ChongQing Motorcycle Expo - CIMTE 2008

[CrazyCarl]

While Shineray focuses almost entirely on the off-road market segment, others chose a more street oriented product line-up dealing with scooters and innovative street-standards. One of the most eye-catching (good or bad) in this category was from the Jonway company

Jonway



Jonway offers no off-road models but does manufacture a strong line up of street rides with a clear concentration on what looked and felt like well assembled scooters from the 125 to 250cc range.

- Modern design with decent fit and finish : 250T-2A scooter -


The most interesting of their offerings and clearly BMW stylized was their YY250 which drew some attention from both Chinese and foreigners alike. Much to their credit, the risk they’re taking on the styling is bold but for a low output 250cc, I wondered if the body, plastics and metals wouldn’t prove too much weight for the engine. Low quality plastics and thin panel metal left much to be desired in the tactile department.

- YY250 drawing some looks from South American importers -


- YY250 side view -


- Gauges are trendy looking but small and poorly placed -


Jialing

Continuing in the original styling department, Jialing’s highlight of the show was their venerable JH600 “BMW killer”. In the Chinese motorcycle industry, this designed and built from scratch motorcycle represents the boldest move taken in the Chinese motorcycle market to date. Manufacturing larger engines in China is not currently profitable and requires a great risk of resources.

-JH600 civilian blue -


- JH600 in a variety of colors at the Jialing factory -


The 600cc single cylinder is Bosch fuel injected and comes in a fantastic side-car variant (B designation), which can be bought privately but is mostly for military use.

- Army drab green with sidecar -




- JH600(B) Sidecars in Police and Military outfits -




Except ATV’s, Jialing offers a full line of vehicles from scooter to dual-sports and, as I was told, plans to re-enter the North American market by 2009 under a name other than Viva. Let’s hope to see some improvements from this manufacturing giant!

XGJao

Also offering a well rounded line up is XGJao who brought out their F5 model. While only sporting a 150cc engine the F5 scored some points in the style department; the hard edgy lines, like those found on the Suzuki SV series combined nicely with popular, up to date paint colors and schemes.

- The new F5 150cc sport standard -





Complementing their street line with a slightly larger 200cc engine, we have the XGT-200GY-6. Slightly smaller and rounded plastics fit well with the plastic tank but didn’t offer anything particularly exciting to look at. It bears a striking resemblance to the Yamaha XT250.

- XGT200GY-6 in deep orange and grey color schemes-


- On-board view with uninspiring instrument panel and switches -



Hyosung

Even though the current XG’s aren’t much to look at their neighboring display brought in some products from a little outside China.

Korean manufacturer Hyosung, imported by the YinXiang group, covered all types of motorcycles with more aggressive styling and detailed finishing in almost every way imaginable.

Not living in North America, I’ve never had a chance to see a Hyosung in person and was pleased with their level of quality and attention to detail. While not quite up to the “Big-Four” Japanese standards, were quite close and fit nicely between currently available products from China and Japan.

- Comet - SV650 “Bike-alike” -


- Mirage - Harley V-Rod inspired style -


- HS200GY – Dirt bike -


- Quarterback II – ATV -


- Maxxam 150R - Side by Side -



QingQi

With all this going on inside, outside QingQi motor corpany had a test ride area with a small sample of their most popular bikes. QingQi hired a your “Extreme Sports” stunt rider to demonstrate some of the capabilities of their bikes which included wheelies and doughnut burn-outs.

-Stunt-a-doodle with the 200GY super motard-


- Even the girls got in on the fun! (No ATTGATT here…) -



A note on the ATV line:

JianShe offered an interesting line-up of ATVs from 250 to 400cc’s including one which comes outfitted with emergency fire rescue gear.

- JS250-5 Firefighting ATV -


- 400cc “Mountain Lion” -



Final Thoughts

I would love to have reported an endless stream of new and exciting products at the 2008 CIMTE, but we simply aren’t quite there yet. The Chinese motorcycle industry is in its infancy and currently working hard to figure out how it can best fit into the world market. Sales in developing countries and inside China now account for the lion-share of their business. Rightly so, this imbalance absorbs most of their attention and in order for their products to reach and have larger impact on the shores of North America and Western Europe much work needs to be done on both the manufacturing and consumer side of the table.

The most interesting part of this visit to ChongQing didn’t take place in the convention center but on a one day tour of three major manufacturer’s complexes. Stay tuned for a chance to see a little of what goes into your Chinese motorcycle (or any motorcycle for that matter)!

- MyChinaMoto.com's ChongQing Video Report -

[Brice]

Nice report Carl. Whatever the subject landscapes, engines or booth babes you know how to frame them.

Spent 4 hours last week in GuangZhou bike parts "alibaba" market. Lot of interesting stuff for Chinese bikes of course but also some oem parts for Japanese bikes and biker gears. As usual I forgot the camera, getting old and Alzheimer is at the corner.

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With an administrator title, I guess you are behind this new forum. Congrats for the launch mate, I wish you the best.

Brice

[CrazyCarl]

Brice man!

Thanks for signing up and the good wishes. I really hope that a full range of people will get something useful from this site. If you have any suggestions on improvements please suggest them in the Suggestions area or send me a PM.

Did you see anything interesting in the GZ bike parts market?

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[Brice]

Bought a carbon like muffler (350RMB), a 520 chain/sprockets kit (260RMB), an air filter (10RMB) all for the XJR.

Seen some import tires (Metzeler, Dunlop, Michelin, ...) Dual sport, dirt or road. Didn't ask for the price.

Also there are few shops selling complete bikes, mostly kid or pit bikes, quads. A mini sport bike with a 70cc engine is 600RMB first price. Nice to put in your living room.

It is not a gigantic market, no more than 150/200 small shops all very specialized but when you come from a city where bikes are banned it is wonderland.

There were few other foreigners, African and Mid Eastern guys. They were looking for parts/bike to export. Guangzhou is a huge trading place for these countries.

[CrazyCarl]

The parts exporting business might be bigger news (and carry more profit) than new complete bikes.

Did you have a chance to attend the Canton motorcycle show in GuangZhou that just ended this week?


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[Brice]

I miss this one. I'm working on a big web/software migration so I can't quit my computer more than few hours. 1 week ago, I even missed a SBK race which was on the track 2 kms from my home.

[culcune]

Has Shineray released the XY250GY? We all know, thanks to Supsrignet, that the GY-7 has been released, at least in China, but has the XY? Just wondering

[culcune]

I know from Chinariders that the biggest complaint has been no parts support. The situation does seem to be improving, and these bikes seem to be worth more parted than whole (SamM, you are a living example of this )

The parts exporting business might be bigger news (and carry more profit) than new complete bikes.

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[SamM]

culcune,
I parted out my Jialing Viva VX200SX and made over $1900 to date on it. I just made a few dollars ($35) last week. Someone paid me for some parts I shipped out but forgot about. Another thing I find is that these guys are all VERY honest people. Only one person didn't pay me for parts I sent out. What he didn't pay for was so small an amount that I really didn't care. He bought most of the Jialing, so it was all good! I made all I wanted, so I didn't care. I still have a good bit of the Jialing left. Mostly, controls, brakes, and electrical parts. Anyway, I made more than enough to pay myself back for the Jialing and completely pay for the QLink I bought last summer. It's basically a free bike. I have ZERO money in it!

So far, I've made over $6000 parting out my KTM 950 Adventure. I tried to sell the bike for $8000 and couldn't. Last week, I sold the forks, swingarm and rear shock for $3000. The front fender and fairings went for over $300. I still have the engine, all the electrics (the bikes still runs), gauges, Brembo brakes, brakelines, hand controls, complete frame & brackets, subframe, turnsignals, taillights, mufflers, header pipes, fuel tanks, headlight, and most of the bodywork. I'm hoping to get $4000 out of the frame and engine alone. The other parts should net me $3000 to $4000 more. The money from the frame and engine will be used to pay for the new 2009 Kawasaki KLX250S that I want.

Honestly, I've thought about buying bikes just to part out. I have so many parts in my shop that I need to clean it out and get rid of that stuff first. I bet I have enough parts left to buy whatever bike I want. I parted out a Buell once and made a $7500 profit after paying myself back the $3000 I paid for the bike. :thumbup:

It can be done!

SamM

[Jim]

There are some great looking bikes here, that f5 looks pretty sharp too, but what gives, is it just me, or did half these pictures not even have bikes in them