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ALbeit chinese ones. Must be a few club card points there! http://direct.tesco.com/q/N.2000102/Nr.99.aspx...


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Old 03-07-09, 15:35   #1
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Default TESCO are now selling motorbikes!

ALbeit chinese ones. Must be a few club card points there!

http://direct.tesco.com/q/N.2000102/Nr.99.aspx

Superb pictures of bikes in Yellowstone etc here. Well worth a click.


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I remember Woolworths selling mopeds (Peugeots IIRC) many moons ago.

They seem overpriced to me though?
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Oh noes!

They may regret that with all the breakdowns and warranty issues these chinese scrap heaps will generate. Not a good advert for motorcycles generally either. My next door neighbour bought a chinese scooter against my advice it has to be said. I think it only ran for a week or so before everything started to fail at once. Most of the cycle parts are made from hardened cheese.

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Cheap shit chinese bikes sold by Tesco - aye, they may well regret that!

Im a bit dissappointed they didnt have them painted with blue & white stripes TBH




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Cheap parts, woefully put together and sold overpriced.....

This isn't just a cheap Chinese scooter....This is a Marks and Spencer cheap Chinese scooter.
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Didn't Woolies used to flog Tomos mopeds?

Argos do a range of new brand far eastern shitters too.

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So how many mechanics have they employed to service them and what's the after sales care like.....Oh yeah, none and non existant.

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Didn't Woolies used to flog Tomos mopeds?

Argos do a range of new brand far eastern shitters too.
I know Great Universal catalogue did. Mates Mum was an agent and some fat old woman from across the road bought one for about a £1 a week over 3 decades or suchlike. We never thought it would pull her up the hill but it did. She had it for years and it served her well!

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So will you have to take your helmet off to buy it?
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Effin hell. Our local high-street motorbike shop are selling Chinese scoots for half that price. And they fix them when they go wrong.
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How many Chinese scootays make it to their first scheduled service anyway?

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How many Chinese scootays make it to their first scheduled service anyway?
At 600 miles not many, but one I looked at on Tesco had a 2000 mile service interval thereafter, that'd be every 6-7 weeks even on my shitty commute.

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How many Chinese scootays make it to their first scheduled service anyway?
People said much the same when jap cars/bikes were first made. Oh how 'we'* laughed at the slitty eyed folk trying to make cars and bikes. Who on earth would buy then when you could buy British....



*not me of course, I'm far too youthful.



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My chinese POS lasted well until everything died at once.

Ignition switch failed one day, "remote start" failed the next so bike would not start.

It got sent to teh companies mechanic who said the fault were down to it being so dirty (lmao yeah it was dirty, It was winter and I ride B roads to work!)

It got there and he found the back pads had worn to the limit, I hadnt checked as it had only done 1200odd Km and I almost never use the back brakes.

Its still at there garage, there claiming its my fault all the electrics failed and I simpply said im not paying for it if you dont fix it, well I was saying that unitil they had it for 6 weeks then I went to trading standards

the service intervals were a joke though 300 km then 900 km then 2000km, on my current bike the ride home would have meant going over the first service interval!

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People said much the same when jap cars/bikes were first made. Oh how 'we'* laughed at the slitty eyed folk trying to make cars and bikes. Who on earth would buy then when you could buy British....



*not me of course, I'm far too youthful.
Thats true but British bikes are now reliable, better looking and well put together. They weren't when the Japs were invading. Now all Triumph have to do is find a way into the small capacity market, not that I think they ever will.
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