A Thousand K in a day

[ZMC888]

What the hell are you on?!?

Meth?

[CrazyCarl]

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

Meth and a 650?

CC

[euphonius]

ChinaV, hat's off to you on a spectacular adventure! What's most impressive is that you had time to smell the roses a bit, and even snap some pix.

Following up on Felix's comments, I'm now thinking that he and Motokai and Milton and I and others should be mapping out great one-, two- and three-day rides out of Shanghai that we can all share and update as roads and routes change. This of course plays right into your call for a centralized routing/mapping resource. I love the idea of having some "off the shelf" rides that come with relatively accurate notions of time and distance involved.

great accomplishment!

cheers

[ryanjpyle]

China V,

That is a lot of riding given the amount of truck traffic on some of those back roads. Very smart getting out early as it looks like you got a lot of km done before the truck drivers even woke up. The point that really boggles my mind is how you went out for a 13hr ride and only stopped for 47 minutes, including gas fill-ups. Iron Ass doesn't even begin to describe the pain you must have been in. Amazing accomplishment, glad you are still alive to tell the story.

Ryan Pyle

[barnone]

ChinaV,
Enjoyed your trip report and pictures.

[chinabiker]

Roughly 500 microseconds after ChinaV submitted this new thread, he skyped me a link to it
And yes, I understood the challenge between the lines

I showed ChinaV's story to my riding buddy Robert, aka freerider on MCM, and without too many words we decided to ride 1k in a day - it happened yesterday

We started early and rolled off at 5:28. As ChinaV, we also changed our gloves at the first fuel stop, but from the thin ones to the thicker as temperature fell from +8 to +2C as we headed higher up
At the second stop, at 9:00, we had covered 366km, reached an altitude of 900 meters and had sub-zero temperature for the first time.
An hour later, back on the road and as we climbed a pass, temperature fell further and it started to snow
We reached the high plain of Inner Mongolia, and stayed between 1200 and 1600 m, well below freezing temperatures and snow showers for the next four hours

At our third fuel stop around noon with then 580km on the clock, the tank lever on my bike was frozen.


bikes and snow


At stop no 4 around 14:00, we came back down to below 1000m and above freezing, with my tank lever frozen again.


frozen snow on the fender - at stop 4

We ended up in our favorite pub at 16:50 after being caught a bit in traffic and being rejected to enter the expressway once. We burned about 70 liters of gasoline each and we are sure that we haven't been overtaken a single time.
We planned 1150 kms - in honour of our 1150 cc bikes - but as we were frozen down to the bones, we cut is "short"


Tracker readings
Time: 11 hrs 27 min
Distance: 1026.3 km
Moving Time: 09 hrs 54 min
Stopped Time: 01 hr 33 min
Average Moving Speed: 103.6 km/h
Average Overall Speed: 89.54 km/h
Total Ascent 5329
Total Descent 5342


map


altitude profile

[ChinaV]

we are sure that we haven't been overtaken a single time.

What a strange club this is.... the "Torture Yourself on a Motorcycle in China Club"

Congrats and impressive statistics

Cheers!
ChinaV

[euphonius]

Dear Andy,

You guys are hardcore!! Bloody snowdrifts! Subzero riding conditions. Sure hope they had Pfefferschnapps at that favorite pub of yours.

I'm sure you've noticed that your post appears twice. Worse yet, at least for me, several images are not rendering, and appear instead as little should-be-a-picture-here icons. And that's with a veepeeyenn running.

Congratulations on a ballbuster (or should that be Hodenfrorer?) of a ride!

Look forward to seeing all of your images.

cheers

[chinabiker]

What a strange club this is.... the "Torture Yourself on a Motorcycle in China Club"

Congrats and impressive statistics

Cheers!
ChinaV

Self torture - I never thought I'd do that
Regarding statistics, we have to admit that we had 150 kms empty expressway in the early morning.
Also, the roads of Inner Mongolia and Northern Hebei are as straight as drawn with a ruler, for as far as you can see with occasional bends - ideal turf for such an attempt - in the right season of course

[ChinaV]

Also, the roads of Inner Mongolia and Northern Hebei are as straight as drawn with a ruler, for as far as you can see with occasional bends - ideal turf for such an attempt - in the right season of course

So I'm guessing your speed data doesn't look quite as erratic as mine.



And hats off to Robert, it looks as though he tackled those tempuratures without handguards .

Cheers!
ChinaV