After the separation of Hero and Honda from their joint venture, both bike legends have been rocking the Indian market to date. Now Hero has come up with its latest street fighter, Hero Xtreme 160R, heating the 160 CD segment in India.
Hero Xtreme 160R is a bike hailed by all the adventure enthusiasts for its sporty outlook. Launched in February 2020, the Xtreme bike looks like a standard bike from afar, but it is a captivating sight with a closer glance.
Hero Xtreme offers a good deal of comfort, performance, and style. Hero CBZ Xtreme gets three colours red, white, blue, and one other limited edition of red and white.
Hero Xtreme 160R has made an impression with its excellent braking system. CBZ Xtreme has LED lights from Headlamps to taillamps, including tune indicators.
As nowadays 150-160cc bikes are in demand, every company is trying to outshine the other companies by improving their bikes or replacing the old variant with a new one.
Hero decided to replace the Hero Xtreme Sports with Xtreme 160R, which itself was the successor to the Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme after moving out of the joint venture.
The Xtreme bike power is a 163cc BS6 which produces a peak torque of 14NM at 6500 rpm. This model generates maximum power of 15bhp at 8500 rpm.
The engine displacement is more than 160cc and has fuel-injected and air-cooled, which helps to generate 15bhp and 14Nm. The Xtreme 160R is the latest offering from Hero to the 150cc-160cc segment. The recently introduced top variant, the 100 million editions, starts at a price tag of 1,12,340.
The bike comes with a fuel tank capacity of 12 litres. The BS6 engine offers a mileage of 48km/l with the advanced programmed fuel injection system; Hero claims that one can even extract a mileage of 50 km/l from the bike with economical use.
Hence one can expect a range of 576 kilometres with a full fuel tank. In addition to this, the bike weighs just 138 kgs, making it one of the lightest and easy handling motorbikes in its segment.
It also has not cut on safety features and has given Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) for controlled and advanced braking, and safety comes first for Hero.
The base variant comes with a single front disc option, while the other two variants are available with both front and rear discs ABS-equipped.
The Xtreme 160R is the reply to TVS Apache 160R, Honda Hornet 160R, and Bajaj Pulsar 160 NS.
The Xtreme 160R Hero has a lot to offer great features to the customers. All three variants of the Xtreme 160R feature an alloy wheel and electric start as standard.
Except for Bajaj NS 160’s high power and higher speed, the extreme 160R gives tough competition to its rivals, the Apache and the NS, regarding affordability, design, quality, fit n finish, and features.
Hero Xtreme 160R is sporty yet classy, a perfect combination of both worlds. The 3D embellished logos on the Hero Xtreme gives the bike an exotic look.
The 100 million editions and stealth edition bring a varied range of colours to choose from for the young generation. Hero Xtreme knows the Indian ideology and hence provided this compact bike infused with all the modern tech you can imagine and still resembles the good old traditional street bike look.
Hero Xtreme is an amalgamation of sharp looks, beautiful LED lamps, and a sporty outlay; its fuel tank is there in a place that the rider sits upright while he drives.
Also, the bike comes with vibrant and sporty colour options like the Pearl Silver White, Sports Red, Vibrant Blue, and the latest 100 million limited editions. The Xtreme 160R mainly competes in its segment with Apache 160R, Bajaj NS 160, Honda X-Blade.
After hearing consumer feedback, Hero has worked on the features and tech in Xtreme 160r. The bike’s instrument cluster has an engine rpm, odometer, time, speed, and two trip meters.
Although the cluster lacks a gear indicator, it feels like a void in such a good bike. The instrument cluster has a technologically advanced character due to its smartwatch-like visuals.
The dual disk variant equipped with single-channel ABS gives you the confidence to overtake traffic and attack corners. The bike has 130 section tires on the rear and ten on the front, which provides good grip on roads—similar ones on the Apache 160R.
The Xtreme 160r has an all-new LED-lit headlamp to tune with the indicators and taillight to add to the premium appeal.
The bike has full safety features such as a hazard switch button, and a side stand cut off to avoid any accidents caused by side stands.
Hero has equipped the bike with 14 sensors and the best engine technology, the programmed fuel injection.
The sub 200cc bike segment has many successful and well-designed bikes like the Yamaha FZ, Apache RTR 160, Bajaj NS 160, but still, when you look at Xtreme 160R, it breathes fresh air of elegance and practicality.
The Xtreme 160R is a handsome-looking bike. It’s compact and has a traditional street bike design language.
But not everything is traditional about the bike.
The tank has good integration with the side panels, which gives the bike a macho look. The LED headlamp looks sporty and aggressive and provides a great visual appeal to the bike.
The bike gets a custom-like look from the blacked-out taillights. Its aggressive front end, dynamic alloy wheels, stepped single-piece seat, sporty rider footpegs, and stubby exhaust complete the bike’s modern, playful and likeable aura.
The following features and specifications give a tough competition to:
Xtreme 160R undoubtedly wins this round and gets ahead of the other motorcycles, i.e. TVS Apache RTR 160 4V, Honda X-Blade and Bajaj Pulsar NS 160.
Xtreme 160R has a superb engine displacement of 163 cc, Bajaj Pulsar NS 160 with a 160.3 cc engine, TVS Apache RTR 160 4V with 159.7 cc engine and Honda X-Blade with a 162.7 cc engine.
The upgraded fuel injection system in Hero Xtreme 160R gives a max power of 15.2 PS @8500 rpm and a maximum torque of 14 Nm @6500 rpm.
Xtreme 160R is still ahead in this battle as well.
Xtreme offers a mileage of 55.47 km/l while Honda X-Blade offers 50 km/l, TVS Apache RTR 160 4V and Bajaj Pulsar NS 160 offers 45 km/l.
Talking about prices, Bajaj Pulsar NS 160 is the most costly motorcycle, priced at Rs. 1,14,954 followed by TVS Apache RTR 160 4V priced at Rs.1,12,255, Honda X-Blade priced at Rs. 1,11,000 and Xtreme being the cheapest starting from Rs. 1,10,474.
The Xtreme 160r is one of the best offerings from Hero available in the market. If you are looking for an agile, quick, and easy ride bike that will also cost low in your pockets, this is the bike for you.
Every Company tries to offer attractive features to boost their sales. Still, they have to comprise on other things that in turn are not beneficial for the customers. Keeping everything in mind, Hero decided to give the best they could to the customers.
The new streetfighter bike comes at a price tag of Rs. 1,07,490 in India and offers great competition to its competitors with performance and agility.
The Xtreme 160R is available in 3 variants: Xtreme 160R 100 million Edition, Xtreme 160R Front Disc, and Xtreme 160R Dual Disc.
This bike is a smart bike with all that it has to offer at an affordable price.
The ex-showroom price of Hero Xtreme 160R starts at 1.4lakh (ex-showroom Delhi), and the on-road price in Delhi is 1.15 lakh if you select the standard variant, but if you choose double disc or 100 million editions, prices may go up.
As per the claimed efficiency, the bike gives a mileage of 45km/l.
The Xtreme 160r is an ideal city bike due to its crisp torque.
No, Auto Sailing Technology is not available in Xtreme 160R.
It would not be a compatible option to install the turn indicator of 160R on Extreme sports.
The torque is 14Nm@6500 rpm.
The engine power of Hero Extreme 160R is 15.22PS @8500 rpm.
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