Chinese Bicycle Holocaust
Wednesday, 28 October 2009 01:04 | 
Author: Roderic Gill
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger...
The plague has already landed and it's evil indeed. If you are open to recognising affinity with our motorbicycling cousins, you might also recognise that what ails the motorcycling industry might also come to haunt us too. Right now, the biggest blight of all has now swept the motorcycling game under a shroud of shadows. It's the blight of Chinese motorcycles. McHappy Meal motorcycles with all the engineering integrity of a bag of soggy chips. The carrier for this plague is the stupidity of those who can't see further than the tips of their noses. The carrier is the openness of unthinking folk to think that the el-cheapo price that the current mange of Chinese junk motorcycles now flooding international markets could possibly constitute value for money. With product lives measured by the time it takes you to wheel your deal off the showroom floor, the end result is the destruction of dealers and manufacturers who still try to persist with real motorcycles.
We cyclists are definitely not removed from this same plague. Once the Chinese are done with motorcycles, they will be primed to take us out as well. It won't take long. There are enough gullible idiots out there to be siren-sucked right into the purchase of bikes produced on the same production line as plastic spoons and paper clips. Read more on the latest post to Bicyclism Blog: Danger, Will Robinson!
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