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#11 Re: Rapeseed Blossom04-12-2011, 12:03 AM
8k miles isn't very much for a proble like that. Makes me think either the wire/harness is too short and/or the plastic shielding gets dry and brittle. I guess something rubbing or snagging the wire could cause that as well. Either way, sounds like something to watch, even with a replacement.
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#12 Re: Rapeseed Blossom04-12-2011, 05:16 AM
Thanks for the report and pictures milton! Looks like a nice spot this shitan place, i'm tempted to include it in my next ride!
That annoying wire is a perfect example of the scary thing about riding chinese bikes: being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a shitty little problem that you can't fix. Ugh.
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#13 Re: Rapeseed Blossom04-12-2011, 07:05 AM
Nice report and pictures Milton, great to see more ride reports showing up now that the season has started.
Cheers!
ChinaV
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#14 Re: Rapeseed Blossom04-12-2011, 08:57 AM
Thanks of the report.
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#15 Re: Rapeseed Blossom04-12-2011, 09:41 AM
It was both annoying and scary this time. My little problem occurred at the worst possible spot, on the mountain top in the middle of a tiny road only fit for one of those smallish vans (小面包车). Some locals came out to help and quickly concluded that nothing in hell would have worked for me. To begin with, they couldn't even load that JH600 monster of over 210 kg onto the van. Luckily I managed to get it started after many many tries. Quite stressful.
Last edited by milton; 04-12-2011 at 11:59 PM.
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#16 Re: Rapeseed Blossom
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04-15-2011, 11:47 AMMilton, now you are making me nervous, as my JH600 recently rolled over 8k km too! So far, no such issues, however....
Thanks so much for posting this picture report and adding so many thoughtful comments. Your narrative is as good as your pix, and they are excellent! I saw your post in India, but declined to read it till I got back to Shanghai and had a bit more time. ryanjpyle and I passed through Anji last summer on an ill-planned trip to Huangshan for BMW Motorrad Days, but we rode west out of Anji rather than south the way you did, and missed those lovely roads. Probably wouldn't have made much difference, given that it was p*ssing rain the whole time.
Mechanical problems aside, you really scored with the weather and your timing of the rapeseed flowering! Thank goodness that nature is so persistent amid all the squalor of urban China!
Thanks again for a wonderful report.
cheersjkp
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#17 Re: Rapeseed Blossom04-15-2011, 02:11 PM
Jeff, glad you enjoyed my report. Actually I am not in the habit of taking pictures while on my motorcycle trip. The path I took to reach ShiTan is also the same one that I have been on many times before. However I noticed that most of you Lao Wai in Shanghai are not familiar with that part of ZheJiang or the path leading to it, so I decided to document my last trip and make an introduction. Along that path there are many interesting motorcycle routes with beautiful scenery and never boring twisties, and they are not far from Shanghai either. I will take more pictures to share if I revisit them or organize some trips with you guys together. This is the least I can do to pay back for all those nice ride reports and posts put up by you, ChinaV, LJH, Felix, Hans and many others on MCM. Reading MCM has been the heightlight of my day since my discovering it a year ago.
Cheers.Last edited by milton; 04-15-2011 at 04:36 PM.
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#18 Re: Rapeseed Blossom
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04-18-2011, 11:46 AMReminds me of our Zhejiang ride many moons ago! Glad to see the Jialing back in working order, and luckily this time the problem was much more minor. Great photos and lovely writing, very nice read.
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#19 Re: Rapeseed Blossom04-18-2011, 05:42 PM
much more picturesque than my ride in the mornings to work all i see is fog and just squares of rapeseed on the farms looking at the pics doesnt look to much for industrial use the rapeseed?
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#20 Re: Rapeseed Blossom
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04-20-2011, 01:51 AMHi Milton,
nice report, great pictures. Zhejiang is really great for touring. The issue with the wire worries me a bit, especially because I am planning a little easter-ride soon. Can you post or send a picture of the broken cable so that the JH600 guys can try to trace it once someone get's into a similar situation?
Thanks and greetings,
AW.
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