A day out! - 2012

[Barry]

Instead of taking a lot of time to post a whole report of your day out, just post a couple of pics in this thread. Since a lot of us (including myself) are often to lazy to post their pics. Let's see if we can get this thing going!

[Barry]

I'll get started with a few pics of my weekend to Laiyuan on the 10/11th of March:

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[Barry]

Last saturday around Beijing - 17th of March:

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[TB-Racing]

G'Day,

Took the bike over to Pudong for a lunch meeting today and stopped by the new Pudong HD shop, quite a big dealership with a lot of stock (bikes, merchandise, accessories).

[SabineHartmann]

here is more information about Barrys "Day Out" 10. +11. March 2012

[MotoKai]

Good idea Barry!

Rode over to the Ducati shop here in Shanghai last week - they even allowed me to park the JH600 in front!
Here's a photo of the new 2012 Multistrada S Touring.
I like the new color scheme called Race Titanium Matte, but I don't like the new price which is called RMB 350,000!
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Ducati has a few new color configs for 2012 that are really quite cool. This MATTE GREEN MONSTER is really cool!!
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And here's a photo that I took in Shanghai Traffic today.
I dig the front fairing on this Longteng sidecar bike with the big dual headlights.
I was at stoplight so couldn't get the sidecar in the photo.

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[euphonius]

Brilliant footwear! Wonder if those are those Longteng-issue loafers.

Now, 350k RMB aka US$55k (and that's before your 58k Shanghai plate) -- what are the other things you could buy for that in China? Six Prada bags, 10 square meters of a 100 square meter flat, 10 JH600s.......

Anyone tried a Belgian beer at De Refter? The average price is 65 rmb, which is US$10. Outside of happy hour, a pint at Boxing Cat is now 50 aka US$8. Going to have to start buying Reeb. WTF is happening to China?



cheers

[TB-Racing]

G'Day,

Lunch meeting in Suzhou Intercontinental today and took the bike over to Suzhou.
On the way back to Shanghai visited the Suzhou HD dealership once again, interesting HD trike with unusual license plate........

[Maux]

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[Maux]

Alright, I started with the idea of going down to the Laotieshan Nature Reserve in far southern Lvshun. So I got down there, going through some interesting small villages. At one point I was checking my map and saw that I had passed the "Jinma Supermarket" which is funny because I swear I didn't pass anything that possibly could have been a supermarket. So anyhow, I find the road I've been looking for, and it's a one lane concrete road that goes through the hills in the area, I stopped and got a picture of what I expect is a tomb, there are lots of tombs down little paths along the road. I proceed along and, *DOH!*, a gate with soldiers. I told them I'd like to go to Laotieshan and they said I couldn't, it was an "Army place", which is more than enough to turn me around. A little disappointed I turned around and tried to figure out what I could do with my day. Though I've gone through the area I figured I'd go to Dongjiquanshan Scenic Area, which I amuse myself by thinking is "Eastchickenclosed Mountain" but I suppose is probably not. The area is nice, it's in the middle of a somewhat stunted pine forest and the roads are pretty good. Since it was still before 10:00 I got off and actually walked around some of the old Japanese and Russian barracks there. Once I was done with most of that I just went back to Dalian and went and rode around Binhai and Linhai road, just for good measure. I also went back down Binhai magic slope, which is infested with abnormally sized terrestrial fish, octopus, and worst of all, rock sharks of unusual size. Naturally my bike stalled perilously close to one.
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