Luxury or Performance? ClevelandMoto Test Rides the 2022 SYM CityCom S 300i SCOOTER.
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2022
- We take a blast on the excellent, (but stripped down) SYM CityCom S 300i.
Is it TOO BASIC? or is it just right? What do you think? - Auta a dopravní prostředky
These are a very good bike. I put 37000km on mine and it still ran great. It actually took 20,000 km ( about 12000 miles ) for the engine to fully break in and run it's best, so SYM engines are very durable. The bikes themselves are more cheaply made. Mine needed a new turn signal switch, and the dealer refused to order it for me. His excuse; "too expensive". This was a problem because this was the only SYM dealer left in Western Canada and SYM only sells parts through dealers. Riding the bike in local Vancouver BC traffic without turn signals would be suicide.
I wound up scrapping the bike and bought a Suzuki Burgman. there is no problem getting parts for Suzuki's.
It's a shame because the Citycom was way more fun to ride; quick off the line with motorcycle like handling. It just needed ABS, which my Suzuki has. BTW I loaded that grocery hook up so that I had to ride with my feet on the edges of the floorboards and it was fine. Where this bike is killer is if you are tall. I'm 6 four and I fit great on the Com. Every other bike I tried except the Burgman, my knees hit the bars. if I could count on good service, I would have another.
Thank you for the video. A dealer in Texas told me that KYMCO changed management for the USA over a year ago and the new people are really not good at their jobs. They're from China. He said that it is harder to get the right parts and it's taking them so much time to get things right, that he just dropped the KYMCO brand. He sells SYM too.
The thing about SYM is that they have even fewer dealers than KYMCO. How reliable are SYM scooters compared to Yamaha or Suzuki scooters? I've only met one lady who owned a SYM copy of a Honda Cub. She liked it but hadn't owned it more than a year. It didn't have many miles on it. I'm considering buying a big SYM but will be moving to Montana. The closest SYM dealer will be in a different state. So reliability and parts availability are important to me. Owning something made in Taiwan is more appealing to me than a Chinese made machine. I've owned a Honda Metropolitan, a Honda Reflex, and now own a KYMCO Agility 125.
About 70% of the models shipped into the USA by Kymco are Chinese, the better stuff (Ak550 etc.) Is taiwan. The SYM's are mostly Taiwan, The US Sym distributor does a great job and the bikes are solid as hell. If I had to choose between the CityCom 300i (SYM) and the X-Town 300 (Kymco), I'd go with the CityCom 300i.
If you can't possibly lock up the front tire with the brakes, do you really need an anti-lock feature? I suspect its a built in safety feature.
Some countries mandate ABS, the brakes on the Citycom are fantastic.
Looked at both SYM and Kymco. SYM sat like a glove. Very comfortable and felt good. Brakes concern me
You don't need to worry about SYM brakes, they're amazing.
I rode one of their carbureted 125s for a while, so a 300i seems like a Learjet to me
It's a quick bike. Very stable at 80+ mph too.
MINE IS a 2020 ,,with CBS,,,in BRASIL the 2022 started coming with ANTILOCK BRAKES
In certain markets ABS is mandated. Not in the USA....yet.
U should rid review the x town like you've done the citycom I haven't seen an American x town review from a dealer
Its the CBS,,,COMBINED BRAKING SYSTEM,,I have ONE here in COLOMBIA,,and the cylinder is CERAMIC LESS FRICTION