BUYING A CHINESE MOTORBIKE,MONKEY GY200 THUMPSTAR,QUAD

This is a guide for anyone who is considering buying a Chinese motorbike or quad.
Chinese bikes and quads are a lot cheaper than their Japanese
equivalents,but their build quality and finish is not nearly as
good,and they often have design mistakes.If you enjoy
adjusting/checking things,and making the electrics work properly,you
are doing fairly low mileages,and you want the bike as a hobby,then go
for it.This is a generalisation,but all Chinese bikes are not the
same,and even one model (like the GY series) varies quite a lot between
different sellers in terms of quality and parts,which are often not
inter-changeable between different seller's bikes.If you buy from a
well known large dealer,whose prices are higher than other people's,the
bike will get a better check before you receive it,it'll be a bit
better built,and the after-sales will be better,but the same
fundamental problems will probably still arise.
Spare parts are generally cheap (not Thumpstars though,which are
expensive) but this is largely negated by the need to replace them
quite often,and more importantly by sellers' insistence on selling you
complete large assemblies instead of

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