India's biggest motorcycle maker, Hero Honda Motors Ltd, sold 230,751 bikes in December, up 44 percent from 160,191 units in the same month a year earlier, the company said on its Web site on Saturday. The automaker, in which India's Munjal family and Japan's Honda Motor Co each hold 26 percent stake, said sales in April-December rose to 1,935,981 units from 1,477,439 in the year-earlier period.

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