The X18 Pocket Bike - Reseller Lies
86Certain Companies Lie About the X18
By: SuperPocketBikesX18.com
Let's get into the details of the X18 Super Pocket Bike. If you ever went shopping for one, you would have most likely have seen many online resellers say many different things about their X18's from declaring it a whole new revamped model to saying it comes stock with performance aftermarket parts. In reality, they are lies. How is it possible that a 600 dollar super pocket bike has a $300 aftermarket tailpipe? Take a popular pocket bike site, Mini Pocket Rockets. They call their X18 Super Pocket Bike the "X18-R Nitro". What's an "R-Nitro"? Well according to them, it is:
" (Race Edition) ... powered by a newly retuned and tweaked Honda®-Based 110cc 4-Stroke Engine...fully assembled and ready to ride. All upgrades and performance parts are OEM factory installed and tuned for maximum gains and reliability... With numerous Race-prepared modifications performed to the engine and powertrain."
Hmm... well they are right on some things, but mostly wrong. The X18 does have a Honda based 110cc 4-Stroke engine, however is it newly retuned and tweaked? I do not think so. The 4-Stroke engine model for the X18 is the same 110cc OHC engine design used in the 1972 Honda CT70. 1972 was over 30 years ago and the engine design is still used till this day, but that doesn't mean the engine is bad. It is just not new like what Mini Pocket Rockets say to deceive it's customers. The 110cc OHC is still a reliable engine nevertheless. It is still used today because its reliable, easy to maintain, and quite frankly, cheap to manufacture. The X18's 110cc engine comes from a company known as Lifan, a larger automotive manufacturer in China. Lifan confirmed that it's engines are made with tooling that was purchased and set up under contract with Honda. Seriously, if you were to compare Honda's engines and hte Chinese clones side by side, they are identical with the exception of the HONDA logo printed on the side and the hefty price tag.
Let's look back again at what Mini Pocket Rockets said:
" (Race Edition) ... powered by a newly retuned and tweaked Honda®-Based 110cc 4-Stroke Engine...fully assembled and ready to ride. All upgrades and performance parts are OEM factory installed and tuned for maximum gains and reliability... With numerous Race-prepared modifications performed to the engine and powertrain."
Ahh yes, don't you just love how they hype up the bike? The X18's engine is not racing nor performance tuned. It's thrown together by minimum paid workers in the world's most populated country as fast as quality assurance will allow it. Than it's packaged into cargo ships by the thousands and imported into the United States. Take this from a X18 Super Pocket online reseller and rider, there is nothing tuned about it. If you want a real racing tuned super pocket bike, you will have to do it yourself with aftermarket crankshafts, big-bore kits, and carburetors. It can be done as well; there are quite a number of pocket bike enthusiasts rocking some pretty sick bikes reaching speeds higher than 80 mph.
Now to pick apart the last of Mini Pocket Rocket's lies. What about the "performance parts"? I'll make it easy for everyone and answer with a simple: there are none. Mini Pocket Rockets and many other companies are just BS'ing a marketing of people who just don't know any better (now they do). Every single X18 Super Pocket Bike that enter the United States are exactly the same no matter which website you buy it from with the exceptions of model changes ( in which the manufacturer alter minor things such as the battery type, paint scheme, etc. but nothing really performance wise). So if you have a friend who's up in your face with their "X18-R Nitro" saying it is faster. Ask them to show you his or her performance parts and compare them with your non "X18-R Nitro" edition. See who has the last laugh after that.
(as a quick note, during the winter of 2006, two containers of X18 Super Pocket Bikes arrived into the US with a larger counter sprocket installed on the bike than the rest of the models. This bike has less accerlation but a higher top speed compared to other X18 super pocket bikes. But again, this is a manufacturer default.)
To get an X18 from a non-deceiving company, go to SPBX18.com!
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LOL! You're obviously talking about minipocketrockets.com. So what if they're hyping up their bikes. They're selling the X18-Nitro for $579.00, $30.99 cheaper than SPBX18.com who's selling the EXACT same bike, the X18-Bravo for $609.99. If SPBX18.com is so great and cares about their customers so much, why the hell are they selling their bikes at a higher price if it's the same damn bike anyway? Don't be ignorant and listen to someone who has a biased opinion. Do the research yourself and find the best price and best customer service out there. WHO'S YOUR DADDY SPBX18???
Whos My Daddy? Hmm GO check out MiniPocketRockets. They do sell their bikes for 579.99 I give them that, but wait.. hey, they also add shipping costs. Lets see.. thats according to them:
POCKET BIKES = $48.12 ea : QUADS/ATVs = $59.28 ea
SUPER POCKET BIKES = $67.38 ea ( X7, R32, X18-R, X19-CR, ZX1 )
Soo.. IF you add 579.00 to 67.38, you get $646.38 - Which is actually more than what we charge because with us, Shipping is Included with the 609.99.
Whos your daddy now?
Awesome hub! Sounds great.
I bought a bike from minipocketrockets.com and it was a joke, first they didnt want to send me a reciept for my bike, then not even a week after i get it the rear tailight burned out, they wouldnt send me a new bulb or tail light assymbly to fix it. very dissapointing.
i will to buy
mini pocket rockets has free shipping i got my x18 $600.00 exact get your parts from holeshotzperformance.com but dont buy the actual bike there i got a
k&n plug
114cc big bore kit
26mm carb kit/ with intake manifold and filter
Race CDI V2 for $308.00 and i was running about 90
then i got performance exhaust from pocketbikesunlimited
and some small stuff cheap now im running 25hp 12ibs ft of torque going about 100hp
Don't buy anything from holeshotz. I almost lost over $500 to them, just check their BBB rating.....
pocket bikes are ausome
where is the cheapest and safest place to buy a x18. besides minipocketrockets and usapocketbikes
someone please tell me, i reaally ant a x18 but the prices are terrible
i dont want to buy the two tone one i want the cool looking one but they say that its no good whats the diffrence besides for the paint
is mini pocket rockets a good site to order my pocket rocket
well the pocket bike is 107cc and it really is manufacured by honda and it is upgraded a little but they do have good bikes look at the x19 bike it has a different exaust and it is tuned up so you guys stop lieing to everyone ok and the engine has more teeth and upgradedso dont lie....
you guys are gay stop telling lies to people
where is the best and cheapest place to get one???? i am dying for one!!!
well i have a x18 pocket bike and i want to make it go faster what would be the best and cheapest website i can go to for parts willing to pay for good parts let me know my pocket bike is fully stock . so i want to tune everything on it,
that site is down. do they sell zx1's?
forget buying a new one go on craigslist.com you can find many rarely used x18 you won't have to pay a shipping cost waste time waiting if bike isn't what you want u get to see it before u pay and with the couple of hundred dollars you save you can repair anything(if needed) and buy upgrades
I have a question if someone has actually done it. I am looking to buy a x18 or x19. I live in CA and want to know if you can actually register them for street use? If someone could email me and tell me that would be great.
vw_lifer01@yahoo.com
why doest the site work?
Well i want to buy a x-18 but where can i find the lowest price, so can one of you tell me.
MPR is a JOKE end of story but for me it was the JOKE they call CS that PO me there site even has WRONG INFO for what GAS to use and the CS guy told me one day to use 5w40 i call the next day and it took him a few min to relize he was talking to someone who just called the other day understandable if he is talking to allot of people anyway lol he teold me the first time the wrong oil it's 15w40 his LINE was 15w40 is hard to find..... and yes they hype up the bikes and fail to tell you that there is more to assembly than the say.
if i by my son that he will fly off
Uhm this post is right! Don't trust any of the sites listed or any pocket bikes made from China. I bought a mini pocket bike from Usapocketbike.com & another mini pocket bike from minipocketrocket.com (why? Cause I bought each for my kids, but not trusting any sites I tried 2 & see if I could atleast get 1 pocketbike without getting scammed). I ended up getting both pocketbikes. 3-5 weeks later I had to go repair the bikes and the repair cost more than both bikes combined! So I am just warning all buyers to no buy pocketbikes. Your better off with dirtbikes. ALSO! Pocketbikes is pretty much illegal everywhere. Unless your in a parking lot. Your neighbor or some other "safe" place
CHOPPA 3 years ago
YOUR RITE THERE IS NOT A HOLE LOT OF DIFFRENCES BETWEEN THEM BUT IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING OUT OF THE BOX THERE CRAP WITH SOME CARB WORK AND EXHUST MOD I GOT MINE UP TO 65MPH AND KEEPING EYE ON YOUR PARTS YOU CAN STOP THEM FROM GETTING WORSE IV TURNED MINE INTO A TRACK BIKE IM THE ONLY ONE WITH IT AT THE TRACK NO GUAGES NO WIRES NO LIGHTS AND NO BACK BREACK I TOOK OF OVER 10LBS OF CRAP OFF IT THIS BIKE IS SUPER FAST AND REACTS JUST LIKE A FULL SIZE BIKE CHECK OUT YOU TUBE UNDER POCKET BIKE PRACTICE ENGLISH TOWN AND CHECK OUT VID.... WORK ON YOUR BIKE AND IT WILL RUN THE X18 FOR THE MONEY IS THE BEST POCKET MID BIKE OUT