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Originally Posted by 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. |
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I am 14 and i do know that i get what i pay for =) im on my second chinese bike and its holding up really good (and its not a stock SDG or anything that has beast mode parts on it, its even cheaper than that) and ive had it for like 8 months and have put WAYYYY too many hours on it like 200+ hours i'd imagine. and not one single thing has broken so far except one bolt that hold the skidplate on and that was my fault for snapping the head. ive got sooo many miles and hours on it the shift drum is just now BARELY starting to go out on it. so my thoughts are that if you just want a cheap bike to play on and not race. go chinese. they will hold up just fine if you dont abuse them. and my view of abuse is a grown man riding a mini...you gotta think. they werent made for that. and thats why we see BBR and all them making aftmk parts so that grown men CAN ride them. me personally i ride like a maniac. i jump jumps that are waaayyy to big for my bike and it has handled it really well. even though im only pushing 100 lbs. ppl complain about chinese bikes breaking because there are full grown men on them. and i do agree that they are made cheap. they do break and mess up and stuff but if they average 10 year old got a china bike, my bet is that it would hold up just like a honda. well thats just my 0.2 (or whole dollar for that matter)