man people are so salty over this i don't get it
he hasn't pushed anything let's give him a chance to fuck up before chasing him out with pitchforks
i like the fact that we have multiple small moto manufacturers represented on barf
I kinda figured the amazon links, links to CSC websites blog posts, and all of that would constitute 'pushing'.
but that's up to the admin squad, I don't really care too much one way or the other.
On the Bike itself, it's what, 3500 plus shipping, about 500 dollars off the cost of a cb300f MSRP. good deal if you end up at like 5000+ OTD on the CB300, which could easily happen, but if you can get a decent deal on maybe a new, 2015 model year or something like that. I personally think Honda reliability and build quality, Honda dealer network, and the Honda badge when it comes time to sell the bike, is worth a hell of a lot more then $500.
The ADV looking model is probably a better deal, because there really aren't many bikes in that class and size range, the nearest I can think of is the CB500X which is larger and quite a bit more expensive.
Still, I'm not a fan of the business model. All of the bikes are just rebranded bikes from Zongshen for the RX/C/Z 3 models, and some other company for the TT, couldn't find the original source. The other somewhat large company with manufacturing in china, Cleveland Cyclewerks, come up with most of their own designs and do some prep work in the US, and they at least made an attempt to bring back US manufacturing. I think it's a shame that CSC didn't do something like that instead of just bringing the ugly zongshen models over.