When he was fourteen years old, Lu Chuan rode a broken motorcycle for the first time. The moment the engine roared, an ideal seed took root in his heart.
A car repair shop apprentice, an off-road driver, a factory assembler, an e-commerce entrepreneur, and a brand founder—it took him twenty-three years to go from the dirt in western Hunan to the podium of the world's top racetracks.
I have been ridiculed and abandoned. When I left home, I took only a pile of hand-drawn papers with me.
Everyone said he was crazy. He registered a new company and named it "Red Flame Locomotive".
He then allowed the five-star red flag to be raised over the MotoGP World Championship for the first time.
He builds motorcycles and dreams.
This is a story about paranoia, love and not admitting defeat. It is also a story about a grassroots effort that took 23 years to let the world hear the roar of China's engine.
