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#33 Re: ChinaV's new Galaxy 250!
12-15-2009, 03:27 PM
CV,
You're right about the mountain bike like frame. Now that I've seen the seat rail design, I'd seriously question it's true enduro capabilities.
My main concern would be in carrying the tremendous amounts of luggage we haul into the hinterlands on those 2 part aluminum seat rails. How thick it that metal?
With only four bolts holding that last tail section to the rail, I'm thinking after 20k kilometeres of bad roads and up to 100lbs of gear bouncing up and down on the top rack and side bags, these would eventually snap like toothpicks (or at least bend) and leave someone without a way to carry their luggage to a place for repair. Another wonderful alternative is the bolts could shear and would need to have new ones welded on since they're only single sided. For motocross or day-trip trail riding I'm sure it would be fine but long distance is long distance and the rules are different.
Maybe they could weld the rails together after the bolts are installed?
Just my .02...
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