Bike Recommendations

[Old and Withered]

On 19/04/2025 at 09:05, skyrider said:

yes im with you on that one 

They were saying that about Japanese bikes in the seventies. "Won't have that jap crap. I'm sticking with me bantam".

[S-Westerly]

2 hours ago, Old and Withered said:

They were saying that about Japanese bikes in the seventies. "Won't have that jap crap. I'm sticking with me bantam".

The difference was the Japanese bikes were really good and the British bikes of the time weren't. 

[Old and Withered]

21 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

The difference was the Japanese bikes were really good and the British bikes of the time weren't. 

There is that of course.

[RideWithStyles]

Difference is there wasn’t many good other options to go with and at that time learning  and progress was being made to innovate (jap/euro/uk) to make better.

while the Chinese is and most still is copy somewhere else, make cheaper to the price point that goes beyond creditable.

until that business mind set (which only makes them competitive) is broken, is their own undoing if you completely ignore issues towards aggressive pushing out competitors throw flooding, cheap cost tactics and other very negative results.