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Hey people! We set up a new club/website, in fact we have already created a facebook site here:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref...d=163213105424

So join it if you are on facebook! :lol8:

I was having a chat with Crazy Carl a few weeks ago, and he seemed to be surprised how small the ZMC (Zibo Motorcycle Club) actually was, as we have so many members who have lived in China and have left. Also he seemed disappointed that we didn't have a proper website, which wouldn't be worthwhile for such a small club. So I was thinking what would be a worthwhile use of our time? A national club!

The aims are just to bring together a few elements of the motorcycling community who are English speaking on the web under one general linking page, but also with its own content such as bike reviews, a factual legal page or two, some racing stories and news about the Chinese motorcycle market, whether it be imported bikes or Chinese bikes for export, eventually a section which could show regional areas.

I was hoping that some of you guys might want to be involved in some way, people all have different skills and locations. Andy knows the legal/import bikes/Beijing legal and Beijing and outer areas. Other people such as Lago888 know the race scene and Beijing, Shanghai fingers knows Shanghai and his way round a 750 or two, Crazy Carl knows the Chinese M/C market Forchetto knows the engineering side of things, plus many others of you out there, BIGDAMO out in Xinjiang.

So this group is open to you to contribute to as much as you wish, as long as you ride or have ridden in China or have an interest in Chinese bikes. If you have any content or skills such as a bike reviews, province or city reports, website coding (HTML CSS etc) we’d love to hear from you.

I have also set up a website here:

The site http://www.the-fmcc.co.cc/ is just a concept at the moment, most of the content tracks back to mcm, but it is just a development stage. I am still working on it. Take a look, how does the site look on your computer? What should I add or leave out? Suggestions?

I had the idea to have open contributions to province and city reports, like a 'lonely planet' for bikers in China, but this is beyond my current coding skill.

We don’t want to make problems for anyone or do anything that anyone else is already doing or upset the powers that be. We give massive kudos to CC for setting up mychinamoto, so we don't really want to do anything that he is already doing with this site, also we do not want to upset the Beijing bigwigs, so we will not condone illegal riding, nor condemn those that make their own decisions, just arm people with the facts. Possibly provide help (in a fully legal way only) to people who might want to ride in China.

ZMC,

Sounds like a good project! I certainly wasn't disappointed that you didn't have a web site but at the time was only looking for an easy way for the QingQi factory folks to learn a little something about your band of merry men. The ZMC crew does some good riding and have some great opportunities coming up so heck, why not have a place to put those experiences out there?

The web blog format in the prototype site looks nice and easy to use but the scope of topics you've chosen to include in the FMCC is very wide. Get ready for mucho web work-o! :thumbsup:

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CC

CC and ZMC I think this website and the FMCC compliment each other and having both is a great idea. They work together to establish a stronger presence on the web of the Chinese bike scene. I realise that MCM serves a global audience but it will also serves the Chinese bike community well.

On a point of interest, a couple weeks ago a group of about 10+ CF Moto scooters and V3s rode past me on my electric scooter. It was a Sunday and it looked like they were returning from a breakfast/lunch run or a day out together. It is possible that there is a CF Moto group or club here in Chongqing.

Do either of you know who makes CF Moto bikes? I did a quick search the other day but couldn't really find who makes them.

Hey riders, the 'manufacturer' section on http://www.the-fmcc.co.cc is finished. Also updates, check it out.

Does ayone have a cj750 logo I can use?

OK how do i join sign up for this club?

I might find it a bit difficult to attend club meetings but if you want to come up here and hold a meeting your more than welcome.

I am meeting some Americans tonight for dinner who also live here and I am told a couple of them have motorcycles here I'll see what there up to.

I guess you could have branches of the club all over China?

Bigdamo, China is huge so much of the meeting up can be done on the web!:lol8: Although it would be nice to meet up with people face-to-face and ride when possible of course. You can join the club on facebook for now if you have lowered your standards enough to tolerate using it! :icon10:http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?r...d=163213105424, in the future I would like to run membership through the site itself, I need to sharpen my web coding skills a little first! :lol8:

If you or anyone else wants to provide a basic outline of Xinjiang province (or the province which you live in) or review your bike if its Chinese made or legally imported I would be very happy. You can post it in this thread and I will put it up on the FMCC site and credit you, also make you the Xinjiang club president! :naughty:

Listings for regions and for motorcycle reviews is completed.

If you live in or have extensively ridden around any province/SAR/AR/large city region in China, please message us. Tell us about the area, the highlights and the places to avoid. Photos welcome.

and/or

If you own or have ridden any Chinese made or legally imported (into China) motorcycle, please message us. Tell us about the bike, strengths, weaknesses and a score out of five. Photos welcome.

Beijing and Hebei regional areas are complete, thanks Andy!

Also racing section is complete.

Sites looking good ZMC! :thumbsup:

CC

Thanks!

If you get any free time want to write a Sichuan guide? :lol8:

I have posted the Chinese Motorcycle License Multiple Choice Theory Questions on the website in picture format in the legal section, might do it in HTML if I have two months with nothing to do! :lol8:

Hey thanks for doing the license test looks like quite alot of work.

I have a car and a motorcycle license from my home country do I have to take separate tests here for both.I hope not I am presently studying for the car one the online one for that one has 800 questions well the one I have does and took me 5 hours yesterday to complete it if I had to do 1200 questions i would have to take my tent and camp over night in the office.

They now tell me they will give me an interpreter from there office who will ask me the questions because they don't have it in English before they said my wife could help me.

There interpreter speaks about as much English as I speak Chinese.Should be interesting.

If they think I am going to give up on it they can think again.

Is there a time limit for the test? How many times can you sit the test.

There are two multiple choice tests. Motorcycle which is 800 questions and 'motorized vehicle' which has 1500 questions. In the motorized vehicle questions 200 relate to trucks, buses and other mad max vehicles! So a car test uses 100 from about 1300 possible questions. You have one hour to do the test.

It is clearly best to transfer both license entitlements if possible, as for me at least the cost was the same. If you transfer both, you'll probably only be tested on the car related questions, and the motorcycle questions will probably be ignored, but they may be within their right to force you to do that test too if they want to. Don't stress about the difference between 'motorized vehicle' and motorcycle as the questions are 95% the same, there are really only about 50 or so specific motorcycle questions.

Find all the .zip .doc files here: http://www.howchinaworks.com/2008/12...ivers-license/

Just finished a China Safe Riding Guide here: http://www.the-fmcc.co.cc/ride%20guide.html

Well done ZMC:thumbsup:

Written a China Safe Riding Guide. It's on the site. If you can think of improvements let me know.

http://www.the-fmcc.co.cc/ride%20guide.html

I have improved the China Safe Ride Guide, read it in it's current form, suggest any changes you can think of.

:WTFamI

Sooooo bummed, do not have an AVATAR. Now I know what you were talking about Ann. Do we also get relief for wearing "appropriate atire"? We must talk about my persona.

National Chinese Motorcycle Club: http://www.the-fmcc.co.cc

According to my computer, this site is blocked within China...WTF??????

The authorities have web-bots that check for terms such as T***** or T****, so if they find these they black list your site, even though it was just an idea to have regional information. Or it might be everything that has co.cc as an ending they don't like. Or maybe I suggested that Chinese weren't the best drivers in the world. It's blocked and I can't be bothered with it as there isn't enough traffic on the site, but I suppose it's a useful resource for those thinking about riding in China who are elsewhere. :rolleyes1:

So what you are saying is that The National Chinese Motorcycle Club is available to anyone that isn't in China; but as a motorcycle club in China it can't and won't be bothered with serving its members or prospective members?

As a ride IN China, I was going to join...but I guess there is no sense in joining a club that isn't interested in having members...

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but I guess there is no sense in joining a club that isn't interested in having members...

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I we used to run the membership with facebook, but that is now blocked too so it makes it hard for anyone to connect, so the authorities have basically killed the club, although if you want to I'm quite happy for anyone to join. You need a proxy to see the sites now obviously, I can show you how to do this if you PM me.

The blame for the site not being viewable, and being unable to use facebook should be directed to the people who block them, not those who spent hours and hours of their time setting up the site. If you want to donate $500 for a medium bandwidth server so we can have http;/www.the-fmcc.org, and probably have that blocked too, then please feel free.

Hey Z, I'm not giving you crap because I appreciate the work you put into the club, but I think .co.cc domains are some kind of free web thing and those are just begging to be blocked. I doubt it's the club that is being censored, more likely it's the .co.cc or your web hosting company. A "real" domain like the-fmcc.org would only cost $50 USD to register for 5 years, and hosting would be under 100 USD per year for 100 pop3 accounts, 10 gigs of storage and 150 gigs per month bandwidth transfer. I don't know what the bandwith usage is like, but even a basic setup with 5 pop3 E-mail accounts / 400M Hosting Storage / 5GB monthly bandwidth transfer is only $18.00 USD per year.

If the bandwidth usage is low, a five year investment would only be $139 USD ($28.00 USD per year).

Cheers!
ChinaV

Yes V everything you are saying is right, but it's the fact that facebook and other social networking sites are blocked which is the stumbling block here. Half the people who want to ride in China or hook up with each other needed facebook to connect conveniently, the site was just really put up there to help out and provide extra information that wouldn't be able to be displayed there.

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Originally Posted by LH1953

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WE PEE oN it :lol8: