The RG3 is Zongshen’s newest motorcycle, and yesterday this video and its description showed up in my feed:
We are excited to share the epic journey of RG3 crew! Along the 318 national highway, our RG3 adventurers spent 12 days riding to reach Lhasa, Tibet from our factory in Chongqing. May the journey inspire you to start you own!
This is cool stuff and Zongshen (sold by CSC Motorcycles here in North America) is a cool company. I’ve been in the Zongshen plant a bunch of times along with good buddy Gobi Gresh, and we rode with Zongshen across China.
Gresh and I had a lot of fun with the Cult of the Zong, and we joked about the lines we’d be able to use after our 6,000-mile ride in the Ancient Kingdom. You know, little things we’d slip into a conversation like “as I was riding across the Gobi Desert” and “when we rode down off the Tibetan plateau” and others. We knew it would gave us the street cred we needed to converse with hardcore riders making the trek to Starbuck’s.
Zongshen puts together first class videos, and I always watch their new ones as they are released. One of my Zongshen favorites is the one they did on our China ride:
And another I enjoy is Joe Gresh’s video on that same ride:
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I have read the Book, I did read the views and comments, and watched the videos, and I guess if I got off my butt I could join in on the fun. The longest motorcycle trip I think I ever made was from Naperville, IL to Cape Girardeau, Mo where my Dad lived. I was about 500 miles one way or 1000 miles coming and going…. a long day trip each way. My steed was a Yellow 1200 Triumph Daytona, sort of like the one I see on these pages from time to time. Great bike and great to travel fast and be comfortable, loved it! Since moving to Florida my long trips are to Daytona, 175 miles or so and then riding around there for a tank or two during Bike Week. I have a used Sporty, so think 100 miles a tank, so not that many miles. So epic adventures like these do have some appeal (a lot!) to me. Do please keep riding and writing so we armchair adventure riders can enjoy your adventures!
Thanks, Terry.