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Have you got 8 inch tyres on yours? I thought they came with 10s ?
My CT70 clone has 10" while the Z50 clones have 8". Sorry for the confusion. I'll edit the post.Quote:
Originally Posted by trexuk
I'm really close to pulling the trigger on that Z50 hack clone. SaferWholesale seems so sketchy in every review I've read, but seeing Barnone had a good experience makes me wanna do it.
Yea, I was worried about Safer but all went well. Slow shipping but quicker than most on the MSO. I got her registered in FL last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by scottro
Do it. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. I was riding her today and am getting good at flying the car, something that I was always scared to do on my long gone Ural.
I'm surprised at how peppy it seems.
Try these guys http://mefastmotors.com/wholesale-sc...nkey-bike.html --don't know if they are reputable, but their site has been around for a few years now. Wade Liu who owns Excalibur Motorsports says they are good (they sell the TMEC 200s they get from Wade) as far as he knows. In fact, speaking of Excalibur--they are a distributor, and can get hold of other people's bikes and sell them retail (as long as you do not live within a geographic area of one of their dealers) direct. Call them tomorrow and speak with Alan or Wade; tell them Simon sent you. Ask if they can or will get hold of Icebear's bikes for a retail sale for you. They do sell Taotao scooters and ATVs including the ones not on their site (they have a few Taotao ATVs on their site) I remember them getting hold of Ice Bear trikes for a dealer as part of a larger order, so see if they would get hold of one bike for you (and Simon sent you)Quote:
Originally Posted by scottro
After yet another week of bloody rain i got to go out on the Lifan yesterday. It was quite windy but still very warm for October. I finally got to give the bike a run on a long stretch of dual carrigage way. The speedo needle was pknging at 60 mph. With the margin of error in it i should have been around 52 mph, its best speed so far. I did have a tail wind but was on an incline so one was kind of counter acting the other. Now if i can just squeeze on a 18 toothon the front :-)
This guy got his hack just fine from Safer. I think he and a buddy ordered one each.Quote:
Originally Posted by scottro
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...94734&page=437
post #6552
Did you pay w/ an electronic check or credit card? over the phone they don't really offer much better pricing than the website -- unless you pay via electronic check.
I paid with electronic check to get the extra discount. Credit card is probably safer?Quote:
Originally Posted by scottro
The best price they'd offer me over the phone w/ electronic check or bank transfer was 1099.95 delivered. The guy said he could give a better deal if I were buying more than one. W/ credit card he said it would be $1300 delivered. Online w/ a discount code, I got 1129.95 using a credit card. I opted to pay a bit more for the added security of using the card. :rolleyes1:
For someone w/ the guts to buy w/ an electronic check, the volume discount might be the way to go.
I'll post pics when I get the little beastie !
I ordered some Honda XR 80 handlebar clamps to mount high-rise MX type handlebars on the CT70 and Z50 clones... maybe the hack too. I'd like to try the bars a little higher and farther forward on the little bikes. The folding stock bars are fine for sit down putting around, but I'd like mx style bars for trail riding etc. The stock bars also feel slightly loose on some of these bikes.
Just out of curiosity, you should call mefastmotors http://www.mefastmotors.com/ to see what they are selling them for. I know it's too late for you, but for the next guy...
barnone--you should invite that guy here.
I did invite the guy from ADVrider to join us here but no response so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by culcune
Anybody have knowledge about motor freight shipping charges? I can't imagine it costs much less than $200 to ship one of these bikes from California to Pennsylvania. It's probably a 200lb pallet.
The bars are tight on my three bikes with the folding bars however a little more room would be appreciated. I am interested in seeing your photos of the higher bars.Quote:
Originally Posted by scottro
I'll post pics when I get the clamps in-hand and get a bike set-up. Hopefully I can raise the bars and move them forward a couple inches without having to replace cables. The folding bars are useful if you're cramming a Z50 into the backseat of a car or shipping crate, but I haven't found many other situations where they offer an advantage. lol
I timed the Lifan tonight on the way home from work with a GPS speedo on my iPhone, 52.6mph. Would like to get a machined down hub next and fit a 28 tooth rear sprocket, possibly an 18 on the front and then see what it will do.
That's not too shabby! :thumbsup: My all time favorite bike was the Honda CT70, and is the Skyteam or anyone else's clone nowadays. I don't know if I had mentioned the first time I laid eyes on her--I was in fifth grade in 1980, and my two older sisters were in high school--an all-girls private school. My mom had picked me up from school, and we went to get my sisters. There was a line waiting to get into the school, and the most beautiful thing caught my eye. She was sitting there in all her beauty!! A young student (maybe on old nun--I wasn't checking out the girl so did not pay attention :lol8:) was sitting on sex on wheels--a little contraption I had never seen before!! Little dirt bike thingy, but with street lighting. That was the greatest machine I had ever seen :eekers::eekers:...Quote:
Originally Posted by trexuk
Ironically, I never owned one, although could have bought an early 90's Honda version for $500 from an old college friend's boss who had bought it for his 11 year old son, and still have not bought one in spite of the sub-$900 deal barnone got. Maybe it was just a crush :confused1:. I will have one, one day--I swear!!
The bulk of the looks i get when ridung the Lifan are from teenage boys between 13 and 16 i would say, i get a few from adult men in their 50s who obviously remember them the first time round. Saw my first ST in the early 80s when a boss of mine turned up to work on one, i fell in love with it instantly. Within a month i had bought a spare one from him that he as selling, been hooked ever since.
As i was 13 years old, Poland was 6 years communism free. We had no idea that Honda make such beautyfull things for “Kids”.
We had a similar product, we thought that it was a Polish idea, but it comes out that the Polish producer was inspired with CT70.
The motorcycle name was Romet Pony 50 (motorynka). It is a 49ccm two-stroke engine, with two gears.
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It was my dream since I was 13. My father had lean this motorcycle for few weeks, so he can teach me how to drive it.
I could make a driver license for 50ccm at age of 14. But my mother is a surgical nurse.
She found out that my Dad let me drive this thing and it was forbidden. She saw to many broken bones on the operation table after motorcycle accidents….
Polish manufacturer produced the Pony models from 1978 till 1994.
My dream comes true few years ago, I became the last model, from the last year of production, from my sister in low at Christmas.
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And now I read you thread about the clones od CT70 and Skyteam models,and I realize that I will buy a 125ccm. Just for fun, to cruise at the side roads of my Village.
It is not cheap for me, but I think I will buy a used one from germany, maybe next year (if my bees give me enough money to do that).
EDITQuote:
Originally Posted by culcune
culcume,
My CT70 clone was $1039.90 delivered by the time shipping was added so you are right. I am very happy with the price and I think it is a solid bike. I just received the MSO so I am good to register the bike but will wait to I return to my home in Florida.
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Will do some GPS "high speed runs" tomorrow.
I like that bike! I had never heard or seen one until you posted it. Interesting they made them until 20 years ago. Perhaps someone will get the rights, and have a Chinese manufacturer start making them again--perhaps with a 125cc engine?Quote:
Originally Posted by beniamin82
Culcune, they (romet) are the biggest polish importer for chinesee bikes. For the most of models they buy parts and assembly them itself. Here a litle history in English of course.
http://www.romet.pl/en/History,14.html
At the restart of motorbikes production they sold in Poland this thing as new pony.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/pr...a=w602-h434-nc
Barnone, how are you getting them plated w/o the MSO? Once they're plated/titled, does it matter whether you have the MSO or not?
It's too much hassle in Pennsylvania to get a title and plate for most Chinese-built bikes after 2007-2008. Some manufacturers/distributors were shady back then and stamped the same VIN number on a lot of bikes/scooters. PennDOT never forgave them and now you have to jump thru all kinds of hoops. I register all mine thru Vermont now. They don't title bikes below 300cc, but you get a registration card that serves as legal proof of ownership.
On a happy note, I started up the Wildfire CT70 clone on Thursday evening, and apparently the oil ring has come "unstuck" on it's own. Previously, the bike smoked pretty badly, but it's not smoking now ! An oil change and running it a bit must have dissolved the crud and carbon around the ring. For a 70cc bike, it pulls pretty hard.
No word on my Ice Bear sidehack. I expect to see/hear something within the next week or so.
I need the MSO in order to get them registered and plated. I am a FL resident so I plate them in FL.Quote:
Originally Posted by scottro
I have the registration and tag on the monkey hack and have the MSO for the Z50 clone and received the MSO today for the CT70 clone. So I am a happy camper.
Safer is slow on the shipping for some reason but fast on the MSO. The other two were fast on the shipping but slow on the MSO.
What are you saying?Is this the new pedo ride?Ditching the van with free candy? http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/s...orum/rotfl.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by trexuk
I have to say, it is the Pony in spirit :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by beniamin82
Will you be taking it or the Z50 clone to the Dragon before you head to Fla? I will be out of commission--A woman in an SUV ran me off the road and I broke my clavicle earlier today. :eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by barnone
For those not familiar with American SUVs, they really are as MASSIVE as their legend says they are--even bigger!!!:eekers::eekers::eekers:
Had a final run on the Lifan yesterday for 2 weeks. Am away all next week on a training course then away on holiday for a week. Managed to squeeze a mile or two more out of it. Clocked it at 54.7 mph, may have got a bit more but ran out of straight road and my progress was hampered by cars dithering about. On return from holiday going to buy the machined down hub.
Sorry to hear about your crash resulting in a broken clavicle (collarbone). How long are you off riding? How much damage to your bike?Quote:
Originally Posted by culcune
I might take the Z50 clone to the Dragon before we head to FL for the winter. Looks like we might be staying in NC a little longer this year than usual because of a wedding after Thanksgiving. Also my wife is teaching fiddle at a after school program and has a very promising student that she wants to help so she wants to stay a little longer. Some children can really pick up fiddling in a short time.