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They don’t now. Not msrp to msrp and you can generally get a better discount than on a Yamaha or Honda. You get a way better clutch and brakes too. I guess they should throw those in for free?

I know Honda makes most if not all of their play bikes in China now. The Chinese had reverse engineered and copied these bikes for so long, I guess Honda finally decided that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. If your VIN starts with an “L” no matter the brand, your bike was built in communist China.

There is a world of difference between 'Made in China' and 'Making in China'. They arent just subbing this stuff out , they are taking all of their practices and opening facilities, or taking over existing ones. All the quality systems will be in place, and like any other G|obal company, they will benefit from making them there, rather than importing, just like |Honda and Toyota do in the USA and Nissan do here. It looks like its the lower end Adventure stuff, that needs to price point competitive, i doubt racebikes will be done there yet , but it...

It was cool seeing Glenn ride so good. I'm just strugglin to understand why Tomac rode the 2019 bike. Of course, I guess if he would have ridden the 2018 bike and finished in the same positions, I probably would have wondered why he didn't ride the 2019. Oh well, I'm just so bummed with the outcome, and trying to make some kind of sense of it all.