Dragon Boat ride through Zhejiang 2011.

My wife and i have just returned from a 3 day ride to Anji and Lin' An and other places in Zhejiang. We covered 800 km's most of which was through the mountains. I can't really be very specific as to where we went because we simply followed a group of riders from Motor Fans. The group are really experienced and rode in formation with a leader, a guy at the back with flashing neon lights and the bigger bikes would wait at intersections for the slower bikes to prevent them from going the wrong way. I was well impressed. There were 18 bikes in total, and we had an absolute blast. I wont ramble, I'll just let the pictures do the talking....


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My wife also took some great videos of us riding up and down the mountain so i'll be sure to post them as soon as i have time to figure out how to do it. Apologies for the scatty thread, but at least i made half an effort. Cheers....

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Cool pics, thanks! And each is worth a thousand words ... wet words, actually!

Indeed, apart from all the rain that looks to have been one hell of a ride. Riding in a posse like that can be a lot of fun. Some of those pix sure look like the back of Moganshan. Lovely, lovely roads.

Question: How did your wife react to it all?

cheers!

My wife enjoyed it as much as i did. She loves the countryside and really enjoyed all the banter from the motor fans group. They're a really nice bunch and we're both looking forward to the next ride. I discovered that she's actually a lot tougher than i am, i had wet feet for 3 days and she'll tell you that i did nothing but moan.

I'll be sure to buy water proof riding boots for the next one....plastic bags and tape just don't cut it.

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Originally Posted by dewsnap

...plastic bags and tape just don't cut it.

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LJH's useless riding tip # 37:

For waterproofing at speed, only use Carrefour bags & the orange 3M duct tape.

Provided as a public service, no charge.

:riding:

PS: Yup, my sweety's tougher than me too.

lol...

Here's a Youku vid of us riding down Anji mountain. It's 11 minutes but after 3 mins my wife turns the camera so the rest is shot upside down.
It's a real shame, it could have been a nice vid.

We took some shorter vids that i reckon will be more interesting, i'll post them soon.

Hope it works. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjc0MDU0NDEy.html

Nice thread, thanks for taking the time to post it.

Thanks for the post dewsnap, good to see that neither rain, broken ribs nor weary wives are keeping you off the road!

This is us crossing the Huangpu river on a little bridge in the rain. All those hours on the wooden planks doing the bike test actually paid off. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjc0MDU0NDEy.html

Another short vid of us riding in convoy up the moutain. If you look carefully you'll see two CJ750's coming down in the opposite direction. Brave men!
http://u.youku.com/user_show/id_UMTA1MzI5MDI4.html