We ride QJMOTOR Fort 125 and Fort 350 EVO — Transcript

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1. 0:19So, this is the QJ fort 350 EVO, which for this
2. 0:26Garage episode I took out of the window in a different color.
3. 0:32Let's say silver. So you can see this
4. 0:36color too. It's not the bike that we rode as a Fort 350, we rode
5. 0:42a black bike. And now the whole story is why this video is being made. In the
6. 0:48first phase we rode the 125, which we said was a bike
7. 0:56identical to the 350. Then and in a very short time
8. 1:01, although you can't understand this from the order in which
9. 1:04the videos will be released, we rode the 350. The 350 came and we rode
10. 1:11that too. So we noticed that the bikes are not what we used to say,
11. 1:17they are not the same bikes. So the first thing I did from the moment
12. 1:22I felt the 350, a bigger bike and with a completely different
13. 1:27riding behavior, beyond of course the performance
14. 1:30expected from the 125 and 350 cc,
15. 1:36I decided to go into the various QJ Motor profiles, Greek or not, to find out what
16. 1:42was going on, why one bike seemed bigger than the other, why
17. 1:46one bike behaved somewhat differently. From the numbers over there,
18. 1:51the bikes were the same except for the weight, except of course for the
19. 1:57underpower. Things that logically follow from the different engine.
20. 2:04So I did the simple thing. I took a pencil like a craftsman, put it to my ear,
21. 2:12took a measure, took paper.
22. 2:59Here under the historic gate of AO Chania, I still remember as a child in the Second National League
23. 3:04, trying to get into the A and going with my dad, you know,
24. 3:087 years old, 8 years old now, to watch football. Great. Great. Beautiful years, sweet
25. 3:14football years and not today's. Well, the 350 has a
26. 3:20very close relationship visually and in terms of its equipment with the 125. Since
27. 3:24the 125 is also a miniature of this motorcycle. In
28. 3:31addition, the motorcycle is a well-equipped motorcycle that has
29. 3:35a windshield that goes up and down electrically. It has a fairly
30. 3:41large TFT screen that we operate here beyond our left hand. It is of course
31. 3:46keyless. It has space here. It has its lockers with its USBs and so on
32. 3:51. It has the fuel cap here. In other words, it has its refueling, which
33. 3:56is done from here. At the same time, it has truly bottomless space under the
34. 4:02saddle. It can hold two helmets and many, many more things. It even has
35. 4:08hidden, let's say, little compartments inside for books, for tools,
36. 4:14maybe. It has a ready place for the topbox with the screws ready, it has
37. 4:19a single double stand and in general I would say that it is a motorcycle that is as it
38. 4:24should be and more as far as its equipment is concerned. In our case, the
39. 4:30brakes are of course ABS as it should be to be Euro 5 plus. Of course
40. 4:35it has traction control. In front it has some brakes that we have started to
41. 4:40see since we touched the Fort. I mean, personally, I have not
42. 4:44seen them anywhere else. Double-piston in front, only piston in the rear and a particularly long
43. 4:49shock absorber which gives the motorcycle a height from the ground. In other words,
44. 4:54the motorcycle is made, let's say a little, for taller people, I would say. , as far
45. 5:01as the brakes and ABS work, they are very good.
46. 5:06We were very satisfied with the braking and had
47. 5:10absolutely no problems. The same thing happened with the engine, which produces
48. 5:1530 horses. Something less than the 400, which is 32 something. 33Nm 5,500
49. 5:22rpm and is a motorcycle that goes on the road. That is, it is
50. 5:27comfortable in terms of performance. Of course, four-stroke, single-cylinder, water-cooled,
51. 5:33350 cubic centimeters and with a total weight of the entire motorcycle at 187
52. 5:40kg. It has an official consumption of 3.7 L per 100 km and in general it is a
53. 5:48motorcycle that moves in terms of consumption in the middle of the category.
54. 6:43QJ Ford 125
55. 6:48as a motorcycle, as a result, what we see has nothing
56. 6:52to do with the other QJ motorcycles. It is much superior. Of course, it has similarities
57. 6:57in the engine, in construction and so on. Here we are dealing with a
58. 7:01very elegant scooter. Until recently we had the MTX as an elegant scooter. Here
59. 7:06we have a much more elegant scooter, very beautiful, which looks ferociously
60. 7:11big. It is something similar to the Forza 125 and the 3.5 if you have it in
61. 7:15mind. It looks very big. Its important advantage is that
62. 7:20It's very nice with great details, recessed rear turn signals. Here are
63. 7:25spoilers and wells to hold the bike down that are used to
64. 7:28have the turn signals recessed inside. Very nice bodywork. Typical black color that
65. 7:33is elegant and has incredible equipment. We have a ready space for
66. 7:39the topbox with the holes ready. We have our handles. We have bottomless space
67. 7:43under the saddle. Really ... it fits two large helmets comfortably and many
68. 7:48other things. Too much space under the saddle. We have a single and double stand.
69. 7:53We have the gas cap which, like the
70. 7:58saddle, opens with the buttons from here. Of course, this is keyless. Don't look at it.
71. 8:02It's the security key. It's keyless. . It has its glove box over here,
72. 8:06it has its big screen. 7'' I see it that way visually. Now if it's
73. 8:117 and if it's 9 don't kill me. I'll say 8 in as I see it. It has
74. 8:16USB ports in its compartments. It has its windshield. It has a nice tip
75. 8:21, that is, the nickel here, the spoiler that tucks the turn signals in, the
76. 8:26recessed turn signals in, the embossed letters. It has nice details
77. 8:30, that is, it has brakes that I have never seen before, which are an unknown brand to me.
78. 8:35We will see these in the future how good they are. Adjustable
79. 8:38rear shock absorbers. It is a very nice bike. Of course, its engine is
80. 8:43the familiar 15-cylinder, which also has start-stop assistance.
81. 8:48That is, it has a generator. which has one or two of these here and lights up an
82. 8:51indicator on the clock above that says ready, let's say, for you to
83. 8:55use it. A bike that brakes properly with the right ABS, it
84. 9:01goes as it should go and has room for two very large
85. 9:05people to carry them comfortably along with all their things underneath. What it doesn't
86. 9:09have It doesn't have a hitch. It doesn't have a hitch. And that hurts. Georgia, let's say, is
87. 9:14really hurt by a motorbike that doesn't have a hitch.
88. 9:24Well, Fort 125 and 3.5. Two identical motorcycles.
89. 9:30For someone with aesthetic criteria, they are exactly the same taste. They
90. 9:36only differ in some details.
91. 9:40On the contrary, like 125 and 350 cc, they have a huge difference and not only the front wheel size (15'' 16''). Why do I say this? The
92. 9:45125 cc will serve someone who doesn't have a motorcycle license and
93. 9:51wants to ride a 125 cc. He's on his first motorcycle license and wants
94. 9:56a 125 to do his job or in any case he has two, three or even
95. 10:01one other motorcycle and wants a 125 cc to do his job. So
96. 10:06the audience is this at 125. If we now move to 350 cubic meters, things
97. 10:11are different. The cubic capacity is large. It allows greater
98. 10:15performance, it allows for larger roads, not only provincial and city.
99. 10:19Things are different. Who chooses the 350 cubic meters as far as the cubic capacity
100. 10:24we are discussing now is the one who makes a long journey every day and wants to
101. 10:29do it comfortably, that is, on a scooter, but it is a long journey every day.
102. 10:34The one who does not have another motorcycle and wants to
103. 10:39move around the city with the same motorcycle and at the same time be able to go on his excursion,
104. 10:43go to the sea to do all the jobs that he would do either
105. 10:46for work or for entertainment with his motorcycle. So the 350 is
106. 10:51a motorcycle that is both work and entertainment, unlike the 125, which
107. 10:56is usually a work motorcycle. In terms of aesthetics, the two motorcycles are the same.
108. 11:01As far as their brakes are concerned, the two motorcycles are the same. I've also measured
109. 11:04the brakes. They're the same. Well, the equipment is the same. Huge
110. 11:10bucket, places for the topbox, single double stand, windshields, TFT screens. They're
111. 11:15the same. So all of these are not criteria. They're exactly the same. And now let's move on to
112. 11:20the difference beyond the displacements. Great. First of all, when you get
113. 11:27on the 350, you feel that it's a bike for tall riders. That is,
114. 11:31it suits riders from 175cm and up. This is because pay attention now
115. 11:36we went normally and measured. The shock absorber of this motorcycle from
116. 11:41center to center of the bolt is 45 points while unlike the 125 it is 37. So the
117. 11:50125 is lower and also serves short statures. At the same time, the width
118. 11:56of the handlebars is exactly the same. So we measured various strange measurements.
119. 12:01I measured from here to here, let's say. It's exactly the same. So I guess that
120. 12:06and the plastics will be the same. The wheelbase now here we have 5 points
121. 12:14longer with the meter always. this means that
122. 12:20this bike has greater stability and the 125 in turn
123. 12:24which is a little smaller is more flexible and it is logical because it
124. 12:29makes it behave better on the open road. Something that is not
125. 12:33really needed on the 125 which is more of a city bike. And of course
126. 12:38this difference is logical because the 350 cc engine obviously needs
127. 12:42more space than the 125 cc one. And because we know that these
128. 12:46bikes with the balls-belt-rear fork and it is logical that the 3.5 is longer.
129. 12:51From there on the height of the saddle and I measured standing, that is, not sitting
130. 12:57with weight, as it is on the double stand exactly at this point. The height of the
131. 13:02fir is the 3.5 higher. It is three points higher. That is, all this difference that the shock absorber has
132. 13:09does not translate, but it is three
133. 13:12points higher. And that is why we say that we have this situation. So this
134. 13:18350cc motorcycle has exactly the differences that it should have with
135. 13:23the 125 in terms of usability. That is, the motorcycle has the longest wheelbase, so it is
136. 13:29more stable. The 125 has the shortest, but it is more flexible.
137. 13:35But here the position is not for small statures. Not that someone who is 1.70 will not ride it
138. 13:40, but someone who is shorter than 170 will have a hard time.
139. 13:46So there it will be hard. So which of the two motorcycles you will ultimately choose if
140. 13:55even if you are not interested in your cubic capacity criteria, I have
141. 13:59completely solved it. I liked the 3.5. Because I liked the 3.5.
142. 14:06First of all, I liked both. I consider them very luxurious, very nice scooters. I liked the 3.5
143. 14:11because I liked the fact that the slightly longer wheelbase gave me stability
144. 14:15and because the long shock absorber, I say it in the
145. 14:19standalone video of the 3.5, also gives me some ground clearance. And because
146. 14:23I generally ride dirt roads, not in the sense
147. 14:28of an enduro excursion, but out of necessity sometimes, I need
148. 14:32this.
149. 14:36And since we're talking about the 350 and the 125, I personally prefer the 125. Why?
150. 14:43Because I want it for the city, sir. It should be as easy and fast as possible
151. 14:49, so we can move. So the 125 is lighter, it's lower
152. 14:55, it has the same space. Its speed is fine for
153. 15:01the city and if I want to go for a ride outside, I take my XTX. Fine.
154. 15:08So that was the Garage episode of Fort125 and 350. You can subscribe
155. 15:14and make your comments. Go ahead, my child, get busy with the
156. 15:19videos and we here are ready to respond. Ioannis behind the
157. 15:23camera and I'm Georgia front of the camera . Thank you very much for watching.