Ultimate Adventure Bike

TICKET TO RIDE

Hey, you there! The person with chopsticks in one hand and a massive banquet of all-you-can-eat Chinese food laid out on the table before you. Put that steamed dim sim down and pay attention: the Chinese are coming — but we’re not talking about Peking ducks and mixed entrees.

No, we’re talking adventure bikes, for the time has come when Chinese manufacturers are getting serious about ADV machines and right now this new CFMOTO 800MT is the most serious Chinese-made large-capacity ADV machine to make it into Australian showrooms. And rest assured it is making an impact, because dealers are selling every one they can get, so CFMOTO must be onto something. Because if there’s one thing tight-fisted Aussie consumers don’t like doing, it’s throwing hard-earned dollars down the toilet on a product that just isn’t up to scratch. They might do it once, but they won’t come back for a second bite. You know the old saying 'once bitten, twice shy'? It applies to everything we buy, from toasters to power tools to motorcycles.

CFMOTO HAS HAD A PARTNERSHIP WITH AUSTRIAN BRAND KTM FOR MORE THAN A DECADE

China is a global economic powerhouse and the country’s ability to build a competitive mousetrap, but at half the price of what most other countries can build the same mousetrap for, is what puts them in such a commanding position. When money talks, we listen. Even when the product in question is ‘Made in China’ — didn’t that expression once carry some stigma? Not anymore.

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