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Motorcyclists can be a curious lot. We will clothe our children in rags, skip a couple of meals every day, give the missus our business card for our wedding anniversary and do all this in a heart beat just to be able to get that one motorcycle into the garage. So naturally, after hearing news about the launch of an R15 replacement, our kids instantly resembled Victorian urchins, we went on a diet and the wife started filing divorce papers. Tasty rumours flew this way and that and were spicy enough to include words like ‘250 cc’, 26 bhp and ABS, among others.
So is this new R15 really all of that? Well, for one, it does not displace a quarter of a litre, nor does it put out anything even remotely close to 26 bhp. But it does sport some new styling updates, wears a fatter rear tyre (I can already hear somebody in the crowd shout ‘hurray’) and the rear swing arm is now a beefy looking aluminium unit. It was only fitting, then, that we put Version 2.0 against its forbear to see whether this time around, the change was evolution and not regression.
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