Can anyone give me a mechanical report on Vento 250cc V- Thunders?

Answer 1

Yea, I have one for sale .asking $3000 for it has 600 hundred miles , In that 600 miles I had to take it in for repairs twice and they themselves called it junk ,Went to trade it in and they now call it a scooter ,Ohh they look nice but all they really are is a moped on Steroids , the 2 exhaust one is fake ,the highway bars are so thin that they used sod er to put them together and the seat is uncomfortable as all hell ,It would be great for a beginner but they will soon sell it themselves ,I hope Vento will get it together and Easy rider would stop advertising for them . That's my opinion maybe I just had a Lemon . /Ohh one more thing they told me at the dealership that when they got them in they where busted up in the crates already that's why they stopped selling them ,good luck

Answer 2

The mechanical bits seem to have been copied from an '80s era Yamaha Virago 250, only with Communist tolerances and metalurgy rather than Japanese precision. Cycle World recently reviewed one alongside other low-priced bikes, and commented that theirs suffered from a variety of bad signs, from a general lack of comfort to exhaust that scraped the pavement to bolts already rusted. Given my experiences with Red Chinese knock-offs of machinery originally designed elsewhere, I would suspect a Virago with enough use to come down to the Vento's price would hold up better.