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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    I'm also adding the rest of this blog to my website...

    you can find it here. www.mychinablog.com

    (no sideways pictures, I promise)
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    I've got a video up on youtube of this trip- Beijing- Qingdao- Shanghai

    Let me know what you guys think, good and bad.

    https://youtu.be/CQp5CvLNjg4
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Day5
    Left the hotel at about ten thirty- a really late start for me. headed towards the tunnel that connects the peninsula with the southern part of Shandong. Asked directions and found that the...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Pictures day 4

    The first pic is the rain coming down- afterwards, it became torrential and I pushed the bike up under the flyover.

    Upon going down to the car park in the morning, I found the...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Day4

    Short day here, but , none the less, eventful. Rode to Qingdao and made for the nature park peninsula east of the city to check it out before going to the city itself. As it turned out, this...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Thanks man.. hope people can suffer several more posts. Haha. Got more. I'll also chuck them up on a website as a blog. I need to edit the go-pro footage and put a video together. This is not the...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Day 3

    I’d been keeping to 70-80 km/h for the trip so far , especially given that the first day was spent in heavy rain. I’m a fairly new rider, so I was hanging back in traffic and assumed that...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Day2
    Set up the phone holder today, so navigation was a bit better but battery kept running out.
    Started out the day in a hotel in Dacheng, like a small truck stop town on a main road in Hebei...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    My feelings? Don't like riding in rain.. at all. Sure people can identify with this although t may be that I'm fairly new to motorcycling, but I tend to imagine the things that could happen while...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Day 1 of riding

    Woke up early. Found the staff had kindly covered the bike in bin bags as there had been a deluge during the night. In fact, I was warned that Beijing was forecast heavy rains and...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Oh, plus, the tread title has a typo- it's Qingdao, not Qinghai (obviously)
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Can close bets cos the journey is finished:) actually, the number was four- once just standing up getting ready for the off on the morning of one of the days- the number of questions from curious...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Finished this journey the week before last.. just trying to find the time and working computer apparatus to complete a report and upload pictures. I also had a go-pro, so am editing a video of the...
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    Re: Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

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    My actual route (minus the first day out of Beijing)
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    Beijing- Qinghai- Shanghai late June 2017

    Beijing- Qingdao- Shanghai

    June 21st-29th 2017

    My plan was to fly to Beijing, pick up the bike I had purchased and hen ride it to Shanghai by way of coastal Shandong. I took 9 days of leave to...
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