{"id":16728,"date":"2022-04-14T06:38:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=16728"},"modified":"2022-04-14T06:38:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:38:14","slug":"chongqing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/chongqing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chongqing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other than good buddy Arjiu (that would be Joe Gresh), I&#8217;m guessing most of you have never been to Chongqing.\u00a0 Chongqing is home to China&#8217;s motorcycle industry and it was the starting point for your two blogmeisters&#8217; putt across the Ancient Kingdom.\u00a0 I enjoyed that ride enormously.\u00a0 Gresh and I had some fantastic times.<\/p>\n<p>I first visited Chongqing and Zongshen as a consultant to CSC when we used Zongshen&#8217;s 250cc engine in our Mustang replicas.\u00a0 One thing led to another, and before too long CSC was Zongshen&#8217;s exclusive North American importer, and CSC introduced the RX3 to the US.\u00a0 I was blown away by Chongqing, the people, the size of the city, the photo ops, the cuisine, and more.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been there many times and I&#8217;d go back again in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>Good buddy Fan shared this video a few days ago, and I knew I had to share it on the blog.\u00a0 Pro tip:\u00a0 Hit the little button on the bottom right of the video (after you start it) to view it full screen.\u00a0 It&#8217;s impressive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zWvzKIHFACU\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can be a China hater all you want. I know more than a few people over there I call my friends. Yeah, the world is going through some shaky times right now, but that&#8217;s not the Chinese people and it&#8217;s for sure not the guys I know. I like the place.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more about our trip across China, pick up a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Riding-China-Joe-Berk\/dp\/1537414895\/\"><em>Riding China<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0There&#8217;s a link here on the blog.\u00a0 And take a look at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ExhaustNotes.us\/Rides.html\">Epic Rides<\/a> page, where we have links to posts about that ride.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Never miss an ExNotes blog!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other than good buddy Arjiu (that would be Joe Gresh), I&#8217;m guessing most of you have never been to Chongqing.\u00a0 Chongqing is home to China&#8217;s motorcycle industry and it was the starting point for your two blogmeisters&#8217; putt across the Ancient Kingdom.\u00a0 I enjoyed that ride enormously.\u00a0 Gresh and I had some fantastic times. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/chongqing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chongqing!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[654,66,89,369],"tags":[162,2421,192,75],"class_list":["post-16728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-joe-gresh","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-zongshen","tag-china","tag-chongqing","tag-csc","tag-zongshen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/150628_8110-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16728"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16748,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728\/revisions\/16748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}