Today Zongshen officially released its 250cc forest road off-road model - Desert Flying Fox 250X, the official price of 12980 yuan.
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Desert Flying Fox is an entry-level forest road off-road vehicle, since its debut at the Chongqing Motorcycle Exhibition last year, it has made many friends who are interested in off-roading remember. This statement is not exaggerated, because domestic first-line brands have not come up with satisfactory entry-level + off-road vehicles that can be licensed for a long time.
Of course, the desert flying fox is not a perfect product, but compared with the existing products, its advantages are indeed very clear.
Advantage 1: The Desert Flying Fox has the standard settings for an entry-level off-road vehicle.
There are several settings that must be considered when playing non-paved, that is, wheel size, shock absorption stroke, ground clearance, and curb weight, which can directly affect the passability of the vehicle and the ease of getting started.
In this regard, the configuration of the Desert Flying Fox is qualified, and in terms of wheels, it adopts the standard off-road dedicated front 21 rear 18 spoke hubs, and professionalism coexists with passability.
In terms of shock absorption, long stroke shock absorption is also used, with 172mm front positive stroke and rear center shock absorption. It is indeed a pity that the Desert Flying Fox did not use multi-link rear shock absorption, but compared to competitors of the same level, the current configuration is enough.
Under the action of wheel hubs and shock absorption, the height of the desert flying fox reaches 890mm, which is enough to dissuade most ordinary motorists, but for non-paved, this value is very helpful for you to stand and ride, combined with the 145kg of curb quality, it can make people have fun on forest trails and entry-level non-paved roads.
Advantage 2, the desert flying fox has found its own product positioning.
At present, there are many such forest road models on the market, but none of the products can compete with the desert flying fox, the NK150 of the Haojue and the CREF190 of Honda are very good, but their shock absorption, brakes, engine power, are all shorter than the desert flying fox.
The Infinity 300GY and the Hengjian 250 off-road are also good, but they are much more expensive than the desert flying fox, and the engine power is also above 20kw, which is not as good as the desert flying fox suitable for beginners and non-paved Moyou.
As for those off-road vehicles that cannot be licensed, compared with them, the biggest advantage of the Desert Flying Fox is that it can be licensed. Being licensed in a big city is a necessity for entry-level off-road vehicles, after all, only a few people can afford to buy a trailer.
Of course, I know that there are still some people who have such questions about the Desert Flying Fox, such as:
Why doesn't the engine use the NC250? This PR250 is only 14kw, what did I buy it for?
The desert flying fox does not use NC250 from two aspects, the first is the cost, followed by product positioning.
If the Desert Flying Fox is equipped with NC250, the engine moves, the configuration of the whole vehicle needs to be strengthened, the cost will rise, the product positioning will change, and its competitors will directly become models such as the Infinity 300GY and the Hengjian S5, and the product advantages of the Desert Flying Fox will no longer be obvious.
Simply put, the big guys can't look at it, and the novice can't afford it (or there's no need to buy such a good car to get started).
Entry-level trail off-road vehicles do not have as high requirements for engine power as street cars or imitation races, in contrast, forest road off-road is more focused on vehicle settings and lightweight.
Let's put it this way, a novice who has just come out of the driving school can drive more than 20kw of models on the road with a little practice, because the control requirements of the paved road riding are not so high, as long as you can shift gears + twist the throttle, you can exert 80% of the power of the engine.
But the trail off-road is not the same, this activity requires you to invest more time and energy, learn to control the car from scratch, learn a completely different riding method from the road riding, in this activity ABS is not only not necessary, but even becomes a burden in the driving process.
(Have you ever remembered those 125 that claimed to be able to kill KTM and BMW, light is to do whatever you want)
At this moment, a high-power engine is not only of little help to you who are practicing non-paved control cars, but on the contrary, this thing will increase your learning costs, the weight of the car will be heavier, and the purchase price and maintenance costs will also rise, which is really not good for novices.
The same is true for the rear shock absorber and other parts of the body, in short, it is not necessary, for the entry-level model, the current Desert Flying Fox is enough in terms of configuration, the shock absorption replacement engine may not work, the rear flat fork also needs to be redone, and the cost has to rise... So the desert flying fox finally became what it is now, although there are regrets, but the overall is still good.
summary:
Desert Flying Fox is indeed a very suitable for non-paved entry models, it abandons the convenience of commuting and motorcycle travel, and aims at the entry-level non-paved market, in order to set hard enough, easy to buy and easy to maintain as the main selling point, like you can buy, anyway, buy back is also to build, do not have to be too entangled.