HBMoto, Hi Bird, HB Moto, Hi-Bird Motorcycle
Hi-Bird sold me 3 250cc Choppers that are UNSAFE for operation and WILL NOT rectify the situation. Keep giving empty promises. California And China and Internet

Upon visiting an exclusive Dealer Expo in Indianapolis in February I came across a very cool looking 250cc chopper that may appeal to our existing small scooter clientel.

I was contacted by Tony, who's business card reads "Sales Manager". Tony offered me, what I thought was, a good opportunity to become a dealer of their product.

Upon receiving my 1st two choppers there were pait flaws discovered upon inspection. When test riding the 2 to ensure safety of our customers it was discovered that the engine had a very bad limit to which the bike would cut out making it hard to get up to even 35 miles per hour. After the bike was brought back to the shop to discover why, it was found that the bikes have a defective air breather hose, acting as if it weren't getting any fuel - it was actually not getting any air. Upon removing the air breather to test if more air would remedy the issue, it did.

Now we could test the bike at operating speeds... Or so we thought. There was some rear tire vibration initially at the lower speeds that we could only get up to with the breather hose problem, now at 40mph the rear wheel was all but bucking the rider off of the seat.

Now, upon inspection of the rear wheel it was immediately discovered that the rear tire has NO TUBE LINER and the inner tube is THE WRONG SIZE causing a knot in the tube thus throwing the tire balance off. For those who are not sure why the "no tube" statement is so important, these are spoked rims - if there are no liners on the rims, the inner tube will rub against the rim and eventually cause a blow-out. Imagine a customer's family member coming to you to let you know you're customer is in the hospital due to a faulty product you sold them. Luckily this bike was fully inspected prior to sales and I was able to avoid this type of scenario.

We're not finished YET folks...

After the proper tube size was ordered and protective "safe" liners were installed, the chopper still has a terrible bouncing effect. The tire was removed and the wheel put on a stationary axle to where it is discovered that the rim is actually bent and that is has also been chiseled on.

I have purchased 3 choppers - ALL THREE HAVE THIS PROBLEM. Coinsidence or faulty, non-quality engineering?

A list of other problems for your consideration:
*One chopper's left handle grip assembly and controls FELL OFF
*Wiring assembly faulty causing no horn operation
*ALL THREE have non-working on/off kill switches
*Odometer is reading in something other than miles
*Only have TWO of THREE able to be titled because I have asked 5 times for the one title and still haven't received
*Faulty air intake on ALL THREE
*Missing chain roller
*Flaking chrome (on brand new out of the crate)
*2 Defetive front fenders

And after all of this, I'm sure I'm still missing something.

BUYER BEWARE - and be careful.

Company: HBMoto, Hi Bird, HB Moto, Hi-Bird Motorcycle
Country: USA
State: Nationwide
Phone: 9162840206
Site: hbmoto.com

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