brand new second hand JH600

[euphonius]

One more thing: I'm guessing you're running the original Chenghsin tires. You might want to consider some better rubber, though this will raise one of the most vexing problems for owners of bigger displacement bikes: sourcing quality tires in our sizes. Most of us JH600 riders handcarry tires back from the US or Europe, which is particularly ironic in my case since I'm running lovely and rugged Kenda 761s that are made just across the strait in Ta*wan.

A bunch of us actually tried importing a batch directly from the factory to Kenda's suburban Shanghai plant, calling them "samples," but the shipment was stopped by Chinese customs because they are not registered by the Ministry of Transport (or whoever) for use in the mainland. Demand is so minuscule in the mainland that Kenda has no incentive to do what it takes to get these tires registered here.

You may have better access due to proximity to Hong Kong. Our tire size -- 130/80-17 4P 65H and 100/90-19 4P 57H -- is common to the Suzuki DR650, Yamaha XTZ600 Tenere, Aprilia Pegaso 650 (a blatant copy of the JH600!) and other popular bikes.

cheers!

[futianshenzhen]

thanks Milton and Euphonius! I think I'll move ahead with the fork oil and leave everything else for now. I've got a week off coming up so I'll do a few thousand kms around Guangdong and properly suss out the bike. It's great news that I may get away without the ecu mod, I think the money I save will go into registration which chinav reckons could be very tricky. fingers crossed eh!

[Lao Jia Hou]

Congrats on your purchase!

Only to/from the bar? Five years old, 7,700 kms? OK, that's about 1,500 kms/year. Assuming 20 kms round trip to the bar, that is 75 trips a year. As Spencer says, no wonder he crashed it ... surprisingly only once!

Just joking - looks good - correct color, too!

[futianshenzhen]

on a totally unrelated matter


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[Barry]

What's that front tire you've got on the bike? That definitely ain't no original Chengshin! Regarding tires, Motokai and I got Bridgestone Battlewings! I really love 'm and they can be bought from taobao for just below 1700 RMB a set.

Black side cover is less than 300 RMB from taobao. Don't think it's worth it to fix and repaint the current side cover. Unless you only plan to epoxy and then leave it like that!

As for the fork, I've put in 10W oil and it's way too stiff. Will try to reduce the amount of oil when I've got time and see how that works out.

ECU, leave it as it is if the stalling ain't too severe. Even if you do the upgrade, you still won't be stall free as far as I know.

@ Euphonius, Du Rui will do another pair of racks for someone who already both a set of TF's from him I hope?

[futianshenzhen]

Hey Barry, I'm not sure about the tyres, the guy had just put a new set on but I'm not sure what they are. I'm gonna head out to my shed/mancave next week and get started on the bike. if I can pop the plastics back into place I'll be content with reinforcing the break with epoxy, if not then I'll replace it.

I was gonna go with a w15 fork oil but it sounds like that could be too thick. I think it'll be something I'll need to play about with....

cheers!

[futianshenzhen]

Good evening Gentlemen,

Having considered long and hard about hard luggage, i think Im going to go with my soft panniers and a top box. Can anyone help me out with sourcing a Jialing rack? The hard luggage people wont sell the rack without the boxes (which is silly as I may wish to upgrade in the future!) and I cant find any jialing shops in the pearl river delta.

I also need a new passenger footpeg, can anyone point me inthe right direction? Motokai has told me about his super convenient JL dealership in Shanghai but there doesn't seem to be anything like that here. In an ideal world I'd have a guy who has connections with the factory.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!