Dear Eric,

This is a most impressive piece of wrench-based field sleuthing, and your conclusions ring logical and true. I'm sure I speak for others in saying I feel deeply indebted to you for it. (I look forward to measuring this debt in beer or other vices.)

I think an important next step would be to translate your findings into Chinese, and get them to Liu Zhidong (Shanghai warranty service agent, mentioned earlier today) and Zhang Haitao (Beijing), so they can present them to Jialing CQ.

Any volunteers to translate? Milton? Fon? I'm happy to help with this, but my Chinese will not be authoritative. This calls for a native Chinese-speaking motorcyclist!

thanks again, and cheers!