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I’ll pass
Durability testing should be a huge concern. And quality control.
Probably better than Triumph.
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Founder: Zhang Xue
ZXMOTO seems to be alert to this sort of scepticism. To this end, at his EICMA presentation Zhang addressed something you don’t often hear much about from Chinese manufacturers: after-sales.
“We have learned that not everyone is happy with the efficiency of aftersales service,” he said. “So, we have come up with a five-point plan.”
That plan includes:
I don't think ZXMoto has a US distributor yet, so might not see them here for a while.
Nice looking bike. The cost could go down dramatically if tariffs change, that $8k US price is like 30% tariffs
Judging by ducati, triumph, fantic, beta…etc if you have the money, engineers, and manufacturing creating a competitive mx bike is no longer dark magic. Everybody essentially knows what it needs and what goes where. Those companies had different amounts of experience plus institutional inertia which definitely helps getting started, but can hurt in the long run being adaptable (kawasaki). The advantage theyll have is they can do anything they want or try anything they want and add any new tech they come across that can help now.
I don't think it's really been a mystery for a while on how to make a decent bike. What I think has changed is the cost of making a new model. How well they can predict how the market will react to a new model through all the data that is collected via the free apps and social media people love. And how much easier/faster/ more options/etc. it is to have the tooling and molds made. Advances in manufacturing and the data that shows demand for the bikes is what has lead to so many options. Its less of a risk now if You do the right market research with all the ways to collect real spending data.
These days it seems like engineers and designers are better at engineering ways around patents to effectively do the same thing, just differently enough to not infringe. You can see how each brand has impacted others with the designs shifting. The way the KTM air filters are accessed is the easiest to point out. Now Kawasaki and Honda do it similarly. Kawasaki and Stark have said they used the 08 CRF chassis as inspiration. And many little things that slowly end up showing up on every brand in a little different way. Manufacturers seem to have realized that reinventing the entire way a bike is built is not the way to build the best bike. And evolution instead of revolution has been the way for a while now. The building of a decent bike by anybody willing to spend the money and do the work has been possible for a while.
And I know a lot of people hate it when I say this, but the real chance for affordable,reliable high performance motocross bikes is with electric. Sharing motors,basic battery structure and programing across a wide range of products will make bikes much cheaper to build. Electric options are already making it affordable for people to get into riding on a surron sized bike. So many decent options for that size bike that are between $3k and $5k. I could see a similarly priced legit MX bike in the future. A company like Honda that has a wide range of vehicles they could build an adaptable powertrain for could push the market towards being similar to the EMTB market. With a handful of motor and battery manufacturers and many brands building a chassis and using the powertrain from one of the big brands.
Take the Stark Varg for example, with that one bike and some programing changes You have pretty much built an entire line of different displacement bikes with that single bike. From a full sized XR 200 level power, to a more than 500 2 stroke level of power. And You can program how it hits and tailor the power to fit what You want. You could do that across an entire line of vehicles. A company like Honda could use a handful of different motors to power their entire range of vehicles. Drastically reducing the amount of vehicle specific parts needed and increasing the parts that are used across all models. Dealers would have to stock fewer parts since one motor might be the same in 100 different vehicles. So the chance of a dealer having what You needed in stock would be higher. Distribution of parts gets easier ,uses up less physical space, etc.
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Chase was seen putting in some lukewarm laps at Pala on this beauty.
Mario Romain just won Red Bull maniacs adventue class on a Kove.
He was on a CFMoto Ibex 450.
So reading about the specs a bit its 40hp at 12500rpm and 20 ft lb of torque. Right where its supposed to be. Also it has a steel frame and comes with kyb suspension. It has dual injectors and they said it has the same bore, stroke, and compression as the honda. So basically youre getting a ktm frame, honda engine, and kyb suspension. Thats pretty good imo. Having another steel frame option to choose from is nice and this one with kyb suspension. Id definitely like to try one.
https://www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle-news/worldssp-winning-zxmoto-reve…
So was just about everybody else in that class.
It's the first chinese bike that actually looks good!
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