandably so. You see, from April 2020, the BS-VI emission norms, which are much stricter than the current BS-IV norms, are going to come into force in India. And this means that all new cars and bikes sold in our country will have to meet these norms before the set deadline. Now, while there's still a couple of months left for that to happen, some auto manufacturers have already started putting their products under the knife. One of the early adopters o...