More low rev torque and
more top end - a win-win...
RR125
Some specific updates here: the standard
2020 RR125 now gets the ‘Factory’ model
engine spec from 2019, with a new cylinder
with modified exhaust port, a new exhaust
flange, new exhaust valve system (and
‘boosters’) with different timing to improve
power delivery and a new expansion
chamber. Beta say this engine now generates
more low rev torque and more top end (a
win-win) for a bike that’s easier to ride.
Now their RR125 was already an easy-to-
ride 125, for 2020 it’s easier still. Of course
it’s no easy task getting a 125 to lug a near-
100kg middle-aged man, but the RR125 did it
well. The standout being that added low-rev
torque which meant when Mr Slow-Wit was in
a gear too high (almost everywhere) the wee
RR125 still pulled – not big time, but it at least
pulled rather than falling over on itself, which
125s typically can. Now a keen teenager will
be riding this bike in the powerband the
whole time and it’ll fly, but the important
news here is that for someone coming up –
say from riding a 125/150/230cc four-stroke –
this RR125 is a good next bike, it’s not experts
only. For smaller people, not just kids, this is
a good thing – and it gives them a bike with
scope to really bring on their riding. And save
for the electric start (it would barely need it),
it has all the whistles and bells of the bigger
bikes.
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