Goodbye Japan Hellow China

No disrespect intended, but I’ll be glad to see the back of my current bike, an old Suzuki Bandit. Not that there is anything wrong with these bikes, just the expense of it all. I recently had to buy two new brake discs for the front. Pricey..at £120 per disc. Yes a wapping £240 for the pair.

Once you start checking out the price of parts for your Honda or Kawasaki, you start to see that biking is not as cheap as it should be. OK we can cut costs by doing most of the work ourselves, but £120 for one brake disc????

I’m toying with the idea of getting another Jinlun or Pioneer cruiser. Parts are cheap, they do great mpg and are pretty easy to work on. Guess how much a front disc is for either of these two is approx £30 plus p&p.

In some ways riding a Chinese made motorbike is definately the sensible option if you want to ride something affordable, easy to repair, easy to get parts for etc OK the Chinese bikes are small, but larger models are coming on the market soon.