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Hi Steve

This sounds like a classic tale of buying the wrong piece of equipment for the job required.

Take your CFMOTO to Yunnan or Sichaun and enjoy the open road!...

CORRECTION ON GEARING (regarding this):

"If you increase the size of the rear sprocket only you will increase the low/bottom end pick up but sacrifice the top end speed. If you increase the front...

That's a bridge over the Dadu River just outside Danba in Sichuan. Pretty good really. The locals drive their Changan microvans over it...

Meanwhile, the back country of Sichuan throws up similar sights, such as this:

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Thank you for that explanation. It makes some sense. The exhaust pipe on the LX650 at CIMAMotor2013 appeared to have been designed by someone from Massey-Fergusson. Here's a shot of it: 15397
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That is understandable - that the LX650 would be for domestic Chinese market consumption only. Failure to do that would cost Loncin its BMW contract, and probably a lot more. but my point was that...

Has anyone actually seen one of these fabled LX650 Loncins out on the road, much less ridden one? It all seems smoke and mirrors to me. At least with Qianjaing, you can see the 600 Benelli four...

If the use of forged licence plates is rampant in Beijing and Shanghai, then it seems obvious the police would target petrol service stations rather than pulling people over at random on the roads...

First: do not EVER assume the markings on the swing-arm above or below the chain adjuster blocks are accurate. Mostly, they are not so if you set the adjusters to say the fourth mark on each side,...

What is the import duty (or tarrif) on cars and motorcycles that are imported fully built-up into the Peoples Republic of China?

Are they a percentage of the landed price, or the FOB price?
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What is the import duty (or tarrif) on cars and motorcycles that are imported fully built-up into the Peoples Republic of China?

Are they a percentage of the landed price, or the FOB price?
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Is this BMW-powered Loncin 650 a mirage?

It seems to pop up once a year, then disappear from view.

I see it was at CIMAMotor in Chongqing last month: ...

KTM ands CFMoto also had some big news to talk about it appears: http://www.kiwiridernews.com/2013/11/ktm-cfmoto-in-joint-venture.html

It appears Honda made a bit of a splash at CIMAMotor this year: http://www.kiwiridernews.com/2013/11/honda-makes-splash-in-china.html
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I think this will be interesting. CFMOTO is very professional and has spare manufacturing cabability, so making KTMs from CKD kits - 200 and 300 (300 ?) makes a lot of sense.

They have already...

Loncin had three LX650s on show at CIMAMotor 2013. But some sources claim these are the only three made (prototypes) and a recent tour of the factory saaw none in sight anywhere.

Anyone have more...

Where was this?

As a gweilo who has done around 20,000 km of motorcycle touring in the past, starting in 1986, I have never experienced this motorcycle re-fuelling lunacy. Can someone tell me:

1, is this a...

Bushfire?

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BMW HEALTH WARNING

New Zealand company Te Waipounamu Motorcycle Tours, reports on BMW longevity:

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Ho, ho, ho BMW owners be afraid , very afraid. Just like...

Yes, you are correct. BMW does not build motorcycles of the same quality as it did up to the 1990s.

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Heading down the trail from Jiaju Village, Zhanggu Town, Sichuan on Lifan 150 GY-IIIs 2004. We paid around $US 480 each for these and did two tours. About 4500 km total. They did not...

Heading up the Balang Pass from the western side side after a ride around northern Sichuan in 2004.

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So, like the Obama and Bush administrations in the USA then?

Now we know, BIG Brother is listened (and reading), and is based in the USA. Good to see the Brazilians and Turks doing something...