US certificate holder — partial coverage
Which Metro Rider models have a Chinese-built engine?
1 of the 3 certificate filings on record for Metro Rider LLC name a China-built engine. This page covers only those, and says nothing about the rest of the range.
- Model years
- 2007
- Engine factories
- 1
- Engine families
- 1
- Coverage
- 1 of 3 filings
What the Metro Rider filings say about the engines
Every Metro Rider filing on record is carburetted — 1 certificate row, 2007, and not one fuel-injected engine among them.
None of the 1 filings is a 50-state certification: these were sold as 49-state machines, not certified for California.
Rated power on the record is 12.5 kW (about 17 hp).
The vehicle builder named on every row is Shanghai Honling Motorcycle Corporation.
Each figure is read straight off the EPA certificate rows; the per-family pages below carry the full breakdown for every engine family.
The factory behind the China-engine models
Shanghai Honling Motorcycle Manufacture Co.,Ltd.
Also builds engines for 2 other American brands. See the full list
Model names certified under Metro Rider LLC
1 distinct model designations appear on this brand's China-engine certificates. Yours should be among them — importers sometimes market a machine under a different name than the one they certified.
(see note below)
Related in the registry
Source. US EPA annual certification data — EPA Certified Highway Motorcycle Test Results, MY2006-present; EPA Certified Off-Road Motorcycle / ATV / UTV / Rec Vehicle, MY2006-present. Retrieved 2026-09-07. Based on the 1 China-engine rows among 3 certificate rows filed by Metro Rider LLC. Non-China filings are out of scope. Full provenance and method.