2010 JH600 For Sale in Nanjing

I just put a deposit down last week on the BMW F800. I’m looking forward to getting it.

My wife is grudgingly helping me to look at options I have to sell the Jialing JH600. She hates babysitting anything to do with motorcycles but since she is Chinese and I cannot speak Chinese worth a damn, she has been conscripted. We are as of today using RMB35K as the starting point for selling price on the bike and plate. Will consider selling bike alone for RMB15K obo. Bike is presently located at our country house west of Yixing but can be brought back to Nanjing if needed.

The bike is the European version which was a little taller than normal and included the racks and plastic panniers and tail baggage.

The good:
· I am a big guy (6’2” 130kgs) so I put Wilbers suspension on front and back. I also have the original suspension.
· I have a custom engine bash plate. OEM bash plate is available.
· Rox 2” risers for the bars installed
· New lighter weight aftermarket exhaust system (not installed)
· Bike always stored in garage or shop at one my supplier factories.

The bad:
· One of 3 bolts holding the oil filter cover in place was broken by the tech first oil change. He was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Pretty sure he turned the thing the wrong way. Two remaining bolts have been upgraded to USA grade 8 allen caps and they have worked well for 5 years.
· Bike fell over while getting initial inspection and bent the clutch lever. I have a new one but never installed.
· I tried to charge a dead battery with a car battery charge system that works thru the cigarette lighter in the dash. I tried to use the power supply port on the Jialing and while the bike started, it fried the switch security system and would not restart. Had to bring in the guru from Jianling’s factory to replace everything and now the mileage shows to be several thousand km less than actual. It only shows under 1000km when actually there are probably closer to 2000km. Still low mileage but I like to disclose everything. (FYI, if you buy my Jialing or one from someone else, the guru from the factory was very good and it does not cost that much to bring him to your location if you need some help.)
· Bike still has original tires. They look good with less than 2000km but they are 5 years old.

Send me a message here if interested.

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Damn. Had that thing been available a year ago...I would have bought it for the list price. Wrong time.

Texas Aggie is that Yixing in Sichuan near Chengdu? Sorry my map is not playing the game today...

Yixing is 1.5 hours south of Nanjing, 1.5 hours northwest of Shanghai, 45 minutes west of Wuxi. Our retreat is west of there by about 30 minutes in the mountains but not mountains like you have there in Chengdu! Great riding at our retreat during the week. Weekends are OK if you avoid the tourist traps. I like Chengdu and go there for work sometimes. Looks like a wonderful place to ride. Hopefully, I will get to try out the F800GS there in the future!

Congratulations

Are you planning to change the suspensions of the F800GS back to normal instead of low version?

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Congratulations

Are you planning to change the suspensions of the F800GS back to normal instead of low version?

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Oh hell yes! I am 6'2" and weigh 130kg+ when geared up! The BMW China team is working with me very well. It costs more but with the special tax deal between Thailand and China, it is still less than bringing in a bike from Germany with normal suspension. Based on what I read, I will be better off with the upgrade aftermarket anyway!

By the way, I am looking to eventually go to tubeless tires so I can use plugs :lol8:

Hey special tax deal between thailand and china!!! Is it worth bringing in a used bike from thailand then? Any info??? Drowl 🚵

There is still a tax even though it is much less than it used to be. I cannot answer your question as I am not sure what you are going to do. If you are bringing it and then taking it out within 90 days or something like that, there is a huge deposit you have to make but you get it back when the bike departs China. If you are bringing one in to ride and keep for a year or more, it is most likely better to buy one here......YMMV

There are nice legal japanese bikes available in thailand also vintage ones with plates much better than here - i'm looking for a back door to get a decent bike in to ride😢

The JH600 is too big for me, i'm a short light guy and used to an agile bike of 100kg with 60 horses(2 stroke yeah!!!), i could do with an xr250 or xr650 but it seems there are only illegal ones here, might just get one and drive it around in a van and just go off the road when there is a chance

You cannot import a used/second hand bike legally (not referring to illegal or smuggling activities). Period. Any bike must be new. You have to use an agent. Sure you could TRY to do the import yourself, but from first hand experience, you won't get far. Taxes and everything else added to import a NEW bike from Thailand (ASEAN) is about 30-40% of the gazetted MSRP and decreasing on a sliding scale as part of a ASEAN agreement. No matter if one was to present a fapiao/invoice for any lesser MSRP amount to attempt to lessen the tax/duties obligation forget it, all bikes approved are in the Tax database. Then there is the whole other issue concerning getting an authorisation letter from your 'work unit' (soc!al!st/c0mmun!st - remember) which approves one to import the vehicle. This is where the agent can be worth the lofty amount charged for their services.

Then there is the whole issue concerning 'CCC' and 'ccc' certification.
Also the bike has to be landed in the country a certain way. You can't just expect to ride the bike through a land border. It don't work that way. Before anything, one has to get the 'approval letter for importation' from Customs first! Customs will designate the port of landing, not you - again the agent helps here. Few ports have the authorisation to handle vehicle import/export.

FWIW, the simple/easy tasks/things are complicated/difficult, while the complicated/difficult tasks/things are simple/easy! - author: me.

True but it must be said, not one customs officer ever got of his chair and walked outside to look at the bike. As long as it came from China it can return. So one bike enters and one bike leaves.

Not that anyone would want to pull a fast one over the powers that be in any country.

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Damn. Had that thing been available a year ago...I would have bought it for the list price. Wrong time.

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Timings everything. Looks like you did just fine on your trip with the bike you had though!

All, I understand that getting second hand Japanese bikes into China is difficult but as the OP, I was kind of hoping my thread here would simply help me to sell a legal Jialing JH600B with Nanjing A plates. :deal:

Hi Texas Aggie is the 600 still for sale?

Zhu, yes it is still for sale. I will send you a PM.

My box was full, I deleted a bunch of old files. Try again or use my personal email I PM'd you.

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I would just like to point out that earlier this year I attended the Xishuangbanna JH 600 maintenance course specializing in fuel injection firmware tuning.
So I am totally qualified to own one of these.

And yes those are Kevlar safety jandals.

Ha! Pretty sure that was the same wrench style that the "mechanic" used on my first oil filter change! Must be in the training manual......

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That's why they call it a monkey wrench. Although it can be considered a man sized multi tool, able to adjust the the engine idle rpm or if necessary the attitude of errant cage pilots.
Here you can see some of Willems fine fleet of 600's at the Thai/Laos border.

After one of the tour riders crashed and had to be flown out they took my spanner off me and told me to ride the bike back to Xishuangbanna. After 1000 km I decided if it had better shocks and forks I could probably live with it.

Wilburs !:bowdown:

Yea, I changed the suspension out immediately on Big Blue and it did indeed make a positive difference. Of course I do not be curse the Jialing company too badly over a cheap suspension as I am also having to change out the suspension on my new F800GS and it is not a cheap bike!

Company "Bean" counters are usually small guys who do not ride motorcycles.....:taz:

Bean counters gotta count it's what they do. That duke in my avatar had white power shocks both ends , brembo brakes and flash wheels whose name I forget but cost three grand a pair. Thing is that was a bike where you had to look real hard to find something you could improve. I just rode it for 400 hours on the engine meter and changed the oil every meeting.

Race bikes are one thing and road bikes another but some nice suspension sure makes a long day more enjoyable. I also found the Jialing would slide quite early because the shock was not really keeping up with the bumps and the bike would get light coming out of corners. It's got lots of rake though so it doesn't want to spit you off into a ditch.

My two cents

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Originally Posted by zhu

Bean counters gotta count it's what they do. That duke in my avatar had white power shocks both ends , brembo brakes and flash wheels whose name I forget but cost three grand a pair. Thing is that was a bike where you had to look real hard to find something you could improve. I just rode it for 400 hours on the engine meter and changed the oil every meeting.

Race bikes are one thing and road bikes another but some nice suspension sure makes a long day more enjoyable. I also found the Jialing would slide quite early because the shock was not really keeping up with the bumps and the bike would get light coming out of corners. It's got lots of rake though so it doesn't want to spit you off into a ditch.

My two cents

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zhu, check your email when you get a chance.

BIG BLUE is SOLD and gone to a new home....

My new lady in red!
http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/at...id=17931&stc=1

Hey ho, cool man.
Congratulations!
BTW: I stay in BJ

So I bought Texas Aggies JH 600 and it just turned up today on a truck. The bike is every bit as nice as he described and included all the farkles he listed here. Many thanks to Texas Aggie and his wife for the effort to get the bike transferred legally from one place to another.

Zhu

ShuBen,

I heard you are staying in Beijing for now. On the bright side, you have access to some of the best roads in China to ride!