What happens when a foreign company simply refuses to recall unsafe motor vehicle parts or equipment? The NHTSA began thinking about that problem in light of recent events. Last month, a recall was initiated for tires manufactured by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., China's second-largest tire maker. Hangzhou exports tires to FTS (Foreign Tire Sales), a New Jersey company, … [Read more...]
The German Roots of Yamaha Motorcycles
With Yamaha recently winning a court case against the Chinese manufacturers who copied the Yamaha scooter design, and even the Yamaha name, and an earlier case against Patriot Motorcycles over the Yamoto brand off road bikes they were selling, it was interesting to look at the history of Yamaha itself. I was digging again in the archives and came across a photo (shown above) … [Read more...]
China Builds and Sells Fake Yamaha Scooters
Zhejiang Huatian, China's largest scooter manufacturer, was fined $1.1 million for selling scooters under the Yamaha brand name. The Chinese company, Zhejiang Huatian, registered a shell company in Japan’s remote Ishikawa prefecture in 2000 under the same three characters used by Yamaha to render its name in Chinese. This Japanese shell company then signed a licensing … [Read more...]
Chinese Motorcycles – Growing Fast
This really isn't news to anyone, we've written about Chinese motorcycles many times but it just seems like things are moving faster now. Here at The Kneeslider, email arrives almost every day from one Chinese company or another announcing their new motorcycles or motorcycle engines. If you follow their link you'll find one of thousands of similar products being offered by some … [Read more...]
Tank Sports E85 Ethanol Fueled Motorcycle
Tank Sports, another one of the many, many Chinese motorcycle companies we'll be hearing a lot more about in the near future, has tested both a 150cc and 250cc version of their motorcycles for use with E85 ethanol. After 7 months of research and development along with 3000km of road testing, Tank quality control has inspected and the research results in aspects of … [Read more...]
Dodge Tomahawk Replica Update
After our post on the Dodge Tomahawk replica, we received a comment pointing out these were for sale on Alibaba as the X Racer. Well, that's true, but it gives a misleading idea about the one we had in our post. I had a phone conversation with Howard Dorf, the builder of the replica in the photo, a replica he designed and built. In the course of building this project, he … [Read more...]
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