...continuation.

Nobody has posted anything in-between my last post and this one so I can get right down to it:

As soon as the guy (he looked like he was in-charge) saw me ride up to his smokey office building/decorated cardboard box he asked me what I wanted to do; I told him that I wanted him to look at the documents I'd brought with me and see what he thought.
"What documents?" He spluttered. "Some that state motorcycles are allowed on Chinese expressways" I replied. "No, no, no. That's not right" he immediately began say but I simply asked him to have a look; after which he invited me inside to sit down and inhale a days worth of his 2nd hand cigarette smoke.

Another long story short:
He - along with one of his colleagues - seemed to remain indirectly supportive of my claim while blatantly sticking to their old Chinese guns
"No motorbikes on Chinese expressways".

I showed him a number of questions from the national driving exam including the one below:
4.1.2.5 When running on an expressway that has two lanes in the same direction, a motorcycle should run in the left lane.
Answer: Wrong

...to which he said "You see this? It means that motorbikes can't run on two lane expressways".
He had jumped to the conclusion that they can run on four lane expressways but not two lane ones, such as the majority in Shandong.
I told him that his assumption was incorrect and the answer to the question above was equal to stating that motorcycles should run in the right-hand lane while on two lane freeways...

When this attempt of his failed to make me give up he jumped to several other conclusions in a semi desperate attempt to deter me. They failed.

In the end he just said he 'could not' let me on even though he 'wanted; to.
The whole time, his colleague hinted to me that I could just squeeze by the gate and nobody would chase me. They're all too lazy, he said.
On my way out, the boss man had to get the last word in and pulled this one on me:
"How much did your helmet cost?"
"It cost about 200rmb" - A tanked racing, full faced helmet.
"That's not going to protect you! You need a 1000+rmb helmet to get on here!"

"Since when did you become a motorcycle helmet expert?" At least I do my chinstrap up and actually wear it instead of riding around with a 40rmb helmet strapped to the bike.
...and so, with that final put-down, he had won.