Steve's ChunLan 250-3 （春兰250-3）

[Steve_Halt]

Well, Chunlan stopped building bikes a long time ago (when they were, there were 3 almost identical models on the Chinese market: 大地鹰王250-3；春兰250-3 and 钱江250-3) and their bikes weren't that popular.
They branched out into making air conditioners and eventually sold that business to LG, so there's no ChunLan company existing as of now (or so I heard).
But I got their bike right here.

Disclaimer:
This bike is built for show purposes only. It is illegal, has no paperwork and is unplated. I am not riding it anywhere downtown Nanjing out of respect and the lack of desire to break laws when I don't absolutely need to.
Anyway:
This is how the original bike looked like when bought for 2700 yuan from a shady guy in XianLin (that's like a forest area in Nanjing where cops never show up). The photo is from nj.58.com (a website that I found this piece of ... a bike on)

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This is what I decided to make of it at a momentary whim. All I needed was a couple of wrenches and a cutting tool.

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[Steve_Halt]

And this is how it looked the second day after I purchased it:

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What I needed here were 4 rattlecans of paint (easily available for 8 yuan at your local hardware store). The baby helped paint exhaust pipes :)

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The further plan for this ... things are yet unknown. Any ideas??? Probably sell it to someone for many-many yuan???

[Steve_Halt]

By the way, the bike seems to be quite well-designed on the technical side. Say, rubber pads in the rear wheel drum to smoothen out sprocket vibration when shifting.
Push-pull throttle cable arrangement. Neat tire size (I checked but I don't really remember).

What it took me to bring it into working condition (detailed breakdown):
1. Disassembled and washed up the carbs.
2. New spark plugs.
3. Oil change.
4. Front brake bleed.

Headlight and stoplight were working as usual. The horn also was. Not much to fix, really.

[Zorge]

Any ideas???

Acctually - yes.

Swap bike for electric pressure washer and few bottles of car shampoo, so you could wash your blue NK.

[Steve_Halt]

:) NK washing needs (and will) be done sometime when it gets warmer. I planned to rat this one, still it looks to good for a real rat...

[TexasAggie]

Dude!

This is hilarious. We have got to meet up sometime and have a drink together. You definitely know how to rat a bike!

[ZMC888]

Actually this bike is very like a Qianjiang also made, based off a Honda CMX250 Rebel.

[Steve_Halt]

Dude!

This is hilarious. We have got to meet up sometime and have a drink together. You definitely know how to rat a bike!

Hope so :)

[Steve_Halt]

Actually this bike is very like a Qianjiang also made, based off a Honda CMX250 Rebel.

It's not only QianJiang; in 2000-s there was a plethora of those bikes around:
1. QianJiang 250-3, which was oil-cooled;

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2. Regal Raptor 250, which lives on to this day and offers both 250 and 350 parallel twin bikes;

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3. JinCheng 250, which was very short-lived and was never popular

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and, well, ChunLan 250-3, which must have been a cheap rip-off of QianJiang and was short-lived too.

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[MJH]

The majority of those sold in the USA were made by FYM here is a parts manual.
http://manuals.monsterscooterparts.c...refix-LE8P.pdf


http://www.5rmotor.com/product.asp?page=4&fid=1
They still make them...