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Steve's ChunLan 250-3 （春兰250-3）
Well, Chunlan stopped building bikes a long time ago (when they were, there were 3 almost identical models on the Chinese market: 大地鹰王250-3；春兰250-3 and 钱江250-3) and their bikes weren't that popular.
They branched out into making air conditioners and eventually sold that business to LG, so there's no ChunLan company existing as of now (or so I heard).
But I got their bike right here.
Disclaimer:
This bike is built for show purposes only. It is illegal, has no paperwork and is unplated. I am not riding it anywhere downtown Nanjing out of respect and the lack of desire to break laws when I don't absolutely need to.
Anyway:
This is how the original bike looked like when bought for 2700 yuan from a shady guy in XianLin (that's like a forest area in Nanjing where cops never show up). The photo is from nj.58.com (a website that I found this piece of ... a bike on)
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This is what I decided to make of it at a momentary whim. All I needed was a couple of wrenches and a cutting tool.
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And this is how it looked the second day after I purchased it:
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What I needed here were 4 rattlecans of paint (easily available for 8 yuan at your local hardware store). The baby helped paint exhaust pipes :)
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The further plan for this ... things are yet unknown. Any ideas??? Probably sell it to someone for many-many yuan???
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By the way, the bike seems to be quite well-designed on the technical side. Say, rubber pads in the rear wheel drum to smoothen out sprocket vibration when shifting.
Push-pull throttle cable arrangement. Neat tire size (I checked but I don't really remember).
What it took me to bring it into working condition (detailed breakdown):
1. Disassembled and washed up the carbs.
2. New spark plugs.
3. Oil change.
4. Front brake bleed.
Headlight and stoplight were working as usual. The horn also was. Not much to fix, really.
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Steve_Halt
Any ideas???
Acctually - yes.
Swap bike for electric pressure washer and few bottles of car shampoo, so you could wash your blue NK.
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:) NK washing needs (and will) be done sometime when it gets warmer. I planned to rat this one, still it looks to good for a real rat...
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Dude!
This is hilarious. We have got to meet up sometime and have a drink together. You definitely know how to rat a bike!
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Actually this bike is very like a Qianjiang also made, based off a Honda CMX250 Rebel.
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TexasAggie
Dude!
This is hilarious. We have got to meet up sometime and have a drink together. You definitely know how to rat a bike!
Hope so :)
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Actually this bike is very like a Qianjiang also made, based off a Honda CMX250 Rebel.
It's not only QianJiang; in 2000-s there was a plethora of those bikes around:
1. QianJiang 250-3, which was oil-cooled;
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2. Regal Raptor 250, which lives on to this day and offers both 250 and 350 parallel twin bikes;
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3. JinCheng 250, which was very short-lived and was never popular
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and, well, ChunLan 250-3, which must have been a cheap rip-off of QianJiang and was short-lived too.
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The majority of those sold in the USA were made by FYM here is a parts manual.
http://manuals.monsterscooterparts.c...refix-LE8P.pdf
http://www.5rmotor.com/product.asp?page=4&fid=1
They still make them...
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Maaaan! You're so much of help with that parts' catalogue! I've been looking for the brake pads (front/rear on taobao) and couldn't find the matching ones.
Thank you!!!
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Jinlun makes them too.
Right, it's just that I haven't seen one. I guess JinLun is a somehow rebranded Regal Raptor...
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yeah! get this guy in here!
youtube.com/laowhy86
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In the states that bike was sold as tank 250, baja phoenix, and the other names mentioned, in other countries it sells under 100 other names like mondial and Zanella like these customized examples below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxrRn6EbRw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh2g4dv4cck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr8IThgD6AI
If it were me I would find a similar blown engine motorcycle for cheap and swap the frame so it can be legal for the road again, then you can take a little time [and very little money] to make something nice from it.
Check this out, this is not a lot of money or work to make it look nice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eyqiHC0sVE
That's just a nice paint and polish, drop the rear a few inches and tarted up with cheap add ons which are less than $200-300 US.
Even though you painted it, it would shine right back up if you stripped and polished it.
They're not that bad, and they can look awesome if you take the time to do it up right.
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Alright, so I found this in the same parking lot, where I parked my ratted ChunLan:
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Apparently, some smart dude saw my bike, did pictures and asked someone to copy-copy. With a typical Chinese twist on Harley stickers and Akrapovich pipes.
I needed to differentiate immediately. Just so, the bike shop I did my ChunLan in, had a basket with an inbuilt light, handmade for some scooter and never installed.
I absolutely needed to have it. The basketlight was installed with zip-ties and a piece of a coat hanger.
Pics:
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And probably my favourite pic to date:
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You should mount a big rubber dildo on your saddle. In just the right position. See if he copies THAT!
Of course that would pose challenges for you to ride your own bike...
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Mind you someone might see that and think it is some unknown or yet undiscovered mushroom or such like... and before one knows it, makes the media headlines etc.
There was something similar in recent years, when a villager found a discarded fake latex vagina in amongst the dirt out in a field. Not knowing what it was the villager who discovered it, took the item back to the village where the village folk giving it the once over, declared it an unknown type of special mushroom, and had the media there in the droves reporting on the new discovery, before an academic or such like declared the new discovery as nothing more than a discarded latex vajayjay... LoL.
Can you imagine the humiliation, beat brows and embarrassment for all and sundry... a classic TIC moment.
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You should mount a big rubber dildo on your saddle. In just the right position. See if he copies THAT!
Of course that would pose challenges for you to ride your own bike...
Or probably mount it on their bike right away - save the dude an effort :)
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Right, so after I transported a 5.1 sound system to my friend's house on this bike, I understood that it severely lacked in storage space.
So I "installed" a side bag.
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Nice post!!!! i must say that you are very good on spraying paint:eekers: with a flat-taller seat and lower handlebar woul be a nice cafe-racer:rolleyes1:.
About the sidebag.....dont be cheapy make it a pair. keep up the project:lol8::lol8:
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Nice post!!!! i must say that you are very good on spraying paint:eekers: with a flat-taller seat and lower handlebar woul be a nice cafe-racer:rolleyes1:.
About the sidebag.....dont be cheapy make it a pair. keep up the project:lol8::lol8:
I don't have another bag to start with :) that one was my friend's old schoolbag he wanted to throw away.
I would cafe it, but the idea was to have a ratbike and the philosophy goes like "fix it cheap when it is broken" :), so, I would've put on a different seat and a set of handlebars had they gone bad.
But, fortunately or not, I can't - the bike was sold to a dude who wanted it a lot ...
