GasGas presents its 2019 TXT Racing range
The GasGas brand has presented its 2019 TXT Racing range
The GasGas brand presents its revolutionary new 2019 TXT Racing range, so its iconic trial model features major new additions both in its styling and its interior, without losing the emphasis on the ‘racing’ style of all its models. A commitment to renewal that will win over trials enthusiasts and that has become the best weapon of the official riders of the GasGas Trial Factory Team to triumph in the top international competitions.
The World Trial Championship has become the best proving ground for evolving the production models of the Salt factory. A guarantee of success for the new generation of GasGas TXT Racing 2019, whose models combine high performance and the reliability of all their components with a new, attractive and radical ‘look’. Significant changes to the exterior, in terms of styling and graphics, and also to the interior, both in the engine and the chassis. A thorough renewal that represents the greatest transformation in the history of a model, the TXT, which has marked a before and after in this discipline since its birth two decades ago.
New rear suspension elements join the new aluminium swingarm with progressive linkage system, the Öhlins hydraulic two-way rear shock absorber – with a travel of 174 millimetres – and the new swingarm mounting. These innovations include a chromoly tubular frame and an engine with double-sealed bearings facing outwards, which provide watertightness and give the whole assembly a perfect balance between stability, traction and rear damping responsiveness in the most demanding and committed trial sections for riders.
An absolute redesign of the swingarm and rear link that gives a new progressiveness to the models of the new GasGas TXT Racing 2019 range, increasing their stability and improving the traction and precision of the rear end.
Moving on to the middle section, the changes to the mounting system and the modification of the frame, to accommodate the new swingarm, have allowed small details such as replacing the old countersunk-head screws of previous models with new standard Allen-type ones, which are much more robust and durable. As well as the incorporation of new bearings in the brake pedal, with the aim of eliminating any play and maintaining the smoothness of its feel despite the wear caused by the passage of time on this type of component.
The new front mudguard design concentrates much of the innovations of a front end that once again relies on the excellent response of the Tech fork – 39 millimetres in diameter and with a travel of 18 centimetres – already used in previous versions of the brand. Components such as Michelin Trial tyres, NG brake discs and Braktec calipers that guarantee quality for users in terms of traction and braking.
Often exterior changes reflect an internal renewal, as in the case of the new TXT Racing, whose models adopt relevant engine innovations this season. If we look at its heart, we find one of the main modifications of this model: new crankshaft bearings that ensure correct lubrication of the engine, guarantee the watertightness of the assembly and, in turn, allow its comfortable and easy maintenance from the outside.
The new trial range from the Girona-based firm will be manufactured in the usual engine sizes of 300, 280, 250 and 125 cubic centimetres, relying on their compact and lightweight single-cylinder 2-stroke water-cooled engines with six-speed gearboxes.
To the proven reliability and durability of its engines, this range adds new Kevlar clutch plates, with a new spring and new variable preload. In this same section, the clutch cover is one of the notable novelties of this edition. A cover split into two parts with the aim of simplifying access and maintenance, and also facilitating the removal of the clutch plates, a task that now only requires the simple operation of removing the outer cover.
GasGas has completely reinvented its great trial icon. A TXT Racing 2019 range that is presented to trials lovers with numerous novelties. The first of these, evident at first sight, is the styling, with a completely renewed graphic design and a markedly ‘racing’ appearance. All this thanks to the slimming of its lines and the originality of elements such as the new front mudguard, integrated into the suspension bridge, or the combination of basic colours such as black, red and white in the plastics and the embellishment of parts such as the new aluminium swingarm or the clutch cover.
The rear end shows the notable changes that the new GasGas TXT Racing have incorporated in their chassis, with the debut of their new swingarm and most of the peripheral components associated with the rear end. A long list of novelties in this rear section headed by the incorporation of a new, more effective brake master cylinder, a new disc guard, attached directly to the brake caliper, and a new guide for the rear brake hose, which features a new sprocket guard. In addition to a practical side stand with a new projection to facilitate its extension with the boot sole, a new removable chain guide that does not require dismantling the swingarm, and an easy-to-fit chain tensioner, which now enjoys greater protection.
