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Attachment 3200As of last week I became a CCM CXR230 owner - think this is sold as a Loncin LX250 in the rest of the world ?
No pics yet as I've been stripping it and prepping it - not even ridden it yet ! New off road tyres , better rear
shock , hand guards etc fitted . Found this site when looking for a Torch D8RTC equivalent
My other CCM - 604 Rotax powered !
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that bike looks nice how fast does it go :D i wanna get one after i pass my test :D
Welcome!
I don't recognize this bike, anyone knows the original manufacturer? Nice bike, looks a bit like a KLR with that tank. Is that the stock tank?
Reread your post, for some reason i thought Loncin makes the engine only. I think they're the same engines used by Galaxy motorcycles.
Welcome, Bojer. Nice looking steed you've got there, and looking forward to reports of your new purchase. Lots of recent buzz in our forum about Loncin, as they seem to be getting a bit more market-focused and innovative with the launch of a sweet-looking 650 street bike last fall.
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Hope you find our forum to be useful and friendly.
cheers
Welcome to the forums! Hope you post pics of your new bike. Your old one looks just awesome, especially when I hear "powered by Rotax". Reminds me of old MZ four strokes. And that is MZ, not MuZ.Quote:
Originally Posted by bojer
Welcome aboard mate.. I once had a Armstrong mt500 with that rotax engine, great lump apart from the left hand kicker. Where abouts in the UK are you?? I'm a Yorkshire lad,from leeds,with a Galaxy XTR230 here in China, so any questions you're in the right place.
Show us some pics of your rebuild, and any mods your planning too!
Rich:thumbsup:
Sweet! Where do you usualy go on that?
Have you ever take it out in the Peak District?
There's some mental trails out there that would be crazy fun on a bike like yours.
Enjoy the new bike mate, i'll look forward to pics and a review.
It's also good to see another Yorkshire bhoy on here btw.
Being a Sheffield lad myself.
Hi all and thanks for the welcome .
I got the bike last week and have been caught up with other stuff /work/rain etc so have not ridden it except around the garden !:rolleyes1: So not sure how fast , not very I suspect , 70mph maybe ? Should get out on it this w/e , now has offroad tyres on it ,EGR valve etc removed and blanked off , Honda Transalp rear shock with standard CCM spring - fits straight in and works 1000% better than the standard shock ! Besides that all as standard - plastic tank under side shrouds .
Yep I can start most bikes ok - have a BSA B40 trials , but have never managed to start the 604 on the kicker - ever ! My usual routes are local to me , Silverstone lanes, Hertfordshire?Bedfordshire/Northants etc .
Did the Peaks once on my TTR600 - came back with flats on both rims ! 230 should be better for that I hope .
Sold branded CCM in the UK but from web searches it looks like the whole bike is built by LOncin as the LX250 ??
Hope to report more in a couple of days .
cheers,
Sorry was not paying attention - the 604 does an easy 90mph + on the road but it is not the best thing for high speed roadwork - too much noise and vibes !Quote:
Originally Posted by adrenalinesteve
Sounds like you know what you are doing! make sure you come back with pics sometime, I would love to see some pics of the English country side from a 'bike, if there is any left.
I spent a few teenage years in Woburn area so also covered many of those lanes, on a 125 bantam stripped of everything unnecessary as every bit of manouverability and weight loss helped because it was designed to carry me, a folding shotgun and as many pheasants as I could stash in a rucksack tied behind me and then get away fast! The game-wardens only had Morris Minors so round the lanes i could always get away easily. they didn't manufacture bikes like yours back in those days else I would have had one
Even did Silverstone and some of the M1 in a GT40 owned by a mates father but thats another world.
Jape, that's an image of you that I'll cherish forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by jape
Thanks Jeff, I try to amuse ... in fact it was a 'game', a serious one however because the game-keepers shot at the lower body mass if in range and we knew them and they knew us. The Duke of Bedford didn't - which was what counted, one cannot steal from a man one has met after all. I did meet him later, socially, after I became acquainted and visited with his daughter, Tania, at the big house. Decent chap, thought he was the gardener at first in his ratty old tweeds with elbow patches. Nice place Woburn Abbey. We held a rock festival there as well.
Anyway, back to the story, that little beezer in street rig with a few minor pieces such as mudguards and seat taken off, would zip across (unplowed) fields and through the trees as if made for it. The unwritten (but fairly abided by) rule was that once we got to the back-door of the local hostelry, the Woburn Arms, we could sell our 'game' and would join the same keepers for a pint or two and a game of darts. They were not averse to puncturing the tyres and scratching the paint but for some reason they never worked out that they should block off the roads to the pub! Perhaps other villains with bigger 'sport' in mind would have objected. Grand days.
Kind of a Robin Hood moment, on two wheels. Thanks for sharing!
Only about 5 miles from me ! My GT40 Attachment 3201 when up for sale at Stoneleigh ! - not a "real" one but v nice . Some bits of countryside left but they are doing their best to get rid !!Quote:
Originally Posted by jape
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This looks to be my "CCM" cxr230 http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...n-PY250-Enduro
Anyway gotta go - its stopped raining !!
OK managed to get out on the bike this afternoon , was not too sure after the first ten miles - brakes were feeble , then the headlight bulb blew and it felt very undergeared ...............
came back home and changed the headlight bulb and fiited a NOS Honda XR200 16T sprocket I had been hanging onto for the last 30 years ! By this time the mist had come down and the rain had started again :sad:
Thought I'd just run up the village and see how it was - much better so carried on out to the woods ! :riding:
Gearing change made it feel better and the brakes were starting to work ok - thought I'd degreased the discs or maybe they just needed to run in a bit ?
Had a good ride out saw a few deer , pheasants and hares out in the woods in the misty evening dusk and the little bike pulls quite strongly at low revs , even with my 95kg on it !
Overall I am now pleased with the bike , really was not sure at first but now think it will do what I want , should be good for the v tricky technical lanes but its no motocrosser !
rain, mist, deer, pheasants, hares, night falling and the bike pulling well -- bliss!
congratulations!
yep -suddenly it all came good ! - could have amanged without the rain though ..............Quote:
Originally Posted by euphonius
It is a good feeling when the subconscious fear of breakage, accident and stranding dies back from Chinabike paranoia level to normal! Nothing like a good ride, long or short, and a safe return.
Well done with the work you did. If you ever get time, because you seem knowledgeable and proficient, please help out members old and new with short tutorials with pics, of things like sprocket changes as you do them. And info. such as sources is always needed not just because some are too lazy to search but because sources change and move on. It would be very much appreciated, some of us took months to pluck up courage to do what you did in an afternoon ...
Got a few more miles in today and the bike seems to have settled down and is getting better and better :icon10: . Have ordered myself an o ring chain as the original seems to need adjustment everytime I ride it . Drppped the oil out last night and put some cheap 10-40 mineral oil before going out today - gearbox seems smoother already .Quote:
Originally Posted by jape
As far as I know all the Honda clone engines have the same gearbox output shaft sizes - some run a 420 chain and some (like the Loncin/CCM) a 520 chain . The 420 bikes can use a front sprocket from a 1980's Honda Xl125/CB125 etc whereas the 520 equipped bikes will need a 520 sprocket as fitted to the 1982+XR200 bikes .
Lots of good info on here http://www.jtsprockets.com/52+M54a708de802.0.html complete with sprocket dimensions and cross references for JT sprockets . could save some expensive trial and error ?!
Will try and write up some stuff I've done once its all "proven" - Transalp shock,EGR removal etc :thumbsup:
And some pics once its not raining or foggy ...........:confused1:
Hi all,,Bojer you may remember me ,,we spoke on another site I think,,,,,,,I owned a Bashan 233,loverly bike,unfortually thieves thoughts so too,,now I have chance at a CCM233,price £1600 with delivery mileage,,can you recommend it? ,,,ok this off topic I know,,but while I was in Sanya,China afew weeks ago,I hired a scooter,,,I am an experienced rider and used to heavy crazy traffic,,BUT nothing prepared me for the traffic of the streets of Sanya,,,within 1 mile of leaving the hotel we had a couple of very near death experiences,the whole day was fraught with danger,,my chinese passenger was ok,I was a wreck,,,all the best
Hi Lipsee - yes I remember you from the old Chinese Bike Forum that dissapeared ?!Quote:
Originally Posted by lipsee
Am happy enough with my CCM now - enough so that I sold my 604 CCM last week in favour of the 230 !
As I have said the rear shock is useless as standard - fit a s/h Transalp one with the CCM spring ( £20 or so from Ebay) and a 14T front sprocket and it improves things no end . Overall much the usual Chinese bike charecteristics but a bit better - alloy rims, alloy swinging arm etc but chain is too tight as delivered and wears quickly . Prices seem to vary widely - £1300 - £2500 for apparently the same thing !
Quick answer is yes I would recommend it as its 1/2 the price of a Honda CRF230 but feel free to PM me if you want a look/test of mine first - near J13 of M1 so not too far off ?
Let us know how it goes !
Hi Thanks for the quick reply Bojer,interesting mods you got there,,,Thanks for the offer of a test/look ride,I have no car/bike on the road so transport would be abit of a probem,but really I,v had one china bike,it will be ok..I,v still got my Goldwing if you are interested,and am open to offers!!!!