Galaxy XTR 250 review

**euphonius** · 03-08-2011, 02:39 AM

Felix, beautiful photograph, which can hang next to that of your wife in a place of honor in your humble abode! Was that picture taken on Saturday? Where?

The bike she looks awesome, and obviously has carried you well these years.

Is the new owner in MCM?

cheers

**Nuhaus** · 03-08-2011, 04:03 AM

Wondering why you sold it.You mentioned you were leaving Shanghai but still are you trying to get a new bike with legit plates?

**felix** · 03-08-2011, 06:52 AM

Answers:

Sorry, the replacement is something ChinaV already has and has written a lot about, it's the Qinqi QM250. I tried his last year and haven't stopped thinking about it since!

The picture was taken on sunday, here, at a lake near suzhou called yangchenghu. Beautiful area with lots of canals, old houses on the water and no tourism.

The new owner is not on mcm, it's a chinese friend who has wanted it for a while and had fist dibs on it if i decided to sell.

I sold it because it has 20000km and though it's still running fine now, i don't know if it could take another 10000 without problems. I have a very big trip in the works for this year and would like to do it on a fresh bike. It would not be fun to be stuck on the tibetan plateau 500km from civilization with a broken frame...

**euphonius** · 03-08-2011, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by felix

The picture was taken on sunday, here, at a lake near suzhou called yangchenghu. Beautiful area with lots of canals, old houses on the water and no tourism.

Nice. Hope we can ride out there together in coming months!

cheers

**richardktm** · 03-08-2011, 02:03 PM

Great thread and pics Felix, shame you couldn't have kept the two and put the xtr into full dirt bike mode

Can't blame you on the choice of bike, its a serious bit of kit for an allrounder in china, i'm sure you'll miss the single minded, rawness of the galaxy that makes you ride like a hooligan.. when the road is a perfect mountain racetrack, but you won't miss the raw rear end the rest of the time

What colour you going for in the Qingqi?

**moilami** · 03-09-2011, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by felix

Answers:

Sorry, the replacement is something ChinaV already has and has written a lot about, it's the Qinqi QM250. I tried his last year and haven't stopped thinking about it since!

The picture was taken on sunday, here, at a lake near suzhou called yangchenghu. Beautiful area with lots of canals, old houses on the water and no tourism.

The new owner is not on mcm, it's a chinese friend who has wanted it for a while and had fist dibs on it if i decided to sell.

I sold it because it has 20000km and though it's still running fine now, i don't know if it could take another 10000 without problems. I have a very big trip in the works for this year and would like to do it on a fresh bike. It would not be fun to be stuck on the tibetan plateau 500km from civilization with a broken frame...

Sounds good!

Hope you have your camera gear sorted too. Already waiting for pics

**dan-zhenjiang** · 05-19-2011, 09:58 AM

Found your post. It is indeed a nice bike, it is a shame I ca`n`t register.
To the poster above: is that Buckminster Fuller on your avatar photo?

**k3rk** · 07-23-2011, 07:21 PM

Nice and detailed review, also good quality clear pictures. Thanks a lot for that. Planning to buy same bike in two weeks, would like to ask you since the bike is not water -cooled did you ever had problems with over heating while travelling quite far, such as 900km for example, as you wrote? Also if its worth to change the muffler to gain some hp or the difference will be not that noticable? Thanks for answers in advance)