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Has anyone actually ridden or saw a real review of the new ZXMOTO MX250?
I've been digging around trying to find real-world reviews, dyno runs, reliability reports, etc. But there doesn't seem to be a lot out there yet.
On paper the bike looks pretty impressive for the money: 249cc DOHC engine, claimed 40 hp (30 kW), KYB suspension, quickshifter, slipper clutch, launch control, and 102 kg dry weight.
Pricing I've found so far is around:
- UK: about £5,455 retail
- US: around $5,980 from an importer listing (not sure if that's an official MSRP)
- Australia: A$8,990 RRP
If those prices are accurate, it's a lot cheaper than the major brand 250Fs.
I dont think they have a US distributor yet
I think the OP went against their own user name.
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The same guy that is the Kove distributor is the ZX Moto distributor.
Dirt Bike Mags recent test ride of the bike is his personal ZX Moto 250. Think right now it's the only one in the States.
That's surprising because if I was ZX I wouldn't want the Kove importer to be in control of the US ZX Market. But I'm guessing ZX could only find one person with experience selling full size China bikes to the US and they are trying to get him to switch to their brand.
I don't see that relationship lasting very long unless ZX is hands down better and Kove imports are limited to adventure bikes / models that don't overlap.
Considering how many times TM, Sherco, etc... have also switched distributors until any of them are a well established available everywhere brand the distributors will be fairly fluid.
People say there needs to be a more affordable entry level MX bike, then when one shows up, they don't like it. It takes more than steel bars and older design suspension components to knock that much money off.
The thing about dirtbikes in 2026 vs 1976 is they aren’t some engineering marvel anymore. It’s fairly easy for some company to piece together a “almost half way decent I guess” bike and sell it to the general public.
Especially with all these new e bike brands popping up it’s not surprising that these Chinese companies are trying their hand at dirtbikes
I personally wouldn’t buy one but who knows what might change in 10-20 years, atleast there’s another lower price point entry level bike out there
As long as they ripped off the intellectual property of Honda or KTM, how bad can they be? When something breaks, you just replace it with Japanese (or Austrian) parts. A 250F may be a lot more complex, but that's what my friend did with his Chinese pitbikes. They were all CRF110 clones.
These look pretty good at a first impression, KYB suspension works. I’m interested to see how reliable they are, and if they are reliable, and somewhat capable they will be hard to go past at least for a newbie. They are half the price…
Not cheap enough, IMO. YZ125 is only $1,300 more.
Its not hard to design and build a race bike anymore. The devil is in the materials specs and manufacturing quality control. Theres no real R&D thats gonna be ground breaking in the next 10 years.
Anyone could copy a 2005-2012 bike or maybe a frame from one bike say 2012 rmz 250/450. Motor from another say 2009 yzf250/450 throw efi on it have a major shop tune it and slap your choice of suspension brands current kyb brands take it to any reputable tuner say a month with Enzo or FC with a good A/B rider and boom you have a bike thats good enough for 85% of the guys out there. But if the quality control and materials specd are shit it doesn't matter.
Slook at a bike from 1981 and then go up 5 years till you get to today's bikes and roggt around 98-02 real develpoment starts dying off and major refinements become the norm.
That was my reaction as well. You need to be sub $5k USD to lure anyone for chinese build and QC. I feel they need to be in used bike with under 100hrs price territory or I would just go that route.
Doesn’t look bad
Just like the Japanese ripped off the Euros back in the early 70's.
I think it’s easier to make them ‘look’ like one of the established OEMs, but if these new manufacturers are going to copy the metallurgy and quality standards, then they’re probably going to be every bit as expensive as the established OEMs. As has been said many times before, you can buy some extremely high quality, durable products from Chinese manufacturers. But those products are not the ones you buy on Temu, Alibaba (mostly!), or from the Chinese bike makers trying to undercut the pricing of the current ‘mainstream’ offerings.
They've won a bunch of races in World Super Sport. I know it's not a dirt bike but the owner is a real enthusiast.
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With a lot less parts/raw material in it. At some point you just end up with an XR250 if you keep moving the goalposts on what a new entry level 250f mx bike should look like.
Up until 5 seconds ago an "entry level MX bike" was a 125 2 stroke, not a bike made in China.
They've just entered world supersport this year, their rider Valentin Debise secured 2nd in the world championship with 6 wins and 9 podiums in 22 races.
It's also been discussed here https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/moto-related/now-2-chinese-bikes-coming-mxgp
They're not going to win right away in MXGP as they did in world supersport but they're serious about racing that's for sure.
Well, it's a hell of a lot better than anything the US makes.
By what metric?
https://cobramoto.com/about-cobra-moto/
not legal to race in the adult classes, must have 21in front 18/19 in rear.
Once again the AMA creates rules conspired to hold down the US manufacturers.
So a budget bike with 21/19 wheels for the vet C practice is "better" than the bikes that many young racers start on. Got it.
hey buddy I don't make the rules. Maybe you can ride your Cobra at some outlaw races or something.
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Still wondering why a bike that hasn't sold a single unit in the US is "better" than a Cobra, though. As far as I'm aware, one is being raced in AMA, and one is not. I'm confused.
Would you also compare the Cobra and ZXMoto to a Polaris Rzr? Or is that too different?
I'll help you.
ZXmoto has developed rally bikes that are competing in the world championship at high level. They are now bringing their MX bike to market and will enter the world MX championship in the new year.
Cobra make very good kids bikes.
The two don't compete.
The last decent US adult MX bike was the Alta, and they went bust.
Fair enough. That's a much different response than "it's a hell of a lot better than anything the US makes" slop post I originally quoted. Considering now that nothing the US makes can actually be compared, or therefore deemed to be "a hell of a lot worse".
The interesting part is, people love to upvote and echo that slop. Even though it's proven to be unsubstantiated drivel.
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