visordown tests kymco 400!

[VOZZA]

Pretty positive review I thought!
Iggi gives it a good review in MCN this week too!

[MrGrumpy]

I'll have the yellow one!

Amazing the difference a change of colour makes.

I'm with you there!

[MrGrumpy]

Here is a quote from the review, as he sums it all up:

With scooters like this, it's increasingly looking like a shame this Taiwanese firm doesn’t make big motorcycles."

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Sounds like a hiding to nothing for Kymco if they did....It'd cost them a fortune to develop, the market isn't that large compared to the massive markets for small bikes & Scoots in the Far East, and the snobby backwards looking trad bikers would dismiss a Kymco big as 'cheap Chinese shit that's a poor imitation of a proper bike' or some such crap, unless it made 250bhp.

[Globs]

"The Xciting might be 19hp down on the Burgman 650 but it’s also 77kg lighter."

That's three bags of sand!!!!!!

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Weight and heft kills the fun, scooters have to stay light and manageable to keep the fun! This 400 is on the limit - possibly too big and heavy even so but a fine effort at increasing scooterdom.

[StephenC]

I've long said that we need low end hi-torque motors, not high revvers. Honda have seen the light but only with the 700/750 in the NC series so far.

[SH125Paul]

Review in MCN as well... Good wright-up
If I hadn't of bought my XMax400 (the PX of my XMax250 was a major part of the deal) - one of those would of been on the cards - in Yellow...

[gn2]

Only black available in the UK.

[SkuTorr]

Review in MCN as well... Good wright-up
If I hadn't of bought my XMax400 (the PX of my XMax250 was a major part of the deal) - one of those would of been on the cards - in Yellow...

Look what comes with the Yellow ones!

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[Data]

I have a Kymco dealer near me (Piccolo Moto, Colchester). He can obtain a demo model if given enough notice. I'm going to try one at some point. I note that it has 35.54hp (36ps) and 36.8nm of torque. My Burgman 400 has 33.54hp (34ps) and 36.3nm of torque. But my z abs model is 25kg heavier. So I'd imagine the Kymco is much more spritely all round. I wonder how a 6'2" person will fit on it regarding feet forward riding? I tend to be more comfortable over distance like that. It has a slightly shorter wheelbase than my Burger. Exciting times!

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I have a Kymco dealer near me (Piccolo Moto, Colchester). He can obtain a demo model if given enough notice. I'm going to try one at some point. I note that it has 35.54hp (36ps) and 36.8nm of torque. My Burgman 400 has 33.54hp (34ps) and 36.3nm of torque. But my z abs model is 25kg heavier. So I'd imagine the Kymco is much more spritely all round. I wonder how a 6'2" person will fit on it regarding feet forward riding? I tend to be more comfortable over distance like that. It has a slightly shorter wheelbase than my Burger. Exciting times!

Dont go down that road Data we have you lined to up join the SYM Mafia we would see the Kymco as our poor cousin