Motorcycling - Current Chinese Shite v. Older Japanese Shite

[UltraWomble]

On 5/26/2016 at 9:53 AM, gtd2000 said:

That's very true but they appear to be generally reliable from most of the feedback from owners at the c90club website.

 

I've gone one step further and bought another Chinese Shiter to add to the collection...

 

Ladies and Gentlemen! I present to you the Lexmoto ZSB125 (AKA the Senke SK125-8 )

 

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s52/gtd2000/Lexmoto%20ZSB125/IMG_20160525_101336_zps5n7siowi.jpg

 

 

How did you get on with this?

[gtd2000]

On 5/15/2021 at 9:51 PM, UltraWomble said:

How did you get on with this?

It was a good little bike the Lexmoto ZSB. Seems to be a fairly well regarding bike, based on feedback I've seen online.

I had a bit of trouble with the front headlamp bulbs blowing but cured that with an LED equivalent.

Sold it to a lad up near Falkirk and it's still MOT'd, so must be doing OK.

If you mean the Riders, no drama but some of the rubber components were poor quality. and showed signs of aging a couple of years ago. Everything else is doing well.

[gtd2000]

Well a little bit of a coincidence today. 

Was browsing Facebook marketplace and came across my old ZSB for sale, six years after selling it!

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/237685615549800/

 

 

[gtd2000]

On 09/11/2019 at 18:15, strangeangel said:

Fair do's - it's managed 20000km... most of these were dead before they'd reached half that.

 

 

Sadly he's made the classic mistake of conflating rarity with desirability. No matter how much turd-polishing he does, it's still a £200 Chinese shitter with no MOT. There's actually a really tidy-looking Helix on the same page of ads with MOT for £950, which makes this look even more of a joke.

 

I'm not sure why, but I had a random thought today that I should try to find a Honda Helix and my mind was cast back to this thread with the Jialing clone!

Looking at some of the prices being asked for a Helix, it's unlikely I'd go down that route!