Similar styling but upcoming model looks bigger than EICMA concept bike
Back at the EICMA show last November QJMotor revealed its Equus concept bike – a café racer powered by the brand’s existing 561cc V4 engine – and now a new design registration has exposed an upcoming model with similar styling cues applied to a larger, cruiser-style machine.
The Equus (also styled as ‘Eqvvs’ in some documents) was a styling exercise by C-Creative, the Italian company behind most of QJMotor’s recent models, packing the engine from the brand’s SRV600 V4 cruiser into a shorter, café racer-style bike, but the upcoming model reverts to a cruiser stance but adopts many of the Equus’ elements in its design.
Notable parts from the concept include a headlight that frames a small central LED with a ring of running lights ahead of a longer, slimmer fuel tank than the brand’s existing designs. However, the biggest take from the concept is the chassis, with front and rear aluminium castings bolted to a separate central section above the ‘V’ of the engine. On the Equus, it was a genuinely functional frame, using those alloy castings as the structure, but on the new designs – which are sure to reflect an upcoming production model – they appear to be more cosmetic. There’s a tubular steel chassis that extends below the engine and disappears into the aluminium sections, either bolting to them or running behind them.
An0ther change is the engine itself. Where the Equus used QJMotor’s existing 561cc V4, the new designs show an engine with different castings and covers, and overlaying it on pictures of the brand’s current V4 models – the SRV600 V4 and the 899cc SRV900 V – shows that it’s physically larger. It’s a liquid-cooled, DOHC design like QJMotor’s other V4s, but those cylinder heads extend further and appear to be wider than their counterparts. A 1000cc or 1200cc V4, or perhaps even larger, would be a logical step for the brand to take.
There’s no indication that the new bike follows trends of semi-automatic transmissions: there’s a conventional clutch and shifter clearly on display. It appears to have a belt final drive, and the wheelbase is longer than the QJMotor’s current V4 cruisers. Radial-mount, four-piston calipers from Chinese brand Hangte grip two front discs, and like other QJMotor bikes the suspension appears to come from its partner brand Marzocchi.
On board there’s a single, circular instrument – surely the same TFT unit used on the brand’s other V4 cruisers – and like those machines it’s mounted, slightly unusually, on the bars themselves. A conventional ignition key can be seen in a slot on the top yoke, so there’s no keyless cleverness here, and there’s a 12-volt socket on the lefthand side of the frame, just in front of the tank.
It’s not unusual to see QJMotor bikes appear in design filings before they’re launched, and it’s likely that the final version of this machine will be officially revealed in the coming months as a 2027 model.
