Quote Originally Posted by dy245000 View Post
I have some motorcycle product numbers to share.

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Sales of motorcycle domestically was 2,320,800 units in June, a decline of 1.25% from May, 2011. A decline of 13.95% from the same period last year. Sales of two wheeled motorcycles were 2,114,600 units and the rest were three wheeled motorcycles.
First half of 2011 sees a sales of 11,959,600 units of two wheeled motorcycles, a decline of 9.98%( comparing to last half of 2010, I assume). Sales of three wheeled motorcycles were 1,167,700 units, an increase of 10.39%.
Dear David,

Thanks for posting. These numbers, though seemingly in decline, are staggering! Jialing's website claims a production capacity of 2 million bikes a year, though surely a good portion of those are exported. Though Jialing's news site in English is filled with tantalizing tidbits, it's not filled with hard facts.

But that number above noting that 2.1 million of the 2.3 million bikes sold in June were two-wheelers surely reveals an amazing statistic for Jialing, since the remaining bikes sold that month are described as three-wheelers and, to my knowledge, only Jialing makes a modern production sidecar bike, the JH600B. If there is no competitor, that means that Jialing sold 206,200 600B models in that one month alone! Again, this report does not differentiate between domestic and export sales, but that's quite a number regardless!

Incidentally, I notice Jialing's site now allows you to read it in Spanish, French and even Arabic in addition to English and Chinese!

Damn, I wish they'd spend as much effort on domestic marketing as they do in global marketing, which one of their news items describes as a "counter-offensive war".

I wish they'd declare war on stupid and discriminatory government policy at home in China!

By the way, can you post a link to the Chinese version of the news item you've posted above? Thanks!

Oh, and tell us more about this C3-compliant Shineray 250. Have you seen actual certification that it meets China3 emissions requirements? And didn't you have some other bike previously? A Galaxy? What happened with that?

cheers