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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: shorelinemc on July 12, 2011, 03:13:25 pm
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had to do a safty cert on a bike today,chinese shitcrate with a flash sounding italian name- the chinese manufacturer s name was in small print hidden away.any way it failed the safty-horn didnt work,warped front disc,no damping in the rear shock ,it was like a pogo stick.the huge amount of km on the clock a whopping 105 km.what a pile of crap needless to say the owner was not happy as she had just sold the bike she was up the duff so no more riding,poetic justice tho ,sold un reg to a chinese student :D
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All those chinese things are pieces of shit made from plasticine..
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Sold to a Chinese student, sweet revenge.
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warped front disc,no damping in the rear shock ,it was like a pogo stick.the huge amount of km on the clock a whopping 105 km.what a pile of crap
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Then when it crashes it adds to the motorcycle statistics.
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I missed the bit in your story that went something like "tightass bitch who didn't want to spend money on a known decent bike in the first place....." .....
Cheap crap "Made in China" has 2 sides - a seller and a buyer.
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I missed the bit in your story that went something like "tightass bitch who didn't want to spend money on a known decent bike in the first place....." .....
Cheap crap "Made in China" has 2 sides - a seller and a buyer.
Aren't you going to make cheap Chinese Metise copys. ;D
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Aren't you going to make cheap Chinese Metise copys. ;D
China never made Metisses, they came from England.
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...and many different people other than Rickmans have made them.
...and not all of the work I have seen has been to top standard.
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I missed the bit in your story that went something like "tightass bitch who didn't want to spend money on a known decent bike in the first place....." .....
Cheap crap "Made in China" has 2 sides - a seller and a buyer.
no i think it was some poor unsuspecting type who didnt know any better
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The up side :) . My grandsons have them. I get a bottle of rum every time I have to work on them. ::). Any way must go now I'm running late for my AA meeting ;D Darcy
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no i think it was some poor unsuspecting type who didnt know any better
Buyer beware - ask questions as you should if you're entering into a purchase of a product you know nothing about just as bike savvy people ask here before a purchase of a brand they are unfamiliar with for example.
It's historic that there is good and bad products on the market, it's been going on forever with every product you could name.
The Chinese general market is no different than any other, there is crap and products of the highest excellence available here, I bought a German made in China Brawn blender here recently over a shelf full of Chinese brand blenders that were a 1/2 the price.
My 2005 Mazda 6 was fully built in China other than an imported Japanese 2.3 and auto - the car has been perfect and trouble free for 170K kms over bad Chinese back roads or 140kmh freeways and often 4/5 adults. Perfect other than the auto which is slowly dying - now that auto was made in Japan so you might say "oh that's unusual" but if it was made in China you would probably brand it "Chinese crap".
It's all about perceptions, stop buying cheap crap regardless of the country it's made in and they will stop making it because there will be no market - you only have yourselves to blame.
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It pains me to post this, I work for a mining company in WA and recently we awarded a pretty big contract overseas simply because they were literally one quarter the price and half the lead time! When we did a fact finding trip over there (you guess) their manufacturing capabilities, quality control and work ethic was as good – if not better than ours!
Remember JFK’s speech all those years ago in the US? Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country? What are we doing for ours? A forklift operator can command a salary of 190K in our north west = WTF!! I’m sorry but I just can’t reconcile that.
If China can produce a product quicker, and in cases better than ours then it’s a no brainer – right? I recently helped out a mate looking for parts for his Ford GTHO faker = guess what – all Chinese made! I accept the argument that the stuff being made there is crap – yes it is, but we’re buying it!
You can take exception to this post with indignation, but the sad reality is that your friend’s colleagues, neighbours and loved ones are financing this in the time it took to read these words! You can argue that what they make is crap – well maybe, but they are not stupid, maybe their revenue might go into improvement, maybe next time you won’t blatantly know what came from there anyway??
Worried Australian.....
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$190k forklift operater :o I say good on him, were I come from only lazy ass managers get good salary and the workers are treated with the contempt they deserve and if they don't like it then we can fill their role with an Indian or 2.
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It pains me to post this, I work for a mining company in WA and recently we awarded a pretty big contract overseas simply because they were literally one quarter the price and half the lead time!
Worried Australian.....
Worry a little more when the resources actually belong to a Chinese consortium, but really everyone flogs the big pay packets during a mining boom for as long as it lasts and then the no use whining when the party is over. Market for anything always returns to equilibrium..... there will be a Robe River style clean out of the NW in the not too distant future.
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The latest Transmoto mag has 5 reasons why we will all be buying Chinese in the future-read it and believe....
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I am velly offlended that you would be thinking that all ploducts flom china be velly bally made.....you no like me for a long time. Aussie translation.. Geeze mate i cant believe that that you big blokes in australia think every thing we make here in china is crapp,screw you anyway thats all you are going to be able to by soon sh#t bags so get used to it ;D
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Just fitted a heavy duty tube to my front wheel [ Chinese cause that's all the locals sell ].
Spewin because they have made the valves TOO SHORT and my very expensive American pressure tester won't work [ Never had trouble with it before ] I can't test the pressure.
Yep the valve LOOKS the part but only does half the job. ::)
Just a little thing but fair dinkum how hard is it to copy a valve. ??? ??? ???
No they decided that they could make a 100 year old idea that works better and cocked it up. [Again]
If this mob ever decide to go to war just watch what happens when they push the button on their copied nukes.
The safest place on earth could be anywhere but china.
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you's started it getting on the piss and dining out , sweet and sour pork, chicken chow mein and short soup the more you drank the more you ate then it turned to shit, they needed more staff , bought in under the cover of darkness in little boats , where did you think all that money was going , yep straight back to the mother country , blame yourselves , see ya im off for some fried rice, mmmmm ;D ;D ;D then maybe a pad thai , then finish it off with a kerbab , then into a coupla mexican beers ..*# Hic xx
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There not stupid, going to war cost too much money. They can buy us out for less.
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I've always said that they wont need guns, they could come waving sticks.
It will be interesting to see how the Muslim (Aussies) will handle them when they get here in 2050. :D :D :D
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" Will you accept your second class status? , a nation of waitresses and waiters , will you mix their martinis? , will you stand still for it?"
Quote from Rodger Waters album 1988!!!
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may be the white australia policy needs to reintroduced
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Its just as well all that (chinese) stuff at BIG W is so cheap, so we can all still afford it while we are all out-of-work!
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1500,000,000 or so Chinese people. Each having at least one crap a day.... they got to do something with it all or drown in a most hideous way...... ;)
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" Will you accept your second class status? , a nation of waitresses and waiters , will you mix their martinis? , will you stand still for it?"
Quote from Rodger Waters album 1988!!!
Keehrist the bloody NZders always quoting Pink Floyd at you ::), comes from a time when Radio Hauraki only had a 1/2 dozen albums. ... but fan of the Floyd that I am .... I think crazy ole Roger was talking about the Japanese at the time.
Anyway China has its own issues with inflation and a property bubble that makes the Aussie one look tame. China is just another Japan and Korea, give it a little time and they will run into the same limitation, inflation and increasing living costs, part of the great cycle.
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The way of the future.
(http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx172/mike52_photo/WR240/001.jpg)
One of our members who lives in china has said that this is the way of the future and that many chinese people ride these.
Being a closet greenie who does instead of just talking about it I saw this in an auction and just couldn't resist.
Took me 1/2 an hour to ride to work this morning , a trip of 10 minutes .
Very relaxing. I had little finches dive bombing me . Taking the piss I suppose. ;D
Ok if you are a polly or a out of work greenie but if you have a life then this way too slow. ;D
Why have I listed it here in the chinese crap thread ?
The workmanship is worse than the performance.
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what sizes do those wheels come in? they look real fast :D :D :D :D :D
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Anyway China has its own issues with inflation and a property bubble that makes the Aussie one look tame. China is just another Japan and Korea, give it a little time and they will run into the same limitation, inflation and increasing living costs, part of the great cycle.
I've always said that myself.