Suzuki has updated the V-Strom 250 in Japan, and the big news is that it now has an LED headlight. That’s basically it. There’s also a revised ABS control unit, some new paint, and a slightly higher price, but the headline change is still a lamp. Somewhere in Hamamatsu, an engineer plugged it in, stepped back, and presumably declared the motorcycle industry saved.
That sounds underwhelming because, quite honestly, it is. Still, the old halogen headlight was one of the clearest signs that the V-Strom 250 had been hanging around in its current form for quite a while. The new round LED unit doesn’t reinvent the bike, but it does make the front end look less like it wandered out of a dealership brochure from 2012. Progress is progress, even when it arrives one light bulb at a time.
