First impressions, it’s much bigger than it looks in photos. It’s heavy but not too heavy. But extremely front heavy. When you’re stopped it’s extremely hard to move to even turn the handle bar.
It was a brand new bike, so refinement was quite a big miss. Could hear the chain rattling and the rear brake was almost non existent. No feel from either of the brakes. Handling again feels imbalanced because of the front heaviness. Hard to turn at low speeds.
Now about the performance, I tried the “Ballistic mode”
Its powerful but, it didn’t blow my mind tbh. I expected it to be … well, BALLISTIC I have an Ather and Ola and I have tried the warp on the 450X and I’m so used to I stand torque that I didn’t feel like it was out of this world. Still felt just par with slower 200cc bikes. I think they’ve limited the initial acceleration quite a bit because of how the weight is distributed, it would probably spin it’s wheels.
All in all. A beautiful bike. A bit too aggressive for my liking but one hell of a bike.
This owner went with the boost charger. It was a choice apparently and the boost charger was a quite a bit more. But not that much more relative to the price of the bike. He was able to charge the bike with an Ola charger apparently. But imagine charging a 10kWh battery with a puny 700W charger .
It was just shy of 5Lakhs on Road for him.
Definitely still a niche market and way out of most peoples budget for a bike that can mostly be used within the city for commute and the short and slow out of town Sunday ride. Owner claims 250Km riding efficiently and 200Km riding by highway speed limits. So can only do Nandi for now. Not exactly what people have in mind when they have a 5 lakh budget for a bike.
Nice. Was looking for someone who has tested ola standard charging. Even though Ather opened its standard charging network to open adoption. Only their investors Hero motor corp went in. Others went for Hyper network. Which is non-existence compared to Ather.
I wonder why companies are going for those protocols. Something special maybe ?? @tarun
Thanks dude. This is really helpful.
I am getting the feeling that F77 is the Zeros of the electric bikes instead of the Energicas.
Hopefully, some day soon.
5lakhs for 250 kms range with CCS support… muahh…! May be I am too optimistic…!
can you share the post/ news link here, if it was govt. described fast charger connectors then many upcoming scooters, even Ather would have to follow those protocols.
Umm, you are in confusion, the standard BIS certification is common for all types of connectors till they follow the requirement. That doesn’t mean they are now government-required connectors. Ola connector is still proprietary and is not a government standard connector or global standard.
Think of this IS certification as the standard for all, like Anchor Roma Switch which will have the same IS certification as Havells switch but they both are not identical. now that Ola is following IS requirements and has a proprietary connector, not a standard connector.
They might be in contract with their Hypercharger network, so they might not have to set up their own charging network like Ather has, the Hypercharger will be shared among all existing companies like Ola, TVS, Ultraviolette and Simple One. And Ather’s is shared only with Vida.