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Article: Asian advances: it's easy to forget, as we ride around these vast United States, that on the other side of the globe there's a similarly sized country that makes more motorcycles than the USA, Europe and Japan combined.(One TrackMind)
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- August 1, 2004
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It's China, of course, which produced more than 14 million motorcycles in 2003. Fourteen million--two bikes made in one year for every one registered in the USA--about 45 percent of the 32 million motorcycles sold worldwide that year. Staggering.
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Despite recent motorcycle bans in the largest Chinese cities and nationals who travel mostly by bicycle to fight air pollution, only about 3 million of those motorcycles were exported. The rest were eagerly sucked up by China's population of 1.3 billion-plus, more than four times that of America. While political controls still remain tight in China, more and more economic controls are ...
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