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The mechanics told me some stories about Chinese bikes and scooters being made of cheese, and that the recommended service intervals are crazy short.
Not surprised the engines are relatively solid, they’re direct clones of the 80’s/90’s jap stuff from when production moved to China, right?
pdlouche-
Yes. They are pretty solid looking copies. I would worry about metal quality on internal parts like bearings and cranks. Carb seemed like a normal carb, screw heads had already been damaged though. Chromed wheels have that slightly impossibly shiny chrome that you see pitting and failing quite dramatically after a number of years but it looks ok after 5 years, a lot of people would have ridden and sold it by then. I don't think they are going to be around for 40 years like the CG125's might be.
Airhead
I helped a neighbour fix up his chineseium custom special. It was a pretty solid engine and gearbox, frame and subframe fine, wiring and switchgear not so much.