CFMoto Factory Tour (Chinese)

[Tom]

A Chinese motorcycle factory tour by Filipinos.  (Ilocano or Tagalog)  If I'm wrong let me know.  I'll acknowledge it.  The music is kind of wonky.  You might want to turn down the volume.  They finished 4th place Isle of Man. 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhO4Pdp0zgk

[Tom]

They look like they could be 650cc engined.

[BrotherJim]

     Not sure how many are familiar with CFMoto, but I certainly was not until Independence Day of 2020.  I was out mowing my yard and noticed a group of motorcyclists down the road appearing to have some sort of problem.  I decided that if they were still there when I finished mowing, I would go and see what was going on.  So I ended up riding down there on one of my dirt bikes, and saw that one of the riders had a broken chain.  They weren't going to fix that one on the side of the road.  I learned that they didn't live very far away, so I offered to haul the disabled machine and its rider back home.  The guy's girlfriend was riding something I had never seen before, and it was straight up bizarre.  So we're rolling back to this guy's place and I asked him what the heck that thing was, and he said it was an early 00's CFMoto V3, and that he really wished his girlfriend had bought something else, but she was intimidated by shifting gears.  It is a 250cc single running a CVT. 
     I was simply awe-struck at the weirdness of this thing, so I told the guy that I didn't need any payment for what I did for him that day, but asked him to give someone else in a pinch a hand if he could.  What I needed from him was for him to allow me to take a picture of this thing so I could show it to my buddies to see how they reacted to it... basically.  It's been fun!





 

[fotoguzzi]

The guy is no cinematographer that's for sure.

[bigbikerrick]

That sure is a bizzare looking bike, Bro. Jim!  Cool story too.
Rick.

[Perazzimx14]

The guy is no cinematographer that's for sure.

Nor is he good at lawncare.

Can you get a pic of her using the slide to dismount the bike or is that a ramp for jumpin' stuff Jackass style?

[Tom]

Looks like it could be on the set of Judge Dredd.     I posted the the factory vid to compare with other motorcycle factories.  I was actually looking for a vid for the Zongshen motorcycle factory. 

[BrotherJim]

I was pleasantly surprised by the CFMoto factory in that video.  Where were all the busy little children we tend to hear about?  Seriously, though, CFMoto seems to have come out of the "dubious" Chinese motorcycle game as one of the winners.  Couldn't imagine the V3 had much to do with that!    Zongshen could be up there with them... have to check that one out.  Having said all that, I'm not hankerin' for any Chinese motorcycles at the moment.

[Tom]

They seem very busy making small motorcycles for the entry level market.  Seems to be in the millions.