Chinese BOXER Motorcycles 

A 1938 BMW!!!

nice uploads.. really enjoyable

Hairy Banana I

I had a club of riders in Beijing and we would ride up into the mountains of Huairo every Sunday and find a pond and catch fish whick locals would BBQ for us. A lot of fun back in the late 1990s

Not much

In the EU it’s now a Euro 5 so probably better quality but not cheap any more.

Thisthatandtheother Chan , Ride it like you stole it for the first 300 miles, change the oil and filter, then ride it like you normally would drive one.

NO. That is bad advice. Hard break-in is a load of old bollocks. One can however be too easy going and gentle. This could glaze the bore and rings and not let them wear and seat properly. Most heat is transferred from the piston to the cylinder bore and out to the cooling system through that first (top) piston ring. The rings bedding in nicely with the bore is crucial to compression and engine longevity. All the other brand new components will be much happier too. And it is easier to spot or hear something starting to go amiss when you are not thrashing the tits off the thing. There will be plenty of time for that. My advice is follow the manufacturers recommendations. If you look you will find they all pretty much agree and recommend the same procedure. And it is actually in their best interest that you end up with a good engine that lasts. Let's also not forget they are the ones who also designed and built the thing.

m72 is a copy of a BMW R75 from ww2

...are you stoned?

Cheaper than any motor cycle in thw world

Ive heard that the modern Ural is a great bike !...

@@k.w.churchill4397 My cousin had a Ural and it was bad!! He could never go anywhere without his cell phone so that he could call his wife when he broke down!!

Old rumor was that Harley Davidson sold the tooling for the XA to China.

@@keithhampton9700 Just a rumor and not nearly accurate. The Chaqng Jiang is built on BMW R71 tooling which passed from Hitler, to Stalin, to Mao, hence the nickname is the 3 bad guy's bike

Shaun Elliott rwathervyou should buy a Jaws or Ural with a sidecar. Both slow though!

Don't forget duct tape,and bailing wire

Sounds terrible to me........

Take a steel bucket, add a handful or two of nuts and bolts and give it a shake. Is that the sound you were reminded of?

Flat Heads have a unique sound, even the old Flat Head Fords had a unique sound compared to OHV motors

No! BMW R71 copy.

Doesn't exists

A 250 Hoffman Gouverneur ?

@@bertspranger4758 Or an old Douglas

They would never pass emissions tests. Not even in China nowadays

Motorcycles with boxer engine.-horizontally opposed cylinders

Not R75. They are built on R71 tooling. The R75 had no rear suspension. The R71 had plunger rear suspension, same as the Chang Jiang

Next week,off to the dumps

The original Chang Jiang M-1 is just about identical to the M-72

No, China received the actual BMW R71 tooling from Russia in 1957. They then started production around 1961. The Russians got the tooling from Germany in 1939

David Willow Russian 1000X better !!

The Chinese Chang Jiang is more representative of the 1938 BMW R71. The Russian version, the Ural has a lot of metallurgy issues. The Chinese Chang Jiang doesn't have those issues but has other quality issues. I prefer the Chinese version

dead wrong, not fast, not pretty, but this ural copy lasted forever.

I stand by what I said. No need to take my word for it; my scooter mysteriously died after 6 months, and You Tube is FILLED with videos as mentioned above. Friends in the Philippines tell me the same thing. And, my favorite pic from China is of a building that fell over, while still under construction. Chinese quality is CRAP. The bitch of it is, those bikes ARE pretty. Pretty, they can obviously do; quality construction, they can't. The DESIGN may have been around forever, but I repeat, show me THOSE EXACT SAME BIKES a year from now.

I have to agree with you. The crome bits on the one I helped deliver.( My other halfs son paid £100 for a 2011 125 that didn't work) are plastic with a crome coating. The thing was also rusting like a good un. The problem that they fsce is even if they did build it with top quality materials would you go out a buy a FONG SHEN 750. Got my new bike today lads, what the HARLEY SPORTSTER you looked at, no its a FONG SHEN 750.

The sidecars are over 350 kg, with what feels like an elastic frame, almost no brakes or suspension. Terrifying at speed. Luckily they top out at about 80kmh. www.changjiangunlimited.com/CJU/750/hist.htm The one shown at 6:00 , it's gearbox explodes just after that video cuts off.

These aren't new, they're classics. You aren't wrong about Chinese quality made for exports at the current point in time, as they're terrible. That's because everyone wants cheap, and China will make stuff cheaper than it's safe to make them. However, classic bikes made for their own market are pretty good. With China, as with everywhere, you get what you pay for. The only difference is China will go even cheaper than everywhere else to the point the bike is almost unusable. If you buy equivalent priced stuff, it's just as good as everywhere else.