Not a copy or ripoff as you wish to call it. Simply a reincarnation of an old model 

 

 

They also had a town version

 

 

Look familiar 🤔

Not nearly as robust looking , no?  

ABS, read disc, LED lights, the nicer cast swingarm on the CT

 

But the Yamaha seem to have address a lot of pain points of the CT, riding position, tyre size, pillion pegs 

 

won't stop people from buying the CT though people already on CT are eyeing the PG1 as second bikes 

The price of the Yamaha PG-1 is exactly ฿20000 less than the Honda CT125.

A friend of mine has a CT 125 and it is all ok but very under

powered.

Also it is kind of a high bike,longer legs will help if you go off road a lot.