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.