Jawa Perak

The Jawa Perak has been launched in India on the cult bikemaker's first anniversary in the country. It is priced at Rs 1,94,500 (ex-showroom Delhi).

The Perak features an all-black paint scheme and a redesigned rear end, a single tan seat, low-set handlebars with bar-end mirrors and round LED tail light that’s neatly placed under the seat. 

Powering the motorcycle is a bigger 334cc, liquid-cooled, single-cylinder mill that produces 30.4PS and 31Nm of torque, mated to a 6-speed transmission. It even gets custom-looking twin slash-cut road-legal exhausts. This motor is BS6-compliant and the Perak is the first motorcycle from Jawa to comply with the upcoming emission norms.

The bike uses a double cradle frame and conventional telescopic fork up front. However, it gets a different swingarm, which looks like the Triumph Bonneville Bobber’s ‘swing cage’ unit to accommodate the monoshock at the rear. Also, the Perak uses disc brakes at both ends with dual-channel ABS and Ceat Zoom Cruz tyres. While it doesn’t have a direct rival, the Royal Enfield Thunderbird 500X comes pretty close.

Bookings of the bike will open from January 2020 and deliveries will commence from April 2, 2020. However, Jawa might commence deliveries of the bike in cities where BS6 fuel is available from March 2020 onwards.