Poor Canuck looking for Chinese Wheel Hubs!

carlk · 02-21-2017, 09:18 PM

Thanks Culcune,

I am wondering at what point it is not worthwhile to keep going with these bikes....

I bought it for $250....it looked rough...but I had no idea what rough was until I found wires ripped apart, burnt stator, wheels bent...metal broken and bent....I thought that I was doing well but I have sunk another $200 into it...and it is running....but I still don't have a battery!

The previous owner just beat the crap out of this thing. Hopefully in the spring things will start coming together......

Thanks for your help!

culcune · 02-21-2017, 10:01 PM

I have to laugh; when I found my '09 TMEC 200 enduro (I bought it used in '12--you guys didn't have them in Canada), the guy I bought it from had gotten it cheap from a friend of his brothers. His brother's friend, a filmmaker, was going to use it in a MTV video where it was going to fly off a cliff with a dummy on it. However, they figured out that sending a two-wheel bike to 'it's death' was going to be too difficult. So, they contacted a friend of mine who used to distribute cheap Chinese motorsports (he is now the TGB scooter distributor for the US) and bought a quad off of him. In other words, people have bought them new to destroy them!

02-21-2017, 10:01 PM	#2
culcune Join Date: May 2006 Location: Yuma, Arizona Posts: 9,035	I have to laugh; when I found my '09 TMEC 200 enduro (I bought it used in '12--you guys didn't have them in Canada), the guy I bought it from had gotten it cheap from a friend of his brothers. His brother's friend, a filmmaker, was going to use it in a MTV video where it was going to fly off a cliff with a dummy on it. However, they figured out that sending a two-wheel bike to 'it's death' was going to be too difficult. So, they contacted a friend of mine who used to distribute cheap Chinese motorsports (he is now the TGB scooter distributor for the US) and bought a quad off of him. In other words, people have bought them new to destroy them! __________________ "They say that life's a carousel, spinning fast you got to ride it well..." TGB Delivery Scooter 150 TMEC 200 Enduro--carcass is sadly rotting in the backyard
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02-21-2017, 09:18 PM	#1
carlk Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 4	Thanks Culcune, I am wondering at what point it is not worthwhile to keep going with these bikes.... I bought it for $250....it looked rough...but I had no idea what rough was until I found wires ripped apart, burnt stator, wheels bent...metal broken and bent....I thought that I was doing well but I have sunk another $200 into it...and it is running....but I still don't have a battery! The previous owner just beat the crap out of this thing. Hopefully in the spring things will start coming together...... Thanks for your help!
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