Quote Originally Posted by euphonius View Post
Dear Bikerdoc,
Wow! What an offer! It's especially nice to find it after spending 10 hours today getting my JH registered and plated for Shanghai. (More on this later.)
Alas, I'm going to have to take a raincheck on this DuanWuJie holiday invitation. Ryan (of MKRide.com) and I are booked to ride out to Huangshan in Anhui province, and we'll be riding quite a bit of the route that Felix laid out in his "Zhejiang is the shit" ride last week. We'll be sort of shadowing a ride organized by one of the two Shanghai BMW dealers, and will probably join at least part of the BMW rodeo they are organizing on Tuesday, but more than anything we are keen to take our first ride together as a duo.
I can assure you I'll come down soon.
And here it is, along with the two guys who've moved mountains to get me properly registered: Liu Zhidong and Fan Peisheng.
So how did your ride go? Did you make it into Huangshan? Didn't see you during our extensive ride... into AnHui.

For us we left Monday from Ningbo; 6 bikes, 1 Harley Davidson V-Rod, 1 Yamaha Roadstar 1300, 4 Yamaha Dragstar Calssic 1100's. with 6 riders and 2 pillions. The guys left Ningbo, early Monday morning with me leaving about 2 hours behind due to other commitments. The route taken was via Xikou towards Xincheng with a right turn taken midway before Xincheng that passes through a mountain and a 20 year old dark tunnel then out into the steps of Shenzhou before turning south towards Yiwu. At Weishan I turn right to ride around the Northern fringe of Yiwu and the commodities zone. This is much less chaotic than riding through Yiwu proper (which I personally detest). Around the back of Donyang and Pujian before in through the mountain ranges that divides Pujian from QianDaoHu/TongLu etc. Great ride though from YiWu, PuJian onwards we hit rain which is where I rendezvoused with the guys before heading west. We rode into JianDe where we stayed the night in a hotel facing the river where Nongfu Spring water is bottled, and also the first major Chinese self designed and built hydroelectric dam is located up river. Day 2 was a fine if not hot day, where we rode via a southwest route around the southern fringes of QianDaoHu over into AnHui to a small city called SheXian close to HuangShan, where we stayed the night in a small hotel/motel that fronted onto a wide street carnival full of kids rides (rollercoaster, merry-go-round as well as loads of street food stalls). Unfortunately the large 4 star hotel located on the SheXian hill across the towns river was fully booked, although they did offer me a room, but had none available for any of the other guys!
Day 3, the final day was an early 6am start which saw us ride from SheXian to QianDaoHu via the northern route. As we rode back into the fringes of JianDe we then crossed east into SanDu and took an old winding mountain route not well used now because of the new passes and tunnels built between TongLu - DongYang. East across to Weishan via a back country road route onto the main county highway then north to Shenzhou - Xikou -Ningbo.
This whole route took in some great roads that were fairly deserted. On day two around Anhui on a 40km stretched that was being reconstructed that best suited a trail or dual-purpose bike we came across about 2 dozen or so BMW GS's and a few others in staggered groups that were being tailed and supported by a large Cadillac SUV. Much later and some several hours behind I met a BMW 1150GS rider from Shanghai by the name of 'Garfield' who used to work for Harley Davidson Shanghai and then later Wenzhou. We chewed the fat until the rest of our group caught up. I asked Garfield about the BMW ride which he was part of and also enquired if there were any Jialing JH600's but he didn't seem to think there were any.

Since this had become a long winded post I'll cut n paste it into the 'rides' threads, complete with photos. Which I didn't get too many of since we spent most of the time riding or stopping for meals LOL.