Sorry about my bad manners. I should have introduced myself before any postings.
My name is Ernesto and live in Spain. I did live in the UK for over 20 years where I learned to tinker with cars and bikes. When you have British bikes of the 60's and 70's, you REALLY learn to tinker...It makes me laugh when people say Chinese bikes are bad and unreliable, have they ever owned British bikes?
Nowadays I've developed a liking for Chinese machinery, as my other vehicles are Japanese and reliable but boring.
These bikes are ideal to tinker with and modify and improve. So far I have 2 Jinchengs Monkey bike replicas, tuned up of course!, 2 Skyteam Honda Dax replicas with Lifan engines, a Zongshen 125 Honda cub type, and the latest and best my Qingqi QM200GY.
Here's a picture of 2 of them with me in the background (I'm the one with the beard and the beergut...