Riding by the weather forecast, sounds great :icon10:.Quote:
Originally Posted by TB-Racing
Stay safe, take it easy!
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Riding by the weather forecast, sounds great :icon10:.Quote:
Originally Posted by TB-Racing
Stay safe, take it easy!
After a night in Quzhou (Zhejiang) heading further down on National Road #320 in search of the sun and better weather......
Passing a tourist spot called Longhushan along the #320 National Road, good scenery but misty and becoming sort of warm and humid, off comes the base and waterproof goretex layer.....
more Longhushan pics....
After covering quite some distance starting from Quzhou (Zhejiang) the bike died with no electrics working at all, quick check (hate ever changing Shanghai weather and electrical vehicle problems) found out the battery was totally fried. No charge at all in the middle of Jiangxi province at a small Sinopec gas station. The station attendants were very helpful in letting me charge my phone, Schuberth helmet and iPad, offering me oranges / tea and getting a bike repair guy from a nearby village over to source a battery suitable to mount into the JL to get me back on the road again. Battery is not the original full size (half the height actually) but works fine. The two guys at the gas station refused any tip and just filled up a bit of gas (73RMB) but handed over 200RMB and drove away leaving some beer money for the assistance....
side-note: called our friendly Shanghai Jialing Service Centre (CJ - Jialing shop Xiao Fan) about suitable battery replacements (part numbers and size) and he mention no problem he is coming right away with a battery replacement on his CJ750 sidecar, little did he know where I had broken down, good for a laugh but good customer service.....
The bike was performing well all afternoon on the way to Ganzhou (Jiangxi) and passed quite a few nice signs and sights.....
Dear TB,
I've just installed in my JH600 a "maintenance free" battery supplied by Xiao Fan and so far it's working great. I think it's the same battery you said he provided for your JH600B -- black in color, precise fit for the JH600 battery compartment.
It's LJD who sources these, not Fan. I'm sure they can have one shipped to wherever you are, unless you are OK with the battery you've got!
Really enjoying your ride report. Keep it coming!
cheers
more roadside shots.....
spot on and correct, you can call them maintenance free batteries and can prove they do not require any maintenance as they only last a few days. No worries, not blaming Xiao Fan and he was very apologetic and was a funny situation as he said he is coming right away with a new battery thinking i am near HQP Roadhouse for some reason....Quote:
Originally Posted by euphonius
more road shots, someone has to put up some actual bike riding pics as everyone else talks mostly about license and shit (China V Quote from an earlier MCM post) and dreams about going on the road sometime in the future with the Taobao bike of their dreams, life is too short - lets roll.....
Had very long day with approx. 700k's covered (Quzhou / Zhejiang > Ganzhou / Jiangxi) and rode well into the night passing a tree right in the middle of the road in a village..... awesome emergency brake set-up in case your vehicle brakes fail for some strange reasons. Skipped a visit to the "Long March Starting Point of the Central Red Army" in the dark but got pictures to proof that I was very nearby during my ADV cruise to the Sun in Sanya.
Why roads always turn to pot-holed nightmares in the dark, makes you wonder, eh?
Hell, almost monday morning here, and you just keep sending all these pictures. This time your bann to return should be forever.
On the battery; if it is the battery you are ok with a replacement, but if it is the charging system which is causing it, you will have it happen within 2 days all again.
You can check easily in the next "service centre" you pass, the voltage over the plus and minus, should not be any more then 14.5V at any RPM over 3-4000.
E.
shall do check the electrics and battery once I find an authorised service centre somewhere on the roadside, you know me and my hate of electrics well.... now I remember the voltmeter sitting in my tool box back home.Quote:
Originally Posted by 998S
did pray to the battery and electric gods once already.....
Great stuff TBR - wishing you a safe & "maintenance-free" journey, aside from the battery hick-up!
Checked into a suburban hotel in Ganzhou and they only had a suite available with the full on set-up like mahjong table, TV sets, tea ceremony set, gourmet cup noodles, coffee, tea, various condom packs, pink female shaver displayed in a glass ashtray, male / female lubrication, playing cards, business towel, lounge area, bathroom and a bedroom equipped with a bed as hard as a concrete road slab for the royal sum of 258RMB (the suite had easily 95-100sqm. space).
Just case your in town and need first class accommodation in Ganzhou: Tialong Hotel http://english.ctrip.com/hotels/Ganz...tielong-hotel/
To the "Wiener" guy based in Guangzhou, let me tell you, love them "Wieners" during long distance bike travels as snacks, especially the imported Meica brand (shelf-stable, no refrigeration needed, glass jar filled with salty brine). I am not very fond of the MSG ladden crappy food offered at roadside stalls or cheap restaurants......
Yeah, here we go, some pics of the shaver on display in the ashtray and the gourmet cup noodles, playing cards, tea ceremony set, etc., had a good nights sleep on the concrete slab.
Ganzhou (Jiangxi) is known as the "Orange Capital of the World" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzhou but did not spot a single orange tree and on the way out passed many sawmills, looks like they cut the trees down to make wooden pallets and chopsticks.....
more "orange trees" or whats left of them.....
Just down the road from Ganzhou everything became a typical China countryside industrial wasteland for around 200k, boring to ride - polluted and dusty....
The National Road #105 improved quite a lot and became much wider with no traffic at all, great long sweeper bends.... good relaxed riding while listening to music and answering the occasional phone call....
Rolling down the highway #105 in China.....
Mountain range near Relong Hot Springs not far from the Jiangxi / Guangdong province check-point......
With all the warning signs and crashed car displays along the roadside it was time for roadside temple stops again.....
Dongguan (Guangdong): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongguan
Nothing special to report, rolled into the city known as "China's Sex Capital", with the prostitution sector - consisting of brothels, massage parlours, nightclubs, sex hotels, sauna centres and karaoke bars - estimated to contribute 20 to 30 per cent of the total output of the city's service industry, employing between 500,000 and 800,000 people) and the "Dingaling ADV Cruiser" will have a well deserved five day pit-stop in a mates garage near SongShan Lake due to my business commitments in Guangdong province.
Dongguan is also well known as a massive production area for shoes (Nike Town) and electronics - Foxconn just as an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn and has the worlds biggest "ghost shopping mall" called New South China Mall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_China_Mall
ps: quick weather forecast check about my final destination brings out a smile....
WTF is that pink shaver actually for? Maybe if Mrs. Potato Head is your girlfriend for the night? Looks like a potato peeler to me! :lol8:
Mate, have no idea but somehow was fascinated by the friggin' "thing" every time passing "it".....Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou
Had to leave my JL bike behind in Dongguan and in the Big Smoke Guangzhou right now for few days, foggy - misty - humid moloch city....
Looking out the windows right now - need to be reunited with my bike soon and hit the road again.....
Headed out from SongShan Lake (Dongguan) in the morning with the plan to hit either Zhanjiang (Guangdong) or Xuwen (Guangdong) for the night.
Tried to visit the Dongguan (Humen) Opium War Museum but the roads leading to it were blocked by police due to a VIP visit of some big wig, fine with me - next time....
Some info about the Opium Museum here: http://www.ypzz.cn/en/ and the famous burning of some dope in the old days.
We are talking about 1188127 kilograms of burning Opium here...... 1188.127 metric ton, thats quite a lot of drugs going up in smoke....... Come to think of it, really ~ just from the spreading smoke, greater Dongguan area must have been high as a kite for weeks!!!!!
Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll (rock playing in my Schuberth helmet via Bluetooth) and it was time to leave Sin City Dongguan....
Took the ferry to cross the river from Humen to Nansha in foggy misty weather, just a big ferry boat loaded with cars and one lonely awesome Jialing ADV Cruiser.... have you given your bikes a big hug lately?
Glad to see you found the ferry TB. Sorry I wasn't in town to see you this trip, hope to catch you when you come by again.
Prostitution & opium.... the better side of the pearl river delta :lol8:
I'm not a fan of the big G roads, but you're right about G105, some lovely high speed sweepers there.
Safe travels.
Cheers!
ChinaV
Good spirits in the morning - little did I know what a day of riding lay ahead with two strong thunderstorms (incl. hail / heavy winds) and by the time I had a piss stop next to Snoopy the weather turned really nasty for hours. Grabbed a large coffee from a McDonalds across from defunct Snoopy Park but rain continued and took off in the rain....
Rain... hail... more rain but once your wet - your wet and just carried on, no point in resting during the middle of the day and why bother to stay in a cheap roadside hotel or restaurant to waste the day away doing blog updates or emails and listening to some local bloke who wants to know where you from - how much you make a month - where are you going - are you married - do you like Chinese girls - how much does the xxxx costs (xxxx = motorbike, helmet, jacket, boots, GPS, mobile, iPad, etc... etc).....
Yeah, might catch you on the return trip back up to the Big Smoke, let's see whats comes up after my business commitments on the big island.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChinaV
Hey, you missed out on a great dinner and a few laughs the other night and yes - the guys let me work with big knifes again....
After lunch time the weather cleared up a bit (no rain for a few hours) and made some good progress due to good roads riding along towards Zhanjiang (Guangdong) with great scenery.....