Qjiang QJ600GS / Benelli BJ600GS - rumors thread

[ZMC888]

Three bikes a Jialing, a Benelli/Qjiang and a CFmoto. Which one is my favorite?

-I'm down the 'pub' in England someone says what bike are you riding these days mate?

-If I say Benelli BJ600, I sound like I have a good bike, if I say Jialing I'll get 'wassat, some Chinese rubbish bike?' or CFMoto 'wassat?'

Also I think the Benelli will have done more R&D mileage, and the 2nd hand resale prices will be better.

[Barry]

Three bikes a Jialing, a Benelli/Qjiang and a CFmoto. Which one is my favorite?

-I'm down the 'pub' in England someone says what bike are you riding these days mate?

-If I say Benelli BJ600, I sound like I have a good bike, if I say Jialing I'll get 'wassat, some Chinese rubbish bike?' or CFMoto 'wassat?'

Also I think the Benelli will have done more R&D mileage, and the 2nd hand resale prices will be better.

Who cares what you're riding, you're not 16 years old any more showing off to your buddies right! Furthermore who else in that same pub can say he has been riding a bike in China. I have a couple of friends in the Netherlands who defenitely have nicer bikes, however they barely drive them (a few 1000 km/year). At least I'm out there riding, on a bike they have never seen or heard about.

As for the 3 bikes you mentioned above: Benelli/QJiang BJ600 and CFMoto 650 are kids' bikes for me, barely any bigger than the average nongmin motorcycle in China!
Even the JH600 could have been slightly taller, but then again noone makes bikes my size!

[euphonius]

Who cares what you're riding, you're not 16 years old any more showing off to your buddies right! Furthermore who else in that same pub can say he has been riding a bike in China. I have a couple of friends in the Netherlands who defenitely have nicer bikes, however they barely drive them (a few 1000 km/year). At least I'm out there riding, on a bike they have never seen or heard about.

As for the 3 bikes you mentioned above: Benelli/QJiang BJ600 and CFMoto 650 are kids' bikes for me, barely any bigger than the average nongmin motorcycle in China!
Even the JH600 could have been slightly taller, but then again noone makes bikes my size!

Yep, I share Barry's bias, of course, being that we both own JH600s (albeit in substantially different colors). I've seen and straddled the CFMoto 650 and actually test-ridden the Benelli/QJiang 600, and can concur with Barry's view that both are smallish bikes compared to the Jialing (or any GS or Multistrada or V-Strom or Aprilia Pegaso or most any other serious dual sport). Yes, I get it that these are more in the pseudo-Ninja class of would-be pocket rockets, but under a guy my size (180cm, 90kg) they both feel like 3/4 bikes.

To each his own.

cheers!

[MotoKai]

Don't believe Euphonius, he's just a really big guy!
Growing Pains & Growing Pills
You can't make this stuff up.

But of course bigger guys have ridden bikes before - like this one.

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[ZMC888]

Barry, it's not all about image, I agree.

But surely the R&D mileage is highest on the Benelli? Also the Benelli is probably the design with the least theft of other peoples ideas.
The CFMoto sounds like a bag of spanners, and admit they have only done a whopping 20,000kms R&D mileage. Jialing can't even make a single properly and probably haven't even worn through the plastic seat cover on their R&D bikes.

I'm exactly the same weight as Euphonius and slightly taller, and I don't find bikes these sizes too small. Small means good for throwing around.

[soberpete]

Small means good for throwing around.

For both bikes and women mate.

[soberpete]

I meant, in the bedroom... I'm not a wife-beater.

[998S]

From all the 'Chinese' bikes I have seen, the Benelli is by far the best mounted together, by farrrr!
Although it is not a guarantee for the inner workings, it might mean something.

I should buy the 600cc Benelli in a heartbeat, and that from someone who walks away from most "made in China"...

[Barry]

I meant, in the bedroom... I'm not a wife-beater.

One of the reasons why I like Chinese women, they're so easy to throw around (in the bed). Lightweight

[ChinaV]

What happened to this thing? Wasn't it supposed to be ripping up the roads of China in 2011?



Guinea pigging China Motos at ¥10-¥20K is one thing, but above ¥45K, and there's no way I would part with my money for anything here. Let's see one of these offered up to the foreign press for review, and a year or two of bug fixes, then it might be fun.

Cheers!
ChinaV