Recently, the domestic climbing motorcycle is also a rapid force, before there is a RE3 climbing version, after the GK500 climbing version, but these two climbing models have a common problem, that is, there is no high exhaust, which makes many retro enthusiasts feel very incomprehensible.
You're a climbing motorcycle, why not carry a high exhaust?
The origins of high exhaust and climbing cars can be traced back to the last century.
Scrambler is a modified style to be precise, originating from the British folk racing competition in the 1950s, when the European economy was sluggish, and young people who pursued speed and passion did not have the money to get off the track, so they PK on the road, and the drivers could only meet the more extreme racing needs by modifying the production car.
At the same time that the CAFA RACER race is popular, the riders will play the principle of the closest line between the points to the extreme, the terrain of the way is complex and diverse, this Off-Road driving method is a great test for ordinary civilian motorcycles. In order to get faster speeds, the knights began to modify their motorcycles (street cars): removing excess parts, increasing the power of the vehicle, and changing to a high exhaust to prevent muddy water from being poured or weeds from being ignited. So gradually evolved what we see today, with high exhaust, spoke hubs, long stroke shock absorption, off-road tires under the four standard configurations of the scrabler model style.
This configuration has always accompanied the development and progress of the Scrabler model, but with the passage of time, the Scrambler model has slowly been classified as a retro car, and its characteristics are no longer limited to those original conditions. The modern Scrabler model is more like an SUV in the city, and it is slowly more inclined to use in the city, the tires are replaced by street tires, the wheel hubs of some models are also replaced by aluminum alloy, and the adjustment of shock absorption is also more comfortable, which is more suitable for urban shuttle transportation.
(BMW lattes and triumphal climbs are two typical, one compromises on commuting, and the other is still obsessed with non-pavement performance)
But even so, even though everyone rarely uses climbing cars to run off-road sections, traditional climbing cars still retain the seemingly useless thing of high exhaust.
Do people really expect to ride a climb to cross-country?
Certainly not, the high exhaust at this time is actually more like a totem, a public belief in climbing cars, this part retains everyone's expectations for the original, off-road ability of climbing cars.
So why are the current domestic scrabler models less and less like the scrabler? Even the high exhaust is too lazy to install it?
(Not only domestic, but even Ducati, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, has also canceled the high exhaust)
This has to start from the model segmentation, with the emergence of off-road vehicles, adv models, and road infrastructure is getting better and better, the traditional scrabler model in the off-road performance is no longer necessary, but slowly replaced by other models, scrambler model settings are gradually changing to paved pavement, even if the off-road ability of the triumph climb, its factory tires are also more conservative road and non-paved dual-purpose tires.
Why? It's not because climbing cars have become a niche culture (in the case of the domestic market)!
For manufacturers, Adv models with certain passing capabilities, cross-border pedal xadv, part of the travel model, and off-road models that can be specialized in mud, have undoubtedly separated the users of the scrabler style model, not to mention that they are now paying attention to a multi-purpose vehicle.
The line between retro and climbing has become increasingly blurred.
The traditional SLASHUR is no longer suitable for daily transportation has been a trend, the role of high exhaust anti-mud water backfilling is no longer the actual function it should have, for manufacturers, adding or not adding this thing is actually just an arithmetic problem.
Will a climbing car with a high exhaust definitely sell well?
Manufacturers cannot make sufficient judgments about the expectations of the market prospects. However, from the cost point of view, without high exhaust, it will definitely reduce the cost of mold opening, which is an undoubted thing.
Zongshen Saikoron Re3 scrambler
Gold GK500 Climbing Edition
(Domestic manufacturers launched the scrambler style model, which has been good in terms of appearance, restoring the 17-inch rear spoke hub and the front 19-inch spoke hub and the setting of the increased ground clearance, but unfortunately the high exhaust is missing)
The popularity of the domestic small displacement imitation market in the past two years, as well as the positioning trend of the current cross-border model of modern retro street cars, coupled with the niche of the domestic skeleton model style consumer group, these signs indicate that it is a matter of paying less than the return to do a purer crawler style retro car. Judging from the existing models in China that have a certain style of scrabler models, it can be concluded that this scrmbler is not a scrsmbler.
Simply put, the domestic scrsmbler can be seen as a non-paved performance enhanced version of the retro car.
So the domestic scrambler we are currently seeing has finally become what it is now. There are only two things I would like to say about this status quo.
First of all, high exhaust is definitely necessary.
First: As a model style with historical and cultural accumulation, aside from the function of high exhaust and the practicality of the configuration, it should also exist as a classic part of the history of motorcycles, rather than being forgotten in the long river of history.
Second: Under the emergence of today's various cross-border models, domestic manufacturers should launch more pure and more in line with consumer concerns of the scrabler model, niche things to do fine in order to shine. This can also strengthen the corporate image and bring better market attention and visibility. For example, Benda's cruise car Chinchilla 300 and Apulia's gpr125, small + fine + in line with consumer cognition = explosive model (of course, word of mouth enterprises and pricing can not deviate from public perception, SWM's SD650 is the best example).
Third, under the provisions of the mainland's laws and regulations, the general environment does not support consumers to modify the vehicle to exhaust behavior, consumers want to achieve modification of high exhaust to carry the name of illegal modification, if the manufacturer can be factory that is modified, can save us consumers a lot of effort.
Secondly, although we domestic climbing players can't be modified by Zhengda Guangming, there is no need to attack this type of model as garbage, only when we start to play, the circle of climbing cars has become larger, and we can usher in better climbing products.
I like a famous up lord (the postman's diary of the king) who changed a Xinyuan silver bottle to be more climbing. Afraid of infringement will not be screenshotted, interested everyone can go to the home page of this UP.
The scrambler spirit is a very virtual thing, some people say it is adventurous, others say it is indomitable, but I feel that "hands-on ability" is actually more representative of the scrabbler spirit, after all, this is his origin, and most likely his destination. I hope that the atmosphere of the skullr in China is getting better and better, and I hope that everyone can "safely" change the scarmbler model that meets their own wishes in the future.
summary:
Scrambler style model itself is a civilian model of the 1950s to be modified and evolved, and as a skeletonr style model of the classic high exhaust is ignored by domestic manufacturers I think it is inappropriate, since the choice of title crawler or climbing, then why not step in place? Perhaps it can be launched in the form of official modification options, which can reduce costs, take care of consumer needs, or pay tribute to classic models.