[mrhyak]

You can't just import bikes from China by purchasing and shipping, there are import regulations that need to be followed unless you actually try to 'sneak' the bikes through the ports and past import regulators.

Ways that other people have bypassed import rules with European, Russian and Ukraine bikes is by having them shipped as "kit" bikes, or in parts and assembled here. Those bikes then must be taken to the state agencies and be inspected for road use. Some states are easier then others but it happens all the time.

There may be importers who bought Lifan bikes (or other China bikes) w/o EPA testing and sold as "Off Road Only". I think these are the ones where people are buying them on ebay and thinking they can just register them for road use because they are just like the other bikes. This may be why some have the proper vin and others do not as well as good/bad paperwork.