Off road with the Xpulse 200 - Testing Xpulse 200 on Extreme Offroad - River crossing 🏞️
Off road with the Xpulse 200 - Testing Xpulse 200 on Extreme Offroad and river crossing
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00:00 - [ Introduction ]
00:17 - [ Let the off road part begin ]
05:56 - [ Crossing the river ]
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Regular readers of this humble website might remember how I – perhaps foolishly, or is the word inadvisedly? – rode a Hero XPulse 200 3,000 km over New Year 2022/2023 in order to prove something or other: right now the reason escapes me, although what is not in doubt is my surprise, however, misplaced, that the machine took everything I could throw at it and came out the other side with flying colours.
Now, that I undertook a journey that the Xpulse 200 was not necessarily designed for – but which still acquitted itself perfectly in the execution thereof – is certainly a testament to the quality of the product. But what it didn’t tell me was what it is like to live with one on a day-to-day basis which is what I recently had the chance to discover. Practical, certainly: frugal, definitely: but interesting enough to maintain interest or merely to be seen as a means of transport and nothing else? Hmmm, not sure about that.
In this job, we get to ride the latest and greatest, the fastest and the most dynamic. If there is a problem, it is that we don’t always get to use them in the arenas for which they were designed. Now, experience dictates that we can extrapolate a bike’s qualities from a short ride and, let’s face it, we are pretty certain that the modern motorcycle, in whatever form it takes, will perform faultlessly, no matter how far out of its comfort zone it might be when we are riding it.
It would be lovely to have an adventure bike and spend five days bashing through the undergrowth and across the mountains. It would be incredible to have a sports bike and have the use of a track for a day or two to really get to understand the depths of its ability (always more than our own personal depths!). But that’s just not possible, certainly in terms of adventure bikes, touring bikes or sports bikes. Sadly, life in all its mundanity gets in the way.
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But, now, supply us with an inexpensive, basic motorcycle that is designed primarily for the urban environment and, all of a sudden, here is something we can work with without too much trouble. Yes, the Xpulse 200 has some off-road ability built in but, let’s face it, it exists as a practical urban workhorse and, let me tell you, at this, it excels.
As an interesting counterpoint to the XPulse, a Suzuki GSX-S1000 was also in the garage at the same time and, let me tell you, for all the qualities of the Suzuki – and they are many – the Hero had it licked when riding around town. Long travel and supple suspension made any trip, no matter how short or long, nothing to be worried about. The lack of power meant that wet, greasy roads held no fears of the sickening slide and crunch and the frugality just has to be experienced to be believed. Not only that but, in everyday use and no matter the distance, the Hero was very little – if at all – slower than the Suzuki. I timed a journey to Centurion from Johannesburg on both bikes and the Hero arrived mere minutes later than the infinitely faster Suzuki.
I mentioned the frugality but it bears repeating: this thing seems to make its own petrol! Often, the fuel gauge would have one bar left when I parked it up, only for it to read two or three bars when I set off again. I just never seem to need to put petrol in it and, even when I did, it took suspiciously little to fill it up!
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