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My 2010 DF250RTB on the Sanibel Island,FL Causeway.
Had a 2012 DF250RTB A model.
I now have a DF250RTG.
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Attachment 14966
My 2010 DF250RTB on the Sanibel Island,FL Causeway.
Had a 2012 DF250RTB A model.
I now have a DF250RTG.
Well no one replied so I went and ordered one of the bobbers and it arrived today. I should have it going tomorrow and will do a mini report.
Very brave, that is a cool machine, a typical 'chinabike', appearing under a couple of names with no real profile or history. I found lots of cool pics though!
I bet humanbeing recognises it though, give him time ...
http://www.mxmotorsports.us/ProductD...de=MC-DF250RTB
http://www.expressatvs.com/proddetai...linenumber=622
http://www.bmfmotorsports.com/images/DF250RTB/
the gallery software that does that last page is interesting too http://sye.dk/sfpg/
Brave indeed, and nice looking bike for the money! How many bikes is that going to be then? Looking forward to your thoughts on it, we can never have enough reports on new china bikes!
jape and felix,
I don't feel so brave about buying the bobber or do you mean riding it?:lol8:
This is my seventh or so China bike/utv that I have uncrated with good luck so far. No major problems with any of them. Kinda like getting them in the crate.
Well, I always wanted to ride a hard tail so will find out in a few hours.
I'm up to six bikes, just trying to out do ChinaV. Winning by dying with the most toys.
Off to see if she will start after changing the oil. Just had to install the handlebars and foot pegs after uncrating her.
Six bikes? Your wife is surely a saint! Ride them all in good health! :thumbsup:
She has five fiddles one of which cost more than all my bikes put together so I am the saint.:icon10:Quote:
Originally Posted by euphonius
I changed the oil as stated in the owner's manual which by the way is not bad at all with just a few mistakes. The importer must have taken the time to do a good job with it.
It's engine is a 230cc Honda pushrod clone which has a sight glass and a dip stick for the oil.
It has a resetable trip meter and four way flashers which is nice.
Seems to run just fine and the ride is not bad even with the lack of rear suspension. I need to adjust the handle bars and mirrors and then I'm off for a longer ride.
No, she is still a saint! Fiddling while Nero plays or some such mixed metaphor. On an asspciated theme, I knew a bloke makes fiddles, he makes six a year and makes six months wages on just one ... a weird world, considering the awful noise they make!
Has she got a sister wants to move to Australia? My ex is trying to clean up on the house I built after we broke up. I haven't seen her for twenty years but she heard I was selling up and becoming a nomad, decided she wanted a last dip into my savings!
jape,
My wife's sister got married for the third time several weeks ago so she is not available.
Thanks for the report barnone :thumbsup: We seem to share the "if there's no info, I'll buy it and be a guinea pig" thought process :lol8:.
Looking forward to more impressions... is the exhaust really loud?
Cheers!
ChinaV
ChinaV,
Yeah, I'm retired so I plenty of time to fool around with stuff.
How did you know the exhaust is really loud?
The March issue of Cycle World has a review of the CCW Heist. It has close to same layout as your bobber, bar. The review was mostly positive, especially the cost; $3195. The author said that more than one person wanted to know what year Triumph it was. Yours looks like a nice little scoot. I hope you have fun on it.
David,
I have the Cycle World mag with the Heist article and you are right about it being pretty much the same bike. The Heist is a little more fancy but also cost about $1000 more.
I just put in a 8" baffle to tone it down a bit.
The seller still has not supplied a bill of sale and a filled out MCO so that I can get a tag. I have a dispute open with PayPal to get some action out of the seller.
I have a humanbeing type question.
What Honda model and year was cloned for the 167FMM engine?
I might have room to be able to add one extra tooth on the front sprocket.
Barnone, I would like to say thank you for your post. It was by luck that I found the forum and read your review. I purchased this bobber last week from the Scooterdepot without any real info and figured "What the hay" Its my first motorcycle and am looking forward to it and for the price not a bad way to start.
I've been around Bikes my whole life between my father who had an old Chief and a 500cc Triumph to my Brother and his Dyna and friends who have been riding longer than I've been alive with Rebel 250's and up.
I've ridden and have my license but was always the guy in the truck carrying the gear while my friends rode and never had a bike of my own outside of a FZR600 that i blew the engine on within a week of having it. Do to a silly promise to the wife I could get a bike till she got a house.
Now she has the house and I'm getting the first of, to her dismay, many bikes LoL.
i like the 250cc and speaking to some of the more experienced riders I know they thought it would be a good bike to get my feet back under me.
You have put my mind at ease with this purchase and look forward to showing it off.
Thanks again
Gardo
Hey Gardo,
I am glad to see another Dong Fang bobber owner here. Lots of good people here to help us out.
So far so good with mine although I only have 100 miles on the clock. I'm going to put another eighty on tomorrow with a ride out to our ranch to check on the cows.
The sticker on the engine regarding break in said to keep it under 50KPH for 300 KMs so I will be there tomorrow.
Ordered some jets to rich it up a bit. Plug is bone white now.
Let me know when your's comes in and your impression. I think it's a solid bike and a fun ride.
What color did you order?
It was easy to put together with only the handlebars and battery to install (after filling it with the supplied acid and an overnight slow charge) and a drain and fill with oil. I did have to loosen the chain a little bit.
I adjusted the springer seat today to carry my 200 lbs a little higher. Also ordered a sheep skin seat cover from New Zealand to give it a little class. Need to get some saddle bags soon.
ChinaV,Quote:
Originally Posted by ChinaV
I stuck a 8" baffle up her bung today to quite her down and it seems to do the trick.
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...h/DFbaffle.jpg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/JT-Front-Spr.../dp/B004DNA0KA
MOST BELIEVE THE ENGINE IS BASED OFF A BORED OUT CG125?
MJH,Quote:
Originally Posted by MJH
Thanks for the info on the engine''s source and the sprocket. That picture at Amazon looks right. I'll order a 14 tooth one tonight.
Edit: Ordered one from a USA source.
There are so many witty remarks I would like to make about your post...must control myself.:mwink: I figured she would be loud, can't see how that pipe could quiet the engine much.Quote:
Originally Posted by barnone
Cheers!
ChinaV
Cool looking bike - looks just right with a "proper" tubing frame , no pressed bits , and minimalist .Quote:
Originally Posted by barnone
What width is the chain ? - thought it might be a 1/2" like my CCM which needs a XR200 front sprocket ?
http://www.jtsprockets.com/52.0.html...sel_uid=719&p=
bojer,Quote:
Originally Posted by bojer
Thanks for the web site. I think that front sprocket is the one that I ordered. Hope it will fit because it looks tight for an extra tooth.
I'm going to have to pull the rear wheel and measure the rear sprocket if I have to loose some teeth there to gear her up a bit.
Yep it's a useful site to compare sizes etc , been out on my CCM today and even with a 16T front sprocket ( which only just fits) it is still too low geared . Going to be measuring rear sprocket pcd etc and wading through trying to find a match , suppose Honda is a good starting place .
So in SAE its 30 mph for the first 180 miles, thats respectable. I live in a densely populated town outside NYC. Good enough for me to tool around on for a few days even in this chilly weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by barnone
I know you also posted about the front sprocket, but what other Mods are you looking to do?Quote:
Originally Posted by barnone
Its due to be at my house on Tuesday the 1st. Spent Sunday cleaning and organizing the garage to not only have room for it but so i can work on it as well. I ordered the flat black, not sure what color I wanted and figured that if I needed to I can always repaint the tins.Quote:
Originally Posted by barnone
Good to know that its fairly put together already, it was a toss up with This Bobber a Hardknocks 5150 with the Lifan 250cc (whick comes in 4 boxes) was around $4k USD or the JohnnyPag BarHog at $4700 USD. The DF250RTB looked like the right choice to me at a great price $2200 USD with shipping and warranty
I'm also about 200lbs and 5'7" whats the seat like and will I need to readjust it much for my weight and ride comfort?Quote:
Originally Posted by barnone
I like the sheepskin idea gives it an old school look.
I'm looking at keeping it stock at least till the end of the season and figure what i may want to customize and change up.
I'll snag a bunch of pics when it gets in and do the whole unbox and parts set.
Can you tell I'm excited about the bike? :icon10:
I'm not going crazy on the mods. Just a step up on the jets, baffle, saddle bags, maybe some drag bars, sheepskin, simple stuff. Did take the goofy DF250RTB stickers off the tank.
The seat tension is easy enough to adjust. I might tighten mine up a little more to keep it level with my weight on it.
I ordered the flat black also but it came glossy black on the tank and fenders. I don't think flat black is a choice. The first bike they sent me was a completely different model so I had to send it back all at their expense. Guy promised me two helmets for my trouble that still haven't come. Also they are suppose to be sending me a tool kit as mentioned as part of the deal on their web site. Good thing I used paypal and opened a dispute. Had to do the same thing with the dealer in Georgia that I bought my Qlink XF200. Also had to do the same thing to a local dealer here in Florida. No follow up from these dealers.
Typical of these internet drop shippers to not know their product such as saying it's a 250cc when really it's a 229cc.
Barnone i did some digging and found the manufacturer of the Bike http://dfly.en.alibaba.com/aboutus.html
I located it off of the EPA cert page and pulled the manufacturer off from there.
Here is a link easily viewed in Excel of all the models and makes in the US
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/cert/veh-cer...r-01-26-11.csv
Well if i get the glossy black that would be okay by me too. Good to know that the markings on the tank are stickers and will be happy to be rid of them.
I may change out the handlebars for a set of 10" ape hangers and later on have the tank painted with something I'm drawing up and the rims powder coated red with a set of White walls.
can't see right now how a set of saddles will sit on the bike.
It'll be a labor of love for sure
Baffle to tone her down a bit
That really is a sweet looking bike. How did the ride to ranch go yesterday.
Go to know about that the tank has stickers.Esp that they come off. I was thinking a set of blacked out 10 or 11" Ape hangers and a paint job on the tank once i finish drawing it up. Was also thinking about redoing the rims in a red powdercoat
Hey all, thrilled to have found this forum and thread. I had given up riding a few years ago at the insistence of my wife following a fairly nasty accident (pickup truck + motorcycle = boom boom)...however I was recently bitten by the bug after renting a bike while on vacation in florida. So I'm shopping around for something small and non-threatening, and have been looking at all the johnny pag/cleveland cycleworks offerings...clearly the pricing on this thing would make it fairly desirable, but I'm curious as to if there's any real noticeable differences between this bike and those? I'm not a big wrench-turner, so reading that it comes almost entirely assembled does offer me some comfort...
Also I am curious to see a photo of this bike with a normal sized person on it - I'm not terribly large, 5'10 and around 200lbs...but having seen some of the "Crate bikes" that friends have purchased in the past, I have concerns as to the definition of "full sized" ;)
How's the power feel on this thing? Not a big speed demon, but would like to know it can get up to 60 or so without having to get off and push...
Thanks!