Siekon Motor showed an electric "Cruise Prince" touring motorcycle at the Canton Fair last week, and I stumbled upon it while walking the halls. It was all somewhat disarming really, because I've been writing about motorcycles for 50 years ..
. and I'd never heard of Siekon Motor. The scene above greeted me as I wandered the world's biggest trade show and my initial thoughts were in trying to put it in perspective .
.. the Canton Fair is a B2B trade show, aimed at transacting imports and exports between East and West.
Finished goods get sold here. The Cruise Prince would not have been out of place among the show bikes from the world’s established motorcycle manufacturers that are being shown at EICMA this week, but I hadn’t expected something as well put together, relevant to Western tastes and quite as impactful as this electric tourer. Now the Canton Fair is where you’d expect to see a commercially ready motorcycle for the first time, but not one from a company you've never heard of, and clearly headed for production.
Hundreds of new models were displayed publicly for the first time at the Canton Fair this year, though most of them were Chinese brands seeking international partners for their mature, market-ready product ...
but just as prototypes have been shown as concepts to judge market reaction for years, it's all speeding up in China and its trade fair was full of near-production concepts and prototypes. The development of many motorcycles at seemingly every manufa.