Anyone got any ideas on this?

Greetings one & all, my first post here so be gentle!

Has anyone got any views on this bike?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....PageName=MERC_VIC_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT

I'm not interested in road use, just a bit of off road use & for £400 it might be a steal? I realise
parts will be a problem, but for £400 it's not the end of the world.

Any replies appreciated.

Nige


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Subaru WRX
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)

We might be going on a summer holiday, the Greece Ball rally!!!!

 

Don't touch with a barge pole.

 

This is one of the many variants of the GY125. Built in China. I have a
200cc version and I am very pleased with it. The engine is based on the
Honda CG125 and is very robust. The finish will probably be a bit crappy -
welds may be a bit ugly and you will need to check that all nuts and bolts
have been properly tightened etc. It will probably be geared for off-road
use but if you get one make sure it is set up for off road. It is easy to
change gearing by swapping sprockets. It should be OK for green laning etc
but I would be a bit wary of taking it over jumps or anything that would put
major stress on frame and suspension. Spares are easy to get and quite
cheap. Loads available on ebay. Other wise here
http://www.china-parts.co.uk/. Basically for £400 it is amazingly good
value.

 

When something seems to good to be true, it probably is.

 

I wopuldn't say it was too good to be true, but it does look a bit too cheap. But the seller does ask you
to go have a look at one. I'm never in a million years gonna pay anything up front, i'll go buy them cash
etc. I was after feedback on the bike, not the auction.

Cheers

Nige

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Subaru WRX
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)

We might be going on a summer holiday, the Greece Ball rally!!!!

 

Seems fine here??

Anyway, whats the problem with selling tools?? He's still selling tools now & getting feedback daily?

Am I missing something?


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Subaru WRX
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)

We might be going on a summer holiday, the Greece Ball rally!!!!

 

For what reason matey???

Auction or the bike?

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Subaru WRX
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)

We might be going on a summer holiday, the Greece Ball rally!!!!

 

Cheers matey, where did you get yours from & how much if you dont mind?

I'm not going jumping etc, like you say a bit of green laning. BTW I'm 6' 3" & 16 stone, is it gonna be
too small for me?

Nige

Nige

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Subaru WRX
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)

We might be going on a summer holiday, the Greece Ball rally!!!!

 

I'm 6'1" & 14.10 and found a CCM R30 a bit small so I reckon you'll
dwarf it.

 

Why? The seller has 241 feedbacks and 100% positive. Usually seems to sell
pumps and power tools. However, customers report good communications and
support. These bikes arrive in crates and require the purchaser to do the
final assembly (front wheel and handlebars) so the vendor won't be doing
anything other than shipping crates. After-sales support will probably be
non-existant but for £400 that is a risk worth taking. Its a generic
Chinese built GY125 - spares are very cheap and widely available. It has a
CG125 clone engine which is pretty unburstable. The finish will be crappy
and it will rust easily but for £400 it will still be excellent value. If
it lasted three years that would be £133 a year. OTH you would lose £400
almost immediately in depreciation if you bought a new Japanese equivalent.

 

Nige wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....PageName=MERC_VIC_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT

I don't know anything about the machine but 400 quid for a brand new
bike doesn't sound right and I've no idea where you'd go in the event
of a problem.

 

prawn wrote

Is shorthand for CR+LF and is fucking wrong.

So to is mono-wheeling through the last chicane in a 125 GP but that is
125 riders when they are on it for you.

 

I bought mine earlier this year on ebay as an X-Dirt 200. Cost me £530 inc
VAT, registration, tax and delivery. I am 6' tall and 14st 13lbs stone
(down from 15st 5lbs over the last couple of weeks!) and the bike isn't too
small for me. One of the reasons I bought it was because I gelt a bit silly
sitting on my old CG125 which was obviously a small bike. I use it as a
local runabout for short trips in urban traffic with no problems so far.

 

I can fix most things myself to be honest, i have rebuilt cars from the ground up before so I'm not
scared of a few problems etc.

It would be nice to see what happens over the next few weeks when they arrive etc.

Nige

 

Nige said...

I'm a sales rep in the bike trade. I see these things, and the other
GY125 clones, sitting and waiting for parts in the back of dealer's
yards every day. It's not so much parts availability that's bad, it's
the fact that they break everything with great regularity.

 

Hell, it's only 400 quid. Let me know how it goes.

 

Go for it. Most of the cycle parts will be made out of cheese, but a
set of Renthal bars & alloy bark-busters should protect most of it in a
spill.

The only thing I'd worry about re spares is rear sprockets, so I'd try
to find a source for those before comitting. Anything else that breaks
can almost certainly be bodged or replaced with aftermarket stuff.

Oh, if you do decide to contact the seller, please tell him it's not a
"road legal scrambler" - it's a trailbike. "Scrambler" is the emotive
word of choice for the anti-trailriding fuckwits.

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Krusty.

http://www.muddystuff.co.uk
http://www.muddystuff.us
Off-road classifieds

'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger (FOYRNB) '96 Tiger '79 Fantic 250

 

See halfway down this page
http://www.europainternational.co.uk/dealers/X-Dirt_125_max_and_Standard_Dealer_web.html
Shows a bloke who is 6'4" sitting on a similar kind of bike (GY type, in
this case badged X-Dirt). The only difference is that the one he is sitting
on is a later model with upside down forks.

 

The bike. You're buying an unknown brand of cheap Chinese import of a
bloke who normally flogs garden equipment or something.

When, not if, it goes wrong or something breaks or you damage it, you
will then have the job of getting it fixed. Therte are no dealers. Such
spares as exist are brought in by the same bloke, and he will have
little or no interest in flogging parts at a tenner when his main
interest is flogging bikes at several hundred quid.

He will have no parts distributorship or service back-up at all - you
will have to identify what's bust or gone wrong, try and communicate
this to him, and hope he understands and provides a remedy.

No dealer will be remotely interested in working on it, unless it's for
something sublimely easy, like fitting a replacement bulb, because they
will have no service data and no parts.

If you want to treat it as an utterly disposable machine that you can
run for maybe a few months, perhaps a year, and then just throw away
when something happens to it, then that's fine, of course. As has been
pointed out, even if it lasts three years, it'll have cost you next to
nothing.

Look - there's a reason why some vehicles are dirt cheap. It's because
they're crap. Think Yugo. Think Kia. Think Perodua. I am aware that
ownership of a WRX requires the excision of several brain cells, but
surely you could figure this out for yourself?

 

I have lost count of the number of motorcycles I've seen utterly fucked
because they were fiddled with by someone "who knows all about cars".