Hello to everyone on this forum,

I've found this forum a couple of days ago and it seems to have woken my interest in motorbikes. I previously lived in a country area of north east Spain and used to go trail and trial riding on a regular basis. The truth is I am not that good on a bike but I do really enjoy :-) My last bike was a 1979 350CC Ossa trail bike, a bit of a lump of a bike with an engine that was really quite difficult to kick start with such high compression. I had that bike for 12 years before i sold it when I came to live in China. Here's a photo for you

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I have already started asking about motorbike licenses and it seems that it is a lot easier to do in my girlfriend's home town so I feel I trip to the country will be on the cards after the holidays.

Then on to buying a bike. I prefer dual sport type bikes and at the moment the Shineray X5 400C seems to be at the top of the list, reasonably priced, they have probably fixed most of the issues with them by now and it looks quite smart. Does anybody on this forum have any ideas for any another options ? I wold prefer to buy a bike from a big name brand, my favorite has always been Yamaha, probably as my father was a Yamaha dealer when I was a kid.

Kind regards from HuiZhou