Check Out CSC’s Lower-Priced Honda CT125 Competitor

PHOTO CREDIT: California Scooter Company

The Honda Trail 125 (known as the CT125 in some markets) is one of the lowest-priced dual sport bikes you can find in Canada, at $5,756. However, some riders feel it should be lower-priced, and they are disappointed when they can’t find one in stock at their local dealer. Well, if you were in the U.S., the California Scooter Company (aka CSC) has another solution, with their new Wolf 125.

PHOTO CREDIT: California Scooter Company

CSC used to sell bikes into Canada, or at least they planned to, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. They’ve been in business for years, selling Chinese-built bikes into North America, focusing on better-built machines with a bit of a markup that gives CSC a profit, but gives their customers savings over a Japanese bike. They tend to focus on dual sports and adventure bikes and this new Cub-style step-through fits into that mold.

PHOTO CREDIT: California Scooter Company

The Wolf 125 is actually built by Zongshen in China. The engine has 119 cc capacity; it’s fuel-injected, and makes a claimed output between 8 hp and 9 hp. There’s no clutch lever, but riders must boot the four-speed gearbox up or down between the cogs, just like most of the underbone bikes of the developing world (including many built by Honda, which obviously inspired this bike).

PHOTO CREDIT: California Scooter Company

CSC says the Wolf 125 can get better than 50 km/l fuel economy, but you can take that with a grain of salt. Still, you should be able to get at least 40 km/l if you’re riding carefully, and that means the 4.50-liter fuel tank should last you a week’s commute, with range equivalent to most small-cc dual sport bikes on the market.

PHOTO CREDIT: California Scooter Company

The bike weighs just over 100 kg fueled-up, and seat height is only 760 mm. That makes it accessible to most riders, and when you realize their MSRP is $1,995 in the U.S. market, or about $2,775 CAD, well—it makes you wish someone was selling something like this here. Combined with some common-sense traffic legislation changes, it could help a lot of riders get transportation at an affordable price.

Interested? Check out CSC’s website here. Maybe, if you’ve got a friend in the moto-biz, you can forward them that link and get them to bring these in?

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