Excuse me! Can you watch my bike for a sec? Alone in China on YBR250

Hi Modron, great stuff and getting better with every new report.

The area you've covered around Sunan in last few days is probably part of the Qilian Shan mountain ranges. As you said it, the landscape is just so different from all other places we know. I believe you took S213. Motokai and I took S204 instead on our trip from Changsha to Urumqi with equally stunning, breadth-taking scenery, cutting through the high lands in order to reach Jiayuguan. I can't recommend that part of Gansu highly enough. Our RR:

http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...ll=1#post48403

We didn't do any camping regrettably. It would be a great idea to plan a trip just camping around Qilian Shan for a few days. In warmer weather though!

Cheers and thanks for bringing us along.


Edits: Just re-read your post. You did get on S204, which is what we did as well. The route/map Motokai published does not seem to match what we actually did in that part of the trip. We did S204 and went on a route not in the Google map or something. The last part to Jiayuguan was along a coal truck route right next to the railroad, supposedly a short cut, unpaved and brutal for over 80 km. But that was totally worth it.

Wow. That last section you reported on is spectacular. Good roads and track and no traffic. Wonderful. Looking forward to your next update.

Cheers,

Dan K.

Hi guys,

Sorry I havent written anything for so long but i had some problems and needed to cut my trip short.
I left China for 2 months but am back now and cant wait to take my YBR for a ride. It has been sitting in my friends garage for 2 months. I hope its all good.

As for my trip....well the last bit was not very interesting cos from Qinghai I stormed to Zhejiang in 4 days.....not very enjoyable ride.

here is a link to my flickr page, there are few pics from this trip there http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilkiewicz/

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Originally Posted by modron

I left China for 2 months but am back now and cant wait to take my YBR for a ride. It has been sitting in my friends garage for 2 months. I hope its all good.

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Welcome back to China! Did you recharge your sanity batteries overseas?

Those are really great pics you have on flickr. Thanks for the link.

Modron, those are some mad (good, no, - better than good) photographic composition skills you got going on in those photos you've upped on flicker... noice (nice) ;)

Welcome back to the bad lands...

I love when people take good pictures! It's so much nicer to look at.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate this. Ill post some more pics when after I find some time to develop them.
My poor bike YBR suffered some harsh times in my friends place. His garage gets really damped and it wasnt great. The saddle was all mouldy and there is some corrosion. To my surprise the frame, rims and body work held on pretty well (just minor traces of rust) but the engine looks horrible. There is some corrosion on the engine and Im not sure how to make my bike pretty again. Next time Ill ride ill take some pics of that engine, maybe one of you will know what to do.