Brixton BX 125

A new badge enters the crowded 125 market – but is the bike any good?

- Pete Henshaw

It’s not often a completely new name appears, but the Brixton is one of those. It suggests (and the publicity certainly does) that here is a tough little street bike that most likely hails from the mean back streets of ‘sarf London’.

The Brixton BX125 is nothing of the sort of course; like most sub£2500 125s, it’s manufactured in the Far East, but it is certainly a new and very attractive take on the retro 125 theme.

This roadster is the first to hit the streets, with a street scrambler and cafe racer to follow later in the year. And the importer behind it is the well-established Moore Large, which also brings GRS and Nipponia over to the UK.

STYLING, EQUIPMENT

There’s nothing radical in the Brixton’s basic mechanical spec – in fact, the big shock would be if there really was. Like several other 125s, it’s based around a simple tubular steel twin shock frame with nonadjustable forks and an SOHC aircooled two-valve single, backed by a five-speed gearbox. All Brixtons are Euro 4 spec, which means it has fuel injection and the brakes (single discs at both ends) are linked, though it doesn’t have ABS.