My next purchase?

[KW4TX]

Originally Posted by bellinbuffalo

It's a nice looking bike
wouldn't mind one myself
but..

just curious but what are those two small head lamps pointing at?

the trees?

I guess that is for bird watching?

[olds_cool]

It's almost an exact copy of the Tank Vision R1. Which is like a 100 other Chinese bikes...same engine, too!

[knothead]

There are way too many good, used Japanese bikes out there, I don't think I'd bother with a Chinese street bike. The first one in this thread was quoted at $1700... I bought this

for $2200. (not a pic of mine, but just like it except mine has a Corbin seat and a Yoshimura exaust.) It's a very quick bike (0-65 in 3.4 seconds) and handles a like sportbike, but the seating position is upright and it has enough ground clearance and suspension travel to do some offroading. (It's an adventure bike, like a V-Strom, but better.) It makes a good long distance tour bike as well!

Shop around, there are plenty of good bikes out there. You can almost always find a Ninja 250 for less than $2000 on a 3 or 4 year old bike, and they are actually pretty comfy bikes, more standard than sport.

[warrior91]

Yes...now that is worth $2-3 k...
This is why china should stick to smaller displacement for a while.
Try finding a cheap dirtbike or quad...it is much easier to find a good used street bike for less money...Resale on off road seems better /longer...(unless it says HD)
A $6000 mx is still worth $4000 after a couple years...seems to me a smallish $6k streetbike is less than half after the same amount of time...
When I can buy 2 used jap mx for the price of one new one...I will quit buying china likely...but I doubt that day will come.

[kczukiman]

nice buy knothead.

[olds_cool]

I have to agree. I'm sure my next purchase is gonna be a used Japanese bike or a new Korean (Hyosung). Hey, I may even go for a KTM 990 SuperDuke (my fantasy bike)!

Good looking bike there, knothead.

[KW4TX]

I am at work and cant see..... is there web site link somewhere to it?


Not webshots or anything like that...

manufacture link?

[olds_cool]

Originally Posted by olds_cool

I have to agree. I'm sure my next purchase is gonna be a used Japanese bike or a new Korean (Hyosung). Hey, I may even go for a KTM 990 SuperDuke (my fantasy bike)!

Good looking bike there, knothead.

What I'm saying is:

My next purchase will be ANYTHING but a Tank!

I'd get a Schwinn BICYCLE first!!!

[SpeedSouth]

Originally Posted by olds_cool

I have to agree. I'm sure my next purchase is gonna be a used Japanese bike or a new Korean (Hyosung). Hey, I may even go for a KTM 990 SuperDuke (my fantasy bike)!

Good looking bike there, knothead.

Those Hyosung's are pretty nice. I'm half-assed trying to get my local dealer to order one of their cruisers so I can see it up close. They just have 2 of the sport bikes right now.

And I agree with much of what's been said. I really like the looks of the Johnny Pag Raptor (yes, and the Spyder too)...in fact, I just got home from looking them over at the dealer once again. But, I'm also going to look at a Suzuki Savage 650 this weekend (I hope) that is selling at about half the cost of the new Pag.

I also noticed the KBB retail on a 07 GY5 is only $100 less than I paid for the 08 new. I may sell my GY5 and try to take advantage of this before it changes.

[madmanjustice]

Originally Posted by KW4TX

I know it is not a dual sport but.....

What do you think?

It is a Qlink Legend... Local dealer said he could get me one for $1700

for that price you could pick up a used Honda Rebel and have full dealer and aftermarket support. Not to mention the Rebels are pretty darn solid bikes.

[Huck369]

Originally Posted by knothead

There are way too many good, used Japanese bikes out there, I don't think I'd bother with a Chinese street bike. The first one in this thread was quoted at $1700... I bought this

for $2200. (not a pic of mine, but just like it except mine has a Corbin seat and a Yoshimura exaust.) It's a very quick bike (0-65 in 3.4 seconds) and handles a like sportbike, but the seating position is upright and it has enough ground clearance and suspension travel to do some offroading. (It's an adventure bike, like a V-Strom, but better.) It makes a good long distance tour bike as well!

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I used to have a TDm just like that....except I had a Kerker exhaust on mine...was probably the funnest bike I've owned, but got bad MPG...only got about 35 MPG out of it....