All Duels – Duel Xciting 400 ABS Vs MBK Evolis 400 ABS: with knives drawn! – Sports trend

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Duel Xciting 400 ABS Vs MBK Evolis 400 ABS: with knifeX drawn !

All Duels - Duel Xciting 400 ABS Vs MBK Evolis 400 ABS: with knives drawn! - Sports trend

Launched in the spring of 2013, the Yamaha X-Max and Kymco Xciting 400 are doing well in the segment of mid-displacement GT scooters. This year, the battle intensifies with the arrival of the twin MBK Evolis 400 and the ABS… MNC compares them for you !

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Equipped with a sporty and modern design, the Evolis 400 scooters (the MBK counterpart of the Yamaha X-Max 400) and Kymco Xciting 400 are aesthetically inspired by the famous Tmax. More legitimate in this exercise, the Evolis 400 is however content to evoke its kinship with its illustrious "cousin": it adopts a more consensual line, less typical sport, but also more reassuring and less ostentatious..

Opposite, the Taiwanese scooter arises less questions and adopts a look very similar to that of the Tmax, with a sharp front face with double optic headlight and a rising rear part, framed by large grab handles. The beveled rear light unit and its long driver’s steps – allowing driving "feet forward" – also maintain the resemblance to the Yamaha maxi-scoot.

But the similarities end there: the Kymco scooter is equipped for example as standard with a small short smoked windshield and mirrors attached to the handlebars rather than to the fairing. Like the model it was inspired by and its younger brother, the 2014 Xciting is equipped with a large 15-inch front and 14-inch rear wheel. The Evolis / Xmax for its part receives 15-inch wheels at the front and 13 at the rear, which it takes advantage of to offer more space in its trunk..

Discovered and tested by MNC last summer (read our), the Kymco is still as well equipped in 2014, and even more since it now joins (optional) the services of an ABS.

As in the previous vintage, the level of finish is generally satisfactory but several elements should be better integrated and appear less obsolete: the dashboard is rather basic despite its digital dial – not very readable in the sun -, while the control he manual lighting of fires harks back to a bygone era. However, we appreciate its double petal brake discs with a generous diameter (280 mm) at the front, pinched by sporty radial calipers.

Note also the presence of a parking brake, two crutches, position lights and LED indicators, brake levers adjustable in spacing, retractable passenger footrests, a bag hook ring and a Neiman contactor with burglar-proof lock concealer.

A storage compartment fitted with a 12-volt outlet is placed on the left of the apron, under the access hatch to the coolant jar (the level of which is directly visible via a cutout provided for this purpose).

Side trunk, the Xciting 400 does less well than its rival by accepting to accommodate a full face helmet, while two enter the hold of the MBK / Yamaha. The opening is done directly from the Neiman, engine off or on, and the trunk is lit.

The "Franco-Japanese" scooter (the X-Max 400 and its MBK Evolis 400 version are manufactured in France in the MBK / Yamaha factory in Saint-Quentin, in the Aisne) displays a superior quality of finish. Everything is perfectly adjusted and integrated: cables, pipes and other electrical wires are much better hidden.

Its on-board instrumentation is also much more rewarding, with a counter and tachometer flanking a readable and well-stocked digital dial. The Evolis 400 also has a coded key immobilizer system, absent on its Taiwanese rival..

Its higher windshield, associated with air deflectors integrated into the fairing at the handles, provides better protection than that offered by the Xciting 400.

Finally, the Evolis / X-Max 400 also has two storage compartments, one of which can be locked. Small practical downside: this space can receive a 12V socket but only as an option … Other reasons for disappointment with the Kymco: the MBK levers are not adjustable and it does not have a bag hook ring.

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