Cold and Suffering

Are you cold and suffering from motorcycle riding withdrawal? It's the dead of winter and many are living in less than favorable riding weather here in China. Why not take a train, plane or bus down to Guangdong and spend a couple days riding around. The weather is pretty nice and I have a couple bikes sitting here that need to be ridden. Plenty of room in the house for guests, free food and beer, and a very laid back atmosphere at hotel ChinaV.

There's really no catch here, just interested in hanging out, riding around, and swapping war stories with some fellow MCM'ers.

Cheers!
ChinaV

free beer you say? what's the address?

Just find Dongguan, let your beer senses do the rest:lol8:

sweet. flights from shanghai seem cheap enough. i have many questions:

how would the 29th-31st weekend suit?
is the trip from guanzhou airport to dongguan painless enough?
if could get a late plane friday, do you mind if i arrive at 1 in the morning?
prefer a two day ride with camping, or two one day rides?
the S355 over nankun shan looks like a lot of fun from google earth, is it?
i'm not a rapist, can i presume the same for you?

Felix, I sent you a PM with the gory details...

Cheers!
ChinaV

I'd love to come down there, ride some bikes and drink some beer, but the wife won't allow that!:rolleyes1:

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Originally Posted by ZMC888

I'd love to come down there, ride some bikes and drink some beer, but the wife won't allow that!:rolleyes1:

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Wives are welcome too, maybe explain how important riding is to good mental health :mwink: .

Cheers!
ChinaV

this whole thing is making me think; is there such a thing on the internet as a biker equivalent of couch surfing?

It would be like a big community of fantastic people like ChinaV from all over the world who sign up and say "i've got a couple of bikes out here in wherever, come down for a couple of days and we'll go riding". Basically like what masterV did here.

Does such a thing exist, or is it a horribly irresponsible and dangerous idea?

Felix,

The nature of riding and riding in China is such that it may be better to keep these kinds of offers to a focused community. There are plenty of go fast, look cool, I'm on summer break, "go get me laid and ride without helmets cuz' I'm so bad-ass", riders out there. They may be all polite and thankful up front but really they're all about number one. As usual, it depends on the individual but I'd definitely have some level of screening/vetting before handing keys over to anyone who plans to ridden in China... esp. if they haven't ridden there before.

CC

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Originally Posted by ChinaV

I have a couple bikes sitting here that need to be ridden...free food and beer, and a very laid back atmosphere at hotel ChinaV. There's really no catch here, just interested in hanging out, riding around...

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Mines 'Lucky', but Stella Artois will do :icon10:...and er um...er...well...any er...um...like, ya know...hot chicks who like a ride? :naughty: Well only in a two-wheeled kinda way. Natch. I aint no dog, right. :thumbsup:

Today, after ride 1000Km this weekend (and all monday and half thuesday) I can said. I love China Bikes, they are robust and travell every road (there was 300KM of bad dirt road on those 1thousen) I will love to go to ChinaV hotel and ride some of those spare bikes he have. (maybe the big brother of mine, The qingqi 250! mmmmmmm) But I live in the antipodes, so... I will just say Thancks a lot. Maybe next time. And of course if some time I grow up and become rich enough to have more than one bike, well that time andres357mag Hotel will open for the fellows here. (any laid with a china bike and time to post here deserve our beers!)

Cheers
andres

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Originally Posted by CrazyCarl

it may be better to keep these kinds of offers to a focused community.

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I guess you're very right on that one. For some reason yesterday it slipped by me that although i trust most people are capable of sleeping on my couch without burning my house down, i usually require a lot more convincing to hand my keys over to someone. In fact i've just remembered the last time i let a total stranger dive my sidecar after the whole "i used to drive one of these in the army" speech, he drove it straight into a bunch of parked bikes. He is not welcome at hotel felix.