BTS GY200 198cc

I’ve had a lot of fun on this bike. But to own one u must b Mechanically minded and Willing to do lots of maintenance and chicken nuts and bolts. Gearing was bad I had to adapt a pit bike race Brocket now from thrashing its nuts off at 50 I can cruise along at 70 no problems. You get what you pay for and for the price on this bike is awesome

my uncle has one and it only lasted him 4 months ..nuts vibrated loose,brackets are poor..the frame geometry sucks,lacks engine power and only has the power of a 125cc.heavy soft metal.weak plastics.tacky seat. shocks are weak, poor brakes,stone age technology ,a very poor junk bike and his bike is now just sitting there in his shed.do not buy this quality junk bike.

i have owned a gy 200 for about 3 yrs now, never heard of them before, when i first saw it , looked stuning, all red white and shiny, like a new toy, everything worked perfect, then after about a year of putting it through its paces, it started to fall to peices, rattles, chain comming off, bolts loosning, if i dared to fall off it , plastics shattered, had to put a smaller cog on back, because it was far too low geared,mono shock is weak, not strong enough, build quality non existant, handling weak, best thing about these bikes is the engine, not much else , i now have an xt 250

I bought this bike to race against my mates who compete in the AMA motocross championships. The first time I rode it, I tore the front wheel off when I came up short on a triple. This only happened because the engine popped on the face of the take off after just 30 seconds of riding. I wouldn't be so bothered, but I bashed my balls on the huge petrol tank lid this bad boy has. I upgraded the rims to excells, put a new hamster in the engine and hey presto, runs like a new one again!

I have had this BTS GY200 198cc bike for three years and it done a massive 150 miles and now due for a rebuild . The bike is totally unreliable the build quality is very poor . Do not remove the rocker cover as the camshaft is not fixed in situ and will require removal of the timing chain to reinstate . The bike has been totally rewired by hand as the Chinese plastic rots . Buy a after market CDI as the stock one shorts if wet " on a trial bike " . The gearing needs to be sorted , plastic fairing is very brittle last 10min .

Better off buying a old BSA thats been sorted for off roading

The BTS GY200 198cc is good value, handles well,good winter hack , good brakes,lights good,good comuter, rubber perishes ie fuel pipe ,change for good quality,(loss of fuel or fire) eletric start sticks some times ,use kicker ,starts easy. dont drop, plastics break easy ,but partsare cheep, compaired to jap bikes. nuts and bolts vibrate loose regular maintance, use locktight or n.ylocks .like owning british. bike. engine seems sound .I have owned for over 1year

I spend lots of time on back roads and green lanes (2000 miles worth) in Somerset - its ideal even pulled itself out of mud which came up to my knees. Why pay £2500 for a similar size JAP, they are better finished but not that much.

Fitted sport airfilter and main jet and the lower gear sprocket - I have got up to 120 mpg when cruising around at 30-40mph.

Try it - you'll buy it.

I bought a Chituma Hongdou GY200 in May 2005 as a second bike to go with my main bike a Kawasaki ZX7R

The GY200 was for larking around on, practising wheelies and trying a bit of off roading. I fitted the smaller rounder cowling from BTS (since found in M & P catalogue under the name Demon for less money). This took a while as there was no wiring diagram and I had to make several phone calls to BTS and speak to their engineer. I also bought the smaller rear sprocket but this only seemed to add 5-10 mph depending on wind conditions so I went back to the larger original one. I changed the rear indicators to smaller ones and now the wires have snapped on these I will be putting some flush mount ones on. I find the ride quite buzzy so I have some gel grips on at the moment with some foams ready to replace them if the gel ones don't improve the ride. I changed the signal relay to get rid of the annoying beeping noise.

The bike cost me £1020 from eBay but they're a lot cheaper now. Overall I am well happy with it. I knew the quality would not match the Japanese and it doesn't. The paint is very thin and rubs off. The steel is poor quality and rusts easily if not protected. Bolts and fasteners drop off so all need thread locking which is now a regular maintenance item whenever I change or service anything. The battery has just started misbehaving. It won't start on the electric starter but will on the kickstart. The main fuse has blown once. The chain rusted up and I replaced it with a DID gold one.

But given all this I am still happy with it. It looks great and turns heads. Parts are cheap (I saw a whole body kit go for £20 on eBay without the front mudguard which is what I paid for a bar end weight for the ZX7R !!). And I now have a new hobby - finding out what bits off Honda XL's and XR's fit it! Learning that this bike was based on / a copy of these I bought a Honda manual to go with the dreadfully funny (because of the translation) Chinese one for the GY125/200. And thank goodness I did because the Chinese one is woefully lacking in tolerances and torque settings.

I'm quite prepared to take the thing to bits and have the frame shotblasted and resprayed once it gets too scruffy. The main selling point for me was the 4 stroke engine and this is proving reliable and torquey.

Insurance was "free" in that when I came to renew my policy it cost me £300 FC which was what the ZX7R had cost me alone the year before. And they added business mileage to my insurance for the GY200 so I can ride it to work!! This was with Riders Choice.

John

This is a continuation of my previous review. Engine on my BTS GY200 198cc appears well made & reportedly reliable. The welding of, and paintwork to the frame is poor, but looks strong enough. I received the bike crated & had to put it together myself. No problem, but also check all the parts that are already built. A lot of the nuts & bolts were loose & brackets needed adjusting; namely the exhaust bracket which stopped the clutch operating properly, and the rear exhaust mount needed spacers to stop exhaust rubbing on the tyre. Oil needs changing immediately as it is not proper stuff (it's to prevent rust). Rear shock non adjustable and quite bouncy on the road. Small tank gives you about 80 miles before you have to switch to reserve. From what I can make out the tank is 5 litres with 4 litre reserve. The bike looks nice & compared to my Fazer, is a fun change with its high ride, easy to throw around at slow speeds & skittish behaviour. The best part is you don't worry about going down rough or narrow lanes, you can just go anywhere, and up curbs. For the price and taking into account the finish & the adjustments I had to do, and the fun you can have on it, I would recommend it to anyone. But...don't expect Japanese build quality.

I have had 2 bikes from China - A 125 4 speed youth bike that I bought for my son, who convinced me that Chinese bikes have good Japanese clone motors and that makes them a steal at the prices they sell for. The 125 has dual twin piston caliper disk breaks and a great sounding off road muffler. The motor has been bullet proof and at $670.00 delivered price it was a great value.

I just bought the GY200 from Chongqing Huansong Industries. There are many versions of this bike from different factories in China all basically the same. China is the number one manufacturer of motorcycles in the world by numbers of bikes produced.

The bike was truck shipped from Los Angeles for $995.00 plus $375.00 shipping. I had to mount the front wheel, connect the headlight and put on the bodywork. When I tried to pump grease into the swing arm grease fitting it sprayed out the side of the poorly welded nut that held the fitting. At that point I disassembled the rear suspension and repacked it with grease. It was totally dry.

The suspension is adequate. The rear shock is a fairly cheap looking unit with no adjustment. It looks fairly strong though and provides a stiff suspension. The front forks look great with gold anodized finish. They are stout and seem to work well. The rims are gold anodized aluminum and look great. The tires are Chinese...

The gauges are very good for a bike in this price range. There is a speedometer in km/hr, an odometer, a trip meter, a gear meter, parking light, brights, horn and blinkers. The blinkers have a beeper that sounds when they are on and the horn is loud. The instrument cluster lights up when the lights are on.

This one has a dual piston disk break on the rear and single piston disk on the front with a "pressure antilock" device on the caliper. Not sure what the operation of the antilock system is, but the breaks are adequate and feel firm.

The motor starts and runs very well. It is fairly hard to kick start, probably due to the newness of the motor. It is suprizingly quiet at idle and not too loud at higher RPM's. The carbureter looks like ones I have seen on Japanese bikes and works well. This is a welcome upgrade from the cheap carb on my 125. I have only riden the bike for about 5 miles since it is not registered yet, but I can tell that the engine has good power and the gear box shifts well. Still a little stiff, but I am sure it will loosen up in a few hundred miles. I definitely am sold on the quality of these Chinese motors. Not as refined as Japanese, but reliable and for the price....

The body work is a flat finished plastic that looks great and fits together well. It does collect scuff marks very easily though. But who cares, this is a dirt bike rite!