Quote Originally Posted by TexasAggie View Post
Bikerdoc,

Thanks for the post! It appears that is AW's JH. I think his bike is even more famous here in China than it is on www.mychinamoto.com! I just got back into Nanjing, the wife is getting Big Blue licensed today and I should have the plate tomorrow. Hopefully I can take some time off work and put some miles/km on the seat over the next week. I promise to have better pictures soon. So far, I am very happy with my version straight out of the box. I have not even replaced the muffler yet. (Although a Laser ordered from Franki is sitting here in my office as I type and I am looking forward to getting it on)
DT
Haha. Yeah I thought the mods looked so similar, but I had thought (incorrectly) perhaps AW had done most of the mods himself.

TexasAggie, I think your bike with the two-tone black and blue looks great, and I like the way that the black two-tone paint has been extended onto the panniers and topbox. My only concern would be the quality of the plastic used for the panniers/top box. I've had several types of topboxes which have been made with what is likely to be poor quality plastics which have ended up breaking after a little use and riding. Usually its the riding that vibrates the hell out of them. So far the best quality boxes I've had here have been ADLO, which are a totally different plastic altogether. I even travelled last week from Ningbo to HZ (return) motorcycle market on MoGanShan Lu (I traveled via long routes not using the expressway) just so I could phsycially buy another ADLO 981 topbox. The plastic quality is great and it comes complete with a key operated quick-release mounting base.

As for my idea on a new JH600, I am almost at that point to make that deicision to buy one, however just yesterday I ordered a new CFMoto Jetmax 250 scooter, which will arrive in a weeks time. With this new addition, it's back to having 3 bikes again, so I'm thinking about selling one of the others to make room for a JH600.
I just luv scoots, and find they allow a certain amount of freedom and anonymity thats allowed me to just blend in and access little villages and so forth without feeling out of place. Not something so easily done on a bigger bike. The other thing with the new Jetmax 250cc is it is right up there with loads of new R&D manufcatured by one of the better motorcycle manufacturers in PRC (CFMoto aka Chun Feng), and I'm being a little presumptious when I write that it's likely to be somewhat similar to a Kymco Xciting 250. Time will tell if my assumption is correct. The main thing is a new legal Kymco Xciting 250 is RMB47k versus CFmoto Jetmax 250 RMB18k. I could buy 3 Jetmax's for the price of 1 Xciting.

Plus the top end is around 130km/h, and as most of us know and has been discussed, there are few places where one can do 100km/h and feel safe doing it on a motorcycle in mainland China.