Brixton Motorcycles - New British Brand

[linuxyeti]

Hi All

Just found this, https://www.brixton-motorcycles.com/en/

The bikes themselves, are made by Wonjan ..

The engines appear to be Suzuki based.

The BX125 looks quite nice, whether it's really any better than the AJS Cadwell, or the Mash Black 7 is anybody's guess

Looking at a dealer, the UK price for 1 is £2799.00, yet, on the Brixton site, 2399 Euro's !! Now, I know the £ isn't doing too great since the Brexit referendum, but, really ??
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I was immediately thinking 'with added hipster' before I even saw the domain name, which pretty much confirmed it.

I thought the thing to do these days was to buy a £200 cg, take a few bits off, maybe polish the tank and advertise it for £1k?
At least you probably won't lose money that way and still have reliable enough bike .

[secretagentmo...]

So another Mutt/Herald/Mash/rebadged Chinese made machine then!

[Rogerborg]

In what part of Austria is Brixton?

KSR Group GmbH
Gewerbeparkstrasse 11
3500 Krems an der Donau
Austria

OK, they have put a little more effort in than the usual AJS / Mutt / Herald rebranders. Rear disc, LED headlight and teeny indicators, faux-knobblies (fnobblies?) and that "yes I would like to trap moisture!" exhaust wrap for extra hipster cred.

But at the end of the day, it's a £1500 Lexmoto Valiant plus some "British" (wut?) badge snobbery and a ropey parts supply.
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[alan29]

Is this a new definition of British?

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[Rogerborg]

Monocle polish and jackboots.
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[thx1138]

[thx1138]

Gum tree again £1k

To be fair there are some crappier ones for normal cg prices, which is consider buying.

[pepperami]

[Polarbear]

I was interested for all of a nano second before I realised you were talking shite about another rebranded chinese pos.
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[Rogerborg]

[pepperami]

[Andy_Pagin]

[Polarbear]

[davethekwak]

[Rogerborg]

[Matt B]

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[Matt B]

OK, but in my book a vehicle having a limited top speed is different to a speed limit on a road.
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[natefz6]

Quite that logic means the market for bikes over here is limited to ones that go 70mph?
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[Rogerborg]

[Andy_Pagin]

I should have been clearer, the motorcycle speed limit is 50mph, it's not as far as I know a mechanical restriction.

Most Chinese are fairly poor, they're not going to fork out Yen on anything more than they need to. So not much of a market for something relatively expensive with no advantage other than the capability to get you a good kicking from the police.
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Oh; I read that as in "you are limited to 70mph on British motorways by the law".

[Andy_Pagin]