Chang Jiang Motorworks is a China motorcycle manufacturer that produces the famed Chang Jiang 750.
The Chang Jiang 750 or CJ750 is typically fitted with a sidecar. Used formerly by the military, the bike had over the years gained a good number of following and fans. In China it is one of the few (only?) big capacity motorcycle that is legal on the road.
In 1998, Carla King took the CJ750 from Beijing to Inner Mongolia.
Some Chang Jiang related sites:
Baotian Motorcycle Industrial Co. Ltd , or Jiangmen Sino-HongKong Baotian Motorcycle Industrial Co. Ltd., is a chinese manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters.
Established in 1994, they are based in Jiangmen Guangdong.
Their motorcycles are exported to America, Southeast Asia, Europe and even Africa.
Check out their product models range.
Baotian Motorcycle (www.baotianmotor.com) (asia-motor.com)
One of my old post on CFMoto’s logo attracted some attention. Today 2 Stoke Buzz pointed to the logo as “solid clue towards the amount of careful thought that went into the machine“.
I can’t say much about their motorcycle since I had not ride them. But if you know the standard of quality in China, the comment is certainly not too far off.
On the other hand, we want to give credit to some companies are proactive in catching up with the quality chasm. Maybe CFMOTO is one of them. The change of logo is an indication of that determination.
(Note: I do not know, own or have any relationship with CFMoto except as a casual observer.)
What is designed for Hitler, modified by Stalin and manufactured by Mao?
Find out at Marquess Motorcycles.
Marquess Motorcycle sells restored vintage sidecars from China PLA (People’s Liberation Army).
I have seen some of these on the road in Shanghai. Unfortunately I do not have a Chinese motorcycle license otherwise I would certainly consider riding one of these.
A few posts ago, it was noted that China Qianjian Group is the owner of Benelli. Searching Google, I found three websites for Qiang Group.
The first [1] looks like an unfinish site although it lists a large number of scooters. The second [2] is an official looking corporate site listing a large product range that includes motorcycles, scooters and engines among others. The third [3] is a typical export oriented product information site on on Alibaba.
The Alibaba site lists 2 more websites qj-motor.com [4] and qjglobal.com [5].
Are they the all same company?
[1], [3], [4], [5] can be established to be the same. [4] even have the logo of Benelli listed so we can establish that this is the Qianjiang Group we are after.
[2] looks like another company with the same name.
Furthermore, [2] claims that they are the largest China motorcycle producers with more than 1 million units. We already saw before that Lifan, Loncin also make similar claim with similar capacities.
So there you have it. An glimpse of how messy the Chinese market is. Small time importers are advised to do their homework.
A few weeks ago on the Shanghai Motorcycle group, there was this notice about a lost bike in China.
Beijing Dragons MC member Phil McKinnon’s Yamaha TDM850 (Yellow +
Silver color) with Hebei license plates CJ045 was stolen in Beijing
last week.
please get in touch with us directly in case you see the Yamaha TDM850
in China.
A few interesting point about it that I wanted to find out.
- A 850 bike registered in Hebei. Can motorcycle larger than 250cc be registered at all in China?
- Can motorcycle register in a province be rode outside the province?
- How effective is reporting stolen bike over a rider network like forum, mailing list?
Wish him good luck in finding the motorcycle!
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