The Swedish bikemaker Husqvarna has launched the Vitpilen 250 at Rs 2.19 lakh ex-showroom in India on the same day as its global unveil. The bike enters its second generation with changes to the design and the internals of the bike for 2024.
The Vitpilen 250 is a roadster and certainly looks the part, with a dual tone colour scheme of a white fuel tank with a 13.5-litre capacity and a black single piece seat that has a lower seat height than the outgoing model by 22mm at 820mm. The bike also gets LED lighting. It now sports 17-inch six-spoked wheels clad in MRF tyres instead of the five-spoked ones used previously and also has gone for the underbelly exhaust instead of the side-mounted unit on last gen but still has higher ground clearance at 177mm as opposed to 152mm. The Vitpilen gets features such as a 5-inch LCD display that has a USB Type-C charging port and traction control, ride-by-wire, quickshifter and supermoto ABS.
The Vitpilen 250 is powered by a 250cc liquid-cooled single-cylinder engine producing 31PS @ 9,500rpm and 25Nm @ 7,500rpm. The engine is housed in a new chassis based on the KTM 250 Duke. The bike gets WP Apex USD forks in the front and an off-centre mounted WP Apex monoshock with preload adjustability in the rear. The bike sports ByBre brakes with a 320mm disc in the front and a 240mm disc in the rear. All in all, the bike still has a lower kerb weight than the previous model by 0.8kg, at 163.8kg.
The Vitpilen 250 competes against the likes of the KTM 250 Duke, BMW G 310 R and the Triumph Speed 400.
