TB-Racing, Euphonius, Shuben, Motokai, many thanks all of you for the informed feedback on this!

I have decided to bite the bullet and have settled for a fulltime 3-wheeler and placed a deposit with Jialing on Monday for a Black Edition JH600B-A . They claim (they being a Mr Liu with Weixin ID: motor-online (摩界书生)) that they can definitely get it ready for collection by the 20th September, which will give me just over a week to fly out to Chongqing and hopefully get it on the train to Dunhuang where we are intending on beginning the trip around the 29th Sep. Can I trust these guys to meet this deadline?

TB-Racing, I also asked about the moving of the factory and he said they are moving but the old factory is still open and they still have stock of parts to build new ones from. My concern here is that having read various long MCM threads about Jialing there is the potential for them to use old parts on the bike build. I have already made very sure that it will be the 3.0 ECU. Do you guys think this concern warranted or not? If so, can I ask you guys to come up with a list of parts that I should be looking out for that are "old" editions.

In fact I had already placed the deposit when I came across and hauled my way through the 42 page thread on the Stalling and Cut-Out issues, which made for some pretty gruesome reading, but hopefully that all seems to have been settled no?

Pfaelzer's 'My new JH600' thread with all the mods made for much better reading and am loving the fact that some of you guys have been putting so much time and effort to improving Chinamotos.

Cheers for now, and I will keep this updated with my experiences with Jialing (ohh I am relishing it from what I have read to date!), the new bike (hopefully if it arrives in time) and a ride report of it's first proper outing. Which incidentally, seeing as I will have essentially no time at all to make the necessary mods or upgrades to make the outfit touring worthy I would very much appreciate any feedback from you guys about what is gonna be the most important things to change-out/ modify and also a list of spare parts that I should be considering taking with me for a 2 week all terrain trip. Also, I am gonna shoot for temporary Chongqing plates for the duration of the trip and sort Shanghai out in due course... does this sound like it'll work?

Very excited to finally be getting sorted with wheels up here in Shanghai, but I have this nagging feeling that I don't end up regretting this decision and wish I had gone with one of Pikey Tom's trusty Yinggangs or a CFMoto both with their exemplary new service records!