jstark47 wrote:I did a little research. This is a Chinese-made knockoff of a Honda CRF450. The manufacturer is apparently an outfit named Asiawing, located in Shandong. The bike is marketed under a number of different brands, CCW is simply the latest to join the parade. Google Asiawing, and check out their LX450S - you'll notice a profound similarity to the "Hooligun R".... it's the same bike.
Badge engineering has always annoyed me, no matter who does it. Fail.
That is the Chinese way - make a product as absolute cheaply as possible and then change the name when the reputation goes south. They care so little about brand and reputation that they actually ship un-named bikes in containers that every wanna-be motorcycle manufacturer badges as their own until the inevitable happens - they disappear. Just imagine if you had someone building bikes with a reputation as a goal in China. Charging even 20% more for a quality product would be a hell of a business model, still undercutting other quality bikes in the market by quite a margin.
That said I actually rolled dice on one of the early Chinese dirt bikes and actually did not too bad. For $700 we got a 110cc electric start bike that my son ran the "poo poo" out of. There were lots of compromises and no easy fixes as everything was a one-off but we sold it 3 years later for 1/2 of the purchase price. It ran well, but the electric start packed it in after several submersions by my son.
Would I risk several thousand $ on a roll of the dice on Chinese quality? Hell no.
So therefore this one is a fail for me.