Last October, during the "Golden Week Holidays" we have made a Trip to the Huangshan Mountains. Jim Bryan (Jimbos Sidecars) had organised it so that we all could come together.
George Friddle and Amy, Jimmy Purvis and Kate, Erwin Lohscheller, Mr. Chen and Mr. Liu, Jim himself, Thomas and I.
We have been from Germany, USA and China. 5 Bikes and 1 Truck. 4 Bikes have been shippted with a Truck to Hangzhou and Jimmy and Kate came over from Qingdao with their own Truck.
We meat at the Best Western and than a beautiful Trip started.
Outside Beijing Sidecars are not allowed to use Highways and so we took the Sideroad........long and dusty!!
The 1. Day was the Day of Repairstops. What ever could go wrong, it did!
....and then we came to Taiping Lake and then ...
Enjoy !! and maybe the next "golden Week Ride" will bring us to Ulan Bator. Who knows?
(this Video is available in "watch in high Quality" on Youtube.)
01-19-2009, 02:35 PM
ZMC888
I've heard Huangshan is very beautiful, but also the Taishan area is quite near to me, and very beautiful, but the road from Beijing to Taishan is not. If you ever want to visit Taishan, (or anyone else does) please contact me.
01-19-2009, 02:49 PM
Lago888
Another AWESOME Video
Thanks SABINE !!!
You definitely should be Beijing Dragin Designated Movie Maker for all Beijing Dragon Rides
That was particaluarly interesting about the World Heritage Village
I sure wish I'd a made that ride, Next time !!!
01-20-2009, 02:06 AM
Jimbosidecar
Riding in China
Last MayDay Holiday I rode from Beijing to Huangshan (Southern Anhui Province) These are the stats for the ride. I think it's valuable because many times you set unrealistic goals as to how far or how fast you can ride on China's secondary roads. Motorcycles are not allowed on the hiways outside of Beijing. You can see from the hours ridden each day I'm not wimping along, and if you asked me I would have said my average speed was around 80-90 kph which it was when riding, but taking into account gas stops, meal stops, and other stops, it brings the average way down low.
So here it is.
WOW!! Sabine, great video, thanks for creating and sharing :clap::clap:
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Originally Posted by Jimbosidecar
3567 kms in 8 days. 12.5 hours a day.
100 hours in the saddle. 35 kph.446 kms a day.
Jimbo, that's a lot of hours per kilometer but good advice on realistic goals :thumbsup:. My personal best on my QingQi 200 was 525 kilometers in 12 hours and 700 kilometers in 12 hours on the V-Strom. Normally, I get about the same averages as you, 40 kph total speed and 58 kph moving speed. It seems slow when you look at the numbers, but the road factor really does make a huge difference.
