Hailing from across the northern border with
Thailand is GPX Racing, with the newly launched 2019 GPX Racing Legend 250 Twin
priced at 79,500 baht.
Coming into the full quarter-litre class, the Legend
250 features retro naked sports styling with all the design cues you would
expect to see from a motorcycle of the 70s or 80s. Carrying an oil-cooled
parallel-twin displacing 234 cc, the Legend 250 did not come with any power
numbers, but something like 20 hp would be reasonable.
Power goes through a six-speed gearbox and chain
final drive and the engine is fed by GPX Racing’s own EFI system. Fuel is
stored in a large for its class 14.5-litre fuel tank – most of the Legend 250’s
competition use 10-litre fuel tanks and the whole package weighs in at 154 kg,
with the instruments housed in a single round binnacle.
Unlike it’s competition, the Legend 250 uses twin
disc brakes on the front wheel, clamped by dual-piston hydraulic callipers
while the back wheel has a single disc stopped by a single-piston calliper.
Suspension is with upside-down telescopic forks in front and twin YSS gas-filled
shock absorbers at the back, adjustable for pre-load.
The two-toned retro styled seat on the Legend 250 is
790 mm from the ground, making it accessible to almost all riders and lighting
is LED all round with three colour options available – red, gloss black and
matte black.
Meanwhile, the 2019 GPX Racing Raptor 180 is a naked
sports bike in true hooligan style, coming with a single-cylinder air-cooled
180.8 cc mill. Fed by GPX fuel injection, power gets to the ground via a
six-speed gearbox and chain final drive.
Coming with a claimed weight of 135 kg, the Raptor
180 carries 11.5-litres of fuel in the tank and GPX Racing says the bike will
do 110 km/h. LED lighting is use throughout and inside the cockpit is a full LCD
meter panel. Seat height is a full-sized motorcycle 820 mm with suspension using
upside-down forks in front and a YSS gas monoshock at the back. Braking is done
with single discs front and rear on 17-inch wheels and there are four colour
options – violet, red, black and white.
