Hello and welcome to ZigWheels and here are our first impressions of the Hero
Destiny 125 and the scooter might look familiar because it was shown off
at Auto expert 2018 as the duet 125 but it was not put in here in Delhi as the
Destiny now Hero is pitching the destiny as a family scooter so it goes up
against the likes of the Honda activa 125 and the access 125 from
Suzuki so before we go any further let's take a quick look at the mechanicals of
the scooter with starting with that engine now this engine is a word why cc
engine it's been derived from that of the duet 110 however there have been
quite a few changes made so now it makes about 8.8 PS of power and ten point two
millimeters of talk which puts it at par with other family scooters like the
access or the activa but then it doesn't make a little bit more power in
that category in terms of suspension it's got telescopic Forks up at the
front and it's got mono shock back in there but you really can't see it from
here and in terms of braking Hardware it gets
a drum at the front a drum at the back and it gets combined brakes as standard
there is no disc brake even as an option now one thing that hero is really happy
on about this scooter is the i3 s technology or idle start system now
we've seen this system before on Hero smaller motorcycles just like splendor
Ismart it's now maybe two scooters then the first scooter in India which has
got start/stop so how it works is if you have the i3S system on and if you come
to a stop see a signal or anywhere over the throttle of the scooter will turn
itself off in about five seconds the restart all you do is grab either break
and just go on the throttle and the scooter will restart now it's not saving
too much effort in terms of starting scooter because you also have the
Startup button right there however because it kept engine by itself
you are saving on fuel and Hero claims that they've seen about a 10% increase
in efficiency thanks to the i3s system now talking about the design of the
scooter in the share of few panels with the duet 110 but there are some changes
especially at the front apron because you get these massive indicators up
there and there's lots of room especially at the front and the theme of
this large sort of indicators how it carries over to the back you can see
these massive ones right h ere now the Destiny doesn't have any LED lights or
so ever it's all using standard bulbs across the board and that isn't a bit
too rough keep the costs down and then coming to the seat itself again
since it's a family scooter the seat is quite large and I must say it's quite
comfortable and even the flow board there's a fair amount of space on here
one thing right about the scooter a lot is the riding position and I can't show
that to you from here but the flow board is quite low in fact much lower than
that on the axis and the handlebars are quite high as well so when you're
sitting high your knees don't go over these are pretty much flat and the
handlebars were i'm taking tight Newton will not meet your thighs or your knees
which is and think a very sort of good thing to have on a scooter like this and
seat itself again very comfortable for both Rider and for the pillion in terms
of its ride quality well we found the front to be on a step
aside a little bit now let me explain it's not a full-blown first ride review
because we got the only for a half an hour ride around the
hotel and first impressions and equality is quite well balanced the front is a
bit under step aside the rear feels more plush for sure but with a pillion
the rear gets softer however over some sharp bumps you do get a bit of wallow
on the back with a pillion on both riding solo is just fine but overall
that layer below also isn't too bad it's definitely a lot better than something
like the Honda Grazia however in terms of the segment benchmark in the ride quality
I think that has to be the access of course and if you discount the Tvs
ntorq and well you don't have pretty much friendly scooter with a fair amount
of features as well now you get a semi a additional instrument console here so
you're having you have an analog speedo and this table digital cluster at here
which shows you a digital fuel gauge and barometer and our trip meter and also
got a service indicator that shows up on that but that's pretty much it no clock
nothing else so it's pretty alright and even looks like when it's quite large
it's very easy to read but it's not gonna be in any award in terms of sake
design now one thing we will say that will be right over the scooter is it's
got the external fuel filler cap but the beauty is that you can access both the
filler cap and under storage with just the key so if you turn it to the left it
unlocks the seat and if you push it in and it to the right it pops the fuel
filler open now in terms of under seat storage though yes that's not really too
much you know hasn't given us any numbers but
this after a visual inspection we help guess about 15 16 liters because
compared to something like say the access there's definitely a lot smaller however
it does have some good features in here which is a boot light right there and of
course you have this of oh came of USB charger for a
mobile phone
but of course not these features are only available in this variant
now the scooter has been launched in two variants the VX and the LX the VX is the
top-end variant now that gets that boot light it gets a better charger it also
gets this dual texture seat and it gets all this extra chrome and the front and
the sides and of course the wheels these are alloy wheels which are only
there on the VX variant the VX variant is available at rupees fifty seven
thousand five hundred a showroom delhi the base variant with the LX now that we
didn't write that comes with steel wheels at the front it doesn't get all
the scoop and it doesn't get the boot light nor does it get the charger in the
boot so that's launched at these fifty four thousand six hundred and fifty
ex-showroom Delhi now this quickly touching on performance again we didn't
get a test ride a scooter like thoroughly test it but it seems to have
adequate mid-range grunt those are tough enough to handle most traffic situations
and even riding to up it did move fairly easily so from from zero to sixty does
pull pretty well and up to eighty it's not too bad of course beyond that it
does start to lose a bit of steam but anyways thats about it that as those are
our first impressions of the Destiny 125 we will have a full-blown road test and
a comparison of the scooter coming out soon when we get the scooter for a full
test in pune but as for now do let us know what you think of the scooter in
our comments do you think Hiro has done enough to make a mark in this segment or
do you think that you'd rather wait for something like the maestro edge 125
which will offer say more performance better handling and maybe and also of
course a disc brake at the front so that's it guys signing off from Delhi
with the Destiny 125 see you