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Not all Chinese products are bombs. There are numerous examples of well built Chinese products. This is one of them. CF Moto builds some quality products as many people have topped 10,000 miles with little or no trouble. The E-Charm had fuel injection before all the 150cc scooters that Kymco and SYM build did. It's fairly evident that Kymco builds a good product but at twice to three times the cost of Chinese scooters they ought to.

How about GS Motorworks. One of their Eagles was a Xingyue years ago. I don't know if John Sanchez is still with them but he would know if anyone would.

You know what that's indicative of? Ignorance. Those people probably don't know one end of a wrench from another, can't ride worth a darn and feel smug about discovering scooters while the rest of the world drives gas guzzlers.

What's sad is that their attitudes don't enhance this sport or any sport. If the number of scooters is to ever increase beyond the small numbers that sell in America, scooter owners have to show some level of happiness and camaraderie that makes others want to dive in. It worked for Harley Davidson. Before all the "Mystique", HOG groups and "If I have to explain it you don't understand" sales pitch they only sold 80,000 units and were second banana to all the Jap bikes.

Even worse is what is to come. Honda's dual clutch bikes are already blurring the lines. Have you seen the NC700? A luggage compartment where the gas tank was that holds a full face helmet and automatic shift.

A reasonably priced 250 or smaller along the same lines would make a scooter a questionable purchase.

That was why I left SD. Too much arrogance, not enough riding. Anybody here remember Jim63's post about doing 2,800 miles in 14 days? Seriously? My math might be weak but that's an average of 200 miles a day. I brought my CF Moto home from 200 miles away in three and a half hours.

People who write such drivel as there is on SD now should try and remember that lurkers are seeing the junk and deciding not to join in. That type of bad publicity only hurts the sports image and makes people buy Honda Rebels.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but metric doesn't use the old coarse/fine pitch method of SAE. A 19mm nut is a 19mm nut. I've trolled through enough drawers at my local hardware store for metric hardware and I never saw pitch differences.

No problem. Here's the full list.

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No joke. I ordered a drive shaft on Tuesday at around 11:30 AM and it came on Thursday at 10 AM. Florida to upstate New York in less than 48 hours. Here's the really good part. Honda Helix shaft that matches the Chinese shaft-$66.05. The PFS shaft-$29.99.

I second what John said. The balance front to rear is more like 80/20. There's a reason many bikes come with drums in the back. The front is supposed to be doing most of the work. High performance motorcycles have two discs in the front for a reason.

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and I did better than a basket.



For runs into town and grocery getting this thing is unbeatable. I even used it for work a few times and it handled the 35 miles round trip just fine. Not to mention 105 mpg at speeds of up to 45 mph