A new brand of chinese "sports bikes"?

[speights_bud]

http://www.two-wheels.co.nz/Images/B...ge.930x500.jpg

look at the weld on the gear lever at the gear box

That's disgraceful. Even a (cheap) bucket has higher build quality than that!

Seriously speaking though, I assume it is the AA who should be contacted about such poor quality machinery being allowed to be registered on NZ roads?? These pieces of shit are an accident waiting to happen. As Riders we are not doing ourselves any favors by letting our new and inexperienced riders kill themselves on such poor machinery??

Is this not something an organization such as BRONZ or whoever we have as representatives to LTSA should be investigating?

[nzspokes]

whoever we have as representatives to LTSA should be investigating?

Well they have been letting Fords in for years and they have not stopped them.

[Owl]

adjustable(?) front forks

Adjustable while riding no less.

[speights_bud]

Well they have been letting Fords in for years and they have not stopped them.

At least the "Taxi Tanks" have a ton or two of steel and airbags between the passengers and what they hit.... Saw better build quality on the bikes in Thailand, and they modify the crap out of theirs with concrete re-inforcing steel!

[sgtp]

http://www.two-wheels.co.nz/Images/B...te.930x500.jpg

that mild steel bracket holding the brake line came out of the same parts bin they used to build my POS scooter. It will be covered in rust in 12 months

[Flettner]

Chinese, don't encourage them, don't buy their stuff, anything at all from them! They need to learn that you don't do business with the rest of the world like they do business with themselves. Quality is not high on their list of priorities but money is. Something is not right when I can quote on a job at a cut throat price but be out bid by chinese with a total job price at less than the cost the metal to do the job, cost me. This was a low run job too!

Asbestos in their engine gaskets! I understood it was illegal to import asbestos products? Chinese don't care, who is letting this happen? It's all about cost, a race to the bottom of the heap!
DON"T BUY THEIR STUFF it's just land fill !! if you can help it.

Yes I'm a bit bitter, they have stolen IP off my business and copied it bolt for bolt then claim it as a German built product under licence ( they wouldn't know what a licence was! ). Openly telling me by email that they will take what they want from our product range because developing a product themselves will cost too much. I ask you, do you want to deal with people like this, I don't!!

Thank you I fell better now, I've had my rant.

[Oakie]

It looks like these guys are on my commute to work. How ironic it would be if they were in the building occupied by some guys who imported and sold a heap of Chinese scooters about three years back and then disappeared after about 6 months.

[Mongolian]

Looking at their site, the image they are using for the Himalaya 250S on the front page differs very much from the images of the bike in the gallery.
Pretty sure the image on the front of the site is actually a cbr250 as it has the normal forks and a single brake (sorry break haha) disc compared to the USD's and the twin discs in the gallery.
Dodgy as f**k i would say these people are, and slipperier than a greased up midget.

[nzspokes]

Looking at their site, the image they are using for the Himalaya 250S on the front page differs very much from the images of the bike in the gallery.
Pretty sure the image on the front of the site is actually a cbr250 as it has the normal forks and a single brake (sorry break haha) disc compared to the USD's and the twin discs in the gallery.
Dodgy as f**k i would say these people are, and slipperier than a greased up midget.

Or they come out of the same factory......

[Road kill]

At those prices the bikes will sell to two types of people.

#1 Mugs.

#2 people that will work to make them run and be reliable.

I sort of look at not buying from the Chinese today as being a little like not buying from Japan during the 50-60's.

The fuckers are here an their not going away so we might as well just get used to it.

Buy British

[Erelyes]

Different motors with different bore x stroke (yet both 250cc DOHC singles)
Different fairings, headlights, taillights etc (yet similar specs - DRLs, LEDs etc)
Same tyres
2kg difference in weight
Minor differences in brakes, suspension, etc etc

Sell two models that are completely different to each other yet as close as competitors can get?

Who's the competition? OURSELVES!

Edit: Pisstaking aside, this quote from their website is interesting - 'Finally, we exist not because we want to generate profit. We exist because we want to change the face of the motorcycle market in New Zealand.'.
If this is true, part of me wants them to succeed...

That said, I'm not sure they'll succeed by making copies of old models.

The Chinese need to do like the Japanese did - stop copying, and drive their own ideas.

[jasonu]

Try and buy some brake pads for one of those shit boxes when the original ones wear out. Or if you let it fall over and need a new blinker... You get the idea.

[Katman]

Fools and their money........

[Robert Taylor]

At those prices the bikes will sell to two types of people.

#1 Mugs.

#2 people that will work to make them run and be reliable.

I sort of look at not buying from the Chinese today as being a little like not buying from Japan during the 50-60's.

The fuckers are here an their not going away so we might as well just get used to it.

Buy British

Yes but the Japanese ( arguably ) have more ethics than their mainland cousins. I think they should just stick to making rice and firecrackers

[Drew]

Check out these pics of the dash - one's from a cbr250r, one's from the "himalaya" version from these guys.

How do they get away with this stuff?

Cos they have no business ethics or morals???

And are cheaper...

one has a blue light and one has an orange hugh difference to me

its all about the $

You will find they bought the licence to the dash, and prolly most of the bike, and made them to a price even more than Honda did.

Asbestos in their engine gaskets! I understood it was illegal to import asbestos products? Chinese don't care, who is letting this happen?

Ummm, brake pads for lots of cars and bikes are full of the stuff....Even ones that don't come from China.