| culcune |
06-06-2014 08:54 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Weldangrind
(Post 168046)
That is interesting. For whatever reason, only a handful of China bobber owners have visited this site, and this is one of the few threads on that type of bike.
It is my observation that most of the folks who join this forum are DS riders, so perhaps that plays into it. As well, we seem to have a "bigger is better" mentality in North America, when it comes to street bikes of any description. I don't get that attitude, and I really enjoy small engined bikes.
It surprises me to learn that the Dong Fang bobber isn't available in Asia, per Culcune's comments.
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I am not sure where the DF bobber is available, but I don't think it is available anywhere else but N. America. The CCW bikes are available worldwide, which might be part of it, but then again, I have noticed in the last few years, at least in China itself, many, many bikes are no longer legal due to their incredible pollution as bikes have been outlawed in many urban areas.
The point of my comment was how many people have joined seemingly just for the DF thread, and mychinamoto.com is an eclectic gathering of people from all corners of the world who either own Chinese bikes, or those in China who loathe Chinese bikes :) But, in spite of the worldwide attention the site gets the absolutely longest thread happens to be the one started by barnone; and that is the only predominantly N. American thread out of the site. I just find it cool, and interesting that it has gone 501 pages!
As far as this site, there is a small hardcore group of us which I feel much more at home on; mainly because we can relate to each other's bikes. But, even when we get people outside of N America, I still like the feel here better overall, the exception being the DF thread on mychinamoto (not better than here but 'equal') I do agree with Weld because we seem more interested in dual-sports here overall, but do find it interesting that the DF thread didn't take off like mychinamoto. |
