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CFMoto Just Overtook Ducati, KTM, and Suzuki In France. Here’s Why It Matters

Do you care where your motorcycle is built, regardless of how it performs or what the spec sheet says? Judging from some of the comments we get on some of our stories, a lot of riders still do. There’s this idea that a “real” motorcycle has to come from Japan, Italy, the US, or Europe, and that anything made in China is automatically second-rate. But if you look beyond your own backyard, you’ll see a very different story unfolding.

In Europe, and particularly in France, riders don’t seem to care nearly as much about a bike’s birthplace. Whether it rolls out of a factory in Japan, Austria, or China, what matters most is how it rides, what it offers for the money, and how it makes you feel. And right now, one Chinese manufacturer is quietly rewriting the rulebook.

That brand is CFMoto.

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