What do you do when you really want a chopper, but can only afford a scooter? Well, you either customize your scooter to look like a chopper, or you get yourself a Zongshen Yomi 125. No, what you’re seeing in the image above isn’t some sort of backyard-built custom cruiser, but rather, a production motorcycle from Chinese manufacturer Zongshen.
Zongshen is one of the more popular Chinese brands out there, and indeed, we’ve talked about some of their bikes in the past. While for the most part Zongshen’s bikes conform to the so-called “industry standard” two-wheelers, the same can’t be said for the Yomi 125. Just launched in the brand’s home country of China, the Yomi adopts the styling of a classic American chopper, albeit shrunken into mini-bike caricature form. It gets a really long front end with an extremely slack head angle, as well as bodywork that attempts to emulate the custom look of US-made choppers.
