Ahhh I see now!

Would it help if I clarified to the forum which SYM, Daelim and Benelli models were of Taiwanese, Chinese or Italian DNA?

SYMUKAELIMENELLI !!

As the years have rolled on i think most machines are either bitzers from all over the world or actually made in a foreign country under licence and often rebadged . My srv is mostly chinese parts ,but sold as italian lol .i must admit though the tai stuff imho is far better than the chinese stuff .

over the past few years ( well since i retired any way ) i have fixed a few Lexmoto, Daelim and a number of others ( skyteam ) all have been utter crap. One of these machines i put the saw through the remains of the three year old frame to stop the young lad riding it again.. I also have fixed Sym and Kymco and never had any real problems with them..and in most cases they were well put together.

wozza wrote:..but the point I do find annoying is that SYM already do MPH speedos anyway so why not fit them to UK machines....it's as simple as that really. If they supply them for one market they can fit them for another.

I wonder if it is something to do with price point of bulk sales.

A standard "Euro regs" version would have kph and might be different batches to a US reg. version.
Euro version with US dial then becomes a special order so it is cheaper to take the standard Euro version?

The Canadians use kph but get north american models with mph speedos.

gn2 wrote:The Canadians use kph but get north american models with mph speedos.

NOPE! My brother's 2012 Tmax 530 out of Canada was KPH; had to change it to MPH to import to the US..

Your brothers Tmax isn't every scooter in north america.

...but it's the BEST ONE!