Skyjet SJ125-S
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Skyjet SJ125-S
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Cheap And Cheerful, As You Would Expect
Bought this SJ125-23 on a 2016 plate with 4500km on the clock for £450 after someone had dropped it and removed the fairing. They then chopped the fairing mount and fitted the most ridiculous headlight fairing in the history of biking. Some people need serious medical help...
Anyway, changed the front sprocket for a 16 tooth one off ebay which stopped the buzzy feel and vibes than assaulted the bike with the standard 15 tooth job. Top speed is now 60mph, not bad for a honda cg engine clone. 90 to 100 mpg is normal.
Awful graphics hid awful paintwork on fuel tank but you get what you pay for. A new version of this (Lexmoto or one of the others) is less than £2000 as opposed to the Honda CBR125 at anywhere between £3 and £4 grand....
Basic and easy to fix, handles well with upside down forks and excellent brake on the front. Rear brake can catch you out in the wet as it is far too powerful and can easily lock the wheel.
Overall, parts are cheap and easily available, new panels at the front are around £200 in total.New cylinder and piston big bore 150cc kit on ebay is £40...
Looks good, ideal for new learners. Why spend a fortune on a CBR? Spend the cash on one of these, cheap insurance and get through the tests. Then spend the cash on something bigger and flog it for what you paid for it.
Good for old fossils like me who have arthritis and have to sell my Kawasaki 500.
Don't dismiss out of hand, they are VASTLY improved from earlier attempts just like the first Japanese bikes were fragile. Look where THEY are now?
Try one. Well worth a look.
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My First Bike
This is my first bike, I paid 380 for it secong hand. yes there was stuff wrong, broken speedo cable, fuel cap broke, the side fairings missing. nothing to bother me though!! Ive only done miles and can say I like it, runs fine, engine is sweet as and the bikes comfy. One thing that does annoy the absolute hell out of me is the kickstart. it hits the rear brake pedal and then doesnt come back up. I looks to be the right one for the bike, but could be wrong. however, its a good bike and bery good on fuel.... ps, ive had a broken wrist and no money since I bought, hense the low miles
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Best Bike I've Ever Had
Hi I thought I would put my opinion down as I have heard different reviews on this bike now il start by saying I got the skyjet sj125-23 2013 so just over a year old and since in my procession I only have had to replace the clutch cable and I've had it from new I replaced the bolts and screws with heavy duty and I've not had problems what some ppl point out but what I do hear a lot is the engine will out live the bike frame
If I had to pick a fault it would only be the oil quantity as there is no dip stick to indicate level and the manual and internet don't help either
Other then that I can swear its a good bike providing u buy it from new and change the bolts and maybe a little adjustment to the tick over but other then that not a problem
I hope other ppl can put a review of how theirs is and any problems they have had
Thanks
The night rider
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Brilliant, Just Needed Checking
Love this bike, I've the 11 plate and I think it's great! I was after a basket case, mate offered me this for 350 second hand and I bit his hand off, rode it home, stripped it down completely and replaced all bolts (add a dab of loctight), replace gaskets, fiddle with the timing and tick over, now runs great as a little run around, rip the cat out and you'll push 70, nothing wrong with it, put around 1000 miles on it in around 3 weeks and I would almost got to say that it's better than the yammy I had back when.
In a nutshell, great runaround but make sure it's maintained, change the oil every 500-750, keep the clutch tight and you'll have a great reasonably priced bike
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Skyjet Sj 125
its got good top speed but im not to kean on the handling kept up with a aprilia rs 125 at top speed.i also crashed pritty bad up the country lanes and the bike is still running sweat i couldent walk for 2 months but the bike kept going.
If you spent the money on a second hand aprilia or a honda cbr I doubt very much that you'd be getting much that would work without tons of maintenance. It would have been thrashed by a string of spotty Herbert's and fall apart faster than an election promise.
The quality of some of these Chinese bikes has improved greatly since the first offerings and the Honda's are made in..., CHINA.
It WON'T be as good as a new Honda or Aprilia but at a third of the price it's up to the punter.
I've been on bikes for over 40 years and ridden all sorts of jap bikes, some italian and BMW. They aren't that bad in comparison. And it it does go wrong it's chaeper and easier to fix than the jap or Italian bikes.
ignore the know nothings, my son runs a Lexmoto xtr125 which is the same bike and has had no problems what so ever with it as the person above you should know lol, same motoor as the lexmoto vixen, his friend has a cbf125 and that is not any better than the xtr and is in fact slower, keep it clean and serviced and all will be fine, people on here complaining have no expwerience for the most part except from hearsay and rumour, the reality is different, and remember you can buy several new xtr for the price of an r125 which is no faster, yeah its more modern n smoother but then when you sell one you loose around 2 grand if lucky, with the chinese bike you will loose maybe 5-700 pounds long as its legal etc
Professional mechanic, right? Everything that I've come to expect from them.
The RS is restricted to 11kW / 14.6bhp.
This trinket has a pushrod CG125 copy-engine that claims a risible 9.7kW / 13bhp. How on earth it could possibly achieve that from its miserable 7.44:1 compression ratio (a CBR125R claiming the same power has 11:1) is left to the imagination.
Any claims over over 65mph on the flat are also imaginary, no matter how much you mess around with it - you'll just start bouncing the valves or banana a pushrod.
These are nasty, cheap, flimsy little bikes where you're paying for the plastics rather than the mechanicals. I walked away from one today that was in a shocking rotted state at just a few years old, and which ran like a wheezy, lumpy, bouncy, squeaky bag of spanners.
And I'm comparing it to two previous Chinese-made bikes which were actually half decent mechanically (HN125-8 / Lexmoto Vixen and Lifan LF250B). The Skyjet was not.
well i hope i don't regret this and am sorry to say that i am going from an aprilia rs125 extrama on a 95 to a sky jet 125 27 and theirs no way a sky jet will keep up with the aprilia as av had 115 mph out of mine but the reliability is rubbish for rebuilds and i was hoping to have 4stroke rely-ability but av got a bad feeling now reading these lol
I have been riding for over 30 years and been a mechanic for many of those so know something of what I am talking about, the mito and rs125 are both 2 stroke engines and so do not really compare, also around 4-5 times the new price, and for any given amount of power chinese/japanese or italian bikes are going to perform pretty much the same, yours were quicker because presumably they had been derestricted to around 30 bhp, not the original 12 they were restricted to making them around the same power as the Chinese bikes, many people are slagging off Chinese bikes that have never even seen one coz their brothers, aunties dog owned one 10 years ago and they heard they were rubbish n fell to bits, sure they are not as good as the Italian stuff but then at quarter the price then......and have you actually looked at a Japanese new 125 recently, they are all made in China pretty much of the same components and in the same factories just different labels and mayber styling, there are at least 4 companies marketing a version of the ybr125, and race replica of a race winning bike ??? its got a similar paint job and styling, that is as close as it gets, and you have never evidently run a small 125 for any lenght of time, particularly a 2 stroke, mito and rs 125 are in need of regular engine rebuilds if they are derestricted and the Italians used to be worse than the chinese as far as electrical problems are concerned, and try doing a google search on the KTM 125 super duke, falls apart quicker than most, not that I am saying chinese are good but they are not as bad as they are made out to be, most problems stem from poor assembly as they are sold by 5 minute wonder dealers after a quick buck, not bothering to grease, check bolts or electrical connections, if the bike is from a decent place doing a correct pdi then most problems are avoidable, and like anything they need servicing but the people buying them rarely keep up with that as they have little money hence the cheap bike in the first place
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Skyjet Gy-6
Great little bike, no problems value for money, cant understand bad reviews if you expect yamaha quality then buy a yamaha this is close to it with 3rd of the price tag, and i have researched and found out the skyjet factory make parts for yamaha!! thats why they are so close in style. i think problem is poor maintenance just check all bolts before first use any that keep coming lose use a bit of thread lock job done!! I have had mine and abused it going off road jumping off stuff and it's still going strong.
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Brilliant Bike Reliable Gets Me To And From No Pr
brilliant bike reliable gets me to and from no probs a lil rattly part from that its class
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Honestly The Worst Financial Mistake Of My Life, I
Honestly the worst financial mistake of my life, i bought this bike as it looks the part and is far cheaper than other 125's i.e cbr 125. The build quality is shocking, its vibrates so much that screws and bolts rattle off, i have had to put new bolts on the exhaust 3 times. The electrics are pathetic and can fault when it rains, my rear light and reg light dont work and has cost me £50 for parts and will have to get the bike stripped down to gain access to wires...nightmare. Honestly just pay the extra few quid and get something decent, i read reviews like this and thought "It wont happen to me". I bought mine around 8 months ago for £900 2nd hand and now will be lucky to get £400-500. All this and its aN 08 PLATE! It should be against trading standards to sell this bike. STAY AWAY. You have been warned.
History repeating itself, here. In the '60s the first Japanese bikes came over and were declared rubbish by the Brit bike crowd. Didn't take long for the Japanese manufacturers to learn and improve. The generation brought up on British bikes refused to entertain the Japanese. Now the generation that have been brought up on Japanese stuff ridicule the new Chinese bikes. Make no mistake. These are getting better all the time. The newest bikes are far better than the older ones.
And where are Honda cbr125's made? CHINA...
08 plate on a SJ 125 REALLY? The SJ's are 2010 on wards someone's had you mate.
agree completely - it should be illegal to sell these death traps!
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I Had 4 Months Of Use Out Of This Skyjet Sj125-s B
I had 4 months of use out of this Skyjet SJ125-S bike. I contacted the people who made the bike but never got a reply. In all it was a expensive bike to own . It cost me £700 deliverd + £300 on parts and labour I managed to get £350 when i sold it 4 months old . In all I recommend not buying a skyjet. It was a good for about 2 weeks then it started to fall apart. First to go was the chain when I was pulling out onto the A4 in wiltshire. I had the bike for 4 months and hears a list of what broke and fell apart ; throttle cable,chain,exhaust manifold bolts sheared off, seat wore thin and brake hose 'burst' while braking hard to avoid a deer . Just so you all know I never abused the bike or took it off road.
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I'm thinking about getting one on finance but I need to know if its a reliable bike as I've gotta travel 24miles a day on it 5 days a week?