Built on Mars by the Hong Sha Motor Company, the Type 251 is a rugged and dependable motorcycle that can be found resting against the walls of many starship cargo holds, ready to deploy when a ship lands moonside at its destination. The Type 251 has knobby tires, springy shocks, a lot of torque and a high clearance, making it ideal for traversing the rough and unaccommodating terrain of the Sol system's many untamed moons. A popular sight around the backstreets of Titan Garden, the characteristics that make the Type 251 an ideal off-road workhorse also make it well-suited to negotiating the curbs and stairways of a dense lunar colony. If you're looking for a solid no-frills performance at an affordable price, a Hong Sha may be right for you.
A prime example of Martian engineering, the Type 251 has a number of features that make it ideal for traveling places where convenience isn't an expected feature of your journey. Its drive chain is built into its rear suspension housing, protecting it from damage from large debris kicked up by repeated jumps and slides. This drive chain is powered by Hong Sha's innovative two-cycle 220cc engine, able to deliver clean and consistent power on inclines and against resistant or stubborn terrain. The 251's two-cycle engine is powered by a high-capacity solid state Venusian crystal battery- its baseline efficiency gives the Type 251 an extended range and operational time, which is further enhanced by a clever set of power-friendly design features. Its battery tank sports an easy-to-read charge capacity meter along its upper facets, as well as a pair of contacts on its left side, allowing it to be easily recharged from external power sources that take all manner of fuel, from starship power generators to portable emergency hand cranks. The tank's reserves are further supplemented by a pair of haptic power generators, seen as a pair of coils wired to the front end of the bike's frame; haptic generators create a small bit of power from the jostle of a vibrating bike, the rumble of the engine, the bounce of a landing or other sudden, jarring movements characteristic of a motorcycle of this type. It's a small amount of power but every little bit adds up, and on an extended ride it can make all the difference in seeing you safely back home again.
Type 251s are popular around Titan Garden, particularly around the dense backroutes of the Dockyards and the A-District, and one of their biggest fans is Red Raven's own captain-mechanic, Amy. She's made a few customizations to her own 251, adding a Neptunian integridometer to the front fender and wiring it to a display screen mounted to the bike's crossbars- since she favors the 251 for its ease of negotiating tight corners and ramping off balconies, an integridometer is a useful bit of kit to see in advance if a bit of urban terrain can support the weight of a bike landing on it in dramatic fashion, and her grappling hook has saved her the few times she failed to notice this warning sufficiently in advance. Amy has also installed a set of Hong Sha Yue Tu front shocks to her personal 251, giving the bike's front end a bit more spring to make riding up a stairwell a bit more comfortable. Like many 251 owners she opted to strap a zip-shut carrying case to her bike's rear fender, making it easy to transport takeout cartons from far-away restaurants back to Red Raven's front office lounge. Many restaurants offer delivery drones, but sometimes its fun to volunteer to "make a food run" for the crew, especially when it's a good excuse to take the bike out for a ride.
Whether you're exploring the wild frontier of Saturn's hundred moons, ripping through a dockyard joyride or making a daring back-alley escape from a heist gone sideways, you can always trust the 251 to carry you through the day. Their ubiquitous popularity give a thieving starfarer plausable deniability in saying no, detective, that wasn't my bike leaving the scene of the crime, but I hope you find the guy who did it. Easy to fix and able to handle any terrain, whatever you're up to you'll be glad to have a Hong Sha beneath your feet.