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Home to residential compounds with names such as Champagne Town, where long-term expatriates and well-heeled Beijingers live in gated seclusion, it's not the sort of area in which you'd expect to find a motorcycle gang. But most weekends the streets echo to the roar of powerful bike engines as the Beijing Dragons gather for their weekly ride. A motley crew of businessmen, corporate types and diplomats, the Dragons share an obsessive love for a piece of vintage technology that originated in Germany in the late 1930s but is now as Chinese as chopsticks.
- ▪Home to residential compounds with names such as Champagne Town, where long-term expatriates and well-heeled Beijingers live in gated seclusion, it's not the sort of area in which you'd expect to find a motorcycle gang.
- ▪But most weekends the streets echo to the roar of powerful bike engines as the Beijing Dragons gather for their weekly ride.
- ▪A motley crew of businessmen, corporate types and diplomats, the Dragons share an obsessive love for a piece of vintage technology that originated in Germany in the late 1930s but is now as Chinese as chopsticks.
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