New Zongshen RX3 (ZS250GY-3) Dual Sport

[Jay In Milpitas]

Originally Posted by 1cylinderwonder

Did you see the new 2018 Suzuki GSX250R that Suzuki is releasing for sale in the United States? It's a liquid cooled parallel twin with 8 valves. No mention of horsepower or torque figures. Selling price is suppose to be $4,499.00.
Top speed appears to be around 85 to 90 mph.
The pricing is approaching the affordable selling price of the CSC RX3. I hope CSC doesn't raise the MSRP of the RX3, it could cut into their sales.
It appears that the smaller displacement, smaller size and less expensive motorcycle market in the U.S.A. is expanding. I guess everybody doesn't need a 1000cc 120 horsepower commuting motorcycle!
It'll will be interesting, and fun, watching what other bikes enter the smaller size motorcycle market.
Stay tuned!

The GW250 is several hundred cheaper, uses the same engine and has better ergonomics. Neither come with luggage and you have to take them to the dealer for service to maintain the warranty.

[1cylinderwonder]

Originally Posted by Jay In Milpitas

You have to take them to the dealer for service to maintain the warranty.

This is a myth that is perpetrated by the “Dealer Network”!
The dealer, manufacturer, would have to prove that lack of any service actually caused a failure. Manufacturing errors or dealer misdeeds cause most of the after-sale problems. I’ve had to correct misaligned wheels, too tight or loose chain tension, incorrect clutch play, missing nuts, bolts, & screws, under filled oil level, etc on my new bikes.
SO DON’T COUNT ON DEALER PREP & SERVICE TO BE CORRECT!

[AdventureDad]

Seems the same power as ours. There’s a very stagnant thread on advrider about it. Something like 8 pages while the Versys 300 thread is huge. Odd...guess it’s way more performance for the same price. Heck, I want one (Versys) after reading on it.

[Jay In Milpitas]

There has been talk about the new BMW 310GS being competition for our bike. Here is one person's machine and a start on what she has done to "make it better".

[vickytulla]

I did a bit of home work in my country down here in Pakistan; for my RX3 it took 4000$ from booking in factory to finally getting it registered and legal to roam arround the whole country.. This does not include fat offfroad tires and some tweaks I did later in the longer run including the CSC oem center stand and things like that..

Where as intial Cost of import and getting it registered a BMWGS310 was 9000$ (estimated) and putting Panniers, trunks, crash cage/gaurds, also changng to Daul sports tires instead of those sporty looking ones (which were in package that time - without rally raid)... would drill a whole in my pocket, I would prefer to import a slightly used F800 with all things putted by previous owner from europe or some where in roughly same amount of funds.

Originally Posted by Jay In Milpitas

There has been talk about the new BMW 310GS being competition for our bike. Here is one person's machine and a start on what she has done to "make it better".