Instead of taking a lot of time to post a whole report of your day out, just post a couple of pics in this thread. Since a lot of us (including myself) are often to lazy to post their pics. Let's see if we can get this thing going!
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Instead of taking a lot of time to post a whole report of your day out, just post a couple of pics in this thread. Since a lot of us (including myself) are often to lazy to post their pics. Let's see if we can get this thing going!
I'll get started with a few pics of my weekend to Laiyuan on the 10/11th of March:
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Last saturday around Beijing - 17th of March:
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G'Day,
Took the bike over to Pudong for a lunch meeting today and stopped by the new Pudong HD shop, quite a big dealership with a lot of stock (bikes, merchandise, accessories).
here is more information about Barrys "Day Out" 10. +11. March 2012
Good idea Barry!
Rode over to the Ducati shop here in Shanghai last week - they even allowed me to park the JH600 in front! :riding:
Here's a photo of the new 2012 Multistrada S Touring.
I like the new color scheme called Race Titanium Matte, but I don't like the new price which is called RMB 350,000!
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Ducati has a few new color configs for 2012 that are really quite cool. This MATTE GREEN MONSTER is really cool!!
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And here's a photo that I took in Shanghai Traffic today.
I dig the front fairing on this Longteng sidecar bike with the big dual headlights.
I was at stoplight so couldn't get the sidecar in the photo.
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Brilliant footwear! Wonder if those are those Longteng-issue loafers.
Now, 350k RMB aka US$55k (and that's before your 58k Shanghai plate) -- what are the other things you could buy for that in China? Six Prada bags, 10 square meters of a 100 square meter flat, 10 JH600s.......
Anyone tried a Belgian beer at De Refter? The average price is 65 rmb, which is US$10. Outside of happy hour, a pint at Boxing Cat is now 50 aka US$8. Going to have to start buying Reeb. WTF is happening to China?
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cheers:goodtime:
G'Day,
Lunch meeting in Suzhou Intercontinental today and took the bike over to Suzhou.
On the way back to Shanghai visited the Suzhou HD dealership once again, interesting HD trike with unusual license plate........
Alright, I started with the idea of going down to the Laotieshan Nature Reserve in far southern Lvshun. So I got down there, going through some interesting small villages. At one point I was checking my map and saw that I had passed the "Jinma Supermarket" which is funny because I swear I didn't pass anything that possibly could have been a supermarket. So anyhow, I find the road I've been looking for, and it's a one lane concrete road that goes through the hills in the area, I stopped and got a picture of what I expect is a tomb, there are lots of tombs down little paths along the road. I proceed along and, *DOH!*, a gate with soldiers. I told them I'd like to go to Laotieshan and they said I couldn't, it was an "Army place", which is more than enough to turn me around. A little disappointed I turned around and tried to figure out what I could do with my day. Though I've gone through the area I figured I'd go to Dongjiquanshan Scenic Area, which I amuse myself by thinking is "Eastchickenclosed Mountain" but I suppose is probably not. The area is nice, it's in the middle of a somewhat stunted pine forest and the roads are pretty good. Since it was still before 10:00 I got off and actually walked around some of the old Japanese and Russian barracks there. Once I was done with most of that I just went back to Dalian and went and rode around Binhai and Linhai road, just for good measure. I also went back down Binhai magic slope, which is infested with abnormally sized terrestrial fish, octopus, and worst of all, rock sharks of unusual size. Naturally my bike stalled perilously close to one.
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Alright, I had heard from a friend that Binhai highway was a nice ride and it certainly turned out to be.
Binhai Highway starts just north of a little town called Jinzhou, which is about an hour ride from my apartment in Zhongshan and about half of which smelled awful as I went through.
I didn't try to take the G11 expressway because it's a toll road and I figured I would just get stopped at the gate. Later I'll check it out and let y'all know how it goes. I just took Dongbei road north from Zhongshan and got on the 202 from there, it basically turns directly into Binhai highway once is crosses west of G11 further north.
The highlight of the trip was finding a really nice little beach. The beach is littered but otherwise the nicest beach I've seen in Dalian and apparently open for camping because I saw that someone had a tent there, with some other evidence of campfires.
It's a nice ride, but it's a scenic highway, not the small twisties I'm realing looking for. It's also pretty out of the way. Still, I'll go back again, and I'm also thinking of getting myself a tent on Taobao.
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Just some more pictures.
G'Day,
Moganshan weekend (4-6 May) and great biking around Moganshan, Huzhou, Anji (Moso Bamboo Park) with brilliant twisties and awesome new roads (800k's total during the weekend).
11/05 Friday afternoon at the Tianma Track, mini bikes getting prepared for the weekends races......
Visited a mate at the "China International Exhibition On Police Equipment (6th.Event)" in Beijing yesterday and some interesting exhibits incl. some police motorcycles.
No Jialing or Chang-Jiang.........
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Had a nice weekend trip with the wife two weeks ago around YiXing. The fastest color blue JH600 only had the obligatory kick stand safety switch cock up. (As a time saver to others, If anyone has this failure, cut the wire and simply tie the green and the black wire together. Just cut the white wire short. Final picture is the cave you have to see to cool down. YiXing is only about an hour and half from Nanjing on the South West side of Lake Taihu. Only a couple hours from Shanghai. Once you get out of the traffic nice twisties in the mountains and the forests of bamboo are pretty cool.
Drinking & Riding
Have over 1,300km on the new Continental Escapes but haven't had the chance to test them off-road until today.
Went out riding past Songjiang (Shanghai Suburbs) where I was able to find some farm country: Dirt roads, grassland trails, and mud.
Tarmac: Took a bit of time for me to get used to the Escapes on the road (JH600 comes with the stock Chengsins). Biggest difference with the Escapes is the transition from Center to Shoulder. The Center is designed to be wear-resistant, while the Shoulder is more flexible. And the profile of the Escapes is very different than that of the Chengshins (compare here). When you start to lean for your corner, the Escape pulls you thru in a way where your input is simply different compared to the Chengshins. But once you start to feel the Escape's Shoulder action, you can begin to nicely carve in ways that outperform the Chengshins.
Off-Road: Most of thes roads/trails in the Shanghai suburbs are simply short runs which are adjacent to or cut thru fields. But they did serve the purpose of trying the Escapes on some off-road surfaces. Needless to say they grip much better than the Chengshins. It was most notable on hard-dirt with the front tire more aggressively grabbing the terrain in front of you. As you are moving thru 2-track roads. The Escapes easily move from the right track over the hump and settle into the left track without issue. Biggest differences are: 1. Extra knob 2. Better suited profile of the tire which more aggressively reaches for the dirt/gravel.
Thru mud you simply get less slide (unless)....and this brings me back to the title of this post: Drinking & Riding.
After tooling thru some grass tracks and dirt tracks with a bit of dry mud, I saw a dirt/gravel road extend thru a field that had extensive wet mud. It was a straight path (approx. mianbaoche-wide) with a small irrigation ditch running along the left side. After riding thru the first stretch of wet mud I moved from the right track over to the left track without any hesitation from bike or tires. Speed was low to moderate. But then, when entering thru the section of deeper mud the front tire started to slide on what was a hidden steep incline rising up towards the hump. I tried to adjust for this sudden slip, but the front tire kicked out to the left too quickly and I couldn't find the traction to keep my straight-line.
As I was adjusting imput and tying to correct, the load was also moving forward as I was trying to slow the speed down - but it was all too late and down she went (on the left side). I did a quick let-go and since my forward motion was now moving left as well, into the drink I went!
The JH600 was sitting pretty (high and dry) but since I slid into the ditch on my ass I was now fully soaked. I climbed out of the irrigation ditch stinking like stagnant muddy water. After hitting the kill switch I took a quick survey of the event: Only issue was broken plastic around the left turn signal, but the signal itself was fine. I then focused on the wet HTC in my pocket. Powered it down and took the battery out to let it dry (so sorry no pics).
Afterthoughts:
- I'm damn lucky I didn't go into the drink with the bike (the ditch had about 2 feet of water, with a muddy bottom).
- Love the Escapes, but when riding a somewhat heavy dual-sport bike (no matter what the tire), you have to respect wet mud.*
- Need to take extra precaution when riding solo off-road. Like I said, it's a good thing the JH600 didn't join me for the swim.
* Better description of the JH600 off-road is clumsy.
If there were more and better off-road tracks around Shanghai I'd join the cool kids and get an X2X. But there aren't, so I'm just plain happy with my JH600.
Oh the stagnant waters of china
just the worst place to land
Bad luck motokai
10th.June = 250k's = Shanghai - Kunshan (Yancheng Lake / Lunch) - Suzhou Industrial Park - Dianshan Lake - Canal Road (HuQiPing Highway parallel road) - Shanghai to test a Schuberth C3 helmet with SRC-Bluetooth System.....
I have the same helmet, also with the SRC ... even the same hi-viz color. Love it, although I have mixed feelings about the SRC (great sound, nice auto-volume, good mic ... but not quite as easy to use as other BT systems I've used). Schuberth C3s are outstanding helmets if your noggin' fits ... if it doesn't fit, they are misery.Quote:
Originally Posted by TB-Racing
Nice bike!
Was impressed after 2 days testing and bought one today.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou
Thanks, she is not done yet......Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou
Great day out on the way to Moganshan..........
cruising around greater Moganshan - Anji area..... flat tires.... ripped valve stems.... beers.... shooting the sh@t.... great weekend!
A day out riding in Dalian along the BinHai lu to Lushun...
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Hey MQRider, long time no see. I just got finished with a decent little camping trip up around Binhai highway. I've been back and forth through Zongshan and Lvshun a lot and I don't recognize most of your pictures, is there a more scenic route? I'm going to be heading home for a while (pending many silly detailed developments, for 3 weeks - 3 months - +?). We should get together for a ride before then!
So on with my mini RR.
The ride up was fine and eventless, I made decent time. The ride back was awful because Dongbei Lu is shut down, I presume for some maintenance or construction. Hot! I had to take Donglian Lu all the way back into Zhongshang but still made OK time because I was riding on the right or lane splitting all the way down south.
The little beach I've pointed out in a previous RR in this post is actually before (further south than) the one I had pointed out. I would revise my map but Google Maps isn't working just now. I was looking around and decided that there must be another little campground someplace further north near where my original map indicated.
As far as camping went, the area is sandy and soft enough for tents with a little attention to your location. I set up right down at the end and poked around at the ground for a while making sure it was suitable. Some guy came up and insisted that I pay 10 kuai. I have no idea if he had any authority to collect fees but I handed off the money and they didn't bother me again except to come up and ask about the bike which I didn't mind. Over all the campground minders and other campers were very friendly. Actually the night I stayed I was totally alone, which made for a nice but short walk up and down the beach (all of 300 meters). During the next morning I figured I would take the initiative and explore around some of the other little beaches just south. There are lots of nice rock formations and little critters but as far as I could tell no other places to camp unless you had a really nice groundcloth and sleeping pads. During my night walk something crawled across my toes and hand me dancing around for a second. There was also a crazy millipede-looking thing in my tent the next morning. I have a very thin sleeping bag and no pad so the surface wasn't comfortable and I was almost too warm. Spring and fall are the best times to go here, but it was good camping even in the heat of summer. Also it was really humid and sticky outside of the tent and there doesn't seem to be any decent cheap place to buy beer nearby.
One thing I know is that I need a better flashlight. I was relying on a POS light I bought on Russian St. and that turned out to be worthless.
Pictures!
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Big Kawa trail bikes do exist in the motherland, seen near Anjii the other day.
Nice. That's the Kawasaki KLX250. I wonder how long's it's been in China to be legally plated. Not sure you could get a KLX or KLR plated these days, without making it worth some officials while...
cheers
Always a great afternoon out the motorcycle shops (near Jimbo's Clasiic CJ Shop / Iron Horse Saloon), TP Engineering Beijing is opening a shop in Shanghai as well this year I was told over a few cold beers at IHS yesterday....
Beijing Goldenport Circuit reminds me of Tianma Track Shanghai, they should freshen up the shops and area a bit........
My buddy's been riding his '02 Super Sherpa (KLR) since '06, but it's slowly dying. It is legal SY plated though. We found another '02 at the small market in TEDA - I told him to just buy the second one as a parts bike! As long as the frame and block hold up he should be okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by euphonius