Quote Originally Posted by ChinaV View Post
That's fucking insane

3900 km in 48 hrs = 81.25 kmh moving speed. That means you were doing well over 100kmh almost every minute you were on the road. I'm guessing you got on the gāosł?

Cheers!
Agree totally. I rode the first 5 hours or thereabouts from Beilun - Tonglu via Shengzhou & Yiwu. My rational was simple, I wanted to get onto the Expressway via an on-ramp that had as short an entry to the actual toll booths as possible, thereby minimising any intervention by the authorities. The strategy worked. Once on the Expressway I wanted to stay on for as long a distance as possible, hence the non-stop approach. I figured if I could ride for as long as possible before any intervention and likely removal, I'd then look for a hotel if and when that might have occurred. It didn't so I rode and rode, stopping only for fuel. I took 6 packs of meals that come with everything needed to prepare a hot meal on the go. The container, contents include rice in a plastic container, under which there is a packet that has some type of powder substance with a semi-permeable membrane, a bag containing water, a foil packet containing minced type meat with veggie's. Prep everything onto the bed of rice, empty water onto the white packet containing substance, place smaller rice container with meat etc on top and cover with lid. The water and white substance react causing the water to boll. Hot meal done.

I was able to remain on the Expressway all the way until Kunming. I avoided service centres on the Expressways and chose quieter locations with petrol stations that had easy entry/exit from the Expressway to minimise any detection. Meaning I did not ride through the Service Areas and avoided the restaurants etc., where possible.

I was fortunate to not have any significant hurdles at provincial border toll stations. Only one police officer attempted to stop me as I rode through one set of provincial tolls, on the other side through the road cone choke point. Strategy = head down, arse up, (throttle, throttle, throttle) and stay out off the radar as much as possible. I attempted to sleep sat on the bike seat a couple of times in the early hours at or near two petrol stations, but my really sore numb bum didn't allow that to really happen for more than half an hour.

I'd not posted about my ride, simply because there wasn't much to share, no photos, no real hassles, and only half a dozen or more crashes, where roll overs seemed the order of the night or early morning. I did get some surprised looks from the Police in attendance at those crash scenes as I rode my GS past though aside from being on a motorcycle - I was wearing a high-viz yellow jerkin too, which made them all the more surprised I'd guess.