A few months ago I bought some gym equipment and a motorbike. The Zongshen 200 has contributed most to me getting fit and losing weight. You see I don’t actually need the Trojan equipment because the Zongshen is far more effective.
Rather than riding the bike I get to walk or if I take the risk of riding it chances are that I am going to be some pushing and or lifting it onto the back of a bakkie. In the time I have owned this magnificent Zongshen training machine It has been off the road more than on the road.
The local Zongshen dealer is claiming that my riding style is the problem. Strange that I have never had the same kind of trouble with any of my previous bikes. I have ridden in my past one beat up Yamaha MR 50. This was way beyond what anyone can call in reasonable condition, yet I manage to ride it for about 8 months without any issues. Nothing ever fell off of it.
Next I had a Honda MT 50 that I rode for 12 months with never an issue despite riding MX courses, doing wheelies and racing it around the local go kart track. I sold it to someone else who rode it for two years without any issues. PS I hammered the daylights out of that particular bike.
Next came a Honda CB250 Hawk which once again gave good service untill someone skipped a robot on me about 14 months after I bought it. My little brother canabalised it and put it back on the road, riding the same basic bike but with a Suzuki GS250 front end for a year or two.
My CB 750 FII once again gave great service until some bastard stole it in Germiston.
I also rode a CBF 600 in the UK without any trouble. All of the bikes mentioned went in for services when I remembered. They never broke down, lost their ignitions, had exhausts fall off or even had the chokes break because I rode them badly.
I am 43, I have no need to prove how fast i can ride, I have no need to race other people, My bones are way too brittle for me to try stunts, ride on MX tracks and stuff like that. I use the Zongshen as a runabout. yet it’s my fault that the ignition fell off. Its my fault that the exhaust fell off, It’s the way I ride that caused the choke to fail.
I fail to believe that. Its the inferior quality of the bike that is enriching the Kawasaki brand and dealerships.
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Tags: Dealership, Kawasaki, Zongshen
October 13th, 2008 at 8:41 am
This sounds crazy, you really should place this on http://www.hellopeter.com as well
October 13th, 2008 at 9:44 am
although im not a mechanic, i know how to fix most things on a bike.
now the zongshen. the service was great untill we took the oil plug out. we saw that the one engine mounting was not only missing a nut but was also hanging on the one side. it was working its way out. with a hammer,spring washer and a new nut the problem was solved. many, i’ll say it again, many bolts/nuts were either very loose or missing as this bike travels along a bit of dirt and then on tar when it is used. did we cry about the foot peg and the loose exhaust and other bits that were wrong/bad quality? the answer is no. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!! you bought a chinese bike that needs locktite or new bolts/nuts. most of the chinese imports are very cheap. to get things cheap you have to cut down on quality. i must say: the engine and gearbox feels great. a bit on the lazy and slow side. then again i’m used to a ktm 300. but for what it is, its great. a commuter/ drit ROAD (not track)bike. we’ve found that the plastics and bolts/nuts are of lower quality. my brother paid R8000 for his bike….. what more can i say. spend R100 on proper bolt/nuts/washers and there you go.
it does sound like your kawa dealer needs to go for some chinese bike education though. they dont sound like they realy want to expand on the zongshen range.
if you had to buy a honda/ktm/kawasaki/suzuki or any other “more expensive” bike with the same miieage and age, you’de pay a heck of a lot more. less problems, possible better service????
dont take this the wrong way; i agree about the service not being great (according to your story), but dont moan about a ‘cheap’ product if you dont want to do some homework. you, or let me rather say, i would never buy a ‘cheap’ car without doing some homework.
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