Wet weight of the Zontes 703 Adv is around 240 kilograms. So not a lightweighter by any stretch of the imagination.

I am one of those who are still quite sceptical to those chinese bikes. Yes they have indeed come a long way when it comes to look, quality and initial fit and finnish.
But long time reliability - how about that? Dealer network? Spare parts availability, now, in 10 years, 30 years?

Yes they seems a bargain - many of them at least. Selling for 60-70-80 % of price of comparable japanese bikes. The thing here is to understand that most japanese bikes you can ride carefree on with minimum maintainance and sell it after 10 years for 50-60 % of the value of a new bike. A Zontes, Voge, CF Moto - will it run problemfree for 10 years? What will it sell for after 10 years?

Another thing that strikes me is that those china bikes most of them seem to have a higher fuel consumption than their japanese and european counterparts? This Zontes 703 that is mentioned in both the reviews I linked to above and also the CFMoto 450 seems clearly to use much more fuel than its competetors. So maybe after 50 k kms of riding you have used 10-20-30 % more fuel than other bikes - and the price difference is already eaten up by higher fuel costs…? And when you sell it secondhand after 5-10 years you might get only peanuts compared of what you paid initially….?

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