Changes Jawa 42 2022
First of all, the changes affected the engine. The motorcycle is still equipped with a single-cylinder 293 cc liquid-cooled engine with two overhead camshafts, producing almost 27 hp and 27.02 Nm. Interestingly, Classic Legends, the owner of the Jawa brand, previously announced that the updated Jawa was the world's first single-cylinder motorcycle equipped with cross-port technology , which allowed them to maintain power figures despite being more environmentally friendly. engine. If you decide to google what cross-port technology is, don’t bother, you won’t find anything other than copy-paste of the same news in English. In fact, they simply placed the inlet and outlet ports on different sides of the head, that is, this really increased the efficiency of purging the cylinder and head, but they got excited about the “first in the world” - the vast majority of modern single-barrel guns have exactly the same port configuration. Well, apparently this is the specificity of Indian marketing...
Jawa 42 2021
But the 2022 Jawa 42 will get tubeless tires and a lot of matte black elements. The black cast wheels look very nice, and Jawa also said that they made the seat more comfortable (though now I don’t know whether to believe them - I should compare it with the previous version). However, the updated seat looks quite nice, and the BS6-compatible version is also standardly equipped with mirrors at the ends of the steering wheel.
New Jawa: three models presented
Do you know where Jawa motorcycles are more popular than in the former Soviet Union and former Czechoslovakia? In distant India! Since the sixties of the last century, two-wheeled cars of the Czech brand were considered very prestigious and super-reliable here. On Indian soil, these motorcycles were produced under license by the Ideal Jawa company from Mysore - first under the original brand, and then under its own Yezdi brand, which came from Slavic languages.
Under the onslaught of Japanese and Chinese products, that company closed back in 1996, but the love for the brand has not gone away without a trace: in India there are still many thematic clubs whose members cherish the iconic Czech motorcycles. Therefore, the Mahindra and Mahindra concern, which took on the development of the huge, world's largest local market for two-wheeled vehicles, tried in every way to include the Jawa brand in its frame.
The Indians were unable to buy out a brand like the Peugeot motorcycle division or the British BSA brand. However, the Czechs agreed to sell a license to use the brand and the classic design of their motorcycles in Asian countries. Two years ago, the Classic Legends company, 60% owned by Mahindra, was founded in India, and work began on new bikes. The result was three new original Jawa motorcycle models, presented at a special event in Mumbai. The first of them is simply called Jawa, the second is Jawa Forty Two, and the third car is the promising bobber Jawa Perak.
The main motorcycle carefully reproduces the appearance of the 353/04 model, known in India as the Jawa 250 Type A. The car has a two-tone, chrome-plated fuel tank on the sides and a chrome-plated engine crankcase, telescopic front forks, a pair of rear shock absorbers, a single disc front brake and a rear drum brake. The single cylinder block and its head have developed ribs, although in reality this is a four-stroke 293 cc liquid-cooled engine with two overhead camshafts. Structurally, it is a twin of the engine of the Mahindra Mojo motorcycle, although the creators claim that they have made significant changes not only in appearance, but also in design. Motor with output of 27.4 hp. and 28 Nm is installed in a duplex frame and is mated to a six-speed gearbox. And on the sides of the motorcycle from the engine there are two chrome-plated exhaust pipes of a classic Java look.
The Jawa Forty Two model is a budget version of the flagship model. If for a “real” Java in India they ask for $2,280, then the Forty Two, without a chrome-plated gas tank, is $130 cheaper. But for this version, six color options are offered (three of them are matte), while the Jawa model can only be black, blue or cherry. Bobber Jawa Perak with one saddle, disc rear brake, 334 cc engine with 31 hp. and a number of other improvements will begin to be released later, but its price has also been announced: $2,600.
Jawa Perak (photo gaadiwaadi.com)
Of course, the new Mahindra Javas will be produced in India itself at the company’s motorcycle plant in Pitgemper. The main competitor will be another classic model - the Royal Enfield Classic 350, which costs only a little less. Orders for the new motorcycles can be submitted on the Classic Legends website from today, and orders will begin to be accepted at 64 existing dealerships on December 5th. Alas, these cars will not be available in Russia: we sell only Czech Javas with Chinese or Italian engines. However, everything may change if Mahindra’s experience with its own Java is successful: the small Czech company is unlikely to be able to resist the Indian industrial giant for long.
Jawa 42 price
Modern Jawa motorcycles manufactured by Classic Legends are distinguished by their striking and stylish aesthetics. This is definitely the case with the updated version. The company has expanded its dealer network to 181 points (from a hundred) across India, and one hopes that the initial hiccups in the delivery of motorcycles are nothing more than an accident. The price of Jawa 42 in the Indian market is 184 thousand Indian rupees for the version with dual-channel ABS, which is approximately 187,000 rubles (at the time of publication of this article). The similar 2022 version was priced at Rs 172,000.
By the way, our editors tried last year to bring one copy of the new Java to Russia for review/test and even wanted to organize an event to give it to you, our readers, to test, but negotiations for two months and queues for motorcycles in India did not allow this to happen . Let's try this year too
