TroubledSOUL
Member
- Joined
- Nov 21, 2010
- Messages
- 20
- Reaction score
- 1
Hi all
Finally got a china - The crossfire 250. There doesnt seem to be much info kicking around about these particular bikes so i thought I would chuck in a little review and thoughts.
I have had the bike for a bit over a month and thanks to a month worth of holidays and mostly good weather, I have logged about 20 hours on it so far, with its first service done at 10. Most of the dramas listed below he had as well. I will do my best to list the problems you should definately check /rectify with these bikes!
ASSEMBLY
Before I bought the bike I was fully Expecting to have to do an out of crate assembly. I spent ages on this site reading up on things you need to do to the chinas if you want them to run for any period of time.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS & 30 MINUTE CHECK
It is a slick looking bike, very tall initialy before the suspension settles a bit. It is a blatant rip off of the Honda CR 250. on visual inspection it looks well designed and built. We decided to run it around the paddock for 30 minutes then check everything over.
2. BOLTS
The main nut that holds the rear brake lever does not have any type of shim to hold it in. You cant tighten it too much or the lever wont have any free play. It was loose after the 30 min ride. We re-loktited it and it seems to be ok but i check it before every ride to be safe
One of the front sprocket bolts and 2 of the chain slider bolts were loose. They were all locktited and have not come loose after some pretty hard riding
3. WIRING & ELECTRICS
The start and kill switch terminals are pretty cheap and nasty. Theres nothing stopping water/mud getting down into the connectors. I put heatshrink over these to minimise moisture getting into them.
4. BATTERY
This seems to be the main problem with the bike. It is a ****house china peice of **** that , take it from me, when you pick up your new crossfire, buy an after market battery at the same time, it will save you A LOT OF HEADACHES. a day or so after i got it it went flat. A n overnight session on a trickle charger seemed to fix this. 2 days later it died again. it does not seem to have to charge for too long and there is always fluid in the bottom of the battery well that im assuming is from the battery. Its not water.
Timmy pulled his out after anout 3 hours and the battery was too hot to touch for about 2 hours after we pulled it out, and the battery well was chokkers with the fluid. We thought it was going to explode on us so he got a new one
Finally got a china - The crossfire 250. There doesnt seem to be much info kicking around about these particular bikes so i thought I would chuck in a little review and thoughts.
I have had the bike for a bit over a month and thanks to a month worth of holidays and mostly good weather, I have logged about 20 hours on it so far, with its first service done at 10. Most of the dramas listed below he had as well. I will do my best to list the problems you should definately check /rectify with these bikes!
ASSEMBLY
Before I bought the bike I was fully Expecting to have to do an out of crate assembly. I spent ages on this site reading up on things you need to do to the chinas if you want them to run for any period of time.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS & 30 MINUTE CHECK
It is a slick looking bike, very tall initialy before the suspension settles a bit. It is a blatant rip off of the Honda CR 250. on visual inspection it looks well designed and built. We decided to run it around the paddock for 30 minutes then check everything over.
2. BOLTS
The main nut that holds the rear brake lever does not have any type of shim to hold it in. You cant tighten it too much or the lever wont have any free play. It was loose after the 30 min ride. We re-loktited it and it seems to be ok but i check it before every ride to be safe
One of the front sprocket bolts and 2 of the chain slider bolts were loose. They were all locktited and have not come loose after some pretty hard riding
3. WIRING & ELECTRICS
The start and kill switch terminals are pretty cheap and nasty. Theres nothing stopping water/mud getting down into the connectors. I put heatshrink over these to minimise moisture getting into them.
4. BATTERY
This seems to be the main problem with the bike. It is a ****house china peice of **** that , take it from me, when you pick up your new crossfire, buy an after market battery at the same time, it will save you A LOT OF HEADACHES. a day or so after i got it it went flat. A n overnight session on a trickle charger seemed to fix this. 2 days later it died again. it does not seem to have to charge for too long and there is always fluid in the bottom of the battery well that im assuming is from the battery. Its not water.
Timmy pulled his out after anout 3 hours and the battery was too hot to touch for about 2 hours after we pulled it out, and the battery well was chokkers with the fluid. We thought it was going to explode on us so he got a new one
Last edited:
