Should be fun [URL]http://tinyurl.com/2oyoxq[/URL]
'Swot I was thinking. I see they've got some others that they're punting out. I might have a crack myself, because even if it turns out to be a load of shite, for well under £200.....
(Bad form alert) That said, they don't take CCs and I see they quote £100 for delivery. And their webshite is just a maildrop domain. And you have to wait for them to send the paperwork later (which has caused them to get a neg or two for unreceived documents, I see). OTOH, the list price of a Sukida 50 is nearly £700. Decisions, decisions.
yes, but if you buy one at list, it's going to be assembled, filled with oil, PDI'd and registered for road use (£50), isn't it? Of course, either way you still end up with a POS 50cc Chinese poof chariot.
Yeah. I've been doing the arithmetic. Ultimately, it'll cost you around £300 to buy one at Molly's sort of price and put it otr. What *really* turns me off is the small print. You have 24 hours to complain, in writing (so an email won't be considered, then), if anything goes tits-up. You have to get the bike back to them within seven days (little chance of that, at this time of year). They won't take any responsibility for damage in transit. You have to pay all the carriage costs for returns..... All these conditions are simply not legal. They won't stand up in court. This, I bet, is why they don't take CCs, because a CC claim would go straight through and they'd be back-debited. But try getting money back from Paypal, or after a bank transfer.... This is very true. If I wanted a cheap runaround, I could sort myself out with something for less money. Trouble with fifties is that the terms 'cheap' and '50cc' and 'nice working order' don't tend to go together.
TOG@Toil says... I put the SpazzTrakka together to what it looks like now, with a rebored engine, for that much. -- Lozzo Triumph Daytona 955i SE Suzuki SV650 K3 Honda CBR600 F-W Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka Suzuki GSX-R750L Suzkui TS50X
Puts it into perspective, does that. I've managed to get plenty of small SOBs sorted and on the road for under 300 sovs. Like I say, doing it with a 50 is tougher. Jamie's old DT50MX cost me about £475 all in, IIRC. Something like £340 to buy, plus new swing-arm bushes, new tyres, reg/rec, battery, a bulb or two, a rattle can of aluminium paint for the swinging arm, head races, seat cover, chain, brakes..... It all added up. There again, after a year of teenage (ab)use he sold it just before last Xmas for £600. I reckon a used Sukida 50 in decent nick isn't going to be worth much more than £350/400, so there's little hope of buying one of these things, putting it otr, and making a quick buck.
TOG@Toil says... I've just been given first dibs on Oldbloke's son's TS50X. I'm hoping to put that together for reasonable cost in time for my son's 16th in 18 months time. -- Lozzo Triumph Daytona 955i SE Suzuki SV650 K3 Honda CBR600 F-W Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka Suzuki GSX-R750L Suzkui TS50X
TOG@Toil says... Dan doesn't know anything about this bike, and won't until he's 16 and 1 minute old. -- Lozzo Triumph Daytona 955i SE Suzuki SV650 K3 Honda CBR600 F-W Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka Suzuki GSX-R750L Suzkui TS50X
Bear says... Thank you. -- Lozzo Triumph Daytona 955i SE Suzuki SV650 K3 Honda CBR600 F-W Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka Suzuki GSX-R750L Suzkui TS50X
You may want to derestrict it if you are doing element E on a Pan and that thing is managing all of 12mph uphill and 20mph on the flat. Derestricted they can muster all of, ooh, 28mph on the flat. Like you say though, all it has to do is run for 5-7 CBTs and it has all but paid for itself. The last ATB I worked for tried them. They are still using the Honda SGX50 as a result. Hopefully, your mileage will vary.
Looks like it's in the past. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a "A scone and tea at half past three Makes the day a little brighter Keep your cakes and fancy tarts And stick them up your shiter."
50's are in demand, the number of CBT's I'm doing at the mo is quite silly. I thought there'd be less this time of year. The purchase was a bit of an impulse buy and an experiment. As loz said, they are not a bad manufacturer. I bet the wheel bearings are dry though.
You'd better make a start fairly smartish then -- 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
Dan L says... I rebuilt the SR250 completely over 7 lazy days when I was unemployed. Sorting the engine rebore only took about 4 very lazy hours. It'll be done in time. -- Lozzo Triumph Daytona 955i SE Suzuki SV650 K3 Honda CBR600 F-W Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka Suzuki GSX-R750L Suzkui TS50X
