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Originally Posted by Boatguy

Draining the gas out might be a good idea. I wouldn’t know. I’ve never done it. I just go out and ride when I feel like it. I have let it sit for a couple months before. Just press the button and it instantly works. That’s fuel injection. But really old bad gas is probably good to dump in your car and fill up the bike fresh in the spring.

So fuel injectors need to have the pet cock shut off and line drained as well? Side question but do these have a reserve tank?

I have no idea whatsoever. I never imagined trying to go do warranty work on the bike. Everything I have owned that has come with a warranty it is more of a hassle to try to get warranty work then to just fix it yourself quickly. Generators, outboards, it’s just easier to fix them. It takes too long to bring them in for warranty. Nothing ever went wrong with the bike at 5000 miles so, never looked at this.

Ok, I get it. And I hope I never need to use it either but if it does come and is broken or a complete basket case I want to know I didn't just throw away $2k or sign up for some major headaches.

The manual is very clear. It has a complete service interval page. 4000 km I think is your first service interval. Or maybe that’s miles. I think it’s 5000 km. I never changed the air filter yet. I never even looked in the airbox yet. I changed the oil and I tightened the chain. That’s it. 5000 miles.


Sounds easy enough, especially if the manual guides through the service intervals and what should be done. Is there anything on these bikes that would be extraordinarily difficult to DIY whether it's the relays, wiring, clutch, engine rebuilds, etc.?? I wasn't able to work on the carbs/engine/or shaft drive of my Intruder. I'm curious if these bikes are significantly easier to access and work on everything?

The end of all your parts worries is here. We have a great resource.

kpmotoclub.com

The entire bike is there in parts. You just select whatever part you want, fill up your cart, and they ship it out in like 24 hours. It’s here in the United States. All the parts are right here in the United States. They get to you in a couple days. I’ve had nothing but great experiences with these people. They even sent me a free Lifan hat because I’m probably a shill online for them and I don’t even realize it. Lol. Not associated with them in any way. I have just broke enough stuff on my bike and ordered enough stuff like that from them that maybe they noticed me.

EXCELLENT to know!!! I'll have to take a look at the site to see what pricing and then the procedure of throwing various parts in looks like. I'm guessing youtube can guide me through most, if not all, possible repairs.

Look closely at my avatar. Top box and saddlebags for adventure riding. Overnight trips. Camping. Works great going to the grocery store also. I upgraded nothing. I am riding 100% stock. However, I am getting ready to upgrade some things. The one thing I really feel like I needed and didn’t get from the start was guards for the clutch and brake lever. I bent my front brake lever.


Unless the place putting the bike together stripped them, it’s your own fault if you strip something. You have to just put it in slowly and get the threads right before you start torquing the thing down. That’s more down to bad mechanical skills. You have to take the seat off to do just about everything to the bike. So there’s a lot of on and off of those bolts. Just be careful and don’t strip them. Getting ready to do my first valve adjustment at 5000 miles. I think these items will depend a lot on where you order it from. Moto-pro did a great job on mine. There was nothing wrong with the bike. They put it together properly. I have not tightened anything. I have not checked anything. Nothing. Nothing has come loose. I have not lost a single bolt and valves came adjusted. I have no complaints with that place.

Great to know. But what if something does come stripped/bent/broken from the factory? Is it all easy to fix or have there been some headaches shared on here?


More about the bike itself. It’s really reliable. You can forget about that stuff. If you weigh a lot, it might feel a little slow. The seat height is also a little bit low. At least for my taste. It’s flat foot with knees slightly bent. I would prefer a couple inches higher. I wear 30 inch pant legs. But I guess the good part is anyone can just get on this thing and ride. The stock gearing will keep you at about 55 mph on the street at 7000RPM. Too slow for the highway. Secondary road and off road bike. Keeping that gearing makes it nice off-road. It’s perfect off road. It’s a bit underpowered if you are used to really spinning that back wheel. But it has enough power to get you around and go up whatever hills with all of your gear. It’s a little challenging finding neutral with all of these Chinese bikes. Better to go from second into neutral than from first. It seems to find it easier.

I weigh about 175. So I'm thinking the bike will easily handle me and maybe my 90lb son as well?


A lot of people on the Forum gear them up a little bit with bigger front sprockets. I didn’t do it because I like the low end stuff off road. If you ride just about all road, you should probably change the gearing a little bit.

I've been seeing a LOT of people mention front sprockets. Confused a bit there....wouldn't the rear be more important to swap out since the chain wraps around that??

I don’t think there’s much else to it. Just go riding. That’s what I do.

PS: I’m currently on the NY/NJ border now in case you want to see an xpect in person be do you order it. Not promising a test drive, but, you can take a look if you like.


Appreciate the offer but I'm about 2 hours from the NY border....only 10min. from Jersey (right near P-burg). Not sure what your zip is though. Would love to see one in person!

Thanks for the info. See the bolded replies above.