JH600 - Wet and Muddy in Fujian

**Pfaelzer** · 09-16-2010, 01:35 AM

Hi Sabine,

thanks for the help on how to order food while traveling in China. It's fun usually if you take things a bit easy. You want to see a bit more of Pfaelzer face, see my older Zhejiang RR.

You are the hero anyway with your great movie presentations....

Cheers,
AW.

**Pfaelzer** · 09-16-2010, 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by ChinaV

That's Awesome

Thanks for sharing another great ride with us, is your wife going to get a JH600 of her own?

Cheers!
ChinaV

Hi ChinaV,
I also like this road part a lot. Well, my wife and her JH600 - could be. I'll let her try the 250 next time. However, she is never sure what she likes more, riding her own bike or riding together with me. For Europe she made her decision:

Cheers,
AW.

**felix** · 09-16-2010, 03:42 AM

Originally Posted by ChinaV

That's Awesome

Second that! Looks slippier than marble, with a pretty unforgiving drop on the right! Fair play to you riding that two-up on a heavy bike!

**Pfaelzer** · 09-16-2010, 04:47 AM

Originally Posted by felix

Second that! Looks slippier than marble, with a pretty unforgiving drop on the right! Fair play to you riding that two-up on a heavy bike!

It wasn't that bad... not as challenging as this one

:

AW.

**felix** · 09-16-2010, 05:58 AM

Nice! You're lucky that didn't all crumble away while you were taking the 2nd picture!

**Pfaelzer** · 09-16-2010, 06:04 AM

Hi,

back again for the last and very different part of this ride. It was a sunny morning, when we left the hotel. Guided by the GPS we made our way north/east towards the coast. The size of chinese cities is always amazing. 35km after leaving the hotel, we were still in the city jungle.

The coastal areas are mostly occupied with cities, villages and industrial parks. Not really too much "untouched" nature. Anyway, there is the chance to get to beaches or close to the water without ending up at a factory.

We rode out on a sea-dam to get away from busy areas and houses. We got close to the water for the first time and took a rest in the sun.

It wasn't for long until we got some visitors. Two young guys on a scooter came along to check out, what we were doing here. "Aaah, for play..." they finally concluded. Then came the usual look and testing of all switches and movable parts on my JH600. "Oah... Jialing, liu bai si si..." Then they went off... Sorry, no pictures. I have to improve here.

Since we were not too far away from the Fuzhou airport, we decided to go there for lunch. This picture was taken right at the restaurant... A good chance to see the really fully loaded JH600.

Then we finally got some beaches and nice little coastal trails. Since we had to leave back to Hong Kong that night and we knew we had to take a ferry across the Minjiang river, we didn't stop often to be back on time.

We decided to come and explore those beaches on our next ride.

When we entered the next town, there was a quite unusual sight... especially riding with an umbrella...

This town featured a nice "historical" section.

Getting back to the north shores of the river and to Lianjiang, my garage location, we had to cross the river by taking a bridge to Hujiang Island and the ferry from there to the north shore.

Quite busy on the ferry but all went much easier than expected. 6RMB for the ride.

It was a fun ride - nice contacts with locals including this one...

She was a bit shy, opening and closing the mirrored window, the third time I had the camera ready... We all had some nice smiles...

Some problem on my GPS - you can see the off-set. I had it corrected recently in Shanghai, but later I updated my Europe map online - the off-set correction for China disappeared with that. I need to take more care next time. Surely I will get the correction back with some efforts.

**Pfaelzer** · 09-16-2010, 07:56 AM

Back at the garage. Luckily I got some good friends who will happily take care to get the burnt mud off my bike again for the next ride.

Thanks for joining us on our little trip. We will be back on the road soon again.

Litte summary for the JH600:

Over-all very satisfied with the modifications so far. I urgently need to look at the front-fender to make it more protectable for rider and bike. A set of much louder horn needs to be added on. GPS off-set correction and change gasoline. Ah, forgot to mention that I now also belong the the group of this thread:

Chinese-gasoline-impurities-likely.........

I must have gotten a quite bad fill-up on the last gas station. During the ride back the bike just didn't want to rev up as before. Fast throttle opening resulted in almost shut-down of the engine. Anyway, we made it back to the garage on smooth acceleration and no max power. After changing the gasoline the engine ran fine again.

Cheers and greetings,
AW.

**felix** · 09-16-2010, 08:58 AM

Here's a dirty quick-fix for the GPS offset:

Pick a zoom level that you use most often and draw or stick a little dot on the screen (nothing too permanent) of your true location.

It'll only work at that zoom level, but it's better than nothing!

**Pfaelzer** · 09-16-2010, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by felix

Here's a dirty quick-fix for the GPS offset:

Pick a zoom level that you use most often and draw or stick a little dot on the screen (nothing too permanent) of your true location.

It'll only work at that zoom level, but it's better than nothing!

That's a good one Felix, thanks.

Anyhow, I hope to get the software fixed again soon. It was working so nicely before - I'm really upset, that I didn't make a back-up before upgrading. The most basic mistake...

**jape** · 09-16-2010, 09:58 AM

Good one mate, lovely scenery, you are really getting around and showing us some great places. Amazing pics in the back areas of those old towns.
Umm, looks like no radiator guard? Yet ..... lol.