the jap companies have always copied everything that came before them. look at the goldwing...BMW??? i think it was a 550cc that had the MOTO GUZZI engine, and their p-twins?? hahahahaha the 750 was the closest thing they ever came to doing something special, and that was really a copy. so the way i see it they showed the rest of the world how to mfg a none dripping reliable motor but to say they have done anything different is a stretch. everything has been ripped off from those that came before them. be it Italian, German,English or American. so it never suprises me to see something like this, i think they build several bikes that are straight rip offs from Triumph when it comes to styleing, look at some of their bikes without looking at the motor and you will see Triumph in many of their models. the thing i like most about my Triumph as oposed to a honkasusha, is that it will out handle all of them V-twin and it just has soul,not generic like them. just yesterday i had an older lady come over to me at a gas station admireing my bike, she said after all the compliments about how nice my bike looked and that it looked like a bike should she said "he rides a vulcan, (pointing at the gentleman filling his car) my first husband rode English, Nortons and Triumph's and i wish i could get him to buy one, i really like this one" i told her where the dealership was and she told me they were passing thru on there way to the Keys. of course when i left i let them know i had Scepters for exhust and went on my way. that conversation would not have happened had i been rideing a jap bike or any other v-twin. they have never been the originator they have always done what everybody else done but they done it their way is all.
