Quote Originally Posted by kiamo View Post
I'm really liking the idea of this bike:
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/mod...r1z%201991.htm

I see second hand ones for around 10k rmb. I'm totally in love with it's looks and wondering if anyone has experience with it. Or experience with servicing classic bikes in China?

What say thee MCM?
Most Taobao sellers are far from true legit dealers, other than most of these "sellers" will say or do anything to get a deal, and the same can be said of the few that actually have a bricks and mortar building presence too. Not to be confused with real legit dealers who won't play the dodgy bike/plate games. A new Benelli 'dealer' out near my neck of the woods also does shady deals, including the usual plate games, but he was already trading and doing dodgy stuff before he got a Benelli dealership which says a lot about due diligence that Benelli/Qijiang do. Kiamo if that Taobao seller could really get a genuine plate for the legally imported bike, the price would be far higher than what it is. An easy method to calculate whether any bike is legally imported it to basically take any overseas branded bike and double or triple it's MSRP (new price) and that will give any perspective owner a rough price which in turn can indicate likely importation method (legal vs grey or smuggled in).