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Originally Posted by wheelbender6
Seems that paying top dollar for a top tier scooter does not guarantee mechanical reliability. It just means you will pay top dollar for repairs.
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But paying bottom dollar for bikes built with sub-par materials and assembled in a slipshod
manner with poor quality control as is often the case certainly does make for a higher
likelihood of premature and frustratingly frequent failures...
Pay a little more, less often maybe with fewer down-time episodes or pay a little less but
more often in repeated installments with more down-time. Buyer's/rider's choice. Personally
I prefer the former.
To be fair, some improvements in materials and build quality are making their way into
some of the Chinese bikes, but they still have a long way to go. And the prices for those
better quality bikes are going up too so...