China Bike (Two Years and a bunch of $$$ Later)

[Megadan]

Originally Posted by jaytravels

Calling me immature for stating that the bikes we ride are junk, when that is also a DOCUMENTED FACT, that is immature.

I don't give a flying pig fart about the fact that my Hawk is made in China.

I hold no illusions that there are some borderline comical quality elements to the cheaper bikes like the Hawk.

That being said...

All of this stuff is documented. ALL of it. At this point if anybody buys into a Hawk or any of the other cheaper bikes they should know exactly what they are getting into. Coming on here to complain about it is just going to get the exact responses you have received.

As far as these bikes being junk... I put over 4000 miles on my first Hawk which had way less attention paid to it than my current one before it too was stolen by some Nebraska meth addicts (most likely Carter Lake meth heads but that is splitting hairs). Never fell apart. It had a couple of issues related to the electrical because the connectors and wiring used on the wiring harnesses of most of these bikes is super cheap.

My second bike is holding together fine so far.

In both bikes cases I tore them down damn near to frame and motor and put them back together during assembly.

You get out of them what you put in.

By the way - not sure if you are aware but this forum is called Chinariders... Being full of a bunch of people that like the bikes they own shouldn't be such a shocker.