JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian
Hi all,
after lot's of traveling and work I finally have the chance to really road-test all recent modifications on my JH600. My wife came up to join me on a nice 3-days tour in the mountains and coast area around Fuzhou. If proofs again - some adventures are right in front of our door-steps and not always 1000 miles away.
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Here my two babies in black waiting for me to take them off...
DAY 1
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The road choice for us is mostly little back-roads, county-side.
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Local bikers, mountain road, rain seems to come up...
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View of Fuzhou from a nice "balcony"...
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Road work is going on everywhere in China. The rain makes it muddy too. I didn't take (unfortunately) too many pictures of these sections. We had fun, the Heidenau K60's were doing a great job - so did the rear suspension. I was also very happy about the larger rear sprocket, which gave me enough torque, also at low speed when things were quite slippery.
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Romantic country-side.
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Different road qualities - even rainy, temperatures were quite up around 28C.
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End of day 1. First duty - take a shower - including gear.
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We found a nice hotel in Minhou. Luckily there was a manager who could speak english, so ordering food and all was easy.
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Trying to buy some desert wasn't that easy - but everything is possible in China (I know, there is somebody around who likes to add "...but no frickn' thing is easy")
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"NO ENGLISH!!!"
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What a day...
Re: JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian
:clap: Lovely stuff so far, please continue! :clap:
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Pfaelzer
If proofs again - some adventures are right in front of our door-steps and not always 1000 miles away
It's easy to say that when you live bang in the middle of the biggest mountain range in eastern china. I think that if you lived in xuzhou, for example, you would quickly get bored of the adventures that don't involve 1000 km.
JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian - Day 2
JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian - Day 2
We continued through this really nice valley to this tourist place - which was thanks to the rain totally empty.
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LUNCH TIME!!!
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Well, how to order food if you have hardly any idea of the language? Go to the kitchen and see what they have. BUT- take a close look otherwise: Ok ,we needed some soup. The word is "tang" - sure. The waitress understands and lists up a lot of Tang's with different names added to it - of course we didn't understand any. In the end I asked my wife to just try one. So when the waitressed finished her list I asked here again and the first Tang she mentioned, I made clear, that we wanted that one... Let's see - surprise. We love Chinese food.
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But first some tea...
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Bamboo sprouts, vegetable, rice,...all we could see in the kitchen.
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The soup!!! Not REALLY what we expected - you can clearly see the hand of the frog on the spoon...
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...let's enjoy frog soup then. Hmmm tasty. I couldn't convince my wife to give it a try. The taste was actually not bad.
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We saw the other candidates on "death row" on our way out...
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We continued the trip in a really fantastic landscape - and on good roads, first...
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The road got rough again at times - but fun to ride. The suspension is eating up all my riding mistakes.
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The bike gets more color.
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Another typical coffee break. in the mountains above Putian City.
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This is another project. Obviously, the front fender cannot deal with the 21 inch front wheel conversion. Mud and water everywhere. I need to launch a fender extension project.
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Late afternoon, a little Typhoon had passed through - now the air is clear and clean.
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We visited the South Shaolin Temple near Putian. They say the place has got an over 1000 year history but the buildings were destroyed several times. For me - as a Kungfu Movie fan - the experience here was a bit disappointing. However, the nice ride up was more than compensating.
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Dinner was good. We didn't take a chance this time and rang up a friend who placed the order for us.
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Romantic hotel room at a very reasonable rate. Good enough for a nice sleep after a long and great riding day and also for drying our gear.
Re: JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian
:thumbsup: Fantastic Ride Report Andreas with great photos! :thumbsup:
I am really interested in hearing more about your suspension. I've read (over and over a hundred times) your JH600 modifying thread, and find your on-road testing to be valuable.
Those look like nice helmets - do they have bluetooth for rider / passenger communication?
Thanks
Richard
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I love this ride report! expecialy when it comes to the food part!
we also only have very limited Chinese Language skills and something like your frog soup happens to us very often. I have learned something during our beeing in China.
the 1. dish they offer mostly is the restaurants special, that is why I make a "yes sign" at the 5-8 they are mention.
and another "surprise" Pfaelzer now has a face for me.
Danke schoen!!!!
Sabine
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That's Awesome :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Thanks for sharing another great ride with us, is your wife going to get a JH600 of her own?
Cheers!
ChinaV
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Ja! Vielen dank indeed! Great ride, and a great report. Nice to know how the Jialing performed OK two-up.
cheers
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Hi Richard,
What do you want to know about the suspension? It is more firm and less "swinging" than the original part. I ordered it a bit on the harder side (Wilbers can tune the spring based on your needs) because I have traveling with luggage and 2 up in my mind. It is surely an improvement on and off road. Cornering fast on road and hitting a bump it typically shakes up control a bit and you hit the main stand - this behavior is improved as well. Best is to come to Fuzhou and test ride...:riding:
As for the helmets, actually nothing special, an old Arai, which my wife used in Hong Kong on her Vespa and mine is a Zenith, which I got from the Guangzhou motorcycle market. No bluetooth.
Cheers,
AW.
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Hi Felix,
one more day to come soon. Different that the first days. About adventure - maybe you are right, I don't know Suzhou... Guangdong and Fujian only. Good luck anyhow.
AW.
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Hi Sabine,
thanks for the help on how to order food while traveling in China. It's fun usually if you take things a bit easy. You want to see a bit more of Pfaelzer face, see my older Zhejiang RR.
You are the hero anyway with your great movie presentations....:thumbsup:
Cheers,
AW.
Re: JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian
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Hi ChinaV,
I also like this road part a lot. Well, my wife and her JH600 - could be. I'll let her try the 250 next time. However, she is never sure what she likes more, riding her own bike or riding together with me. For Europe she made her decision:
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Cheers,
AW.
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That's Awesome :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Second that! Looks slippier than marble, with a pretty unforgiving drop on the right! Fair play to you riding that two-up on a heavy bike!
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felix
Second that! Looks slippier than marble, with a pretty unforgiving drop on the right! Fair play to you riding that two-up on a heavy bike!
It wasn't that bad... not as challenging as this one :naughty: :
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AW.
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Nice! You're lucky that didn't all crumble away while you were taking the 2nd picture!
JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian - Day 3
Hi,
back again for the last and very different part of this ride. It was a sunny morning, when we left the hotel. Guided by the GPS we made our way north/east towards the coast. The size of chinese cities is always amazing. 35km after leaving the hotel, we were still in the city jungle.
The coastal areas are mostly occupied with cities, villages and industrial parks. Not really too much "untouched" nature. Anyway, there is the chance to get to beaches or close to the water without ending up at a factory.
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We rode out on a sea-dam to get away from busy areas and houses. We got close to the water for the first time and took a rest in the sun.
It wasn't for long until we got some visitors. Two young guys on a scooter came along to check out, what we were doing here. "Aaah, for play..." they finally concluded. Then came the usual look and testing of all switches and movable parts on my JH600. "Oah... Jialing, liu bai si si..." Then they went off... Sorry, no pictures. I have to improve here.
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Since we were not too far away from the Fuzhou airport, we decided to go there for lunch. This picture was taken right at the restaurant... A good chance to see the really fully loaded JH600.
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Then we finally got some beaches and nice little coastal trails. Since we had to leave back to Hong Kong that night and we knew we had to take a ferry across the Minjiang river, we didn't stop often to be back on time.
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We decided to come and explore those beaches on our next ride.
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When we entered the next town, there was a quite unusual sight... especially riding with an umbrella... :icon10:
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This town featured a nice "historical" section.
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Getting back to the north shores of the river and to Lianjiang, my garage location, we had to cross the river by taking a bridge to Hujiang Island and the ferry from there to the north shore.
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Quite busy on the ferry but all went much easier than expected. 6RMB for the ride.
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It was a fun ride - nice contacts with locals including this one...
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She was a bit shy, opening and closing the mirrored window, the third time I had the camera ready... We all had some nice smiles...
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Some problem on my GPS - you can see the off-set. I had it corrected recently in Shanghai, but later I updated my Europe map online - the off-set correction for China disappeared with that. I need to take more care next time. Surely I will get the correction back with some efforts.
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Back at the garage. Luckily I got some good friends who will happily take care to get the burnt mud off my bike again for the next ride.
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Thanks for joining us on our little trip. We will be back on the road soon again.
Litte summary for the JH600:
Over-all very satisfied with the modifications so far. I urgently need to look at the front-fender to make it more protectable for rider and bike. A set of much louder horn needs to be added on. GPS off-set correction and change gasoline. Ah, forgot to mention that I now also belong the the group of this thread:
Chinese-gasoline-impurities-likely.........
I must have gotten a quite bad fill-up on the last gas station. During the ride back the bike just didn't want to rev up as before. Fast throttle opening resulted in almost shut-down of the engine. Anyway, we made it back to the garage on smooth acceleration and no max power. After changing the gasoline the engine ran fine again.
Cheers and greetings,
AW. :thumbsup:
Re: JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian - Day 3
Here's a dirty quick-fix for the GPS offset:
Pick a zoom level that you use most often and draw or stick a little dot on the screen (nothing too permanent) of your true location.
It'll only work at that zoom level, but it's better than nothing!
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felix
Here's a dirty quick-fix for the GPS offset:
Pick a zoom level that you use most often and draw or stick a little dot on the screen (nothing too permanent) of your true location.
It'll only work at that zoom level, but it's better than nothing!
That's a good one Felix, thanks.
Anyhow, I hope to get the software fixed again soon. It was working so nicely before - I'm really upset, that I didn't make a back-up before upgrading. The most basic mistake...
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Good one mate, lovely scenery, you are really getting around and showing us some great places. Amazing pics in the back areas of those old towns.
Umm, looks like no radiator guard? Yet ..... lol.
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That's a good one Felix, thanks.
Anyhow, I hope to get the software fixed again soon. It was working so nicely before - I'm really upset, that I didn't make a back-up before upgrading. The most basic mistake...
Pfaelzer,
Nice ride report. Thanks for sharing. Is the Garmin offset fix only valid for your model, or is there one that works across models now? Last time I took a driving trip in CHina, the offset really killed the GPS usefulness for me.
Cheers,
Dan K.
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Good one mate, lovely scenery, you are really getting around and showing us some great places. Amazing pics in the back areas of those old towns.
Umm, looks like no radiator guard? Yet ..... lol.
The radiator guard is on my list jape - it's gonna come sooner or later, just watch the JH600 thread below.
AW.
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Pfaelzer,
Nice ride report. Thanks for sharing. Is the Garmin offset fix only valid for your model, or is there one that works across models now?
Hi Dan,
I understand this is fixable (at the right place) for all Garmin devices, which can use the downloadable map from the Garmin homepage. It doesn't work on my older GPSMAP 278 model.
Cheers,
AW.
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Dear Pfaelzer,
If this was the same Garmin we updated with the offset in Shanghai last time you visited, I'm pretty confident we can have them recalibrate it again at little or no cost. I'd be happy to do that for you, if you want to send the Garmin up to me. One caveat: This can't happen till after 1 November due to a busy travel and work schedule.
Also, I'm in Beijing and don't have my Garmin with me, but somehow I remember that the China pinyin map that you and I both use was stored on a removable chip. I was just assuming that the de-offset would have been saved on the chip with the map, but from what you are saying it seems the de-offset is embedded in the firmware, and got wiped when you reinstalled the firmware. Is that right? Apologies for my naivete, but is there not any way to have the offset calibration in the chip with the map?
cheers!
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... A set of much louder horn needs to be added on.
YES! YES! YES!
The JH600's horn is ridiculously weak! It is roughly on par with my e-scooter's horn.
I've asked the Beijing Jialing service centre to find some big "honkers" for my JH600 - we'll have to wait and see what arrives.
FYI, I picked up my military JH600B yesterday and it has the exact same horn. "Watch out Mr Enemy - here I come! mini-toot mini-toot"
I'd die from embarrassment before any bullets hit me.
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Hi euphonius,
it seems that the calibration was hard-copied on the device. I should have made a back-up before... I will have to be in Shanghai beginning of November for business. Hopeto meet with you then and I think I will have time to go to the shop to get the device fixed up again. It doesn't bother me too much since I also use the printed google maps for my smaller trips. I have no idea, if this off-set calibration works from the chip as well, but what I know is, that I will do a back-up after the next calibration.
Cheers,
AW.
PS: How is your shoulder doing? :naughty:
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Lao Jia Hou
YES! YES! YES!
The JH600's horn is ridiculously weak! It is roughly on par with my e-scooter's horn.
I've asked the Beijing Jialing service centre to find some big "honkers" for my JH600 - we'll have to wait and see what arrives.
FYI, I picked up my military JH600B yesterday and it has the exact same horn. "Watch out Mr Enemy - here I come! mini-toot mini-toot"
I'd die from embarrassment before any bullets hit me.
When can we see some pictures of your new B-type?
Here is, what my guys have organized and they say it is much louder... we will use two horns.
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Need to check next week.
Cheers,
AW.
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I've always heard the biggest and best is the Stebel Nautilus, which is an air horn with its own mini compressor.
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This "Bad Boy" is even prettier...
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My only problem is I don't want to be sitting on top of a 139 decibel horn without earplugs. Are these directional?
They attach with a single bolt, and take standard 12v wiring.
I imagine these all come from China. Taobao anyone?
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I have forwarded this to my friend - let's see what he can find. I might install the 139dB horn separately for "special cases...
AW.
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Found something similar in Alibaba...
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...and traced it to this site...
this says it's 115db
Contact Name: Mr. xu
Tel: 86-577-65353799
Fax: 86-577-65393708
Mobile Phone: 86-15990777168
Address: hantian village,tangxia town,ruian city ,Zhejiang
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