So anyone go for a ride this weekend?

[cheapeto]

[ I expect to hear a 50,000 mile story on one some day in the future.]

A bunch of the china scooter sellers should form or start a Cannonball like endurance ride to show that these scooters are now ready to roll a couple of thousand miles in a hard assed run.

Anyone get an IronButt award on a chinese scooter yet? I honestly dont know myself, but untill the china scoots show the world they are NOT 1999-2008 crappy crates, and are made so much better now.

I thought the MV folks were very open and giving good advice, for the most part.
Heck the the winner of this years SCB2014 (dabinche) even chimed in on the topic.

[kz1000st]

Doing the Scooter Cannonball is an exercise in futility as far as I'm concerned. No scooter from what I read has a trouble free run. Broken belts abound and other maladies occur. Ask yourself what would happen if one person competed in the Cannonball on a 250 Ninja or Honda Rebel?

As I said in that thread on MV. Quality is a nebulous term. A good rider/owner is 85% of the equation. I would take my Chinese scooters anywhere appropriate. All three have done 80+ mile trips easily, the 250 Fashion was bought/picked up and ridden home from 200 miles away. Yet no one replied to my post or asked me a question. The greatest insult is to be ignored.

Arrogant slurs have no place anywhere in my world. "Chinese Sh*t"? Really??