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Wow... this sounds interesting...
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Some pictures from the trip. It ended up being about 3000 km and took around five weeks. I turned ack from Yushu just as the weather was turning. Got caught in snow quite a bit on the way back, especially on the passes.Attachment 20234 Me at the beginning of the trip in Chengdu. Top heavy. This is what comes of buying camping equipment at the last minute.
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Climbing the first mountains West of Chengdu
Attachment 20235 Pleasant stop in Shangli Gucheng
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Weird site on the road..TIC
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Let's try putting pictures in a dropbox folder...
These are on the way to tagong, so include Kangding, where the owner of the Zhilam hostel, Kris showed me some local trails on his dirt bike. The first time I've done off-road with the X2. Revealed the need to sink the rear shock. It was pretty high from Shuben's frame, when offroad, we were finding it hard to put a foot down. FGun times though.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...wW?usp=sharing
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Ganzi was simple, bustling and VERY Tibetan. There is a hostel, only opened at the beginning of the 2017 season in Ganzi called Dzachusama. Good coffes and western food, plus the owner, Nate, advised me of a dirt road to the next town of Manigange. I took this, going through a closed off tunnel, past goffers and packs of ig Tibetan Mastifs, through deserted remote villages and finnaly stopped when the sun started to go down and set up my tent.
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These pictures are of the dirt road from Ganzi to Manigange, then of Yushu itself.Yushu was my destination for this trip. I spent nearly a week there. Because I was travelling just before the golden week, I saw very few other travellers. I was glad when I met another foreign traveller-a Spanish guy in Yushu and we explored the city. One night, after succeeding in finding a bar, some tibetans filled our table with beers and we only paid for two, leaving shaky at the end of the night. I rode out to the grasslands near Yushu with Arnau on the back and we went along dirt roads, descending steeply into a valey (the road we took is marked on the picture by red arrows) and into a valley where there was a large temple damaged badly by earthquake.
Traveling by motorcycle really does afford you access to places others rarely go.
It was a good time in Yushu, but I'd been on. the road alone for abbout a month and I finally decided to turn back and go the way I'd come when the snows arrived to Yushu.
Pictures in the link below.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1C6...0b5jS6CSl1kmUG
I'll add one more picture dump later of the return journey. This was really scenic because of the fresh snow on the mountains, but difficult at times, because of the temperatures and the snow (roads were clear but this was my first time riding with the snow driving into my visor and the cold fingers. Made for great pictures though. I will add those later.
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I'll upload this picture here because I think it shows the real beauty of the landscape in this part of China. It was a blast. to finally acheive this route. It was diffult to do it alone, always moving into the unknown each day. I hopw in future to ride with others. I have picked up some mentors and riding buddies on my trips and through this forum. I started riding 2 years agonow and this forum really helped for the first year. I even bopught the bike the Shineray X2 off fellow forum member Shuben. It's probably credit to his maintenance and farkles on the bike that this humble Chinese bike tractored up everything on this trip and was really resilient.
I rode the bike to 5050 metres altitude at the Chola mountain road pass. I was astounded by that.
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A few more pics to come...
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Fantastic RR and insightful info on an area less explored by fellow intrepid adventurers. . .
I look forward to seeing and reading more of the adventures to come
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ShuBen
Wow, the X2 has seen with you much more than with me. I am happy it serves you well and my improvements make the difference.
Good to see you became a good experienced rider. When you took the bike over I was afraid you wouldn't make it alive back to Shanghai ��
RESPECT!!!
Ride on! Wish you "All time rubber down"
Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk
Cheers, actually, I think I just crossed over the 18,000 km mark so 50/50:)
Yes, the X2, your former X2, was like a tractor- it went up most things. It reached 5050 metres without a hiccup, despite having a carburettor. I was just thinking to myself, how I'll describe this bike as "an utter beast", after that mountain pass and the engine cut out. I free-wheeled for a while, started catastrophising (ie "shall I ditch the bike and walk down?") I was starting to panic (a litlle). The thought occurred to me after a while that I might be out of fuel. I turned the petcock and the bike fired right up. I was so releived. I hadn't topped up that morning. More Mea culpa.. I had extra petrol in a can at that point, just incase...
I would like to ride with buddies in future when off road, I think :).
The bike is infact a beast, the only limitations being the obvious need for wrenching and the small gas tank.
hmmmm....
Re. becoming an experienced rider.. I'm in Wales atm with family and have taken my compulsory basic training. I'm doing the full bigger displacement bike test next week and the week after. Training is good I think. I taught myself how to ride a bike in China, and have the injuries from this. Anyway, I look forward to getting back to China shortly to get more off road training...
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Fantastic RR and insightful info on an area less explored by fellow intrepid adventurers. . .
I look forward to seeing and reading more of the adventures to come
Cheers mate. Thanking you again for your (very detailed) information on riding in Zhejiang that enaled my ride there at CNY2018.. here...http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...-into-Zhejiang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_wLyVAV7hQ
Great info on a nice area close to Shanghai. That trip had some pretty painful learning points for me, but extremely valuable.
With regards to this area- 川西。。。 I got the idea from I think Alex from Xining travelling to the Chengdu Eicma and then used this website for info and planning on the area. Great source on info for Tibetan areas..
https://www.thelandofsnows.com
particularly this, for the trip..
http://www.thelandofsnows.com/tibet-...ing-to-yushu/]
Actually, I think this is on my preparation thread for the trip.
http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...ning-Chongqing
I was also really lucky to meet a Spanish rider in Chengdu with a real wealth of exeprience riding in Sichuan who gave me tips on scenic routes for the trip.
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Well done Steve
Great RR
Met up with BikerDoc in Thailand last week, shame he was driving a car. lol
over 5000 Meters on a carb bike.
well done.
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Metalmonkey, I'm new to China but now living in Chongqing. If you are thinking of doing more rides, particularly out west I'm be interested in joining up.
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Metalmonkey, I'm new to China but now living in Chongqing. If you are thinking of doing more rides, particularly out west I'm be interested in joining up.
Okay mate. Have you got your bike now? I'm in the U.K. atm. Bike is in Chengdu. Obviously, the ridinbg season is fast approaching...
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I looked on this other forum
http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...8389#post88389
and seems you've bought a bike. Congrats.
A New Chinese adv bike.
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I did buy a bike, still waiting on the plate as the holidays seem to shut most things down. Have you been able to sort out your logistics for returning?
