Theres a weird thing goin on in malaysia riding culture, majority of the people are "lazy" to upgrade their license and stick with under 250cc, hence all the glorified 250cc. Expand your search abit further, you'd realise the pricing isnt that big a gap and you get better returns with 400/600+cc bikes. Personally id stay away from 250cc(practicality wise) if you already own a bfull to begin with.

Don’t know la, I cincai say only. I thought bottom out shock during emergency braking is weird means you brake backwards? Or are you try to wheelie while doing emergency braking so can bottom out the shock?
Buy the bike that you really like, and that you won’t mind fixing it if anything bad happens.
Rather than a bike that you expect to be very reliable, but breaks down randomly unexpectedly and you get frustrated.

This above does not apply to Italian bikes because they are meant to break down anyway so it’s the joy you get when they don’t.

CFMoto can take a look also la. Ninja 250 also have its issues.
Some ppl memang plan to JT or sambung bayar the day letak dp for bike. Use few months, then pass to others la. Cannot pass then piang. Facebook also got ppl teach the procedure to piang bike.

600cc to 250cc if we say same brand like kawasaki (ninja 250, ninja 650, ZX6R), or Yamaha (R25, R6)
I would say the parts are 4x more…

For EO, I would use RM40 per bottle for 250cc, but if 600cc, I’d say RM80 per bottle…

CFMoto from China assembled locally, u don't have to buy, but can search for owners club and tune in. you have a point, so make sure their service center is nearby.

piang = JT = lari bank: sorry i dunno where this term from, but ppl posted before and can search facebook got ppl memang do business deal with such vehicles

I feel attacked but thankfully it's Federal Highway(I'm milessss away) so not me phewwww. I don't do the finger tho

Anyway ts, I came from 125cc clutch bike. Got myself a used z8(non-abs) early this year. My first ever big cc bike. Just for fun. Not for daily, work stuff. But I rode it almost daily anyway
3 months of usage, almost 8k km covered. EO change roughly Rm200 for oil filter and 4 bottles of EO. Done it twice already. First was Castrol Ultimate and last one was Caltex Havoline. A pair of Metzeler roadtec 01 cost me rm900.
Of course these depends on cheap vs expensive stuff.

i dont agree when you said cfmoto is copy cat without take some look on it. i am first batch of 250nk owner. Have no much complain on it except not enough juice while on highway. city ride is good. maintenance is cheap, rm10+ for oil filter. engine oil only need 1.4L as it is single cylinder. clocking 27k km now and still going on. For spare part wise, the factory is at Penang, and any cfmoto authorized dealer can help you to order all those spare parts and it reach less than 3 days(my experience). What? still expensive? then go take a look at taobao and order from there with 10-30% cost reduced.