Öhlins Racing AB

Oh, CFMoto's got – I'm sure they can afford to do some finance plans.

So, yeah, that's pretty exciting to see, like, real contending motorcycles that – it's coming equipped with, like, nicely – nice things like Ohlins and Brembo and all that kind of stuff.

So it's going to be, like, a legit motorcycle.

It's not just going to be some ripoff thing that –

I don't think I've heard or read a single dissenting voice on that point.

The chassis, that classic horizontal line made by the frame tubes and tank, the simple one-color paint job, the cafe racer bump stop, those piggyback shocks in a similar shade of gold Ohlins.

But it reveals itself as a styling exercise under closer scrutiny, [laughs] and that impression is strengthened by riding it.

Its aim seems to be to achieve the right look on a budget, not to actually be good." Scaling words from Visordown.

Uh, CF Moto are also working on, uh, their own super bike at the moment, the V4 SR-RR, which was, uh, revealed at EICMA last year and teased and drip-fed in terms of technical information ever since.

But this latest video actually shows them working with Öhlins to develop the suspension and also the steering damper.

Now, I think the first version that we saw actually had a semi-active suspension on it, but this one looks to be just regular old mechanical Öhlins, which is actually, to be fair, more typical of a, a track bike where you don't want so much variability.

You want it actually to be controlled.

And so our source for this information speculates that potentially they could offer two levels of spec, maybe one that's a little more road-biased with, uh, yeah, the sort of semi-active stuff that gives it a lot of adaptability.

Uh, but maybe also a more track-focused version, which is with this sort of setup, the mechanical Öhlins.

Either way, what I would say is it's a big step away from the typical sort of bikes that they've been offering so far.

Up until now they've focused on really budget-friendly stuff, but this thing is, you know, there's no expense spared.

I mean, it has kick a suspension, which, um, is a more upmarket brand.

You know, it's not going to compete with like, uh, You know, Ohlins or any of the nicer, you know, J-Juan stuff that we see on some of the nicer electric motorcycles that we've reviewed before.

But it's certainly a lot better than the no-name suspension that you get on a lot of the Emotos that we've talked about in the past.

Um, going around the bike, we've got, uh, Talon P six, six piston brakes, which are probably overkill, but you know, I want to see good brakes on a bike that can hit 60 or 70 miles an hour.

you add all the buttons, it still costs not middleweight price.

You put that Ohlins whatever electronic suspension on, that's just got to be expensive.

And that does add a lot of hardware that's costly hardware.

So there's no possible way they can hide the price of that.