So I‘m thinking of buying this to practice on as I will be a new rider very soon ( and $1000 seems like a really low price for what I‘ve found). It‘s running good and only has 11,000 miles on it. The owner posted that it‘s a 2007 Lifan 250cc. So I tried looking up the specs to get some info on the bike but I couldn‘t seem to find anything So I‘m hoping that one of you guys can help me out and post a link to a website with details on it. Thanks in advance!
It's Chinese manufactured, personally I would stay clear. It seems like a good price because the bike is cheap to begin with, it's made with cheap parts. In my opinion, stick with well know brands such as Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha etc etc. Japanese or European made bikes are far better in today's standards.
Lifan is one of the mainland Chinese manufacturers. The products have decent performance when new, good price--but the reliability and parts availability is not known to be best features. Outside of China the parts and mechanical support is very 'IFFY'- IF you can find the parts or the manual. IF you can do the work yourself then maybe it won't be a bad deal IF you can find the parts. Seattle and Vancouver area supposed to have a distributor for Lifan and some other names, UK supposed to have a similar warehouse, distributor for many but not all parts about half way between London and Birmingham. Taiwan and S. Korea, Singapore have some support for Chinese products- enough trade and fast enough to get the parts from southern China stocks. Locally the Mainland Chinese scooters and cycles are considered a one season use to learn to ride and minor wrench cheap deals- the local selling shop has a replace defective whole scooter 30 days warrantee- about like Harbor Freight for small engines. Most of the scooters run good enough for the season, the few early use 'defects' are simply swapped and the defect sent back for dealer stock replacement with a very few reconditioned sale specials later in season. The 'Honda Clone' engine serviceable at the Honda Dealer advertisements don't seem to note which Honda dealer does that- locally they won't touch them, won't say what parts may interchange and the mechs after work will say the parts interchange is a mess legally and mechanicaly- the few tradeins are usually sent to auction or a scooter shop that does try to fix them in a month instead of 3 to 5 days as a Taiwan make Kymco has for parts supply. Unless you have a local dealer with the parts network available- I wouldn't recommend it. I do know of a guy that has worked on some of them- he used to have a shop/dealership- and he says most of them can be fixed after he gets most of parts but that was a hassle even when he had dealership. They are getting better.
It's a Qianjiang motorcycle, made in China. I think $1000 is a bit high for a bike that cost $2000, 7 years ago. I would make a lower offer. Model 250F Lifan Features: ?ENGINE: Air-cooled , V Twin Cylinder, Four Stroke ?Displacement: 248 CC ?TDI Ignition ?Max. Power: 18.5 HP/ 8000 RPM ?Cruise Speed 85 MPH ?Max. Torque : 17.5N.m/6000RPM ?Electric Start ?BRAKE SYSTEM Front: Disk Rear: Drum ?TRANSMISSION: 5-Speed Manual shift ?TIRES Front: 3.0-18 Rear:5.0-15 ?SUSPENSION Front: Hydraulic telescoping forks Rear: Hydraulic Spring ?FUEL: Unleaded gasoline ?Fuel consumption: 100 MPG Max. Load: 330 lb Dry Weight : 355 lb.
