Yunnan cross Sichuan

[Bakas]

Hello dear motorbike loving people,

After a well deserved discouraging from mychinamoto.com crowd to not ride without a chinece driving licence I did not have a choice but go and do it anyway. So I did. Started of in Qiujing, buying a 125cc Sanlg made in 2007 and producing 8Kw (10 horses) of power. Paid 2600rmb and got the number plates and all the documents it needs to be riden on Chinese roads. After a good week of riding, doing anything from 50 to 200km a day I finally ran into troubles with the army people, after discovering a military base in the mountains. I had to quickly sell the bike and get on with public transport and hitchhiking. I was glad that I sold the bike, even so it broke my heart, as after I did, the police road blocks and check posts were so frequent, that I would have been busted sooner or later. They were so frequent because of the election I was told.

Even though it was very scary at times passing through police posts and I would not do it again (or recommend it to anybody) without the licence, Im glad I went. It was a truly spiritual journey and an inspiration to get on the road again when I have the licence and do it on a bigger scale, like Kunming to Urumuqi next spring.



Now Im of to research the forum threads about how to get a driving license in Shanghai.