Ducatis are cheap as chips

Seems very cheap

http://www.kjm.net/bike_detail.php?bikeID=39

 

Mr Nice says...

Hmm, KJM Superbikes, sure it's not a 'Made in China' model?

http://www.motornieuws.nl/2007/11/dealer_in_uk_beboet_om_nepyama.php

 

Mmm interesting.

 

They should be have been fined for selling such a shite bike in the first
place.


Geo

 

Geo says...

The buyer should have been fined for wanting to buy such a shite bike.

 

Not many people wanted the Dark model, as it's definitely down-specced.
Check the single front disc, for example. But yes, that is wonderful
VFM.

 

It appears that they have the half-faired twin-disc model for the same
price.

 

Yes but it's a sports bike with touring bike power.

 

I claim it's more of a Yamaha scam rather than a "buyer beware" case, the
damn thing looks quite nice for a 250 and the uninitiated can be easily
tricked. "Choppers" were dead cool when it came out too.

The list of victims incudes my father who bought one when I was teenager
and, despite my trying to convince him to get "anything that won't handle
like a sack of potatoes and preferably an XR", I didn't know just *how* shit
it was. Rode it once for 5 minutes, almost dropped it without much prior
warning, never touched it again. My father got rid of it after the 4th or
5th spill. The engine was not bad for 250 mind, I wonder what an SRV250
would have been like instead.

Gawd, I fucking hated the early 90s' chopper craze. Bloody things could make
a beginner assume all bikes are like that.


Geo

 

Well, I'm damned. Didn't read that here. Wonder if MCN ever mentioned
it?

 

The Older Gentleman says...

It was all over the trade press, but KJM don't advertise heavily in the
trade press, do they?

 

Paging Lucifer.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

'Kin hell, the robbing gets.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

It would appear the craze is back:
http://www.bikernewsonline.com/uploaded_images/yamaha-star-raider-759462.jpg

Yamaha have taken the 1900 engine from 'Liner/Midnight Star and put it
in a 'factory custom'.

 

itym "dirt bike power"

 

The address should have been the giveaway. Toogood Lane, too good to
be true?

 

I think you're referring to the first wave of shite japanese
wannabe-customs, but I was too young to remember it. The one I'm thinking of
was around the beginning of the 90s (probably earlier), but I don't know
when and if it affected the UK. All I remember is that H-D allegedly turned
from a company on the brink of bankruptcy to "the bee's knees" and all
japanese manufacturers producing a load of
not-too-shabby-this-time-but-handles-like-a-whale-in-a-pond chopper/customs.
Half the bikes I saw on the streets were Viragos(mostly), Intruders, Steeds
and Vulcans. The way I remember it around here, that chopper craze was
followed by a rise in naked-bike popularity (the Zephyr being a major
representative), which was much more bearable.


Geo

 

A few years back we had a Greek bloke plus his burd ride all the way
from Athens to Newbury on a shite old Zephyr 750 to attend a Zephyr
rally.

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Heh you may very well be right
<glances at Bonners>

--

 

Don't look at me, I haven't got a dirt bike so I wouldn't know what
shite level of power they put out.

Crap levels of power are fine on something as light as a KTM 690...