Quote Originally Posted by bikerdoc View Post
Euph makes some good points. Especially useful is the comparison idea, along with the advice that much of the riding gear is being made in China, so often what one buys from overseas, having been made here is also likely to be available here too if one knows where to look. That's where perseverance and using taobao comes in really handy. The other point Euph made was pricing, as is often then case, going for cheap or "too good to be true" pricing will often lead to dissatisfaction or inferior products, and when applied to motorcycles one doesn't want to find out just how inferior that might be when the time comes and the product is being put through such a real life test - with your life/limb at stake.
Question for China guru's, though I don't know if this question has an answer. Just how do you figure out the true price? Seriously, I've haggled down prices to 1/10th asking price sometimes, and I left wondering what the real price is... maybe I could never know.