I rode a 2023 Yezdi Adventure earlier this year for 7500km in India and Nepal. This was my summary posted on social media:

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To borrow The Fast Show's Swiss Toni's catchphrase: Riding an old rally replica Honda Africa Twin is like making love to a beautiful woman....


.... but riding a Yezdi Adventure is like a swifty 4am knee trembler with a rather large female person called Astrid following the annual university May Ball in 1990 It seemed like a good idea at the time and satisfied a need, but half way through you realise what you're doing. I think here Jimmy Barnes is describing his ex-wife: https://youtu.be/R9ePvkocxHA?si=yGOGZ5f-W43O8FyG

The bike mainly ran ok for the 7500km I rode it. Except the time Astrid just stopped for no discernable reason, and that pretty much on every longer (more than a few km) and steeper up hill section, the water temperature warning light came on and it was time to stop for 10 or 15 minutes to wait for the motor to cool down. The radiator fan was on nearly all the time when the motor was running. Yes, the radiator was full of coolant, all the time! This bike needs a bigger/ better/ more efficient cooling system!

I won't mention the oil leak because the oil filter on a dealer service wasn't done up correctly. Having to top up the oil virtually daily before this situation was rectified, I learnt that you have to remove the right hand crash bar (!!!) and a cover over the side of the engine (that makes it looks physically bigger than the 334ccm motor it actually is... (Four 8mm bolts and slim socket and extender needed)) just to access the oil filler hole. Why?!

Why does the knuckle/linkage where the shock is connected to the swingarm protrude down to the approx. the level of the axles?! On any other dualsport/ adventure bike you roll over the a rock or bigger speed bumps and the back follows. On Astrid the knuckle bottoms out. Once I was rocking in mid air with both wheels off the ground! And dropped the bike... As gently as I could. There wasn't a scratch on the ample iron mongery that doubled as crashbars....

... and the left footpeg snapped off. Why? It's made of cast metal (Chineseium or Indianium?!, not sure ). Luckily the RE Himalayan peg is virtually identical (and not made of cast metal), so a replacement was soon available. In between I bolted the pillion peg up front. An aside: 12 years ago I threw a Honda Translap off a cliff in Kyrgyzstan: only the footpeg hanger bent a little... Nothing broke!

Why does this 334 ccm bike weigh in at nearly 190kg dry weight? My 25 year old design and technology Suzuki DRZ400 is 135kg (also liquid cooled, single cylinder, only marginally bigger engine). And in the day, it was already too heavy to take on the KTM EXC competition in races. What is the purpose of the extra 50 or so kg? (However, the 411 Royal Enfield Himalayan is similarly Astrid-esque, and also popular at its price point in Europe and North America, so what do I really know )

The Yezdi Adventure looks cosmetically identical to the 411 RE H. Why? Couldn't the designers at least have borrowed some aesthetic or design ideas from UK, Italian, German, American or Japanese bikes rather than being an identikit to the RE H?

Performance was gutless, unless you really revved the motor. Much more torque needed!

The uncomfortable seat condundrum was solved by bungeeing an abandoned armchair seat cushion from the furniture/ mattress dump around the back of my beach hut complex in Goa. Cushion # 11 (as was written on both sides in marker pen) treated my butt well

Plus points included: Physically the bike is large, so my 6 foot frame wasn't doubled over and my back was straight and knees never hurt. A consumption of 25 to 30 km per litre of petrol, so very frugal.

You're welcome!

For completeness, the "best" of Swiss Toni, for those who have no idea what the start of this episode is about is at:
https://youtu.be/iBw-aEixWuo?si=lMzohE_1szu3xd_v

Roger Roger, wilco, over and out

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On FB my public profile is brightysjollys Lots of Indian/Nepal & Yezdi words pics there (dated Jan to April 2024)

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