Chang Jiang 750

**shano** · 26th October 2008, 21:30

Might mean I gotta join another club ... and eat more chinese foods ..i sure will pick your brains

**shano** · 26th October 2008, 21:34

and I will have to see what componants this girls got ... But first things first, hiding the bike so the Mother-in-law doesnt see it

**CJ750** · 26th October 2008, 21:44

Will have to start the club before we can all join

**shano** · 29th October 2008, 20:04

as in how much is too much .... ?

**CJ750** · 29th October 2008, 21:23

I take it that you already have your new beast and you have ridden it and it has a steering wobble. If you tighten the wing nut arrangement on top of the triple clamp your wobble should go away. Mine is very stable in a forward direction but the first time that I reversed it I damn near turned the bloody thing inside out. Now before I engage the backwards cog I give the wing nut a tweek to tighten the steering and just hold on tighter, get into the shed and loosen the nut a little. After a couple of times it becomes accepted Chang practice. If your wobble is in a forward direction, jack the front up so that the wheel is off the ground. Spin the wheel and see if it runs true. Hope this helps,if not majic1@clear.net.nz. Cheers

**shano** · 1st November 2008, 09:53

It is parked up in a workshop at work as I am about to build the new garage. Its forward wobble at slow speed which is a chang thing according to some of the sites I have visited but then again talking to an old guy with a truimph unit and sidecar he says its actually a sidecar issue that does it to any bike. ( He is apparently a sidecar veteran and full of hows and what not tos when riding a sidecar rig of any sort, works at British spares here in Upper Hutt) He also has worked on a chang but put a beemer motor in it. I may have to tighten the bearings as well and that can be seen done via the sites I have looked at.... I have been looking at these 2 sites ...

http://www.changjiangunlimited.com/tech.htm
http://aussiechangjiang.com/links%20page.html

been filling my head with excess info and tweaks but have only been getting fleeting moments of looking at the bike while its parked up at work .... I think I will have to check the charging system as the lights on the top of the headlamp are non working and could be why the previous owner got a new battery. That battery has discharged rather rapidly ( was only a 20ah ) I have forked out and bought a 28ah as required by the specs got a yuasa instead of the chinese version.

Yes so all in all a tinkerers bike

**theo** · 5th June 2010, 17:38

Not any more have taken delivery of it

**Flip** · 6th June 2010, 19:36

theo did you get the waiheke island CJ?

**jasonzc** · 6th June 2010, 22:20

Originally Posted by CJ750

I do actually. It is quite funny to listen to them (2) slagging off the authorities in their country. They love it here because we dont have the level of corruption that they have to deal with on a daily basis. They have told me that if you dont have enough money you cant "buy" the services that we take for granted here in NZ. The comments that I have made have been uttered by my Chinese students.I have asked them if they have come here to learn skills that they will take back to China. They want to buy jandals and barbeques and never go back.Not all Chinese like living in China it seems.

You gotta realize too.. everythings getting better over there, less corruption, increasing. You can just "buy" your way into or out of things as easy these days. Bussiness is still based on relationships.. same as anywherelse, inc New Zealand. Much easy to get a deal if you know someone. Human rights are getting better too.. but still quite shocking in some instances .Regulations and political climate takes time to change, esp when u have a country over 1.6bil ppl.

anyways enough politics haha..

Those CJs are damn cool.... However they only go 80ks?
is that true?

**breakaway** · 6th June 2010, 22:23

I read the whole first page of this thread, and am no wiser as to what this topic is about.

/goes on merry way

**Flip** · 7th June 2010, 11:11

Originally Posted by jasonzc

Those CJs are damn cool.... However they only go 80ks?
is that true?

Mine a 24HP side valve seems happy enough at 80kph, just went to the brass monkey from Christchurch on it. It was loaded up with all the gear and her indoors.

Arrived on the site and a big sports bike went over in the frozen mud right in front of me. Picked him up hopped on the bike and spent a few minutes doing donuts in the snow.

Mine is due a meeting with a porting tool in the near future, there are a still a few more HP hiding somewhere in my motor.

**theo** · 8th June 2010, 09:24

Originally Posted by Flip

theo did you get the waiheke island CJ?

Yes, maybe I need my head read. Looking now for any other kndred spirits. Sorry just new to this Kiwi Biker thinghy and replies may be slow. Theo

**Flip** · 9th June 2010, 16:23

Yes you probably do need your head read.

My CJ is slow and relatively unreilyable but everytime I hop on it I have a great adventure and man does it attract attention.

I'm planning to get another in the near future probably a silver on silver bike to ride as a solo. Keep in touch with CJ750, he said you had been in contact recently.

I have send a friendship invite, once you OK it you can see my pics, there are a few CJ ones there.