{"id":21642,"date":"2023-04-05T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=21642"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:57:16","slug":"phavorite-photos-zongshens-corporate-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/phavorite-photos-zongshens-corporate-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Phavorite Photos: Tall Tales in Chongqing"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n

It’s been a little while since we posted a phavorite photo (thanks for the series suggestion, Peter), so I thought we were due.\u00a0 Usually the pics in our Phavorite Photo series are pics I took, but I can’t take credit for the photo you see above.\u00a0 Susie was with me when we visited Zongshen to negotiate CSC’s first RX3 order, and during those meetings, Zongshen asked about sending Chinese folks over to ride with us in the United States.\u00a0 The idea was Zongshen would provide the motorcycles and pay all expenses for a dozen or so riders if we would plan and lead the ride.\u00a0 During our meeting, good buddy Thomas Fan asked if I had any destination suggestions (Fan is Zonghsen’s marketing director; in the photo above he’s the first guy seated on my left).\u00a0 Boy, did I ever.\u00a0 I had a bunch of photos on my laptop from my rides to US National Parks, Baja, and more.\u00a0 I pulled up the photos, told tall tales about each, and our Chinese hosts were mesmerized.\u00a0 Sue had the presence of mind to grab my Nikon and snap the photo you see above.\u00a0 \u00a0It became an immediate favorite.<\/p>\n

Zongshen came through on their promise, and we had a hell of an adventure.\u00a0 We rode from southern California to Sturgis, cut across the country headed west to the Pacific Coast, and then followed the coast back down to So Cal.\u00a0 It was a 5,000-mile ride we dubbed the Western America Adventure Ride.\u00a0 Folks in the US who had purchased RX3 motorcycles joined us on portions of the ride.\u00a0 It was where I first met Joe Gresh (Motorcyclist<\/em> magazine sent Joe and he wrote a wonderful story).\u00a0 The Western America Adventure Ride was a key part of our CSC marketing strategy and it worked.\u00a0 You can read all about in 5000 Miles At 8000 RPM<\/em><\/a>. Buy the book; don’t wait for the movie.<\/p>\n

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About those destinations: What Fan didn’t know when he asked if I had any suggestions was that I write the “Destinations” column for Motorcycle Classics<\/em> magazine.\u00a0 We did a book on that, too<\/a>.\u00a0 You should buy a copy.\u00a0 If you buy a thousand copies, I’ll ride my Royal Enfield to your place and sign every one of them.<\/p>\n

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Earlier Phavorite Photos?\u00a0 You bet!\u00a0 Click on each to get their story.<\/p>\n

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By Joe Berk It’s been a little while since we posted a phavorite photo (thanks for the series suggestion, Peter), so I thought we were due.\u00a0 Usually the pics in our Phavorite Photo series are pics I took, but I can’t take credit for the photo you see above.\u00a0 Susie was with me when we … Continue reading “Phavorite Photos: Tall Tales in Chongqing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21643,"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":[654,235,392,96,369],"tags":[78,2001,2219,30,480,75],"class_list":["post-21642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-amazon","category-back-in-the-day","category-feel-good-stuff","category-zongshen","tag-csc-motorcycles","tag-favorite-photo","tag-phavorite-photo","tag-rx3","tag-western-america-adventure-ride","tag-zongshen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSC0009A-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642","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=21642"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21670,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642\/revisions\/21670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}