I have a lot at stake with buying four 07 Jetmotos, and I am sure some look at me as being an idiot for doing so (my brother for instance). I have four boys and we wanted to buy four quads and had only $7000. to work with and that included Licensing and Helmets and trailer. I knew any Chinese quad would be risky and most likely need a lot of maintenance and I was right. I looked at used Big 4 and could not find four that kept me with in my budget. So I looked long and hard into Chinese quads and decided I would buy the best Chinese quads I could find and that led me to the 07 Jetmotos. Yes I have had to do quite a bit of work on these quads so far and nothing to major as of yet. Raceways and Jetmoto have been OK to work with, they have not left me without any assistance and have been pretty good with warranty parts replacemets. We have shot video at almost every outing we have had and now to date we have over 11 outings in just 4 months and are still having fun with our four Jetmotos. Here is the last Ride Ride Video which went with out any mechanical complications and guess what we had a great time on our four Jetmotos.
I think Jetmoto is going in the right direction and have made some great engineering advancement over last years Chinese offerings; they are still far from the quality of a Japanese product in pretty much all aspects. But it's what we could afford and we have had a lot of fun on them all and hope to get a few years out of these and then move up to better built quads which may be new Japanese quads or perhaps new Jetmotos we will just have to see.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: smb05





-JNY</end quote></div>






All I have to say is for those of you with the Jetmoto 250 just be careful on those POS. Do not make too many jumps or continually bottom out your quad. It will break.



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I guess I'm old or something. Too many jumps??? What purpose does jumping a quad over and over serve? Ok, you jumped it, after that big deal, Zzzzzz. Like I said before, just beating the s**t out of something for nothing seems a little crazy to me. Is it not possible to enjoy anything today without tearing it up in the process?

I had a 1979 Honda XR-185 for almost 20 years. I loved that thing! I rode it everywhere, did almost everything with it, and NEVER did I manage to tear it up. Being a Honda had some to do with it, but not thrashing it to death everytime I rode it had more to do with it I'm sure.

Jetmoto's are not perfect, nothing is. As of now, should you have a little mechanical knowledge to own one, yes. But they are not death traps either. If I felt that way I would not let my 15 year old son ride it. All I say is give Jetmoto some slack. They are attempting to fill a market niche where people cannot afford the "name brand" atvs.

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>But they are not death traps either</end quote></div>

I agree, but the rear sprocket needs to be addressed in a serious way. I'm going to finally get some pictures up tomorrow of my TRASHED rear axle carrier/bearings. It totally destroyed the axle carrier, and one of the sprocket bolts went through the bearings, which locked up the rear end. I'm glad I wasn't going fast. It really could be dangerous. I'm not just spouting off because I don't like something (I love my Jetmoto!!!!) and I agree that they are going to need time to get all of the little things worked out. I'm cool with all of that. I just don't want to see a BS bandaid "fix" that doesn't keep the bolts from snapping off and causing much BIGGER problems. Most certainly, not all riders/Jetmotos/etc are going to have this happen (it seems to be just the heavier riders that are having issues?) and I have no reason to think Jetmoto is going to do anything except correct the problem in the correct manor (which means a new sprocket hub with a bigger bolt pattern and a new sprocket.) New axle carrier bearings aren't a solution, and there wouldn't be as much drag in the stock bearings if they were better greased and didn't have huge rust flakes all over them from the spacers that goes between the two inner races.

-JNY