PG-1 Bike
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New Yamaha PG-1 2024
This bike is a pretty simple one. It’s powered by a 114cc air-cooled, single-cylinder engine that’s capable of 8.88hp and 9.5Nm of torque and is mated to a four-speed semi-automatic transmission. No electronic bits here—no ABS, no nothing. It gets a single disc brake up front and a drum brake at the rear.
It sits on 16-inch wheels with trail-ready knobby tires. It has a 795mm seat height and a minimum ground clearance of 190mm. It also has a 5.1 liter fuel tank, and overall curb weight is at 107kg.
What about the PG-1’s off-road prowess
Next, the suspension. Man, that suspension. I have a personal scooter that when I sometimes accidentally hit a bump on the road at speed, the front fork bottoms out. Yet when we rode the PG-1 all day through big chunks of rocks, not once did we hear the front fork knock. That’s highly impressive. And the rear shocks can hold their own, too—which also says a lot about how those can absorb bumps when riding on paved roads.
The engine’s quite the thing when you’re off-road, too. It’s quite torquey when you’re in first gear, and it’s got more than enough power to get you slowly through a river crossing, power through soft sand, or rev out of a ditch.
