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Contributors

This site is built upon the knowledge and hard work of many in the Chang Jiang community. Together with you, our fellow CJ riders, we form the Chang Jiang Collective.

Please, please, please, share your knowledge! This entire site is editable by you, the visitor! You all have a great deal of knowledge and experience to share, and all you need to do is click the "edit" link at the top of any page to get started.

This document would not have been possible were it not for the following (in rough order of contribution):

• B "Quincy" Cabell (cj750(at)besiex.org), who leads this effort, merged the main extant CJ manuals/documents, wrote key pieces of the underlying software, and manages the ongoing edits of this document
• Ray Costa, for permission to use his Pop's Cycles Assembly Manual, and for his review/editing
• Gerald Gardebled, for his giving blanket permission to use anything we needed from his site, for his wealth of knowledge, and for his review/editing
• Dereck, who gave permission to use his ammendments to the Official CJ M1 Manual, and for the history he compiled
• Fred Balanay, for inspiring me to create this document, which includes pieces of a nice PDF manual he had compiled
• Markus Albe, who worked with Quincy Cabell and wrote much of the wiki-specific site code
• Dan Crossman, while not directly involved, so little could be done in the CJ space without him. His site is a wealth of CJ information like none other. If only every love/passion/interest had an archivist and moderator like him.
• Matt Pryke, who we hired to develop many of the graphics for this site.
• Everyone in The Chang Jiang Experience, for being a resource and reference
• Everyone in CJ Mechanical Help, for being a resource and reference.

Plea for help!!!

We need your help. If you are reading a section of this document and you think, "They forgot to mention..." or "This isn't right." or "I know a better way to do that." or "I should tell them about the trick I use to..." then come on, participate, click the 'edit' link at the top of most of these site pages.

Disclaimer

This document is written by humans. Humans make mistakes. In the effort to merge a wealth of information from various sources it is quite possible there may be some conflicting information. It is also possible that there could be some wholly inaccurate or misleading information. If you follow the information in this document it is quite possible that you may destroy your bike and perhaps yourself. If you see any errors/omissions/etc. then click the "edit" link above and correct the situation. While we will do our best to manage such edits and maintain a high level of quality information, there are no warranties, no guarantees, no anything. Use this information at your own risk, peril.

Neutrality

Our goal is absolutely NOT to promote one builder/vendor/etc. over another. That said, a bias (or at least a frequency of mention will likely exist as the natural result of one vendor helping us more than others. For example, Gerald Gardebled, of Long River Motorworks has been extremely helpful to date, giving whatever we asked in terms of information, and seems to want to continue to be. So, clearly as we try to credit those who help the most, he cannot help but be mentioned more. Also, Dereck of ATST has been very generous with his help. So, don't plan to go out and hawk their wares, per se, but vendors will be mentioned as appropriate given their assistance. As will regular citizens :) And we may promote certain products of different Chinese and American vendors when we think it's something you all would be interested in. So, before you accuse us of favoritism, think about context.

Copyright

This document is copyrighted. You may not reproduce this document in whole or in part without expressed written permission.

Copyright 2006. All Rights Reserved. Chang Jiang Collective / Besiex / B. 'Quincy' Cabell