HERO XTREME 250R

Hero's biggest Xtreme yet, packed with loads of oomph!

- ABHISHEK PANDEY

Hero showcased a number of its next-generation products at EICMA 2024 and then launched four of those a few months later, at the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025. We rode the first product from their latest lineup recently, the Xoom 125, and then we were in Udaipur to ride Hero's second offering, the Xtreme 250R. The Xtreme 250R is Hero’s challenger in the super-competitive 250-300cc naked bike segment against rivals like the KTM 250 Duke, Suzuki Gixxer 250, Bajaj Dominar 250 and the Bajaj Pulsar NS 250. The Xtreme 250R gets a new chassis as well as a new engine and sees a lot of firsts from Hero. But the question is, is it enough to take on the established competition?

First look at the Hero Xtreme 250R, and you won't be able to help but feel that the motorcycle looks big and sharp. It has that modern, aggressive design language accentuated by the typical hunkered down streetfighter stance. The visual mass is focused towards the front of the bike, where the panels seem to be bulging towards the front, making me think about the Ducati Streetfighter (not in the way it looks, but more design philosophy-wise). It looks sharp and chiselled from every angle; the low-slung LED headlamp looks beautiful and adds to the bad boy attitude. The tank is a visually complicated unit where floating panels wrap around it and give it a multilayered look.