BENGALURU (Reuters) - Hero MotoCorp, India's largest motorcycle maker by market share, reported a bigger-than-expected rise in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, aided by sales of its bikes such as Splendor and Passion.

The company's standalone profit rose 18.3% year-on-year to 10.16 billion rupees ($121.7 million) in the three months ended March 31.

Analysts, on average, had expected a profit of 10.06 billion rupees, per LSEG data.

($1 = 83.5049 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Meenakshi Maidas and Varun Hebbalalu in Bengaluru; Editing by Janane Venkatraman)