Shenyang - Mohe

My bike has already arrived in Shenyang (Liaoning), I will fly there on friday night. Pick up the bike on saturday morning, which hopefully is still in one piece and the crate not up side down!

Once packed I will head out of Shenyang (Liaoning) to
-> Baicheng (Jilin)
-> Arxan (Inner Mongolia)
-> New Barag Zuoqi (Inner Mongolia)
-> Buir Hu (lake on the border with Mongolia)
-> New Barag Youqi (Inner Mongolia)
-> Hulun hu (Inner Mongolia)
-> Manzhouli (Inner Mongolia)
-> Hailar (Inner Mongolia)
-> E'erguna (Inner Mongolia)
-> Shiwei (Inner Mongolia)
-> Mo'erdaoga (Inner Mongolia)
-> Genhe (Inner Mongolia)
-> Oroqen (Inner Mongolia)
-> Jiage Daqi (Inner Mongolia)
-> Tahe (Heilongjiang)
-> Mohe (Heilongjiang)
-> Mohexiang (Heilongjiang)

This is rougly my plan for 9 days (2500-3000 km), I will see how everything works out. But there's still plenty of km's that can be cut off from the route!

I'm not sure whether I will be able to post any pictures during my trip, but I definitely will once I'm back in BJ again!

Hey Barry,

that sounds like fun! Take care and I am looking forward to see some of these pics!

Good luck Barry - Ride Safe.
And if you find yourself detouring into SE Inner Mongolia, give a shout on my mobile.
[I'll be making my way into that area around Wednesday.]

BTW you listed Jiagedaqi as "Inner Mongolia" but actually Jiagedaqi is a district under the jurisdictional of Heilongjiang Province (which makes it like a HLJ island in the middle of NE Inner Mongolia. When you're there please get the backstory on this one! Thanks.

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Originally Posted by MotoKai

BTW you listed Jiagedaqi as "Inner Mongolia" but actually Jiagedaqi is a district under the jurisdictional of Heilongjiang Province (which makes it like a HLJ island in the middle of NE Inner Mongolia. When you're there please get the backstory on this one! Thanks.

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Indeed: "Its physical location is in Inner Mongolia, however, it is under the jurisdiction of Heilongjiang Province." source Wikipedia.

Here some photos by Thierry Coulon, who covered A'ershan, Hulun hu, Manzhouli and Hailar in his trip in 2009!

I could also pass through Tongliao, but I figured I would still see plenty of Inner Mongolia later. So I decided to go through Jilin a bit first and then head into Inner Mongolia.

Dear Barry,

Looks like a fantastic journey, and 3000km in nine days seems reasonable enough. I note that you crated by truck rather than doing the roll-on/roll-off by train. Would be great to hear details about how this worked, who made the crate and with what, and whether you'll try to stow the original crate for the return journey. And how does the cost stack up with train transport. Finally, if the crate does arrive upside down, some of us will want to know about that too -- with pix!

Ride safe!

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Originally Posted by euphonius

Dear Barry,

Looks like a fantastic journey, and 3000km in nine days seems reasonable enough. I note that you crated by truck rather than doing the roll-on/roll-off by train. Would be great to hear details about how this worked, who made the crate and with what, and whether you'll try to stow the original crate for the return journey. And how does the cost stack up with train transport. Finally, if the crate does arrive upside down, some of us will want to know about that too -- with pix!

Ride safe!

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I will finish in another place so I doubt I will use the original crate! When we called to Beijingzhan to check for the price those idiots said: they count the number of cc's as kilograms. So that would be 600 kg in our case, which would cost me RMB 2600 for BJ - Harbin.

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Originally Posted by Barry

I will finish in another place so I doubt I will use the original crate! When we called to Beijingzhan to check for the price those idiots said: they count the number of cc's as kilograms. So that would be 600 kg in our case, which would cost me RMB 2600 for BJ - Harbin.

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Hey Barry - best of luck on your journey! Looks great.

I know some people in Harbin if you need help. I've shipped bikes to/from Beijing/Harbin a few times, and the price is usually under 1,000 rmb, all in, for a sidecar and about 600 rmb for 2 wheels. But I'm starting to get the feeling that the train (roll on / roll off) is the way to do things for 2 wheels.

Anyways - while you and your GF are having fun, I'll be working on this damn stalling problem - I've ordered everything (all the parts) from the new 2011 "A" and am going to try it out.

Ride safe!

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Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou

Hey Barry - best of luck on your journey! Looks great.

I know some people in Harbin if you need help. I've shipped bikes to/from Beijing/Harbin a few times, and the price is usually under 1,000 rmb, all in, for a sidecar and about 600 rmb for 2 wheels. But I'm starting to get the feeling that the train (roll on / roll off) is the way to do things for 2 wheels.

Anyways - while you and your GF are having fun, I'll be working on this damn stalling problem - I've ordered everything (all the parts) from the new 2011 "A" and am going to try it out.

Ride safe!

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Good to hear someone is willing to give it go and try the upgrade. If I don't ask, someone else will: what are the costs for all those parts? Do you have more details on which exact parts need to be upgraded? (Perhaps start a new thread about this topic!)

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Originally Posted by Barry

I will finish in another place so I doubt I will use the original crate! When we called to Beijingzhan to check for the price those idiots said: they count the number of cc's as kilograms. So that would be 600 kg in our case, which would cost me RMB 2600 for BJ - Harbin.

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If you are returning to Beijing from a city that has a direct train link, and want to try the roll-on/roll-off method, just go to the train station and ride right up to the consigned freight desk, making sure your tank is almost empty. There you'll be asked to drain the tank (and almost certainly there will be someone there with a bottle and siphon and desire for 10 yuan), and to sign papers consigning it to Beijing. You can buy insurance to cover any damage to the bike, but in our experience they are handled well.

Motokai paid under 600 rmb to ship the same bike 1300km Shanghai-Beijing, and it arrived in 24 hours. Surely Heilongjiang-Beijing would be similar or less.

Anyway, here's wishing you great weather and awesome adventure!

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Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou

...Anyways - while you and your GF are having fun, I'll be working on this damn stalling problem - I've ordered everything (all the parts) from the new 2011 "A" and am going to try it out.

Ride safe!

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Originally Posted by Barry

Good to hear someone is willing to give it go and try the upgrade. If I don't ask, someone else will: what are the costs for all those parts? Do you have more details on which exact parts need to be upgraded? (Perhaps start a new thread about this topic!)

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Lao Jia Huo, this is truly a noble undertaking! Definitely fire up another thread when the parts arrive. I too am very curious about the range of parts that you'll be upgrading, and who you had to persuade to do the dirty, how "it can't be done" became "here's what you'll need" and how much it's going to set you back. (Then we can file the class action suit against our favorite riparian manufacturer...)

cheers!

After coming back from the trip I've been busy working to make up for lost time and relieve the financial pain in my wallet a bit. Furthermore the pain in the ass, time/energy consuming looking for another apartment! So I guess it's about time to start posting some photos/experiences of my trip.

Day 1 - Shenyang -> Tongyu - 418 KM

After walking up and down some dusty location with loads of transport companies looking for the one that received my bike. Followed by unpacking the bike and installing the windshield, mirrors and panniers and next packing our crap and getting gas. By the time this was all the done and we were ready to leave it was already 12:00.

We had initially planned to try to get to Baicheng which is even further than Tongyu, so we just kept going and barely stopped. Somewhere in Jilin province:

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400 clicks on day one - after lunch! I can see how that'd leave you sore. How'd the passenger hold up? This sounds like a great trip - looking forward to reading the updates! :popcorn:

(And you're moving away from Dongzhimen? What part of town you headin to?)

Day 2 - Tongyu -> A'ershan - 450 KM

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Day 3 - A'ershan -> Xin ba er hu zuoqi - 294 KM

Preventive swing arm rubber change in the morning before take off!
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Not just potholes on this road, also peeping holes!
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Day 4 - Xin ba er hu zuoqi -> Bei'er hu and back - 118 KM (95% off-road)

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The bridge on the way to the lake!
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No bridge, no problem for blue bikes!
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Finally, the lake!
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On the way back. A cow blocking my way, uhh water.
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Great photos Barry, keep em coming! Good thing you had a blue bike for all those river crossings. Did it make it all the way across the lake?

How comfortable is the jialing for two up riding?

Agree. Awesome photos Barry. Sorry we couldn't cross paths in Nei Menggu somewhere.
Also, I didn't realize you were 2-up! Makes that river crossing even more interesting (did someone swim over first?)

Felix - you seem JH-curious! Well, invitation is always out there to ride a Black Beast (no Blue bikes in Shanghai, although given these pics...it's just a matter of time!). Give a shout.

Shout! You know i've always been bike-curious. I should really see what this JH600 is about while i'm still in shanghai, next month it's off to xi'an with me...

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Originally Posted by Barry

The bridge on the way to the lake!
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See the rocks piled up just ahead of your bike?

If you had a BLACK bike, it would be easy to use that pile of rocks as a launching ramp to jump over the river. :mwink:

Alas, a blue bike has to find a surface crossing down stream.

EDIT - I forgot to mention that if you had a "B" you can just float across, using the bucket-pontoon for buoyancy. :icon10:

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Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou

See the rocks piled up just ahead of your bike?

If you had a BLACK bike, it would be easy to use that pile of rocks as a launching ramp to jump over the river. :mwink:

Alas, a blue bike has to find a surface crossing down stream.

EDIT - I forgot to mention that if you had a "B" you can just float across, using the bucket-pontoon for buoyancy. :icon10:

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Weird Canadians, putting launching ramps on the side they want to be launched to instead of the side they're coming from. I can sell you that (farmer) JH600 on the other side for only 15K RMB, special price only for you! :clap::clap::clap:

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Originally Posted by felix

Great photos Barry, keep em coming! Good thing you had a blue bike for all those river crossings. Did it make it all the way across the lake?

How comfortable is the jialing for two up riding?

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Across the lake? Made it to the lake yes, will leave crossing the lake for black bikes.:riding:

I did make the rear shock go all the way on some of those crappy roads when driving to fast. In general I don't mind having a pillion, but if you have to do a lot of unpaved roads you will be exhausted. I might have brought to much luggage, but mainly due to my pillion. Since all the camping gear never got used! Probably easier to leave the pillion at home next time.

Day 5 - Xin ba er hu zuoqi -> Manzhouli - 263 KM

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We could see we were heading for the rain, so time to stop and put on rain pants!
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ATM for children in Manzhouli?!
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We arrived at this square with all these Matroesjka's just before some rain.
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Nice to make pictures there after the rain at sunset.
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These are really great pics Barry - thanks! Very interesting location.

I am so envious that you made it up there, as it has been on my to-do list for soooooo long. Well, 2012, if the world doesn't end.

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Originally Posted by Barry

Weird Canadians, putting launching ramps on the side they want to be launched to instead of the side they're coming from. I can sell you that (farmer) JH600 on the other side for only 15K RMB, special price only for you! :clap::clap::clap:

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Oh ... right ... those neurons just ain't what they used to be. My excuse is that I am lacking a healthy diet of Canadian bacon, maple syrup & poutine!

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Originally Posted by Barry

Probably easier to leave the pillion at home next time.

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Guess what?!?!?!? I found one of your old home videos ... remember your pre-JH600 scooter? Well, it looks like you painted it black (I kinda suspected you had black-bike-envy) and shipped it home with your "other" pillion.

Meanwhile in the Netherlands

Catchy tune, by the way. :lol8: