If it is worth anything, I would like to add another issue....

Even though ST engines, like most other makes, use CNC made parts and are manufactured by low pay worker, in far east China, they still have some of the original Super Tigre spirit left in them.

The design is still original Super Tigre; not a clone engine, like TT, Sanye (Magnum, ASP, SC...), TS, Tower/GMS...

...And they still have their own idiosyncratic behavior, like any real Italian item (car, motorcycle,...).


I don't look away from such things, like some modern day R/Cers, that need everything ready-to-run, right out of the box. They actually attract me to 'fiddle' with them...