They can be reliable? quite honestly, people buy them too cheap and then try to run them cheap.
the man with the 100,000$ Rolls Royce will have the engine rebuilt properly, the man with the 300$ motorbike won't even give it a spark plug.
look at you, cutting corners already THEN asking how reliable are they after you bought it!
The level of skill needed as a mechanic is very high and if you put cheap motorbike with poor mechanic with no money = well guess!
the earlier bikes aren't more reliable. the 2001-2003s are the poorest for sure. They have inbuilt factory problems but all can be overcome.
there isn't a bone in my body that will let me do a poor job of a rebuild but I have to hear it and see it everyday. they all buy their bikes for $1,300 and do $50 of bits and then the next thing you HEAR is........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
they're gone.
sold up.
and they only did half a job leaving the next guy to ride for 1-4 hours before they hear a 'bang'.
Taffy
