Good bike for beginner?

[bikerdoc]

OP welcome to MCM. You will find lots of useful information, and plenty that would answer all your questions and view points concerning, bikes, plate options...

For starters, you won't find a Hu A plate for 50K... the going rate is an easy 100K+... 130K is the mean.
If you can go for a Hu C plate at the very minimum if 130K for the Hu A is out of your budget. The worst that can happen with a legally plated MC with the Hu C plate is the 200kuai fine. But, get any bike into your name... don't settle for anything less, as some of the dealers and sellers round the traps might tell you that plating in your name...can't be done. BS. It might just have to be in your Chinese name, if so then make sure that everything ties in, your DL, your insurance etc.

None of the Chinese MC manufacturers are making MCs with ABS, not one. CFMoto are assembling the KTM Duke 200s & 390s which do have ABS, but it's not a wholly CFMoto product. I'd suggest you look at a Kymco scooter, all imported... the Xciting models from Taiwan all come with ABS standard... Xciting 250s are around 40K, Xciting 400s are 79K and the big daddy Myroad 700 is 108K, but you get a whole lot of bike IMO for that money and these prices are not too far off from most other markets, but many people snare down their nose at scooters, but maxi scooters are more like MCs than the ol' school scoots. Scoots tend to blend in more to the landscape, so you are more likely to blend in and not stand out as a pair of dogs b***s.

The Honda CB500X is an awesome ride, I know as I rode a CB500X all over Northern Thailand, roads, switchbacks, mountain tracks and 4x4 trails... 15000km. Excellent MC and really well suited to China. But, the CB500X is not legally imported into China through the Honda distribution channel. With that being said, the CBR500R and CB500F are, and they share the same motor/engine. Great starter MC's and they come with ABS too... as does the CB500X. There are the Kawasaki ER6F (80K) and ER6N (70K) with the 650 twin cylinder motor and ABS... though like the Honda ADV (CB500X)... the ADV Kwaka 'Versys' KLE650 is not imported through the Kwaka distributor in China.

Don't know why these two ideal MCs (CB500X & KLE650) aren't imported, as they make the most sense for riding the trails that pass as roads here in PRC.

YMMV...