LIFAN V16S is a cruiser with a classic American cruiser style. Its body line is muscular, featuring its product positioning of comfort, passion and fashion.

As for details of appearance design, V16S adopts a compact integrated head construction. Its headlights adopt a highly recognizable and horizontal LED lights with double lens, which gives consideration to both practicability and fashionability, and satisfies the needs of pursuing high-tech and sports. Explanation for you, as V16S is a fashion cruiser focusing on the controllability and riding feeling, it has optimized the control structure of handlebar. Comparing with the common horn handlebar, the straight handlebar on V16S can realize a fast turning, which undoubtedly promotes its riding performance in some degree.

V16S adopts the balance design of leisure and sports. Comparing with the ordinary V16, its fuel tank shape is much plumper, and the visual performance is more three-dimensional. In addition, the new integrated high-low seat and the cocking tail make the side lines of the bike smoother and tighter. Its dynamic detail processing highlights the product positioning of pursuing young and energetic fashion, which is more suitable for the current young people’s beauty-appreciation.

Travel and suspension system

As one of the family members of LIFAN cruiser, V16S continues the classic double cradle frame. Because of the entire structure distribution focusing on length, width and low, V16S is quite plump. Meanwhile, its low center of gravity structure also effectively improves the riding and control performance of the bike at low speed.

In terms of suspension system, V16S is also introduced a relatively mature layout scheme. Its front suspension is a vertical structure with nice lightweight, which travel distance is about 100mm, satisfying the needs of rough riding in most instances, while rear suspension adopts a double-loop five-section adjustable spiral spring structure. Adaptive optimization by body balance weight improves the comfortability and controllability.

Engine system

Like LIFAN V16, the V16S is equipped with a V-twin air-cooled four-stroke engine and adopts a highly reliable SOHC structure and a V-shaped two-cylinder layout scheme. The closed-loop electronic injection system ensures its economical efficiency and achieves a better linear torque play.

According to the official data, the V16 engine uses a small diameter and long travel distance design, its piston travel distance is longer than the ordinary engine, and it has a compression ratio of 10:1 and a five-gear transmission system which can achieve a maximum power of 14.5kW and a maximum torque of 18N•m. This engine is one of the few V-twin engines in China. The excellent low-speed characteristics and strong mechanical texture can provide the bike a good controlling characteristics and outstanding sensory performance.

The drive system has been fully upgraded

Transmission system is the spotlight of the V16S. Due to the new carbon fiber belt, V16S has a stronger riding texture. In addition, the belt transmission system can also effectively alleviate the shift impact to the transmission system and reduce the transmission noise. That also makes V16S has a smaller transmission loss and higher transmission efficiency, so that the maintenance cycle can be extended and the economy of the bike can be effectively improved.

Riding feeling

Compared with V16, V16S has similar body size and wheelbase. In terms of the actual seat height, the rider’s feet can completely touch the ground while the bike is upright, extremely friendly. In terms of overall sitting posture, V16S adopts a relatively sporty product setting, so the layout of handlebar is relatively straight. When you riding on it, the relatively aggressive sitting posture provides riders more reliable control.

As for riding experiences, the adoption of the low center of gravity and the long wheelbase makes the bike show its extremely strong low-speed stability, which gives the riders a strong confidence. The resistance adjustment of front and rear shock absorber is moderate, its feedback on the bump road is kind of slow, but its rigid support to the bike is outstanding. When you come round the corner at third gear, the engine’s power output and rear shock absorption are very consistent, which can quickly make you find the center of gravity of the bike.

Power performance

V16S, with its low-speed torque and V-twin engine shows a pretty well power performance in the low-speed range. In the first three gears, you only need to press on the gas softly and ease the clutch, V16S can easily wander in the street, leisurely without any clumsy feeling.

Due to the belt drive system, when you engage the first gear, V16S early power is very soft. If you press the accelerator slightly, V16S can output the torque quickly. For a model with 5-gear, if you can ensure riding at 3,500rpm and 4,500rpm, a pull feeling of accelerating will be very apparent from second gear to fourth gear. This feeling will continue until the speed reaches about 105km/h. The official maximum speed is 130km/h, which means that the V16S can provide you with a reliable acceleration feeling in the range of full speed.

Conclusion

V16S is a new leisure model integrating cruising charm and riding pleasure. It has realized the development of family series with this modularized product extension, and make sure its leading status among the domestic cruiser field with the help of its careful revision to engine platform and the introduction of fashion elements. As one of the new members of LIFAN family, V16S will attract more people with its distinctive shape design and the characteristics of leisure and sports, and change people’s inherent cognition to cruisers.