Carl--this bike has been getting alot of posts on the thread on chinariders.net, including a link to your fine magazine's writeup. If you want to see how well this bike will do, look no further than the Zongshen Gy200-2 guru 'Spudrider' who has 67k miles/100k + kms on his enduro (the Zongshen that uses a near-identical engine to the Yamaha TW200, not the more common Honda CG clone engines that most of us have). He is on the waiting list for the first container of bikes to arrive to the US. He, combined with a few others, will dissect their bikes and find any shortcomings, and improve on them. I think this will be a successful bike for Zongshen! Not sure how/if Chinese business practices will change, but at least it should boost Zongshen's standings. Others will have to step it up...