Um...

**Paul in NZ** · 8th December 2011, 07:11

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6104...uthland-family

Sigh...................

**Tigadee** · 8th December 2011, 07:19

"The Warehouse was satisfied with the pre-inspection technical checks that were done on the product, but would be reviewing the service, she said."

What? They're blaming George (MC Docs)? Blame the little guy...

**merv** · 8th December 2011, 07:23

Surprising when it is made from the "highest quarrity materials from China"

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**Paul in NZ** · 8th December 2011, 07:25

I don't really care about that. What I object to is these cheap piles of shite that will be littering our beaches and ultimately land fill.

**Katman** · 8th December 2011, 07:25

I'm surprised that George has anything to do with the pieces of shit.

**skippa1** · 8th December 2011, 07:25

cant wait until they are doing cheap parallel imports of the bigger brands....I can see them now
Ductapeti

Yamaharley

Spunkzuki

Homonda

Kawasuckme

the list goes on and on

**oneofsix** · 8th December 2011, 07:31

Originally Posted by Tigadee

"The Warehouse was satisfied with the pre-inspection technical checks that were done on the product, but would be reviewing the service, she said."

What? They're blaming George (MC Docs)? Blame the little guy...

Lets see if I got this right. The Warehouse imports a shitty little toy bike, get MC Docs to give it a once over to see if its ok. This family buys one, within an hour their little brat has seized it and they take it back. The Warehouse say they wont give $$ back until they have had it checked again at MC Docs but give the family a replacement which they again seize within an hour. I think if I was the Warehouse I would be reviewing the service as well, but not to blame the little guy as you say, I would want to know how this same family had seized 2 bikes within an hour after they had been given the OK for sale. Me thinks they have been trying to use this toy as a real bike and/or have not read/followed the instructions properly.
The family or media are beating up. Whilst the 1st was reported as seized it was a broken clutch spring.

**Taz** · 8th December 2011, 07:34

People would be so much better off just buying a Forza FMX70 for $649 if they wanted a well built cheap kids bike.

**Taz** · 8th December 2011, 07:36

Originally Posted by oneofsix

but not to blame the little guy as you say, I would want to know how this same family had seized 2 bikes within an hour after they had been given the OK for sale.

It's a weed eater motor in a bike frame

**Tigadee** · 8th December 2011, 09:36

George: "It's a piece of shit that will run for an hour max, then it'll break."

Warehuse: "Good enough... We'll take it."

**avgas** · 8th December 2011, 11:11

Originally Posted by Taz

People would be so much better off just buying a Forza FMX70 for $649 if they wanted a well built cheap kids bike.

Needed to be repeated.
The guy in the article is a knob. Don't know him personally - but buying a motorbike from the warehouse and complaining about bad quality is rather irritating.
Especially considering they aren't much cheaper than a proper store.

Guy is knob and needs to stop expecting the world to fix his problems.

**thecharmed01** · 8th December 2011, 11:21

Originally Posted by Tigadee

George: "It's a piece of shit that will run for an hour max, then it'll break."

Warehuse: "Good enough... We'll take it."

Probably nailed it on the head there....

I suspect half the problem is that the people buying them have no CLUE about anything much mechanical (lawnmowers/weedeaters/bikes etc) and they are just mistreating the equipment.
If I bought one, I'd assume it to be pretty disposable at that price and I'd probably be fairly cautious about how it was used.
Also having a bit of mechanical know-how behind us, depending on the issue we'd probably just fix something as minor as a spring.
Parts can fail on anything. Could be a bad batch, could be bad luck, and if it really had a seized motor yeah I might go back to them, but not so much for little issues.

Seems pretty clear they haven't got any idea what they are doing if they could confuse a clutch problem for a seized motor...

Honestly, they could probably give them ten bikes and they would 'find' a problem with all of them, where 100 other people won't have a single issue. So who's fault will it be then

**imdying** · 8th December 2011, 11:27

Meh, they're cheap, they break, no biggy there.

The problem is Mr King raised Jason to be to bloody useless to sort out minor things like a leaking carb and broken clutch spring himself. If he was any sort of man he'd have had his son back in business in less time than it takes to drive to the Warehouse and back.

WTF happened to the men of this country? They can't fix elementary problems on the worlds simplest motorcycle? Barry Crump would number eight that bitch in ten minutes flat.

Time to hand back your Man Card Jason King.

**cheshirecat** · 8th December 2011, 11:37

Originally Posted by imdying

WTF happened to the men of this country? They can't fix elementary problems on the worlds simplest motorcycle? Barry Crump would number eight that bitch in ten minutes flat.

Time to hand back your Man Card Jason King.

I remember lots of chatter about VFR750 V4's being difficult to service but I discovered they were quite simple to do all the basics on and the valves have only once needed adusting in 120,000k so geting at those is now largely unnesessary.