Hello and welcome to my guide for the Hyosung cruise 2 motorcycle!

Out of all the non japanese or italian 125cc motorcycles, Hyosung is one of the better ones, the build quality is okay, you can actually get spare parts for them, and they are cheap too!

Hyosung is a korean bike builder, not some tin pop chinese bike builder one off, normally Hyosung make industrial material, I'm not sure how that qualifies them to make motorcycles, but they do okay!

Good points about the Hyosung cruise 2 motorcycle.

The engine is a 4 valve, 4 stroke engine, very reliable, quite torguey, it's a copy of a japanese engine, but it's a decent copy, according to my bike mechanic friend, it's most likely a suzuki GS125 copy!

the bike is good for learning on, decent turning circle, simple controls, surprisingly quiet on tick over, and the ride is very comfortable.

It has a fuel guage, it's the only 125cc motorcycle I know that has one, very useful if your riding on a shoestring budget, when the orange 'E' light comes on, you've got ten miles worth of fuel left!

Fuel economy varies from 70 to 90 miles per gallon, depending on how you ride

Insurance is low too, mine was £245, TPFT for a year, for my first ever vehicle, at the age of 21, is not bad at all!

If you use a hot air gum and peel off the hyosung stickers off the fuel tank and side panels, it looks good!

If you change the rear sprocket form the defualt size to one three teeth less, you can get over 70 miles per hour out of it!

Bad points!!!!!

Part are available, but they are not that cheap, and they can take weeks to arrive!

The engine burns oil, quite a lot to be honest, the only oil brand it didn't burn though was Castrol GTX magnatec, which is car oil, I use to have to carry a litre can of oil for long journeys.

The carb is not brilliant, it can occasionaly lock open, the good news is it won't fill your engine, it hits the road instead, the way to fix it, run the bike with the fuel tap turned off, in motion, then when the carb empties itself, switch the fuel back on, it worked for me on a few occasions!

Oil changes are every thousand miles.

The lifespan of chain and sprockets are pretty poor, 3000 to 4000 miles, and they cost nearly £100 to replace.

Because the bike need frequent oil changes, the oil bolt is hard to remove at first, then the threads wear out and lack all over the floor!

The golden boy tyres are not bad, but you can't buy replacement golden boy tyres, you have to use another tyre brand, and there are not many that make tyres for hyosung wheel sizes!

When my front brake pads wore out, the caliper broke when the mechanic tried to replace them, It was replaced with a GPZ900 caliper, the mechanic said the caliper broke because of poor build quality!

Mine ceased, after just under 15000 miles, and a replacement engine is more expensive than a replacement bike.

If you can get more than 75mph out of it, if being the big word, you get high speed weave, which is bloody scary!

The electrics are dodgy, the indicators switch is awful and they are slow to react.

Conclusion!

The bike is okay, it rides well and easy to learn on, but not good if you intend to keep it and run it.