The bike doe's look the part as a scrambler shaped trail bike. When I first rode it I found that the rear sprocket was way too big for the gearing. I only had the use of four of the gears because I had to use second gear as first. I bought a smaller rear sprocket and was suprised at the low cost of it, most of the parts are quite reasonable. A whole new engine is only around £300 so the parts are cheap. The build quility of the frame is not as good as I would have liked, it means that this sort of bike needs to be maintained well but carefully. Alot of the bolts used are of eight millimiter spanner size, I would like to see ten millimeter bolts used. Ive had the Apache 250 for nearly one and a half years, and it still looks brand new. You've got to look after them they could so easly look like dogs!!!!!!!!