Lifan Pony 100- Chinese Grom-like bike - $999 shipped in the US. Anybody have one?

Pics or no bike ever came :deal:

Lol well in that case the bike won't arrive for awhile. Lol

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Originally Posted by dirtbiketravel

Any review about this one?

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There are a few videos on youtube from around the world, but they are just starting to catch on here in the US. One of the guys that Scottro and I know through a Facebook group lives in Indianapolis and loves it so far (he had under 100 miles) according to the few posts he wrote.

I could imagine it would serve a niche in your business in Vietnam as a rental for newbie/timid/smaller riders, perhaps, and would have a decent quality to it for such a venture (as well as simple repairs).

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Originally Posted by scottro

Lol well in that case the bike won't arrive for awhile. Lol

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I find it interesting that you already feel the bike is a little more stout than your DAX clone just from the materials perspective. I eagerly await the actual ´arrival' of your bike, however....

Here are a couple assembly photos. I've got about 10 more, but I only have "GIMP" on this PC and not Photoshop, and it's just different enough to really frustrate me.

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The graphics are unspeakably fugly. I'm trying to picture a group of corporate-types sitting around a conference table and saying "Yeah! I REALLY like that design !"

Also, the exhaust pipe routing is really dumb for a dual sport. Expect to dent or crush it your first time riding in a section of rocky trails.

The steel frame it shipped in is the most solid I've disassembled and I've unboxed/assembled several Chinese bikes over the years. They actually took the time to weld nuts to the backside of the angle irons, so you only need one wrench to take the bolted sections apart.

However -- every possible edge, blind handhold, and tie-wire end was razor sharp. Wear gloves or be sure your tetanus shot is up-to-date.

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HAHA, laughed so very hard to that corporate type yeah. I think 18 years about teenagers are supposed to buy this, so someone has thought the decals are cool. I can imagine the decals would be complete if the model name would be "hooligan", which needs to be decalled with other decals.

Thanks of the pics, by the way, was a very good posting.

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Originally Posted by scottro

Also, the exhaust pipe routing is really dumb for a dual sport.

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Actually, pipe routing is quite decent...

...if by "dual sport" you consider curling and lacrosse. :icon10:

This caused a lot of laughter when Lifan's GY-5 first came out :lol8: