It’s been nearly 10 months of my ownership of Yezdi Adventure and it’s surely not for the Saint Hearted, to know why read below.
before we start let me tell you how much I have used it.
– I bought the Bike in September 2022.
– as of writing this blog in June 2023, I have already completed 32000 kilometres with this. In doing so consumed around 1000 Liter of Petrol (that’s nearly 1Lakh rupees in petrol).
– completed all my free services, and 2 paid services. (Total 6 services, + 2 extra service centre visits) in 10 months.
– crossed my warranty kilometre (Yezdi provide a warranty of 24000 kilometre only). Some competition models offer unlimited kilometre warranty.
– Chain sprocket changed twice in the time period (once per 15k km)
– Rear Tyre changed at 30k km.
So now let’s come to the review, and this will be honest unpaid review of my personal experience and will also be comparing it with other bikes to give you better idea if there are any doubts in your minds.
- The Yezdi adventure engine loves to be raced up. The bike is a breeze to drive on highways, cruise at 80 or 120, you won’t feel stressed up engine. The bike comes with 6 gears, and you need to look for 6th gear only when you are upwards of 70kmph speed. Even you can go upto 100 in 5th gear itself, without any issue.
- When you go beyond 120 then you start feeling vibrations. Though I personally think cruising at speed around 100-105 is the best range for the bike of this calibre.
- The clutch is not soft, so it takes some effort to change gear or control stalling in city traffic, not an issue on highways.
- The major drawback on the bike is the heat it throws at your right leg while in city traffic, it’s not the fault of radiator, but a design issue precisely as the hot air is diverted at such an angle that it directly passes through the right leg from toe to knee. You will nearly burn your leg if you don’t have proper protection, at least wear a riding shoe, normal sports shoe won’t be able to handle that heat for more then a month in Indian summer.
- The other annoying issue (not really an issue but annoyance) is absence of a centre stand, the bike comes with side stand as standard, and no centre stand is offered upto now also by Yezdi as even a paid accessory. Since the bike is an on road-off road centric hybrid kind, so it is sold with spoke wheels, and we cannot install a tubeless tyre on this, it comes with a rear tube type 130/80 – 17” tyre. So, if sometime the tyre gets punctured in mid-way, then you won’t be able to repair without some puncture repair shop having a paddock stand or use some desi jugaad which might hurt the engine.
- Recently an aftermarket centre stand is launched in market by some modding firm, long term review of that stand still needs to be checked.
- The tyres of the bike are Tube type with spoke wheel. But in market its very rare to find the rear tyre 130/80 – 17” in tube type, as this tube tyre is only used in some handful of premium bikes. Mostly we have to settle for a tubeless tyre with a lower width tube fitted in this.
- The good thing about the bike is service cost, the normal service cost is not much considering the other bikes in the race like BMW, KTM etc. but the cost of parts can be an issue sometimes. For every 6000km the service cost comes in range of 2500-3000.
- On highways it gives as average mileage of around 32-34 kmpl. while in city it gives somewhere around 25. the figure will vary depending upon driving style like speed, frequent braking, weight carried etc.
overall for a price paid of 2.5L this is a very good package. will write a dedicated article for comparing with other bikes.
few drawback exist but manageable, and adjustable.