ZXMoto’s 600V cruiser has surfaced in Chinese homologation filings looking markedly different from the bike shown at EICMA
ZXMoto unveiled its prototype 600V cruiser at last November’s EICMA show but the production model that’s just been type-approved in China looks noticeably different to the original show model.
Where the EICMA bike sported a very traditional cruiser style, with a bobbed tail, a round, chrome-rimmed headlight and minimal bodywork that left the tubular steel frame on display, the production version has a completely new set of bodywork.
That lamp is swapped for a distinctive, octagonal design that’s split into four segments – the top and bottom are the main and low beams, while the triangular elements on each side are DRLs – and there’s a new, tinted fly screen above it. Moving back, there’s a new 18-litre tank that’s broader and more square-shouldered than before, ahead of a stepped seat and a new rear fender with an upturned ducktail at its back edge.
The side panels below the seat are new, too, covering the previously-visible frame tubes, and there’s a new radiator shroud and a filler panel below the tank that between them hide the front chassis down tubes.
The frame itself is the same, as is the Loncin-sourced, 578cc V-twin engine that puts out 44kW. The new approval document lists the kerb weight at 195kg, which is impressively light in this segment, although not as lithe as the 179kg that was claimed at the bike’s EICMA unveiling last year.
The same Loncin engine also appears in a brace of new Zonsen Cyclone cruisers that were type-approved at the same time. Weighing a more typical 210kg, the Cyclone RA628 machines put out a fraction more power – 45.6kW – presumably down to a different exhaust and tune. Notably, one version of the Cyclone also gets an automated manual transmission, losing its foot-operated shifter and clutch lever in favour of a bar-mounted trigger to change ratios.
