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Chinese motorcycle sales on the rise
By Visordown News on 18/07/2012 13:59:44
..motorcycle buyers voting with their wallets
CHINESE motorcycle sales are rising in the UK.There were 16.5% more Chinese motorcycle and scooter registrations in the first half of 2012 compared to the first half of 2011, accounting for almost 17% of all new motorcycle and moped sales
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Getting into biking on a budget
By aenikata on 22/06/2007 16:56:09
Chinese bikes are here to stay - for better or worse?
of rider over time.What are the advantages of a Chinese bike?Well, the most obvious advantage of a chinese import is the price. While a Japanese 125cc cruiser-style motorcycle start at around £2000 new, it's possible to pick up a Chinese-made one for under
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Llexeter: the great call of China
By Sachin Rao on 24/03/2013 10:05:00
What's behind the success of Lexmoto and Pulse?
actually builds all your bikes?DF: We source our bikes from a number of Chinese factories – we’ve worked with Baotian, Lifan, Shineray, Jinlun, Qinqi, and many others. China today is like how Britain was in the early days of motorcycling – hundreds
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Benelli Back in Trouble
By Visordown News on 03/06/2009 16:24:36
Financial problems return to Italian firm in global economic recession
DARK TIMES at Benelli. Many staff at the factory in Pesaro on Italy’s Adriatic coast are working part-time. Production has been scaled back to about 1000 bikes this year as the Chinese owners review the future of the still unprofitable marque
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Class of '84: Suzuki Katana 1100 v. Kawasaki GPZ900R
By Colin Goodwin on 07/06/2009 11:53:56
1984. A great year for films, a seminal year for music, and the year Kawasaki stole Suzuki’s Katana 1100 thunder with their all-new watercooled GPZ900R. Overnight, superbikes had suddenly entered the computer age
memories will be able to tell me whether George predicted the arrival of the watercooled four-stroke motorcycle engine or the 16-inch front wheel. I certainly hadn’t seen them coming because my first sight of a Kawasaki GPZ900R left me reeling.One day while
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Living with a 2003 Suzuki GSX-R750 K3
By Warren Pole on 12/10/2003 14:48:11
Warren Pole appeared to have the most number of longterm motorcycles to review here, but seemed to write the least about them. Figure that out?
Chinese.Ask me what I would buy if my own money were to come into it and life gets a whole lot simpler. It would have to be a GSX-R750.£4000 gets you a clean private-sale 2001/02 model if you look hard enough and frankly, what more could you want
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Attitude problems
By TRDman on 09/11/2004 13:19:13
Who is responsibile for biking's image. Do you have the biggest part to play?
increasing numbers of bikers involved in incidents and is threatening the industry with a big stick if we don't do something about it. So whose responsibility is it? The motorcycle industry is a very diverse one but made up of a few key sectors: the bike
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Visordown's five most underrated commuters
By Tim Skilton on 23/09/2008 22:01:12
Five great ways for getting to work on a budget
miles on the clock.Chinese-made 125s, which were pretty awful a few years ago, are now becoming a serious force to be reckoned with. Wuyang (they make Honda's CG125 engine under licence) now produce a 125 that's almost as good as the Honda. What's more
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Living with a 2004 Suzuki GSX-R600 K4
By Harriet Ridley on 15/06/2004 10:18:16
Harriet experiences the K4 GSX-R600
by the static sag - i.e. not a Chinese dish but the amount the suspension compresses under the bike's own weight before a load (rider/braking force) is applied. It's the baseline setting to get right before any other adjustment, and it's done by turning
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