Greetings From China (Chinutta)

[Monstaman]

Good afternoon gents

My wife and I are currently in China, it is her dads 70th birthday so we are here for that and also a three week hoon around, we are currently in Beijing, and have been to a few places which I won't list cos they will mean nothing but we are going to Shanghai then Yun Nan provence (Li Jiang town) for a week or so.

We have been to some super wealthy places and met some super wealthy people as well as the other end of the spectrum which is a total eye opener.

My wifes family is not wealthy but middle of the road however they give like you wouldn't believe and by that I mean food, accom, warmth and welcoming second to none :hug: , we bought them gifts from kiwiland as well but me being a whiteyfoo they treat me like royalty (not used to that).

So, not many adventure bikes (0), I have a photo of a scoota that has "Offroad" on the plate which is a total crackup and is as close as it gets.

You have to be a stuntman to survive the roads here, I like to think I am an ok driver and rider but here I would not want handlebars in front of me in the bigger cities, they are simply mad.

Been to some dodgy places, shifty dudes :shifty: :shifty: eyeing me up and down so I do my best to puff up and look tuff behind my dark glasses ... never let them see your eyes for expression cos they case you out in a second and see the fear.

I have a gravitational advantage over them so that is good but you don't now if they have a knife or not so still have to be careful.

Ok, better sign off and carry on our merry way, will clock in again at some stage with an update and put some pics up on our return, only interesting adventure stuff ..... not the 70th oldies party.

Seeya gents.

[NordieBoy]

Soooo.... Plenty of KLR's over there then :D

[TOTO]

Wohoo, looking forward to your write up of the plase sir. Take care there eh :)

[woodybee]

Hello mate,

Have fun on your travels, having spent 5 years in NZ, then coming back to my homeland, you really do get used to a mind psynch eh, as I fell into Kiwi life so easily and forgot how rough it can over here, did a write up of on what rallies are like here, and the gang influence, which is aload of carp but oh well.

So staysafe have fun in that fabulous place and I too look forward to seeing your photos on your return.

So puff out tho chest and party on out there.:wari:

Cio4now

Woodybee

:wari::woohoo:

[dino3310]

:woohoo: Co neeshy waa....... keemo sabi

[NordieBoy]

:woohoo: Co neeshy waa....... keemo sabi

Close....

The 750 must have a bit much vibration.

[YellowDog]

Enjoy the stirfys but tell them you eat vegi only.

It's meat Jim, but not as we know it!

[bart]

:woohoo: Co neeshy waa....... keemo sabi

More like Nee-how (sounds like that anyway...don't ask me how to spell it).:wacko:

China is a crazy place. I loved it. The food is a bit of an adventure. The beer is very good. The more I travel, the more I realise how crap NZ beer is. :whistle:

[YellowDog]

That's abig yes please for Chinese beer from me.

NZ Beer isn't great, but some of it is pretty OK and for a small amount more you can get some quite outstanding European beer.

I buy that Bavaria beer, which is quite outstanding :)

[ducatijim]

I buy that Bavaria beer, which is quite outstanding :)

Oh, Belgian 4 me....you bin to the Occidental in Vulcan lane and tried the wonderful beers there??:2thumbsup

[Squiggles]

Oh, Belgian 4 me....you bin to the Occidental in Vulcan lane and tried the wonderful beers there??:2thumbsup

Can get some good shit there :2thumbsup

[ducatijim]

Can get some good shit there :2thumbsup

Yeah, I try and make it a special treat when in Orks( we are not so sofisticated down in cowland:weep:)

[Monstaman]

Morning lads

Well we are off to Li Jiang and Shangorilla tomorrow morning before the sparrows fart. :bye:

Got my photo taken with the Police on Thursday :sweatdrop then fell crook that night, ... thought it might have been Swine (pig) flue (how ironic) :eek5: but just a guts ache from eating something not good.

Having great fun but will be happy to leave Bei Jing for the quieter hills of Shangorilla for week or so, the noise in Bei Jing physically and mentally hammers you eh. :bash: :bash:

OK, catch up in a week or so, will upload some pics then when we return to Bei Jing, missin the handlebars eh :(.

Zai Jian ( good bye)

[Monstaman]

Evening Gents

All settled in and back home now, great trip away but very nice to be home.

Chinutta is VERY VERY noisy, 110 db ringing in your ears all day from cellphone screamers, big speakers at shops, loud halers and horns tooting, mentally buggers you really.

Anyway, great trip, went up to Yunnan Province to Leaping Tiger Gorge, Meli Snow mountains etc at the bottom of Tibet, magic!!

Got up to 4300 meters (14110 feet) so reasonably high, about 2000 feet higher than Mt Cook.

We have buckets of photos, nearly 2000 in fact, I will bore you guys with the petrolhead oriented stuff only plus a coupla bits and pieces.

We didn't get ripped off or arrested so we are really picking things up now, lots of silly shit still happened from a totally disorganized country which is so technically advanced but that all get taken in the stride.

Water Cube, Ellen and I at the Great Wall (or part of the 5000 km long stretch), blinged out scoota and the Scoota with the number plate that reads Cross Country .. v e r y adventure bike looking :lol:

[Monstaman]

Me and Mr Plod, Mr Plods Uzuki, a 1098 on display at the birds nest, a seriously cool blinged out Q7

[Monstaman]

Small Tard for small bastids like me, it even fits, snow on our plane wing when trying to leave Bei Jing, typical 150 adv style bike.

[Monstaman]

Street at night in Shangri - la with a sidecar, from the other way, two trucks that love each other and had a cuddle, Ducati Owners Club Of New Zealand at Tibetan Monastery in Tondroling... prolly the first one ever there.

[Monstaman]

Epic truck FAIL, Scoota with dude wearing hard had and chickie wearing no lid, nice legs tho, what you CAN'T do at the performing arts building but you can do anything else you want :wacko:, night shot of the birds nest.

[NordieBoy]

You could ski the Great Wall.

Mr Plod is a big boy.

[Monstaman]

You could ski the Great Wall.

Mr Plod is a big boy.

Some parts the snow was half meter deep, up a fragrance hill in Bei Jing we were trudging through 200 - 250 mm.

Mr Plod was bigger for a yella fella but I am only 5'6.5" as well.

After this photo I got real crook with an atomic guts ache and exhaust fumes to match ... musta been a strain of pig flue caught from the photo :laugh: .. next time I will take a small photo so I don't get as crook :weird: