Motorcycle.com ran a story about our Good Buddy program yesterday, and the comments are coming in. You can get to it by clicking on the link in the sentence above.
The guys at Motorcycle.com are awesome, and they’ve treated us well. They were one of the first magazines to give the RX3 a thorough test, and they scored it highly. The comments are entertaining.
Once in a while I’ll throw a little gas on the fire just to feed the Internet trolls (you know, the folks who use the Internet to spread their venom). There are some folks who are incredibly threatened by the RX3. Or maybe they are threatened by us. Or maybe they are just mean. I don’t know. I wrote about it a few months ago in my Venom, Viciousness, and Vituperation blog entry. You have to wonder why they do it. More than few, I suspect, don’t ride at all. It’s the Internet, I guess. It brings out the worst in some folks. But it is entertaining.
There are several places on the Internet to get good information about the CSC RX3. There are a number of forums (some good, some not so good) and there’s actually a thriving board or two on Facebook. Here’s a quick rundown of the ones I know….
The CSC Facebook Page. This is our page on Facebook. You can find out the latest on CSC here. Steve and I maintain this page. It has good info, but the CSC blog (what you are reading now) usually has the breaking news. We’ll get some whackos (you know, the haters) posting occasionally on our FB page, but unless their comments contain profanity we just leave their comments on the page.
The IBAR Facebook Page. This is the Facebook page for the International Brotherhood of Adventure Riders. It has good discussions on it on all kinds of adventure bikes.
The Cyclone RX3 Zongshen Owners Facebook Page. This is Jim McMains’ Facebook page and it’s focused on our favorite motorcycle. It is a good page. I read it daily. Their photo at the top is one I took way back when.
MyChinaMoto.com. This is a great forum, and it has a fair amount of stuff on it about the RX3. You’ll see a comment or two from me on this board under my real name. It has the story about the guy who rode an RX3 from China to Istanbul.
ADVRider.com. This is a forum that I’ve been a member of for a long time. It has a number of active threads on the RX3. The link I’ve provided here is the most active one. If you have an RX3 and want to share your experiences, we’d like you to weigh in here. I post on this board under the screen name Gatling.
ChinaRiders.net. The ChinaRiders forum is one of the more active ones devoted exclusively to Chinese motorcycles, and there is a very active RX3 thread here. I post under the screen name CSCDude on this board. It attracts the odd whacko or two, but their whackiness is easily discernible and as I mentioned above, I suspect the one or two haters who lurk here don’t even own a motorcycle. There’s a lot of good information on this board.
RX3Forums.com. This forum started right after we introduced the bike. My observation when I used to read it was that it was generally free of haters. We don’t follow this forum, but you might want to take a look at it.
Cyclone RX Forums. We don’t follow this one, either. The owner sells RX3-themed trinkets. He wanted us to endorse his stuff, but he wouldn’t tell us his real name. That’s all we needed to know to pass on that opportunity.
I think that’s about it. If you know of other forums I’ve missed, let me know.
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