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Originally Posted by Snakeboy
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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Yes there is a I wonder what the bike will be like in 10 years
There is one thing for sure these bikes will need upgrades,
I was at a CFMoto dealer in Calgary and I was asking a bunch of questions about the 450 Ibex and he said the one I was looking at was a American model it had a low front fender and he said the Canadian import version has a high front fender Good Stuff! I also inquired about the consumables, chain sprockets and brakes, he replied that a customer came in with a 450 Ibex that had 15000 km and the chain was stretched and needed replacement.
I would suspect chain sprockets and discs would all have to replaced in a short time, he said correct.
Lets hope aftermarket venders are on this with higher quality parts.
It seems the Asians don't have the technology or care factor to produce good quality metallurgy and I would suspect it is because they recycle all of our junk cars into there refineries.
The exception is Japan they import Iron Ore and a lot of aluminum igots
A good example of a high quality chain is DID made in Japan I have 25 k on mine with a supersprox primary and final drive and it's showing very little wear.
It would be impossible to produce high quality metals with scrap metal and recycled cars .
Bottom line there metal is cheap and so is the price of a Chinese, Thai, and India Motos
You should watch a video on ships cut up in India I would guess that the Moto manufactures use this to make there bikes
You get what you pay for
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