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We have a shop in the local high street that 20+yrs ago used to be a car spares,
There are folks in the north of England who advertise on ebay for servicing Chinese bikes and scooters; they were doing that a while ago last time I looked and that was all they advertised as their business. I guess they could make a living at that. Perhaps nowadays they are selling them also.


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I'm not sure the Chinese bike manufacturers face the same export or die dilemma as the Japanese did so the pressures of US or Euro sales success are not as urgent.
Absolutely. An acquaintance of mine used to visit China as part of a BT team to sell them telephones; they recognised what profit could be made if they could sell one phone per head of Chinese population.

EU/USA sales of Chinese bikes will just be the "icing on the cake" at a pricing which is way out of line with the home market or any so-called 3rd world market; hence the Mash marketing of their bikes at nearly £4000 each while hanging a "French design" label on the product.

There are 16 Mash ads on UK ebay at present:-
mash in Cars, Motorcycles and Vehicles | eBay
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An acquaintance of mine used to visit China as part of a BT team to sell them telephones; they recognised what profit could be made if they could sell one phone per head of Chinese population.
I remember watching CNN (I think it was CNN) in China when I was there a few years ago and they were doing a report from a remote village about the first person there to own a fridge. They then interviewed someone from the fridge manufacturing company and asked them what they thought the market for fridges might be in China. "About 700 million" was the answer.
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A matter of scale

In similar vein, and at risk of going off topic (but it is still "Chinese"), I caught a news item a while ago - I can't recall how long ago - about a Chinese factory that produces 3 million pairs of socks per day; so, that's near enough a bilion pairs per year, every year, more or less (based on very rough mental arithmetic over a bottle of ).
And the world population is somewhere around 7 billion? Or is it 8?

Anyway, what about the logistics of maufacturing, distributing and selling 3 million per day?
Doing the same for rather less quantities of small motorbikes won't trouble them.

ps In the cold light of morning, without , I doubted my maths.
http://www.chinasocksmanufacturers.com
So, it's 12 billion pairs per annum from a single factory conglomerate.
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