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.