05-01-2016, 06:59 PM
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Location: Houston area
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Chinese Sportster?
A local Chinese bike dealer will soon be selling these in the Houston area.
It's only a thumper motor, but it does resemble the Sportster and it has a much lower seat height than the dual-sports. His ad is on my craigslist at the link. http://houston.craigslist.org/mcd/5524687764.html 
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05-01-2016, 07:29 PM
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Dongfang DF250RTR 229.2 CC
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05-01-2016, 09:12 PM
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Location: TENNESSEE
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Good looking bike. But going by the scale size using the engine as a scale, it looks more like a Rebel size than a sportster size. In other words, SMALL!!!!
 I may be wrong. that happens. At least once a decade. Sometimes. 
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05-01-2016, 09:37 PM
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Overall not a bad looking bike ....I can see where it would surely appeal to entry level riders , , , , maybe even more appealing to the ladies.
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05-02-2016, 08:31 AM
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Just noticed on their website " MAX SPEED: 90 KPH "
90 KPH = 56 MPH. Max. MAX. 56 MPH MAX . Yet a Rebel ( with my 155 lb ass on it ) WILL go 70 MPH easy. . I don't care how good it looks, if it cant keep up with traffic, why even bother? .
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05-02-2016, 09:15 PM
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The military green version on the Dongfang site looks pretty good.
To bad they didn't equip it with the 28hp Zhong engine. 
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05-02-2016, 11:23 PM
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I agree, for a street bike? At 56? Not. May as well go the duel sport route with more capabilities.
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05-27-2016, 10:03 AM
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05-27-2016, 02:05 PM
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The big no deal in my view is NO PRICE. I just went thru this with car dealers. There is no way I will ever contact some one to find a price. If some one wants to sell some thing they need to price it for all to see. John
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05-27-2016, 03:20 PM
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With the 250cc engine I am sure that it will do more than 56mph. That might be with the factory gearing.
They need to lose the fake dual exhaust.
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