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johnnyjohns

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  1. My posts content was simply about mirror imaging/copying of others technology. The poor quality products we see all to often these days doesn't reflect every product coming out of China. In my almost 50 years of dealing in motorcycles I've seen it all, so if my comments are "garbage" I'd suggest crusaderPhil come visit my dealership and have a chat with our technicians who know a litte more about these type of machines than perhaps he does!! When Chinese companies eventually design their own bikes then we'll perhaps take a different view.
  2. The problem with these Chinese bikes and references being made towards the inferior Japanese copies of the early years is a simple question to answer. The Japanese may have so called copied but it was the technology not bikes. Simply because I hate to say it as much as I love my collection of British Bikes, we as a country turned out rubbish motorcycles. Compare a Honda Cub at the time when Britain laughed it off and Ariel turned out a four stroke monstrosity called a PIxie 50. Even the German Nsu quickly although old fashioned looking was a better moped than anything the British could make, and yet we still brushed of the threat. Its not that the Japanese turned out rubbish bikes, they soon got on top of things very quickly. The Chinese havent gotten close to remedying the poor quality of their products. The Chinese simply copy everything and it's difficult to see how they will change their ways especially seeing its been over 20 years since we saw the first crop of copied XL125's and Jincheng monkeybikes etc. The copied WK 650 is another example of mirror imaging. A lesson can be learned here. When you get an old (AJS) brand revived on Chinese made bikes of copied Japanese technology the trend will continue and why not? If the Chinese can do this, perhaps a country that makes everything belonging to other countries! And whose old historic marque Triumph and the current day Bonneville is almost 89 percent made in Thailand, perhaps we should start copying other makers products and label it "Made in England". A customer said to me one day when in my bike shop " they don't make em like that anymore do they"!!! I replied well we all have to start somewhere. What do I know? I've only been a motorcycle dealer for 56 years.
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