CFMOTO 450 MT - Australia First Impression 

It's a bloody great looking machine. We might have to look at making some parts for it ;)

Well done Pete! A good close up, detailed look and see. I checked out that 450MT, and it has alot to offer. Time will tell, but hopefully it makes purchaser's happy. Thanks for sharing Pete!! 👍😁

Thanks Pete. I ordered mine a while ago. Should be here soon and I am super excited to try it out. Looks like a good package and by all accounts, it appears to be as good as it looks on paper!

This old bloke is picking his up in 2 weeks. Dropping 50kgs from the F850 GSA. Hoping that this will be a tad easier to pick up. Specs look ideal for me, time will tell.

G’day Pete, Wow what a smick awesome looking adventure bike definitely looks the part, I’ll be keen to check one out, fantastic vid mate cheers Mick

Great vid Pete. I sat on one at MCAS Dandenong today also. Very nice bike, like a mini T7. Felt light too but it had no fuel or oil. If it was 175kg wet it would be winner. Bargain for what you get.

G'day Pete, what an exciting time for adventure riders, with all these different varieties coming onto the marketplace, plus the added bonus of a great pricing structure, I'm sure theyll sell quite well Great detailed first look . Cheers 🍻

This bike seems to tick all the boxes. And it looks fantastic! Thanks for posting this, Pete. As a guy in my 70s, it might be my Unicorn.

Awesome looking bike. I have watched many reviews on this bike now and my main concerns are fuel consumption and maintenance out in the field. Also alot of plastic on this bike compared to say the new Himalayan 450. So durability on the plastics will be interesting. The price point is around the same as the Himalayan 450 which doesn't surprise me. I'm still undecided on which bike I will purchase but I'm a patient guy. I'll give it another couple of months before I lay down my cash on my next adventure bike. Thankyou for sharing.

Cant wait to get mine

Once everyone starts getting these on the road the hottest RU-vid comparison review will be this vs the new Himalayan. Geez you get a lot for your money hey. I hope everyone who buys these new bikes have an awesome experience because some may think they’ve taken a risk site unseen. But for under $10k you have to roll the dice right? Great little review mate.

The MT800 has just come out in Britain and a friend of mine The Bingley Wheeler just bought one and it looks marvelous so when the 450 arrives here one could be arriving in my garage, excilent first look FP :)

I think this bike will come to be seen as a watershed moment for Chinese bikes & will sell like hot cakes. A game changer for sure.

Perfect bike for adventure

Definitely my next purchase

Looks pretty good 👍

Thanks for the heads up! I actually took that one for a test ride recently after getting ADR approval. It rode brilliantly except for the slack throttle cable made the ride a bit on-off in turns. Nothing major that some spanners can’t fix. Have you test rode one?

Would love this bike next to my fjr 1300

Great shop

Very good looking bike!

Just a few kg heavier than a DR. Well not to bad anyway 😂 I saw a bunch of reviews from the Philippines launch and reviewers get together. Those guys luked it pretty much.

It looks pretty good, the sub frame looks pretty solid for luggage attachment. It will be interesting too see how this bike handles our tough Australian conditions like the Simpson, ruff rocky terrain and long corrugated dirt roads. Do you know anything about the motor ? Is it an engine that has been tried and tested in any other bikes ? Or it a completely new design on the market ?

Great looking bike! 👍

Goog looking bike , looks reasonable 👌 at a good price. Does your camera have fish eye lense or image stabilisation . Maybe play with the settings. Looks like you used action canera.

Question , does a 6' 2"/ 187cm person fit? is the knees angle bad for long rides?

Looks very good! Several kgs lighter than the new Himalayan too!

Very nice Bike... here in indonesia the prize is more expensive about 15.000 Australian Dollar...

can you use an triple tree front paddock stand on these bikes?

Considering the price, they’ve done a far better job than Yamaha and Honda. The specification only lacks cruise control, otherwise well done CFMoto. Now they need to bring an exact same bike out, but with a 600cc engine, with 60hp and cruise control. 👍 Time will tell, if it’s reliable and well screwed together.

Ok, so why can you buy one? Ive had one on order since xmas.

There's a standard 4 year warranty on the 450MT in Europe.

I've been wondering why Kawasaki never made a KLR500 twin. It makes zero sense to put a single cylinder engine on a modern streetbike, because a parallel twin is orders of magnitude more rideable for highway driving. Premium single cylinder bikes just can't compete. Listen to the reviews of just how insanely happy and excited people are about the CF Moto 450 twin. A twin is a whole new riding experience that is far more exciting. The problem is, they used to build dozens of small twin cylinder enduros, 50 years ago. Now they only build enormous twins or tiny singles and nothing in between. Remember the SL350 Honda enduro? Or the Honda CB360T screaming banshee? I had a 1977 XS400 Yamaha twin and it was the best enduro I've ever owned, I took it into the woods daily, and also on really long highway rides. It's a mystery why they stopped making these amazing small displacement twins.

I only se 1 fail on this bike and that is that it have only 1 singel brake on the front weel, it should been two!

I think the high fuel consuption is high, we need lighter 250 cc version with similar specs

Is it time to sell XT660Z ?

This is a dr650 killer

4 year warranty in the UK 👌

Are they CFMOTO dealer?

Chose RE Himalayan, looks like air filter etc a nightmare to service. Coming off a trk502x, nightmare to work on.

This or the 2025 Ktm 390 adventure?

The 450MT will eventually kill off the KLR.

LIKE**//

So much glossy plastic everywhere on the bike. 😮😢

Just ride and chat please

Looks like any other toys r us bikes om the market, the downside is that there is no way in hell you can get spare parts for it when (not if) it breaks down( just as bad as ktm and bmw) , and maaan all that plastic, 😢

T7 clone...