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pdlouche in reply to @Overuser155208

The engine is a tuned counter balanced Zongshen 450 engine with a completely new top end that is unseen elsewhere. This has been tested extensively. The Rally is double overhead cam whereas the normal engine is single. This double overhead cam head combined with mapping high performance exhaust and different manifolds increases the performance. This engine revs but it's very smooth and mechanically quiet.

Zongshen make about 2 million engines a year which is significantly more than than other engine manufacturers. Just do a search on YouTube for Zongshen. The technology and their factory is top drawer. Their engines are in a host of other bikes including Fantic, Norton and AJP. They also produce engine parts for Yamaha and Suzuki.

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Overuser155208 in reply to @pdlouche

Aren't they the company that build the cg125 copy that is such a copy even the older casting marks are present.

Looking at the Chinese, Thai and Indian manufacturers it is all about quality control.

Do wonder how they last in real life.

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Jung in reply to @Overuser155208

They entered 3 almost stock bikes into Dakar and they all finished, same in Sonora I believe. No tougher test of a bike than that. Apparently Jimmy Lewis (legendary CA fast man) was at the touratech rally and ragged one 1500miles back from Washington to Nevada, without touching a spanner. I reckon on what I've seen I'd trust one at least as much as a KTM/Husq etc, maybe more. 5000 mile service interval is more like DRZ territory.

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