Ride from Chengdu to Kunming in March

**Yangtsepete** · 01-18-2010, 04:12 AM

Oha, yes 500 RMB a Day/Bike is a generous offer. Is more about the Fun then the Money. We drive from Guilin to Kunming, since some Riders already join in want to spend more time in this Area

**SabineHartmann** · 01-18-2010, 10:02 AM

Hi Pete!
is a lady also welcome? I would like to join in also, 2 weeks are no problem for me and I have a chinese driving licence.
greetings from cold Beijing!
(people are crazy here! after the roads have been free from snow, a lot of hard working men shovel the snow from the bordwalks and green stripes on the roads again!)

**Yangtsepete** · 01-19-2010, 02:54 AM

Hi Sabine,
of corse, Ladys always welcome, especially when they have a chinese driving License. In the Moment we fixed a date from 13.02 - 21.02. In the Moment more people are interested in then i have Bikes, but let me give it 2 more weeks then who signed in fixed rides. For the flexible ones we could do a Kunming - Kunming Loop end of March to Vietnamese Border.

**SabineHartmann** · 01-19-2010, 07:15 AM

that`s also fine for me

**chinabiker** · 01-19-2010, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by andre555

I just done the trip, by car unfortunatly, took about 8 hours one way ...

Wow, 880 kms in 8 hours, on Chinese roads -

**felix** · 01-19-2010, 02:34 PM

Sorry i won't be able to make it... One day i'll ship my own bike into that region for a holiday, but til then, hope you all enjoy the trip!

**CrazyCarl** · 01-19-2010, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by chinabiker

Wow, 880 kms in 8 hours, on Chinese roads -

Yeah and I've been on that road ... it's ass! Maybe they finished the super highway? Sure that's not 18 hours?

CC

**andre555** · 01-20-2010, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by CrazyCarl

Yeah and I've been on that road ... it's ass! Maybe they finished the super highway? Sure that's not 18 hours?

CC

Its all highway from Kunming to Huize - after Songming totaly empty. That part is to be recommended for the ones how want to see whats in their Porsches and Lambos, instead of poosing around in the congested Kunming! The Passat can run on cruise control with 160. So new, not even speed control units their yet

Then some nice '2nd Class Highway' very wide, smooth curves, beautiful mountain view, around 200km. Then its brand new Expressway again, the section around Yibin is in bad condition, but empty. And the final leg on the Chongqing-Chengdu Expressway.

Stop for fuel, tollgate and cupnoodles - I really dont miss the traffic around Shanghai, countryside roads are more nice and expressways in western China tend to be excellent and empty

Back it was 9h fully loaded...

I dont have the speed tickets from Sichuan Section yet...anyhow, seems they hardly enforce them between provinces

**Shanghaifingers** · 01-29-2010, 11:25 PM

hey guys and gals,

yangtsepete and I are on the road for the second day of the Shanghai to Nanchang part of the bike movement. Yestarday we road to HangZhou via some great roads(amazing), so today we are off early to Huang Shan. Ride photos will start to come in when we are in front of a real computer... posting by mobile phone at the moment!

**Shanghaifingers** · 01-30-2010, 01:50 PM

okay, boys and girls after 300+ km through mountain passes and roads less traveled we moved west from HangZhou to an area just within the the JiangXi province, at a truckers resturant in a 15rmb a night double room...

So tomorrow on to more

to NanChung.

Weather today comfy but grey and overcast so not too many photos, maybe tomorrow will be more photogenic.
More tomorrow!