The Birth of China Civilian Motorcycles: The Jialing CJ50 (嘉陵）

The Birth of China Motorcycles: The Jialing CJ50 (嘉陵）

April 20, 1979, Institute for Jialing motorcycles began to build the CJ50 culminating with the first Jialing civilian motorcycle assembly on September 15th. After more than 200 kilometers of testing, the first Jialing Motorcycle CJ50 entered Zhongnanhai in Beijing, followed by 5 Jialing riders circling in Tiananmen Square. This success led to the production of 55 motorcycles, which were bought by Beijing residents. It can be said, the CJ50 civilian motorcycle's pedigree led China from the bicycle into the "Motorcycle Kingdom Era", leading the way for the development of China's vast motorcycles manufacturing base.

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The colors available for the CJ60 were red and black (sorry, no blue bikes yet). This Jialing design and technology were based off of the Honda PA50 models, and is quite similar to today's electric bike.

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Specs
Offline time: 1979
Engine Type: Single-cylinder, two stroke
Displacement: 50ML
Maximum speed: ≥ 60km / h
Maximum Load: 70kg
Curb Weight: 49kg

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Click for article describing the evolution from the CJ60 to the JH600

About Jialing
China Jialing Industrial Co., Ltd. (Group)(here after “China Jialing”) is a state-owned listed company, whose holding company is China South Industry Corporation. China Jialing’s leading products are motorcycles and its engines, plastic and aspherical high-tech optical lens, components of general machinery and etc. There are more than 10,000 employees, and China Jialing’s asset is over than 50 billion.

China Jialing were established in 1875,and carried out “Turn military production into civilian” to develop and produce civilian motorcycles in 1979. So Jialing is the founder and leader of Chinese motorcycle industry.[More]

Funny this is what I owned in 1979...less the pedals.
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I was the shit having one of those, all my friends had Vespa’s,
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which were considered MOPEDS and had pedals and restrictions that kept them at a top speed of 20mph. The Honda was actually considered a motorcycle its top speed was 30mph.

At the time they required no license, the mopeds that is, the Honda actually required a license, which I did not have.

We went everywhere on those little two-strokes.

Actually this is what I had, not the Hobit, it was the Express.
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