ZheJiang 250?

[Katman]

Originally Posted by katman View Post
Read my lips. P-i-l-e o-f s-t-e-a-m-i-n-g s-h-i-t.

Thats a fact is it?
I can take that to the bank can I?
If I steer my friend wrong I can just point to your erudite critique can I?
Technically detailed and fair was it?

You're getting the idea.

[Katman]

Friday nights get like this about now- Blame the Bourbon!

Why do I feel like I'm being spied on?

[kave]

Put it this way, look at the newer chinese manufactured Suzuki GN250s, the build quality is shite compared to the older japanese ones. The only upside is that the parts are interchangable with the earlier GN250s so they are cheap to fix, and suzuki have a large presence in New Zealand which means that you can get certain things fixed under warranty.
The chinese may (probably will) produce awesome bikes at some point in the future, but they are not producing them yet. What they are producing at the moment are unreliable but cheap bikes, great for your wallet in the short term, but expensive over the long haul.

[Dave-]

I was told that in korea hyosung have 40% of the market and ZheJiang has 60%

this doesnt say much about the motorcycle market in korea...

[deanohit]

I'm stoked with my Zongshen 200GY, done 5000kms now and needed only routine maintinence, and I flog the hell out of it. I bought it knowing I wouldn't be on selling it, so havn't worried about dropping it or taking care of it's looks, so the plastics on it are pretty shitty. It is a copy of a Honda CT200, so parts are common for if I need them.
Once I'm onto my licence, I will either turn it into a bucket motard and continue thrashing it or give it to my brother for the short commute he does each day.

After seeing EJs Scorpio, if you want new, you'd be hard pressed to beat that though.

[Buddha#81:Me]

I have three Chinkers (along with Jap race bikes). I've found the engines seem to be the strongest part of the bike when looked after. If your mate is ok on the spanners and can keep the the bike servicable the chinker is OK value for money.

Before buying a cheap Chinese bike, I would check for parts supply either genuine Chinker or Jappo equiv. My bikes I have no worries because I can get genuine Suzuki (LT50) or Honda (Z50R) for the boys bikes and my quad there is motors on Tardme fo a couple of hundie. The rest of the bikes are slowly being replace as parts fail and thats only been the odd bearing and chains and sprockets all stuff that shits on bikes 10 times what these cost me. As a family we can have as much fun on these cheap bikes. If your careful in what you buy there is nothing wrong with a Chinker.