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Tibet Odysee (Changsha-Chengdu-Lhasa-Ali)
Job done, bike gone. At last the clutch. :lol8:
After 5000km on the tibetian plateau I burned the clutch when I took a way to steep short cut at over 5000m. Now the bike is on a truck on the way to Lhasa and we are lonly in Ali. :sad:
More later...
Greeting from Tibet
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:popcorn:
Can't wait. . .
Cheers,
Dan K.
Black Hawk, CO
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OH man! This should be interesting! Will definitely be following this one!
:popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:
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Beautiful pictures! Great stuff. :thumbsup:
How did you get the registration number 8H888! Super lucky! :thumbsup:
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Beautiful pictures! Great stuff. :thumbsup:
How did you get the registration number 8H888! Super lucky! :thumbsup:
Secret :naughty:. To be honest the number was often helpful on the way.
Re: Tibet Odysee (Changsha-Chengdu-Lhasa-Ali)
Beautiful pics but I'm a little confused as to what pics were taken where and on what part of the journey.
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CrazyCarl
Beautiful pics but I'm a little confused as to what pics were taken where and on what part of the journey.
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G317 from Dege over Qamdo to Naqqu, the last pics are from the G109 Nagqu to Lhasa
Re: Tibet Odysee (Changsha-Chengdu-Lhasa-Ali)
Man, thanks for the pics! You're livin' the dream man! A man, a woman, their bike, and adventure of a ride.
What more could one want?
Cheers,
Dan K.
Black Hawk, CO
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DanKearney
Man, thanks for the pics! You're livin' the dream man! A man, a woman, their bike, and adventure of a ride.
What more could one want?
Cheers,
Dan K.
Black Hawk, CO
The Dream is over! :sad:
I must swear my wife before we left, that this would be the last trip to Tibet forever. This was our 3rd trip there in 3 years, so she has enough of it. In that 3 years her poor ass done a total of 42.000km on the back of my bikes...
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DOH! Well there's always Mongolia! :icon10:
:riding::riding::riding:
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Great story and pictures.
The route you took was that the tea and horse trail?CCTV9 did a doco on the Tea and horse trail definitely on my to do list.
Any problems getting in to ti bit and riding through with the local pol***.
Was it this year.
Those dogs in one of the photos near the hot spring are they Ti beatan mastiff.Are they friendly or protective of their owners and livestock?
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awsome pics! would love to do a trip like that
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sorry no updates for long time. been to busy with work
@ bigdamo: The Trip was this summer 2009. Yes we had our problems with police and army but nothing we couldnt manage.
Its not the tea and horse trail (Yunnan-Lhasa).
There is few real tibetian mastiff, thy mixed already with local dogs. Will upload more dog pictures for you. They protect there owner and his livestock from you :)
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http://www.ohnezoll.de/bike/pic/westtibet/P9153213.JPG
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That looks amazing...
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Cheers!
ChinaV
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What an unbelievable part of the world! Top marks bro! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Wow. Great follow-on pics!
So, how did the bike handle two-up at 5,500m?
My XT225 manages 4,200m one-up OK, but yours must have been really chuggin' at that height.
Cheers,
Dan K.
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Since the YBR250 has Fuel Injection no problem at all, only the "road" conditions are limiting you.
I always ride 2 up, with the YBR125 and the TZM 150 it was slow at 4500+. Also fuel consumption got really up on the bikes with caburator.
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Right before Gerze (改则) we had one of this moments on the trip you dont forget so fast.
Until this point of the trip we had 3 times problems with the police and could make our way out on all of them.
As we don’t had any permissions to be in Tibet at all, I usually just drove trough checkpoints at high speed and without stopping. At checkpoints in Tibet the barriers are half open, so pedestrians, bicycle and motorbikes can pass, but car, busses and trucks need to stop. When I saw the barrier was down I found usually a way to drive around it.
But this time it would be different :)
We made it already 2800km into Tibet and where right before Gerze in the Ngari area.
I know a checkpoint would come soon. As it was evening and we drove westwards the sun was low and shining right into my face. I saw the checkpoint coming and saw the barrier was high open so I speed up, just in the last moment when the sun was covered by the checkpoint building I saw, there was another barrier right behind the first, and it was CLOSED! Fuck! Full crash, bike me and the wife where down. When I saw up a machine gun was pointed at us.
As it was 17th September everything was on high alert because of the 60th Anniversary of China on 1st October.
Some minutes later the situation got easy and we where sitting inside explaining what we are doing here. They didn’t believe our story that were on the way to Germany over Pakistan and Iran, but after we showed them the trip reports in Chinese magazines from 2008 they got relaxed. After they called the headquarter they told us we don’t need any permissions as we are individual travelers and not a group, only groups need permissions. What a bullshit, but hey we are lucky.
After we got tea and cookies from them I thought hey it’s a lucky day, try a bit more. So I asked the soldier if I could have is machinegun for a picture, he sure, and handed it to me. Just before my wife can make the picture the main police officer comes in and start shouting on the soldier why a laowei has a gun in his hand…so no photo :(
Anyway from that day on at every checkpoint I just stopped, pulled my driver license, registration and my wifes ID out and showed them to the soldiers, they usually just registered us and off we could go.
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Damn you! xD I was just very happy in thinking I don't ever have to go out of Scandinavia and Finland, and now your pictures made me to reconsider and doubt it.
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Damn you! xD I was just very happy in thinking I don't ever have to go out of Scandinavia and Finland, and now your pictures made me to reconsider and doubt it.
There is one thing you will miss here if your from skandinavia. Trees. On an area over 1.000.000kmē there is not a single tree.
btw i just moved to Austria. Nice mountains. A little bit like Tibet. Your welcome to stay here!
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Oh man, the Alps.... those have been on my dreams todo list since I read from the first motorcycling magazines of them and watched the pictures. Touring Germany, Austria, and Switzerland should let me take a good look at them! Now I just fear exploring Kola Peninsula or touring Eastern Europe will get delayed... but have to put first things first! The Alps is the way to go! If I just can since the Lapland and Northern Scandinavia are already whispering softly into my ears, calling me back to see and experience more what they have to offer. Can be some hard decisions to do in the future, but at least not regarding the bike. I totally fell in love to my little and simple Skyteam and would chose it even for the RTW trip. Anyway, maybe I can travel to the Alps by the excuse of travelining first to Estonia to look for one Estonian woman I met, and after driving through Estonia giving up and chosing to go get some relief from the nearest mountains, the Alps xD Sounds like a very good plan :) Anyway, if you chose to travel up North, be welcome to take a rest in my summer cottage, if you just can stand some mosquitos :)
The Alps and the headquarters of KTM (and BMW), oh man. It would be almost like some religious trip! Can't wait to park my Skyteam in the front of KTM's headquarters xD Have to stop thinking of it now or else I begin to float and there is a lot of work to do for me now xD
EDIT: Forgot the trees. I am really suprised you mentioned the trees :eek2: for those I begun to miss in Norway for the first time in my life. I used to hate roads in Finland, it is like driving in a tarmac tunnel in endless forest, but for some very very strange reason I begun to miss it and were very glad when got back to Forest tunnels in Finland. Had to think wyh it is so. The reason was that I imagined forests would give me shelter, concealment, and food in case I needed it xD
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Thanks man, would love to come to Finland. At the moment i am stucked here without a bike and with my pregnant wife.
Your right the alps are soo nice and this place is just 10 min from me :clap:
http://www.plaincook.com/wp-content/...stein11280.jpg
why was i living in Shenzhen before? :eek2: