Yearly Archives: 2018

There are a lot of interesting things to see at the Canton Fair, including a few that you can’t help smiling at…like this monkey bike. I told the folks in the booth where I saw this bike they needed to … Continue reading →

Sometimes, you just take pictures without asking too many questions… These are electric bikes.  I may drift by that booth again later today to get a little more information.

Think big, think big crowds, and think “I have no idea what I’m doing or where I’m going but I’m following the crowd,” and you’ll start to get a feel for what the Canton Fair is like. I’m staying in … Continue reading →

Indeed.  Where do some of these ideas originate? My RX3 still has the original “Speed” decals on the tank panels (along with roughly 20,000 miles worth of other CSC touring decals).   After our first year of bringing in the … Continue reading →

So I’m over here in Guangzhou at the Canton Fair, and the Zongshen guys and I have been discussing a new model that evolved out of the reactions they observed when we toured their top secret new product development center … Continue reading →

When I rolled into the CSC plant yesterday, Steve asked me to come along with him to visit a shop a short distance away to meet Shinya Kimura, a man who builds custom bikes.  Our interest was in getting Shinya … Continue reading →

You know my good buddy Jim from the Baja ride last month… I grabbed the photo above in the Mulege mission about 700 miles south of the border.  It’s a great shot (if I do say so myself) and Jim … Continue reading →

Building a custom bike?  Hey, you could be like everyone else and go the potato-potato-potato route.  Or, you could start with a 1914 Excelsior V-twin… There’s lots more to come on this story, folks.  Let’s just say my Nikon was … Continue reading →

It’s not just the name of one of the best moto magazines on the planet…it also describes a lot of the ultracool motorcycles we service here at the CSC plant, like this 1973 Kawi 100cc two-stroke… As a guy who … Continue reading →