Black and Blue in Taihang Shan 太行山

[Barry]

Day 5:








Day 6:

Luoyang - Beijing

No pictures. After breakfast with Craig and Milton, they headed back to SH and I decided to hop onto the expressway in Luoyang. So I let myself onto the expressway passing the tollbooth before the girl could get out of it. Went all the way through Henan till I hit the Henan/Hebei border north of Anyang. I tried to hide behind trucks, but there were loads of police checking the trucks so they saw me and a few young police guys came running after me. First one coming after me was to slow, 2nd one wasn't and I didn't want to cause any accident so I stopped. All suprised to see a foreigner on a motorcycle after I pulled up my (sun)visor, one of them gave some "an quan" speech for a few minutes and I was good to go again.

Continued my way on the expressway in Hebei all the way to the border with Beijing, quickly remembering the names of the last 2 entrances onto the expressway. Drove up to the tollbooth to show the ticket I never got, after looking in my pockets I pretended to have lost it. He gave me new ticket for the BJ part and waved me through.

Total: 780 km of which about 750 km was on the expressway, costs for expressway where 15 RMB.

[MotoKai]

Hey Milton,

There doesn't seem to be much interest in ride reports anymore on MCM, in particular Dual-Sport RRs.
Therefore can I suggest that you change the title of this RR Thread to the following:

Shanghai to Taihangshan on GSX-Rs

You'll need to re-work the preamble a bit to come up with some pretext about how our GSX-Rs were confiscated by the local police for having illegal plates or something. Then you can makeup something about how the Jialing Sales & Marketing Team in Chongqing, being savvy brand-focused company that they are, offered up 3 JH600s for the ride. We therefore made a last minute bike swap (reference the existing photo in your preamble), and then conclude with: so hope you all can [still] enjoy this RR!

[MotoKai]

Hey Milton,
There doesn't seem to be much interest in ride reports anymore on MCM, in particular Dual-Sport RRs.Therefore can I suggest that you change the title of this RR Thread to the following:

How embarrassing!!! That was supposed to be a PM to Milton - FOR HIS EYES ONLY.
Hope no one on MCM takes offense.

[chinabiker]

Hi Blacks and Blue

Excellent report about an awesome trip and some excellent pics.
I wish I had more riding buddies like you guys when I still was in China.

My favorite picture - the grottoes


Keep on riding and reporting

[chinabiker]

Hey Milton,

There doesn't seem to be much interest in ride reports anymore on MCM, in particular Dual-Sport RRs.
Therefore can I suggest that you change the title of this RR Thread to the following:

Shanghai to Taihangshan on GSX-Rs

... in 6 hours you'd have to add

[998S]

How embarrassing!!! That was supposed to be a PM to Milton - FOR HIS EYES ONLY.
Hope no one on MCM takes offense.

Ohhh man, you better watch your back, you will be beaten up into french goose liver soon.

"because if the day comes he know who you are, you're gonna so regret this...

Let's start ... "

[milton]

How embarrassing!!! That was supposed to be a PM to Milton - FOR HIS EYES ONLY.
Hope no one on MCM takes offense.

OK, I've seen what was intended for my eyes only.
Should I carry out what you've suggested, which might have offended a few silent MCM members?
Your suggestion to modify the preamble is so convoluted, you think our ignorant MCM members have the brain for it?
Are we really in danger of getting beaten into french goose liver (which is foie gras, isn't it, Meneer 998S? Sounds delicious!)

[998S]

Are we really in danger of getting beaten into french goose liver (which is foie gras, isn't it, Meneer 998S? Sounds delicious!)

Well, just copied and past from an other thread, and changed "I" in "he".
Anyway, love the thread, and guess so do others.
Not always neccessary to reply to every thread though.

[milton]

A friend of mine was confused about the whereabouts of those tunnels. Actually both Google map and Sogou map are quite confusing in that part of the country. If you are interested in visiting those tunnels, look for Wangmangling 王莽岭 on the map, and connect the dots yourself between Wangmangling and Guoliang:



There is a tunnel in between, not shown in those online maps, which is the Kunshan tunnel that we took our photos from. This tunnel goes between Shanxi and Henan, linking two separate parks or sights running by two separate provinces, each will charge you 120 kuai. The attraction on Shanxi side is Xiyagou 錫崖沟， to visit which one must park one's bike and take the bus run by the park, not an attractive option for us bikers. The tunnel on the Henan side is Guoliang, the most famous among all the tunnels, which you can ride your bike through.

Cheers!

[felix]

Hey chaps thanks a lot for the report! Sorry again for not being able to make it. Judging by the number of times you mention that i didn't join, i'm guessing that there was a lot of crying. I wouldn't have been much help anyway as i haven't been to those parts yet.

Loos like you had a great trip regardless. The JH600 looks like a fun bike when it's working but i'm still not convinced that i want one. I don't really understand the pissing contest about the colours, everybody knows that KTM orange is the fastest colour there is.