Home sweet home…but not for long!

It’s good to be home.   I had a great visit with our friends at Zongshen and in reviewing my notes, we sure accomplished a lot.   But like I said, it’s good to be home.

It’s going to be busy, busy, busy in July, my friends.    We’re deep into planning the riding activity with our Chinese visitors, and like I said earlier, anybody who has an RX3 is welcome to ride with us.   We’ll be offering test rides at selected stops along the way, too, and we’ll be covering Arizona, Nevada, maybe as far east as South Dakota and Wyoming, Oregon, and down the Pacific Coast Highway.  I promised the Zongshen guys a ride across the Golden Gate Bridge, and I aim to deliver on that promise.  We’ll be posting more here on the blog, so keep an eye on us.   And Spud, if you’re reading this, there’s a real good chance we’ll be up in your neck of the woods.   I’ve heard you know a few good roads in Idaho…any chance you’ll want to mingle and show us around a bit?

I picked up some awesome photos while I was in China.  I can’t share many of them with you.   At least not yet.   As I’ve said many times before, we are not sitting still, and we have good things coming your way.   I rode the latest and the greatest while I was in China, and my favorite (after my personal RX3) remains the Z-1.  It’s just a light, flickable, smooth motorcycle, and I really enjoyed tooling round the Zongshen campus on it.

And hey, that photo to the right…that’s yours truly and Bella, my colleague and main contact at Zongshen.  One of the Zonghshen folks took that photo of Bella and me at the Zongshen Management Club high up on a mountain overlooking the Zongshen manufacturing campus.  Like that Navy recruiting slogan used to say…it’s not just a job…it’s an adventure!

It’s good to be back in the plant here in California.  I grabbed that photo you see above with my uber-camera, the mighty Nikon D810, and the low light level performance of that camera is just amazing.   The photo at the top of this blog was shot without flash at ISO 10,000, at f16.   Yep, you read that right.  ISO 10,000!    I like it.  A lot.   It’s got everything in focus (from the up-close stuff on the RX3 to Gerry’s gear on the pegboard).   Awesome stuff.

More good news…the 19-inch wheels are in stock now, but they are selling quickly.  We’ve got the matching CST 19-inch front tire, and we also have front and rear matching knobbies.   Give Ryan a call if you have an interest, but don’t dilly dally.    These are going fast.

And speaking of going fast…we’re down to about 12 RX3 motorcycles when I left the plant today.   The demand for these bikes surprised even me.   We knew these bikes were great; we didn’t know the market would react so strongly to them.   If you want an RX3 and you don’t want to wait until the next shipment arrives in August…well, see my advice above.   Don’t dilly dally, my friends!