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    Re: Wanted: Bike in Harbin or Beijing

    Yes, very well said ... what happens one day or week can change the next day or week depending on which people you interact with.
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    Re: Wanted: Bike in Harbin or Beijing

    Sorry, dont know. Just try to fill up when you are 100kms short of running out at every petrol station, and when you are down to reserve, just go to the police and explain the situation. Ask taxi...
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    Re: Wanted: Bike in Harbin or Beijing

    Hello Prince666,

    thank you for your reply, you are right, I did not have a Blue Book or a Black Book or any other book ...

    I wrote in my RR



    The only province I had problems getting fuel,...
  4. Riding through China. I did it my way, without a guide. Mika Kuhn June 2015

    Hi all,

    just to let you know, how I entered and left China on my own bike and traveled 8000kms without a guide.

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    Re: Wanted: Bike in Harbin or Beijing

    Hello motoguzzi,

    no, not easy to enter China with your own bike. This is the way I did it:

    http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/ride-tales/riding-through-china-i-did-82852

    it took a week ...
  6. Re: Where to get a visaextention tourist type L on my way west from Tianjin?

    Hi Zhu, sorry for the late answer, but did not have good internet for most of central asia. pls read here about me getting into china
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    Re: Wanted: Bike in Harbin or Beijing

    Hello all, not in need of a bike anymore, as I could enter China with my bike Yuhmak ( a little DR 350 Suzuki) Thanks for all the offers. mika from Lanzhou
  8. Re: Where to get a visaextention tourist type L on my way west from Tianjin?

    Hello all, went to the PSB Entry and Exit office yesterday here in Lanzhou. They could speak some English, so did not have a problem. Nobody asked for money or the hotel I am staying. Had to get a...
  9. Re: Where to get a visaextention tourist type L on my way west from Tianjin?

    Thank you, this is what I was looking for. Just had a look at the map and Lanzhou is on my route, so I will maybe try there or further west. How do I get a balance inquiry from the Bank of China?...
  10. Where to get a visaextention tourist type L on my way west from Tianjin?

    Hello all,

    I am riding west at the moment and apart from the normal problems a foreigner (not living here) has, like finding a hotel that accepts foreigners, not speaking/reading the language,...
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    Re: Wanted: Bike in Harbin or Beijing

    Hello all,

    I have got the visa and I should arrive in Harbin in about 7 weeks ... 6th of June 2015. Nobody here, that wants to sell his bike?

    Greetings
    mika
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    Re: Wanted: Bike in Harbin or Beijing

    Hello Darkbeethoven, I like your bike, but the problem is, that you are leaving in April and I will arrive only in June ... good luck selling it. Thank you mika
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    Wanted: Bike in Harbin or Beijing

    Looking for a motorcycle in Harbin, Beijing or near by.

    I will arrive in the beginning of June in the Northeast of China, and I want to buy a bike.

    Best would be a dual purpose type of...
  14. Re: new here, but not new to mc travelling ... early state of planing my china trip .

    Hi ZMC888 and others,

    thank you very much for this very good reply.

    Yes, I had a look at Google maps for China, yes it is a big country, even bigger than Argentina ;-)

    Timeframe. The idea...
  15. new here, but not new to mc travelling ... early state of planing my china trip ..

    Hola .. Hello ... or how do you say in China?


    my name is Mika and I am in the very early stage of planing my trip around China.


    First a few words about myself ... at the moment I live in...
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