I am not sure but I believe that if the product is primarily reverse engineered it takes probably a good part of a year to bring it to production. That’s assuming it is using all off the shelve components anything new added would take longer.


But if they make something they have to know were it will be sold and in what numbers. For example I believe that the distribution for some Honda models are really relatively small by Chinese standards.


Like the 250cc models that all the Japanese manufactures offer, they have small numbers and they are not inexpensive.
The CB223


ST250





and Estrella 250



might only each sell about 1500 annually in Japan.