Watch TV long enough, and you’re bound to hear a piece of sound-alike music in a show or commercial. You know, a song that has the same general vibe and sound as some other very popular song, but is just different enough to not be considered musical plagiarism for legal purposes? It’s a strange experience, but you can almost picture some project director telling their music guys “I want it to sound like Beyoncé, only not. Can you do that? OK, good.”
Looking at motorbike-alikes can feel like a very similar experience at times. On the one hand, you have incredibly blatant copies, like this Ducasu 400 or the Jialing CoCo Pony. On the other, you have something that may have started out as a blatant copy, but then got altered just enough to offer something new. Think about the Changjiang V750 Defender, or this CoCo Cub with a sidecar.
