First mini bike for youngsters?

I must confess I was wondering who all these people with strong
anti-chinese bike opinions were. Jap motorcycle shop owners perhaps ?

JL

 

None of those Hua-Lee bikes mate, they're not real Jappers!


----sharks

 

moona wrote:

*so which japanese bike importer do you work for* ?


Our experience has been rather different to yours (seriously), and the
110cc chinese bike has been mechanically mostly fine (and believe me
it's been thrashed).


G-S

 

I was too slow again


G-S

 

One of the tracks near here doesn't allow the chinese bikes either.
They say basically "we can't accept the higher risk of accident they
represent".

Not that they've actually got any supporting evidence mind you, just a
holier than thou attitude *sigh*.


G-S

 

Nah, I can buy a new chinese one for about half that price


G-S

 

And there I was in a bike shop yesterday, waiting to be served, when I spied
a box of bits with a hand written letter. Naturally, I read the (upside
down) letter while I was waiting. A cheap knockoff kid's bike, the original
hubs had cracked. The replacement hub had cracked, and numerous other faults
were mentioned, including suspension.

At least it was being covered under warranty...

Tony F

 

prob more so its an exact copy of a CT110 motor as opposed to
a lets make it faster and more powerful 125

 

because we think so and we can ban you , so THERE !!!

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 10 May 2006 12:55:53 GMT

So what was making the noise on Blake's bike?

Zebee

 

I find myself wondering how many of these mini trail bikes are being
used as trail bikes and how many of them are being used around motor
cross tracks jumping all the time (which they really aren't meant for
they are a trail bike not a moto crosser).


G-S

 

Heheh so paint over the name and put a Honda sticker on it

 

prob used with a 100 kg gorilla onboard

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 11 May 2006 11:55:49 +1000

The one Blake has looks one hell of a lot like a motocrosser. I
wouldn't blame someone for thinking it was supposed to do motocrossery
things.

Zebee

 

Blakes one looks considerably more tarted up than Jacobs one (although
they look mechanically the same).

I do agree they look similar to a motor crosser but honestly they look
more similar to an enduro bike (like an XR or a DR).

XR's and DR's break if you ride them around moto cross tracks too
(speaks from personal experience

I suspect part of the problem is how they are marketed...


G-S

 

That might fool someone who wasn't familiar with bikes, but it wouldn't
fool most people who's kids race junior moto cross.

I suspect more of the problem isn't the quality of the chinese bikes,
it's the numbers of them and the speed the riders travel around the
tracks at.

The serious junior racers go to thier practice days and want to go
_fast_, the dads and the chinese trail bike riders either want to go
fast (and then break stuff trying to keep up to higher spec'd bikes) or
they want to go slow and resent the 'hoons'.

Either way the racer types are getting the angst, and jacked up about it
I suspect...


G-S

 

I've already read an article from a bike shop owner who won't repair the
chinese bikes in his workshop any longer. His reason being that he had done
a few and pretty well every one of them had come back because of some other
failure(of course the customers mostly couldn't see it as a separate thing).
He didn't want any more customers blaming and badmouthing him for his
workshop not doing the work properly so now he just won't touch them.

A fair enough attitude I thought, let the chinese bike importers support
their stuff instead of palming off the responsiblity onto someone who had
nothing to do with them.

Al

 

Took the words right out of my mouth. From what I've read the damage seems
to be coming from adults riding them. Haven't seen many 14 y.o.kids
complaining. There are weak spots (and for a quarter the price I'd fully
expect them) but the cheapie manufacturers seem to be addressing the issues
with each new model.

 

More copies of C70 I thought.

 

But they all look the same to me!

Yeah, _we_ know that but more 'mainstream' and local support is what I think
I meant.