leaving china on Chinese bike, how?

[baror]

HI,

iv'e just wanted to know if now somebody knows if
you can exit china on a bike purchase in china

Thanks alot

[chinabiker]

HI,

iv'e just wanted to know if now somebody knows if
you can exit china on a bike purchase in china

Thanks alot

You can, that's for sure.

They did it on legal bikes to Kyrg. http://www.gglobal.org/gg/home/home.php

Franki and others went into Laos and back.

tokiokid left to Kaz.

[baror]

Hi again,

maybe you could help me more, at the moment i'm at
a bike trip in india so i don't have enough time to read this link.
do you know if i can leave china on a bike even if i buy a chinse bike
as a tourist?
do you know what papers do i need to leave china into mongolia?


Thanks Alot

[Kurisu]

As I wrote earlier in this post and elsewhere, I left China on a motorcycle I bought as a tourist. They weren't exactly happy about it, but they let me out. The trick was to just be really pushy and persistent. They said I couldn't bring the bike back to China (but that might have just been conjecture.)

You don't need any kind of 'customs' BS if they try to push that on you. You just have to get a permit to ride out of the border ($1). I put more of this stuff on my blog.

I exited into Laos, Mongolia might be a different story.

www.chrison2wheels.com

Chris

[chinabiker]

... I exited into Laos, Mongolia might be a different story.Chris

It seems to be a different story. Most of the no-go reports tell about the Mongolia - China border, while most of the success stories come from the Lao border.

Hi again,

maybe you could help me more, at the moment i'm at
a bike trip in india so i don't have enough time to read this link.
do you know if i can leave china on a bike even if i buy a chinse bike
as a tourist?
do you know what papers do i need to leave china into mongolia?
Thanks Alot

baror,

tell us more about your schedule and itinerary.

Theoretically you need to prove ownership or have a statement of the owner, allowing you to use and export his bike. But as always in China, rules are not written very clearly and interpreted differently depending on place, time, the mood of the officials or the water level of the Yangtze

For yourself, we can get you a temp. dl in Beijing as long as you are not colorblind.

[Kurisu]

Man, I have the distinct pleasure of having done China on both the Chinese style street 125 (A Yamaha Knock-off) AND a dirt-bike style Zhong Shen 150cc. I met Tokyo Kid on the road in Yunnan - he was going north, I was going south.

I gotta say, the dirt bike was the BEST thing I did on that trip. Those thin-tired Chinese bikes just aren't cut out of the roads between cities. Those roads are truly brutal and you want all the cushy suspension you can get. But 150cc did do the job - I got all the way to Bangkok and put some 12,000 HARD kilometers on the thing - including a good wreck. The motor was pretty tired by the time I sold it though...

Don't worry too much about the parts. If the engine and drive assy are in good shape then everything else can either be swapped out of made for you by shops along the way. In SE asia, I had a wreck and an old man just MADE the extra parts I needed. Worked fine. Other things like mirrors, lights etc. are usually standard and can either be swapped with generics or fitted to your bike with a little "creative engineering."

IMPORTANT: Be sure to get some kind of registration letter, handwritten by the bloke you buy the bike from. That helped me a lot. I made copies with his registration card and other official looking stuff too. That got me out of scrapes with the cops every time.

I wrote about all of this in my book. I can't wait to hear how your journey goes! If you want some more tips on other stuff, check my blog.

www.chrison2wheels.com

This is the bike I did mine on:

[MGAlbion]

Hi all. Does anyone have any info about leaving China to Vietnam and back? I'm thinking of have a go at that ride sometime soon.

Cheers

[chinabiker]

Hi all. Does anyone have any info about leaving China to Vietnam and back? I'm thinking of have a go at that ride sometime soon.

Cheers

Entering Vietnam on a non-Vietnamese bike is the same as entering China on a non-Chinese bike, If not even more difficult as I read from the HUBB.

Leaving China on a China registered bike is possible as you know from this
thread and I think it would be possible to enter VN with a rego from there.
Question is if they let you leave China with a Vietnamese plate. I think it is possible if you have enough time and if it is not a big bike.

What registration does the bike have? What bike is it?

[MGAlbion]

Thanks Chinabiker,
It sounds like to its going to be a bit too much of a mission for what i had in mind.

The bikes registered in Hubei. Its a Zongshan 200 (sierra), and fair play ive read some bad things about it, but its done me fine in the 3 months and 6000km since ive had it.

Maybe Laos is a good plan B

[CrazyCarl]

Hey Guys...FYI I moved GingerAdam's posts to it's own thread in the Ride Reports section.

Link is here:

http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1469

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