VOL. 50 ISSUE 36 SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
thing, it's a round-trip ticket to
your inner hooliganism.
At the heart of the Grom is
its 125cc fuel-injected, singlecylinder four-stroke engine.
While it won't pull your arms out
of the socket, the engine package is perfectly suited to the motorcycle it's in. It's by no means
a scooter and you shift through
the four gears with a clutch just
like the real motorcycle that it is.
The fuel injection translates to
smooth throttle response and,
combined with the lightest clutch
pull imaginable, means you could
teach virtually anyone to ride the
Grom. You could take off from a
stop while juggling chainsaws at
Venice Beach on the Grom and
still never stall it.
The little engine sits in a compact little steel mono backbone
chassis. The inverted 31mm fork
P59
offers up 3.9 inches of travel with
the single shock in the rear giving you 4.1 inches of travel. Of
course we didn't do this (wink,
wink), but if you wanted to jump it
off curbs and over speed bumps,
you could probably do so.
Stopping power comes via a
single 220mm disc up front and
a 190mm disc in the rear and the
brakes are perfectly adequate
for getting the 225-pound Grom
A Grom is a young
surfer. Naturally,
there were plenty of
those at Redondo
Beach.
