Wonjan

[MJH]

It will be interesting to see how they do with selling these.

[MJH]

重庆望江摩托车制造有限公司

[MJH]

Look how cocked up the EFI looks on the GN-250-C.

[Zorge]

What? It's accessible for the maintenance.

[Kennon]

that Wonjan WJ300 reminds me off a Ducati streetfigter mixed with a Kawasaki ER-6N frame and swingarm, very interesting to say the least.

Kennon

[MJH]

The brochure is too small to read….it is very annoying, I would like to know the weight. How goofy could they be to post brochures online that cannot be read? Seriously I still suspect opium is involved, how else can you explain that.


The swing arm and rear shock look just like the ER6-N, so does the fuel tank.

[Rewi Alley]

All the foregoing is just one reason that Chinese manufacturers, for all their volume in China, are just not taken seriously in the West. It is glaringly obvious most of the companies have no real passion for motorcycles or motorcycling and just grab onto any other manufacturer's designs and copy, in most cases, VERY badly. That said, can anyone explain how it is that most Chinese manufacturers have models powered by either copies of the 1973 Honda CB125 (OHC) engine, or the 1976 CD125 (push-rod) engine? Did the Chinese Government/Military buy the blue-prints and then supply them to any Chinese manufacturer that wanted them? The great thing about that is that if you are riding around China on a bike with one of those engines, especially the CD copy, you can get parts ANYWHERE. Every town has someone who can fix them (on the odd occasion they break down) or supply parts. I don't know if I'd like to go adventuring in China on some more recent copy of a Japanese bike though.

[MJH]

Who knows, you could write a book on it, however it would be censored by the government, filled with rumors and conjecture, it would never really be totally accurate.

[Rewi Alley]

So, like the Obama and Bush administrations in the USA then?

Now we know, BIG Brother is listened (and reading), and is based in the USA. Good to see the Brazilians and Turks doing something about their traitors, but in the USA, home of the formerly free and once were brave, barely a peep. A frightened populace

[culcune]

All the foregoing is just one reason that Chinese manufacturers, for all their volume in China, are just not taken seriously in the West. It is glaringly obvious most of the companies have no real passion for motorcycles or motorcycling and just grab onto any other manufacturer's designs and copy, in most cases, VERY badly. That said, can anyone explain how it is that most Chinese manufacturers have models powered by either copies of the 1973 Honda CB125 (OHC) engine, or the 1976 CD125 (push-rod) engine? Did the Chinese Government/Military buy the blue-prints and then supply them to any Chinese manufacturer that wanted them? .

I am not sure if the Chinese gov't was involved, but my guess is a couple of major players got the blueprints, and there were many suppliers making bikes for the major companies who made the same bikes under their own brand name. Hibird comes to mind from several years back, and their association with Lifan.

Carl visited Qingqi, and pretty much said how they are essentially a motorcycle mfg. first and foremost, without much passion from the management team for motorcycles.