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Just saw this RR was being re-read. Yeah I think 6 bikes, 7 people. I'm leaving China soon after 12 years but trips like this are gonna stay with me forever

Thanks guys,

The story is pretty much finished, we rode to Kunming then shipped the bikes on the train back with us to Guilin and we went back to our crappy jobs in Yangshuo! BTW the most...

So that's it really - it doesn't matter how crap your bike is or how little you know, the main thing about bike trips is turning the key and riding off into the distance! :riding:

The bikes were all standard 125 taxi bikes apart from mine which was originally a 90cc turd I bought for 500 RMB before putting a brand new 110 into it. They were all woefully under powered for the...

Yeah it's one of my all time favourite pictures too, that ride into Shangelila was by far the hardest day with all the punctures and dirt roads. We arrived pretty late, maybe 10pm and my lights...

Yes mate we were very inexperienced, it took years and riding with people like V to see how much kit and preparation is actually preferable, although as we showed even a bunch of pissheads on crappy...

That's all for tonight. It was a fantastic trip on really crappy bikes but that's sometimes what it's all about. We were going up those huge mountains in first and second gear, my bike was a 110,...

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Hanging out at Sean's

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Sean and Nick

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Next stop was Lijiang then on to Dali where we stopped for a week

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More punctures...this time a front so less hassle

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Another one on the road to Shangelila....they were a massive hold up and a reason why I now go tubeless

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Tiger leaping...

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This was actually taken as I was failing to reattach Paul's brake properly after another puncture which resulted in catastrophic failure and no rear brakes for the rest of the day. A fact he...

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Fixing the puncture on Tim's bike

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A rather surprising location for a KTV tent but we were very glad for the tea.


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Some filthy KTV singing kids

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More tattoo appreciation


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This fellow was apparently drink driving and caused some deaths.


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The punishment was a walk of shame through the town followed by god knows what.

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My bike developed an electrical fault and a new CDI from a much larger bike was bodged on and did the trick.

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I can see my house from here!

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Boys at the top - photo by...

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Missy with the light fingered matriarch, although I suspect the whole family were at it!

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Messing around in the robber's lair!

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Mountain roads - a mix of good tarmac and dirt...

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Plateau scene

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After coming down from a particularly cold and windswept mountain pass we were saw a young boy by the road selling some random stuff so we stopped and asked where we...

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First view of the big mountains

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Nick picked up a local hitchhiker

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Meeting up before a turning over a bridge. This was way way before any of us owned smartphones or had any experience with GPS. We had a crappy little map and relied on locals and short term...

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Me exploring a pikey kitchen near the hotel on out first night.


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Our hotel on that first night, just past kangding. We were outside drinking and causing general mischief when the...

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Outside the hotel in Chengdu the morning after the night before. All ready to start our adventure proper with literally no idea what was in store for us!

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Bong on dude! West of...

Well i've finally got round to it. This ride was my first anywhere and started a love affair with bikes and China. At the time we were all living in Yangshuo and riding our taxi bikes to the river...