Quote Originally Posted by Steve_R View Post
One checkpoint is right along the border line of Shanghai and Jiangsu provinces ... There was a story not so long on this forum about a rider who got stopped and then had his license confiscated at that checkpoint.
Yup, that was me. Basically lost my license for riding hungover. D'oh!

Quote Originally Posted by euphonius View Post
What's stopping you from going from "semi-legal" to fully legal?
RMB 50,000?

Cheers for the heads up anyway Steve. I don't really know what they're looking for when they have those checkpoints where at random times they just stop everyone and other times they're left totally unmanned. The back roads are safer for sure, i prefer to avoid the police even if i'm legal. Here's the road i took into shanghai last time i came back from suzhou. Is that the one you take?