Chinese motorcycles get a lot of hate. Scroll through the comments section of any article we write about them and you’ll see what I mean. Riders are quick to dismiss them as cheap knockoffs, unworthy of comparison to Japanese or European machines. But here’s the reality: they’re here, they’re not going anywhere, and some of them are genuinely good. Seriously good.
CFMoto has proven it with bikes like the 800NK and 450SR. QJ Motor, another major Chinese player, has also been flexing its engineering muscles. And now, they’re at it again, with an updated version of their middleweight supersport, the SRK 800 RR.
The news comes courtesy of Cycle World’s Ben Purvis, who spotted the new bike in recently filed Chinese type-approval documents. What’s surprising is just how quickly QJ Motor is iterating. The SRK 800 RR only recently hit showrooms, yet here we are with a sharper, more aggressive version already lined up. That kind of pace is unusual in the motorcycle world, and it shows how determined QJ Motor is to catch up with the established players.
