The first JH600 in Nanjing?

I just had a quick squiz through the cited city regulations, and the only reference to motorcycles I found was to phasing out all vehicles, including motorcycles, that do not meet the China III emissions standard that is being put into effect pretty much everywhere. As long as there is uniform enforcement this is not the same as a ban, though right now I'm guessing that 99.9% of all motorbikes on the street do not meet China III. Hence the loose use of the term "banning motorcycles" by the sloppy news reporter.

Aggie, I'm thinking your JH600 probably does meet that standard. But I seriously doubt that your CJ750 does!

cheers

The whole thing is idiotic. Any vehicle that runs on diesel has restrictions on it, yes dirty trucks do, but amongst the worlds most efficient diesel engines ever made are those made by VAG, in modern Audis and VWs in Europe. Also any vehicle with practicality is frowned on, what Australians call a ute or Americans a pickup are not allowed in cities.

Wouldn't it be easier to just ban everything except for black Buicks? Because it's clearly the people who drive them who are making the laws. :gun_bandana:

I just found the closest thing I thought substantiating a report on the news last week. The news stated total ban like Dalian and Guangzhou but I may have been lost in translation as I often am. I know the news reported that Jincheng was trying to steer things to make sure they were not adversely affected regarding future business. Your interpretation makes sense that they may have succeeded. I really did not have much time to dig deep into it. I am optimistic that Jincheng can keep things going but...........TIC so I am holding off on the shop for few months. If the ban hits my CJ, I will simply send it to the USA to retire in glory on a showroom floor with short parade trips to the local Texas pub. I could live with that. If it is total ban, I might cause an international incident for lack of approved legal stress relief!:taz::swords:

I need to remember you read as well as speak Chinese Mandarin!!!

Received Pfaelzer's first Engine skid plate with tool box and had it powder coated to more closely match my frame. It now seems the mounting holes do not match for my bike and Pfaelzer's. This is either because the two bikes are different or my team has made a mistake in the replacement of the original spacers as the powdercoat process gets up to 170 degrees C so we had to remove the origninal plastic spacers. I have both the original and the new ones and they are close but do have a difference in thickness of 0.5mm. I suspect this is the root cause of my trouble. We will try and get it sorted as soon as I figure a way to shave off the spacers with no access to a real machine shop. Anyway, a friend and I took the bikes out today and rode some. Not a total waste of the day.

Here you can see the powder coat looks good.
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Here is my original engine skid plate. Sorry for lousy picture but you can see the color of the frame and factory engine guard setup.
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I found I had to jump start the JH600 due to cold weather and my lack of starting for over a month. While putzing around in the underground garage getting the cables situated I thought about how the factory setup I have has the key release seat remotely located so you do not have to remove the pannier to open the seat. It is a nice feature. I am not sure how you guys that have the standard bike with aftermarket panniers do this but I thought I would show a picture in case you might get an idea to do something similar for your bikes
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In spite of my setback on the installation of the engine skid plate and tool box setup, the fact it was 2 degrees C outside, a day riding is still better than not riding.

Dear Aggie,

Nice post today. Glad you are out there freezing your butt off on the behalf of us softies.

About that seat release lock -- yes, it's definitely a hassle for me with my Tourfellas and the horizontal lock. How'd you make the lock turn north like that?

cheers!

It was cold but I needed the therapy:taz:

The Jialing factory actually has the setup bracket to turn the keyed seat lock release up. I am not sure if the cable length is the same as the standard setup on your bike or if the factory JH600 setup would work with your Tourfella bracket system but with you Chinese communication skills, you might make a phone call and see? It might accidentally be an easy bolt on process :clap:

That would be a nice accident indeed (certainly better than my last). I'll give them a call, and thanks again for the tip.

Wish I could get out for some therapy too. It's a gorgeous sunny day here in Shanghai, but all of 1C. (And my orthopedist would not be happy if I went out and tested my clavicle right now...)

cheers

Bad News and Good News from Nanjing.

We just moved into a new home and it was time to move the toys in the stable. As expected batteries were too weak to crank the toys up. 5 minutes of kicking the old Chang Jiang and we were off to the races. Things were looking OK. Then came the turn for the JH600. No kick starter and no battery jumpers available (it takes 3 hours to go to any store in this paradise) but I did have a setup I have used that goes from cigarette lighter to a rechargeable battery device that has proven track record with cars and bikes in the USA. You can see it at this link:
www.porta-jump.com
It is small and works great the times I have used it before.
Let me save others with Jialing JH600's a lot of trouble. DO NOT USE THIS ON JIALING JH600's! It seems the anti theft module REALLY does not like this. Things went like this:

• The bike fired up then promptly went completely dead.
• I changed out the blown fuse, went to the store and bought a set of proper battery cables
• I knew in my heart I had fried something else but hoped it was just a fuse.
• Next day went back to the old house and NOPE....we were dead.

Now for the good news.

• My wife has the number of the nearest factory guy to Nanjing, our hero, Mr Li, is only one hour train ride away in Anhui province
• He arrives 48 hours later exactly as he said he would
• It was scary to watch at first but the guy knew the bikes very well. I highly recommend him for those that find themselves in need of help
• He spends less than 1 hour finding the culprit. The anti theft module is fried.
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• Unfortunately, he does not have spare with him.
• Fortunately, this is China where the easy is impossible and the impossible is easy. He simply calls his buddy over in the next province. They put the module on a bus in Hefei at 2:45PM and we pick it up at the bus station at 5:00PM. We even had the bus driver's cell phone for status updates on estimated time of arrival!
• Since the bike is completely torn down to the frame, I look at the rear shock and remember I still have a new Wilbers with the remote adjustment that AW and Franki worked so hard to design. I figure what the hell, let's maybe exchange this while we are at this stage?????
• He happily agrees and we go by the house and pick up the new shock.
• One hour later
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• New Wilbers fits like a glove! Perfect! Unlike AW's, I had the advantage of the threaded hole so no special adjustments were required.
• Here is the new shock adjustment knob
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