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Someone really needs to ride an RX4 from Indonesia to Holland and put 60,000K on it at the cost of a set of clutch plates and a chain and sprocket and wear out about ten sets of tires to make a comparison.

Itchy Boots second trip already had her going from Buenos Aries, to Terra dl Fueigo and back up the Andes to Peru before she was run out of the country by Corona Virus, and she had no breakdowns or major repairs. She already has 20k-30K on the second bike.

She even found RE dealers in Brazil and Argentina! CSC does not even have a parts supply network in the U.S. much less the more remote areas of the world.

It is that lack of parts and tech support that is going to put just about every wild card china bike behind the 8-ball, no matter what its original retail price or capabilities were.

That is why this whole forum exists. It is a grass roots movement dealing with lack of tech and parts support and what can we cobble together to keep our china bikes rolling.

I just took a mobility training course and used a Suzuki GB125 that was last produced in 2001. It was made in Viet Namn and sold by Suzuki complete with their support network. The school has a fleet of them, all of them at least 20 years old. They ride like new bikes, not because they have lasted better than anything else, but because Suzuki has a parts department!