Travel thru' China on own NX650 motorcycle

**John Neville** · 06-19-2011, 05:07 AM

Hi,
I'm an Aussie and a noobie to forum but have ridden extensively overseas.
I am planning to cross from Slovenia next May heading east to Mongolia and then south thru' China. The bike I have purchased for the trip is an NX650 Honda currently in storage in Slovenia.
There is so much BS written about the impossibility of self ride options thru' China I wondered if anyone had actually been successful in recently achieving this goal. The trip would continue thru' Laos and back to Oz via Malaysia and Indonesia.
Anyone interested in the ride or has info on traversing China please respond.
At this stage I am considering freighting from Ulanbaatar to Vientiane in Laos due to lack of information re China.

**Kennon** · 06-19-2011, 07:42 PM

good luck mate sounds like a proper good ol adventure there.
are you going to do any mods to the bike so that it can cope with the trip a little bit better or is it awesome as it is standard?

**John Neville** · 06-19-2011, 11:59 PM

Hi Kennon,
The NX has 25000ks on it so I'll put in a new cam chain and do the valves, I'll overhaul the carby and give it a new aircleaner, the front suspension will have progressives and the rear shocky will be rebuilt with new valving.This will be done by Terry Hayes (Shock Treatment, Sydney). Its got new sprockets but I'll be putting the best O'ring chain on it that I can buy. I will take one countershaft sprocket and replace the original somewhere along the track and hope to nurse the rear sprocket and chain for the whole trip. I got 20000ks out of my Africa twin thru' outback Oz so I think I should make it on the NX. I've got a fairly ratty Acerbis tank to go on her as well. A beefier rack with a simple soft pannier system using Pac-safe. Garmin GPS, either my Zumo 550 or my 60Csx. Everything else standard. I'm taking the sat phone and have a complete engine and spares parted out and labelled so my at home "pit crew" just need to address it and send whatever I need if it turns to shit somewhere.

**moilami** · 06-20-2011, 05:21 AM

Honda NX Dominator? Wow, it was my teenage year's dream!

**John Neville** · 06-20-2011, 06:58 AM

..................and my model has a disc brake!

**Kennon** · 06-20-2011, 09:36 AM

Aha sounds like uv done it the right way proper well prepared i'll probably wont even have half that stuff that i need when i plan to do a trip for next summer