Found this interesting tidbit on webbikeworld ...

http://www.webbikeworld.com/motorcyc...statistics.htm

Harley is in deep trouble (no secret there), with several dealers closing in the USA/Canada.

But what I found most interesting was the Japanese stats. Aside from the dismal year-to-year sales figures over the past 15 years, I noticed that the total Japanese production (domestic & export) was still less than half of Jialing's annual capacity (2 million, although Jialing doesn't say how many it actually builds/sells).

I'm planning on heading to Chongqing for the 2010 show - should be interesting to see how the "big boys" from Japan and elsewhere are looking at China, given these dismal statistics.