Quote Originally Posted by heiri
bikes at the factory? why is is that in a city of what? in between 4 and 10mio people the yamaha outlet(s) have a total of 2bikes available? so... lets say they sell 2000 ybr 250's a year all over china - doens not make much sense to produce it in china (meaning like the whole bike) - certainly sure they assemble the bike in china. anyway do not really care as long as the quality is as good as it it on my bikes! so i hope there will, at some point, be more bikes like the ybr250 coming our of Chinese factories!

READ your Vin plate!! JYM Jianshe Yamaha YB250
The Sakura tires? CCC sticker? They are made mostly for export! Anything automotive imported into China has over 100% tax on it which means you'd be paying 50,000 RMB plus for them each if they were made in Brazil and shipped here.

How is it I know this? Well I had a Sundiro Honda CBF150, I've also only seen about 10 others over a 5 year period in China. Shit, they must really be wasting their time with manufacturing those here, I thought. Then I actually read something on the 'internet thingy' and found out even though they didn't sell many in China, the bike was actually a massive hit in Turkey, and fairly popular in The Philippines, Singapore and Hong Kong, and was even manufactured in India too, then I understood that to find something out I had to actually find information rather than relying on a hunch.