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  1. #1 A Thousand K in a day 
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    A long time ago I read a post by pumpkingman about a two day ride from Beijing to Chengdu. Although most of the trip was on the expressway, I was impressed that someone had actually covered that kind of distance in China so quickly. Unfortunately, we never heard from pumpkingman again, hope he is still having fun out there.

    I've talked to many of the riders here on MCM about covering 1000 kilometers in a single day. Plenty of people have made it over 500, and some have even topped 800, but I've never heard of someone managing 1000 kilometers using regular S, X, or G roads without riding at night. So I decided to give it a try.

    The first thing I had to do was piece together a route that would avoid construction. I have plenty of GPS tracks, and most of them are coded by speed, so I constructed a loop that would enable me to maintain a good pace while avoiding delays.



    Here is the final GPS track, color coded by velocity.



    Good morning it's 5:11 AM.



    I was on the way by 5:30. It would be another 30 minutes before the sun came up, but that half hour was spent on well lit roadways with no traffic.



    My first stop around 8:45 AM. Change of face shield and gloves. The temperature has gone from 10ēC to 17ēC, much better.



    10:45 AM - Half way there at 501 kilometers.





    12:10 Quick lunch along the river on G323.





    2:30 PM Another brief stop and scenery shot.





    3:30 Every time I pass this break away ramp on G105 there's a truck on it. This one almost broke through the end barrier.



    Getting closer to home, I think I'm going to make it.



    Sun is starting to set as I cross the river into Dongguan.



    30 minutes until darkness, 20 minutes from home.



    Rolled in a touch after 6:00 PM, just in time for beer o'clock

    I used two different GPS units and got slightly different results:

    Time: 12:50
    Distance 1059.2km
    Moving Time 12:03 Stopped :47
    Average Speed 87.82 km/h
    Total Ascent 7142
    Total Descent 7141


    Time: 12:48
    Distance 1055.5km
    Moving Time 12:00 Stopped :47
    Average Speed 87.91 km/h
    Total Ascent 7674
    Total Descent 7671


    I wouldn't call it a fun ride, but at least I finally made an iron butt ride in China.

    Cheers!
    ChinaV
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  2. #2 Re: A Thousand K in a day 
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    Nice ride. 1000k in a day in China is pretty nuts. Congrats
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    Congratulations! Impressive ride, particularly down South
    I planned one but never did it. You inspired me to give it a try

    And tell us how the "īron" feels like after such a ride
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    "Here is the final GPS track, color coded by velocity."
    hi chinav, what kind of apps can do that? do you know any run at android phone?
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    Quote Originally Posted by chinabiker View Post
    And tell us how the "īron" feels like after such a ride
    When he got back home I was outside his garage preparing my TGR for the next day enduro ride.
    And, of course, we went for that ride, looking for all the most messy trails in the surroundings.
    He ain't got no iron ass. Just plain Stainless Steel one!
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    Gor blimey. Stunning ride!
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  7. #7 Re: A Thousand K in a day 
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    Quote Originally Posted by td_ref View Post
    "Here is the final GPS track, color coded by velocity."
    hi chinav, what kind of apps can do that? do you know any run at android phone?
    In 2002, some smart people issued a GPS standard called GPX (GPS Exchange Format). Unfortunately, evil companies like Garmin, Google, TomTom, etc. decided it just wouldn't be fun having an open source universal standard, so they forced everyone into their own proprietary file formats. The good news is, almost every GPS device that can record tracks has the ability to output the results as a GPX file. I know little about Android and it's GPS abilities, but I would assume that it's able to output in GPX. I don't think KML will work, as the basic KML format only stores location and altitude, not speed. Anyhow... get on your moto and track your ride, save it as a GPX file, and then go to GPS Visualizer

    Set the form and then upload your GPX data.



    You will get a KML or KMZ file that you can open in Google Earth. Here you can see my dirt bike ride from Sunday. The color coding is automatically generated based on your top speed. This can go wonky on you if your GPS has a brain fart and you get some 200 km/h reading. If that happens, open the GPX file in a text editor and just remove that line.



    Cheers!
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    Thank you for the detail explation. That website is very useful (who deveope that must be really briliiant guy).
    Too bad Google Earth only import KML format file, but My Tracks - develop by the same company - free GPS tracking software runs in Android phone capable exporting data in GPX. After recorded a track I can upload it to Google Maps, then shows up at "My Maps" which comes very handy examine the track.
    I had limited budget and chose Android phone. It has lots of free apps those are very usable to me.
    By the way, 1000km in a day, wow..
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    Wow, i am speechless. Thank you ChinaV for once again rendering any of my future efforts completely meaningless.

    500km before 11 o'clock!!! What the hell are you on?!?
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  10. #10 Re: A Thousand K in a day 
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    Quote Originally Posted by td_ref View Post
    Too bad Google Earth only import KML format file...

    I had limited budget and chose Android phone. It has lots of free apps those are very usable to me.

    TD
    You can open a GPX file in Google Earth by going to File-->Open--> then select your GPX file on the hard drive.

    Nothing wrong with Android, it's looks to be the future of smartphones and I'll probably end up with one soon.

    Quote Originally Posted by felix View Post
    Wow, i am speechless. Thank you ChinaV for once again rendering any of my future efforts completely meaningless.

    500km before 11 o'clock!!! What the hell are you on?!?
    Just high on motorcycles

    Any effort you make to ride a motorcycle and share the experience with others is hardly meaningless. We all have different ideas about riding, and each of us has our own little triumphs. Arriving home safely to cold beer is all that really matters.

    Cheers!
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