No luck with the girls... Though the bike was there... Guess this is anyway the better part.... the bike won't complain if I touch and have test rides with other bikes... :icon10:Quote:
Originally Posted by Snev313
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No luck with the girls... Though the bike was there... Guess this is anyway the better part.... the bike won't complain if I touch and have test rides with other bikes... :icon10:Quote:
Originally Posted by Snev313
Back to the X5:
after 6500km I had a look at the valve clearance.
As I don't have X5 details for this subject so I took the figures from XR400 manual. It says inlet valve = 0.10 +/- 0.02 and exhaust valves = 0.12 +/- 0.02.
That have been the figures I found on my bike, except one exhaust valve had 0.15 and needed correction.
To find the right piston position do exactly the same as procedure as described for the XR400.
BTW:
I confirm once more the fuel tank capa: 16L (I had it totally empty)
But I also found that the reserve indicator leaves you only 2.5 to 3L!
CFMOTO service center south of beijing 100m south of qili has the best service and honest mechanics i have found in beijing, even your bike is not cf moto. yanshifu is my trusted mechanic there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snev313
Fixed :)Quote:
Originally Posted by artedesenyo
Agreed, these guys are great. Very reasonably priced, as well.
I am really interested in this bike. But the price just seems too high for a China bike. It just doesn't compute. I don't understand it. In my mind, China bikes first and foremost should be about value. I'm struggling to find the value in the X5 at the current price.
As I thought it might be a good idea to have a power outlet on the bike. I installed one today.
Costs: 40RMB from TaoBao and 1h of my time. It took me certain time to find the right location and finally I decided the side panel might be suitable. It is easy reachable, short way to the handle bar and to a GPS above the speedo.
Also the panel is thick enough to provide solid install base. Before installation I had to check that the power plug doesn't collide with the fork. The delivered cables I connected directly to battery. They have a fuse in between.
Finally it works fine.
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What I can add next? .....
winter is coming, heated handle bars and show us some pics how to wire them to the ignition.Quote:
What I can add next? .....
I want to do that but dont know how hah so pictures and description please ;)
Heated grips? .... mmmh, brilliant idea! I will check that! Thanks for your input.
Beside that I found some power LED fog lights .... I consider that too ....
Exactly what i want to do. Fog lights and heated grips, just dont know how to wire.
There are some good ones on taobao
Hi Shuben,Quote:
Originally Posted by ShuBen
cam holder for gopro cameras etc. I'd add .... great idea about the power outlet... can you share the link from taobao... I'm on shopping tour for my X5 as well :icon10:
Hi all,
I have been following this thread with great interest for a while now. Very good review ShuBen and Chinasam... it made me really curious about the bike.
Hopefully i gonna hold my chinese license in my hands in october and then I am ready to hit the road.
I was at the Knightrider shop in Shanghai this weekend to have a look at the X5 - sadly there was no bike for a testride available. First buy - then try!
But just from sitting on it - it feels quite good.
They also had a used X2 in front of the shop - just 200km.
My friend is riding the X2 for a while and is quite satisfied with it... good quality and no problems so far.
I was tempted to get the X2 immediately but
we want to do long trips together - might even drive from china to europe... so I think X5 could be the bike to do that - out of the very limited options we have living in China.
I dont have much experience with bikes and I am not sure which bike is the right choice.
Whats do your opinion (especially ShuBen and Chinasam): Would you recommend buying the bike and do you think it could do a three months trip with a few modifications?
Is the clutchproblem solved now? Was that really just an issue of the oil? or is that a manufacturing problem.
Keep up the good work and enjoy your toys
Hey goldenboy, When would you be doing that trip back to Europe? Im going to ride to Istanbul in July and most likely I'll be taking the X5. I also asked a similar question a little while back and got a good response.
I think with a well maintained and modified X5 I would try it. The clutch issue is not really an issue, just sometimes annoying. From my bike it comes and goes..!!!!!???? I found it especially happens when the bike is ridden hot. So I assume it is related to the clutch friction disc material.(?) Anyway the oil type change helped for me.
Why I would consider this bike:
a) after getting some internal info from Shineray I know that the engine is a 1 to 1 copy of the XR400. Even in their parts list the most engine parts info refers to XR400.
b) It is air/oil cooled -> simple technical solution
c) carburetor version available -> fuel supply problems easy to figure out and repair
d) powerful enough and light weight
e) (personal view) -> over 7k km with a few minor issue that never really stopped me. I rode the bike quite rough on RPMs, speed, terrain & weather conditions and it didn't fail. I dropped the bike twice in the dirt. Nothing broken, easy lift up, immediate restart.
f) in other countries might be spare supply via XR400 parts.
g) I know guys guiding foreigners through QingHai and "Tea-bed-tan" areas using X5 and JH600 for the tours. And i didn't hear about real bike problems from them.
Finally, .... the decision is up to you
We plan to start from shanghai around April/June - I will buy the X5 in october - ShuBens points are convincing - especially the point that the X5 Motor is a exact copy of XR400...Quote:
Originally Posted by gjackson4431
Lets keep in touch on how the preparations are going and how the bike does on your end.
I will keep you guys updated about my experiences.
Sounds like you're plans are about a month in advance of mine. I should be able to afford the bike in early November and my contract here ends in late June. Definitely keep in touch. It would be nice to have someone to share ideas with. I also think my friends here are getting sick of having our conversations constantly returning to motorcycles...
Hi Golden boy & gjackson,
sounds like an interesting adventure you plan there... how is your planing about the route, visas, how to get the bike into those countries etc....?
I'm highly interested in that topic and would like to discuss with you/share experiences ... as I ask myself those questions currently as well....
I purchased a power outlet kit + cigarette lighter to USB adapter but after the flimsy fuse container thread broke and the lighter didn't fit right I scrapped it and honed my taobao-fu until I purchased a direct USB plug:
YESMAX 703 USB
was it more expensive? hell yes, but worth every kuai.
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Originally Posted by thedannywahl
Great link i need one of these thanks for posting
Well Snev I plan on taking the Irkeshtam Pass or the Torugart Pass into Kyrgyzstan. I can't find anyone else who has done that and I don't remember what I finally read that made me decide that was possible but I'm quite sure it is :) I'll get that visa in advance in Shanghai and I'll probably get the Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan visas in shanghai too.
I figure that if I have my chinese registration with the bike in my name and a license I should be fine at the Chinese border. For good measure, I'll have everything translated before I go for the other borders.
I haven't found anyone who has done this exact trip, but I have heard that someone took a chinese registered bike through southeast asia without issue. I also know of a few people who have left through the Kazakhstan border. There was also this post I read a while back about a guy who went almost everywhere I want to go but he never finished writing about it... Plenty of people have also gone nearly my whole route from the european direction and a few have crossed the caspian sea in the direction I'll be going. So when I put everything together, I'm reasonably sure that it's possible.
I'll get transit visas for Turkmenistan (5days) and Azerbaijan (3 days). Turkmenistan will be rough especially considering that the caspian sea ferry is notoriously unreliable, but apparently they will stamp you out of the country at the docks and let you wait there until the next boat comes so you don't over stay. Georgia is REALLY cheap and easy, and Turkey is also easy AND I speak Turkish so hopefully I'll get some points for that :)
I have another post in the ride prep section. Might be best to continue this there.
EDIT: Im glad you asked that question. I have a totally different plan now as most of these stupid visas are date specific.
Hey Snev313,Quote:
Originally Posted by Snev313
We are on a very early stage of planning the whole trip - i dont even have the chinese license yet. Lets continue this topic in another thread and stay in touch how the whole planning comes along
Shuben,
Many thanks for this great review detailing your experiences of your ownership of your Shineray X5, after reading this I am 100% convinced of getting one of these for me. It is just the sort of bike I like and appreciate, not quite the Yamaha 660 Teneré I had promised myself but in China not everything is possible. Many thanks again.
bad news today - my high/low beam headlight switch is "kaputt".
It stuck in after pressing and doesn't come out. I pulled it gentle with a pliers, it came out but doesn't work anymore.
I requested a replacement free of charge from the dealer who agreed because of warranty period. Lets see how long it will take to get it.
EDIT: I have solved the issue temporary by bridging the switch. So when I switch on the light now from main switch it is automatically in low beam. High beam doesn't work now, but at least I can go with light during the day and for dark times i can go safe and slow.
yeah I have a high beam switch just like that
Does anyone know where I can buy an X5 in Guangdong? I'm keen on getting one in the near future
Hi, would anyone buy on of those....?
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=...itiative_new=1
...think currently about GPS tracking of my trips plus theft prevention...
Well I've just ordered one, the 188RMB option... I'll let you know how it works out, it'll be going onto my QingqiQuote:
Originally Posted by Snev313
SAFETY ISSUE!
X5 Owners, Check your spokes, especially rear wheel. I lost two and others getting lose.
It happened on a normal mountain tour.
Where they broke:
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Thx ShuBen, how many km do you have on the clock...? Need to pay attention to this...Quote:
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Originally Posted by ShuBen
I had a similar issue with my qm200gy, the rear spokes started to break, but all at the same time... I was on a long trip and it was one of the most frustrating things as none of the small bike shops carried spokes that could fit... eventually I found a shop who had sone old bent second hand spokes that were almost the same size... but he didn't have enough, and more and more started to break as I went along... it was horrible! I'm planning to buy an X5, guess I'll buy and carry a dozen spare spokes with me on any long trips
SERIOUS WARNING! Check you X5 carefully for the spoke issue!
clock 7800km
what Serpentza described is exactly what happened on my X5 too. I just had not seen it.
Yesterday It was looking just like two spokes.
For safety reason I took out the wheel today and I found 9! spokes on the sprocket side broken + the 2 found yesterday already. On all spokes the head is gone inside the hub!
You might be able to see this in build in condition when you look between swing arm and the hub.
Here the photos:
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