One thing I've been thinking about for a while now......why are the Japs putting up no opposition to the Chinkies in the 125-450 Trail/Adv/Rally segment?
It's like they're willing to let them have that sector of lower priced bikes because they want the larger capacity, more expensive part of the market.
That's a bike mistake.....the Brits thought like that in the 60's. People said the Jap bikes were "sewing machines" and they couldn't build a good big one!
Then the CB750 K0 arrived in 1969! It changed everything, and within 3 years along came the Z1.
And those buyers of the small Japs in the 60's became customers for life and there was no British motorcycle industry left.