Excellent thread Milton, and despite it all a BIG rewarding smile was felt by all after the fact, once the dust had settled (or as in this case, the mud had dried or else unceremoniously washed off in a haze of high pressure water vapor). Seems that the Jialing is proving it's worth in conditions less than ideal, which is heartening to read about.

As a side note and this is not intended as a snide or anything to you guys who have a JH600 in the slightest - so no hate mail please! A good riding buddy just tried out a early model Jialing JH600 that is being sold by its original owner for a very low price (one of the first to roll of the Jialing assembly line). My friend who likes fairly big capacity motorcycles of all descriptions rode the JH600 for a few hours but walked away very underwhelmed, so much so that he wouldn't even make the seller (also a mutual friend & fellow rider) an offer. My buddy's view of the Jialing is that it's way slower and very under-powered than the CFMoto Jetmax scooter. Unfortunately I was not with the group of friends at the time, though I was in phone contact and eager to hear the news and the possibility of perhaps buying a used early model JH600. Not sure if there's much difference between the first models and those that Jialing are producing today?

Finally a few of us will be riding from Ningbo into Jiangxi (again) before heading down to Guangxi (Guilin & Yangshuo), then over towards Shenzhen before riding back up again trying to stick to the coastline, for the mid-autumn festival holiday period. That is if all comes to plan. There'll probably be a mix of 1000cc+ cruisers, BMW's and a few Harleys, with some dual-sports bikes in there too, though not all riders will do the Guangxi section. If this come's off I will do my bit to put together a ride report and some photos, though I tend to just like riding and stop only when needing to, so I'll see.

Spent Saturday riding with a mixture of 12 Harley Davidson bikes (all Chinese owned and legally plated down here) and two Dragstar 1100cc bikes which didn't look out of place in the bunch at all until me and my buddy removed our helmets to reveal 2 laowa's.

Anyway Milton, a great RR.