The Hero XPulse 200 is the company’s latest adventure-style motorcycle and a successor to the Impulse. The XPulse is powered by a 199cc single-cylinder air-cooled engine that makes 18.4PS and 17.1Nm in its fuel-injected (FI) guise. It’s also available with a carburettor setup. Hero MotoCorp offers long-travel suspension at both ends of the XPulse 200 - 37mm front forks with 190mm travel and a preload-adjustable rear monoshock with 180mm travel. There are disc brakes at both ends with single-channel ABS as standard. It also features an LED headlight as well as an all-digit instrument cluster that gets Bluetooth connectivity for displaying phone calls and turn-by-turn GPS navigation information.
Royal Enfield’s Himalayan has been around since 2016, and since then has seen some changes in the form of the fuel-injected version and more recently, dual-channel ABS as standard. The Himalayan engine, the LS410, is a 411cc single-cylinder air-cooled unit that generates 24.83PS of power and 32Nm of torque. At 220mm, it’s got SUV-rivalling ground-clearance and yet manages a very manageable seat height of just 800mm. The fat 41mm front forks have 200mm travel while the rear preload-adjustable monoshock has 190mm of travel. The Himalayan doesn’t get much in the way of features and sports an analogue instrument cluster with a small digital display for some basic information as well as a digital compass.
