My brother in law actually gets bribe offers at the port in Shenzhen for this shit all of the time. Seems to have come full circle now haha

Quote Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou View Post
Follow bikerdoc's & Graham's advice.

Personally, I am also 100% sure that this is 100% illegal.

Bikes that are smuggled into China are almost always stolen, or "salvage-title" bikes, commonly from Japan, Korea, USA, etc. There have been plenty of natural disasters where bikes have been written off, bought in a salvage sale, disassembled into parts, only to reappear in some back-alley shop in China, where apprentice Zhang bolts it back together with a crescent wrench & ball-peen hammer. I'd guess many of the Japan-tsunami bikes are sitting in Guangzhou and Tianjin, right next to the hot-to-the-touch models.

"Paperwork" and "plates" are very easy to get. There is also a cottage industry of changing serial numbers, which is why the Traffic Management Branch (at least in Beijing), takes a cellophane imprint of the frame & engine numbers and scans them into their computers. If you are buying a cloned bike, it is virtually impossible for the crooks to make a perfect match of the stamped numbers (the originals often do not line up). Any concern from the Traffic Police about the legitimacy of your "great deal", and they take another imprint and then check the two scans. I know this first-handed as I almost purchased one of these cloned bikes. Fortunately, my licensing agent thought it was just too good a deal, so he asked the police to check - yup, a cloned bike.

As bikerdoc notes, a legal, used Hayabusa would be 200K ... but it is highly unlikely that you're looking at a legal bike when they were not even being imported during that year.

Seriously, if these guys could really offer legal bikes for those prices, they'd be overwhelmed by the wealthy kids in Beijing.