Quote Originally Posted by John Smallberries View Post
Maybe my son and I should wear the new chains around our neck as jewelry on the flight from Detroit to Zambia!

Our dealer ("Best of Bikes" in Lusaka, Zambia) has been very helpful. He will swap out the production chains for more durable ones for less than I can buy them in the US. We should be all set. I doubt we will have trouble on our 5-day ride, but I'd feel more comfortable that they will live longer with the charity organizations after we leave.

I'm checking on plugs and cables as well.....
I can imagine wearing the chains as jewelry!! I didn't realize it is only 5 days!? You probably have nothing to worry about at all! But it would be nice that you can give extra parts to the charity as they could and will most certainly use them! This model is apparently very durable from all the posters who have had them, including galenest who is our most recent posting 'resident' Jialing owner. If you go waaaaaaaay back to the this site's origins (it was a spinoff from chinariders.net) the founding father Crazy Carl (who finally came out of hiding a couple months ago and posted here) had a Jialing 150 and rode all over China when he went to live and work for a few years. If was his bike in his travel video which I urge people to see. It was like a tank in that it forded rivers, rode thousands of miles, was featured in the calendar for one of the bigger motorcycle apparel companies (Carl took a photo of his loaded down Jialing in front of a very tall, scenic mountain somewhere in China), and he even had a pretty bad accident on it (brought up in his video). I had wished that Jialing would sell them in the US in 200cc or bigger form, but not going to happen!