Quote Originally Posted by VTR1000 View Post
I just joined up yesterday and already enjoying the great people here.....I am looking to bring my VTR1000 to ride from hong kong to nanning guangzhuo...my wife in from there and would love to have a bike big for a few weeks there......I have seen sidecars BMW's in bejing that people have on this site.....the next trip I take will be 2012 to give me time to really look for a way if not that time then in 2014....look forward to any information.
Welcome to the group. Seems like anything is possible, but nothing is easy in China. Trying to do things legally appears to be a Sisyphean task!

IMHO you don't need a big bore bike to enjoy riding on the mainland. My experience in China leads me to believe that 250cc's is more than enough to get one around safely. It's easy to get lulled into a false sense of safety when you hit one of the new modern roads. Until the chaos ensues anyway. Not being able to to more than 100kph is a safety feature

Good luck. As they say, where there is a will there is a way. Hope you can work it out.

Cheers,

Dan K.