Comments on: Review: 2021 CFMOTO 300SR ABS LAMS Sports

By: Steven Maschek

Steven Maschek — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 07:48:36 +0000

Hi, Glad to hear that you are enjoying your rides, and they are most likely totally adequate for general riding and learning if treated with respect and proper attitude. Swampy you really need to start again as although I am also a newer rider, I have ridden several different bikes in different forms (R3, MT650, MT07 (Highly modified), Ninja 650, CBR500R,and my current Ride a Triumph Street Triple) and can tell you that your attitude to riding is fine with a low 22KW and 25NM, but as soon as you jump on something with some performance you are likely going to have some real issues. You are learning bad habits and techniques. Pretty much everything you commented about above will get you killed when you progress up to bigger bikes
I can tell you that if you even tried what you are doing on a even a LAMS Street Tripple 660, for instance you are going to do one, and probably more of the following
– Drop the bike on take off, (Even the 660 has insane levels of aceleration up to over 120k/hr in first.
-the grip and balance of the suspension are so much better and demand respect.
– The Brakes are so damn good that you can easily go over the handle bars if you start grabbing a handfull of brake.
I could go on and although all of these things make it a superb bike, you need to learn respect and proper skills as these things can kill you when miss used.

Although I think it is good to restrict learners to less powerfull bikes, what you are demonstrating is the reason for scaring the pants off of learners to show them the real potential of these machines and the importance of learning respect and proper skills

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:51:24 +0000

i used to lean towards the “branded”, all 5 of my previous bikes were.
after a year of research – reading and watching reviews, finally bought the torquoise variant….NO REMORSE AT ALL. as a matter of fact…i feel PROUD.

By: Swampy

Swampy — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:49:22 +0000

Sad but true – the lack of comments, to be clear.. So let me throw my hat in and share a few personal observations.. Whilst I might be a newb when it comes to bike ridinng, all of my 5000Kms of ‘experience’ have been on the 300SR and at least 4900 of those have been of pure joy and excitment.. as I started clock up the Ks, the comfort level was going up, the grin was getting wider, speed and lean angle through corners faster equally proportional to the confidence I was gaing in teh belief that this is a quality machine, despite the popular misconception by most ‘experienced’ riders regarding ‘a chinese piece of crap’. Hell, I reckon most of these people never sat on one so, all things being equal, who is actaully qualified to have an opinion on the Chinese bikes.. But I digress,.. the bike looks hot, turns heads..it gets noticed. Goes without saying that mine lookes hotter still than the one pictured in the story – 3 reasons.. It’s mine, it’s black..and has a black visor.. Yep, rattle can of black magick has strangers wanting to take photos of it… Yep, including the local consta bulary, so I am easing off the throttle again, whilst the grin is still growing..

Serioulsy though, from the practical point of view, it’s light weight hence very maneuverable, quick off teh lien… and very forgiving… well lets say the breaks, the ABS work and work well. Having once or twice come in to a corner too hot whilst trying to figure out this trail breaking caper or just twisting the throtle all the way from a set of ligths and punching up through the gears only to see the traffic ahed had stopped, grabbing a handful and resolving without soiling.. well, that’s what makes this the perfect learning bike for me.. and that’s what it’s about I reckon… well that and avoiding the same mistake again in the future.. It’s comfortable to ride… you can tuck in, slide your but back and put the hammer down through twisties, pretending you are oh so close to take out the gold at the Isle of Man, or slow down, move up and sit up starigter without feeling cramped or smashing the crown jewles on the tank… Speaking as a Newb, you may want to go back to ‘that’ YouTube video where Dave Moss will remind you how to tweak the ‘hand control ergonomics’ and then have the aformantion TT wet dream.. Speaking of which, it’s just gone midnight, the roads will be empty, I think i will head out for a bit.. a photo opportunity perhaps..;o)

p.s. yeah, turning 50 next month but I swear I feel pimples popping up when I just think of putting a few mo clicks on my Chinese made bike.. but hey, don’t take my word for it, I am Newb.. go try one and then have an opinion..

By: jon radz

jon radz — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:26:21 +0000

wonder why not much of a comment maybe it is well elaborated….

but thanks much for making a detailed review