Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Times a-changing

CFMOTO range

One must remember that the insults being hurled at vehicles produced behind the real Red Wall (i.e., not the one referred to by the British media with reference to current political happenings in Blighty) are near-identical to those that were levelled at bikes being built in Japan nigh on 50 years ago. And we all know what happened there. It’s happening again with Chinese-built vehicles, and CFMOTO (yes, the name is fully capitalised) are a prime example in how developed they have become over the last few years. To get a full understanding of the depth and variety of models available now, we took a trip away from the cold and damp of Lincolnshire in March to try out some of CFMOTO’s 2023 range.

While CFMOTO has used its own version of what was Kawasaki’s ER-6 engine in a number of its products – and it’s not the only manufacturer to do

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