DGA

Unless you are about 14, or have a mental age of 14, you know that you get what you pay for. I paid about $750 shipped for my SDG and still think it was a good buy. If I had to go down to the Honda store and shell out probably twice that amount for a similar bike, I wouldn't have done it, and I wouldn't have a mini today. The fact is, chinese made products let those that normally wouldn't spend a higher sum of money for a better made bike have something that is good enough for what they want. I didn't buy my SDG with the intent to race it in competition, just for fun in the local area, and to tinker with because I love doing that as a hobby. It doesen't have a Honda backed warranty, it has none at all, but that's just fine for me because I will cover it myself if something breaks and have fun doing that. Chinese made bikes get slammed a lot but I think that a big part of the problem is that inexperienced guys don't know how to tighten a bolt properly, or understand how a carburetor works, and those are the guys that should stick to buying Hondas so that the factory backing will fix it for them. Everyone Loctites the crap out of these bikes because they forgot to tighten a few bolts and so believe it was the bike's fault for being chinese, when if they would just pay a bit more attention to their work nothing would fall off. I have ridden my SDG for probably 4 hours now and haven't had a single bolt loosen, and I don't use Loctite.