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Sunday early morning ride along the Great Canal passing through Liantang Town, in the Qingpu District of Shanghai (China) over into Jiangsu province and back via Diashan Lake. Very nice and pleasant weather without the high humidity....

Liantang Town, former home town of Chen Yun: Chen Yun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia







The MTS little brother got a well deserved workout as well the same afternoon.






To answer the questions via PM's, the Ducati MTS transport pallet used for the truck shipment within China. Wood pallet (20mm marine plywood / 1500 x 2500mm with angle steel bar re-enforcments) was build to my own design by our carpenter, had a few stainless steel plates (3mm / 100 x 100mm) cut as backing plates for the 12mm stainless steel bolts and eyelets. Using a Pitbull Trailer Restraint for the rear with additional ratchet straps to secure the front fork and stop from flopping around, got high quality CargoBuckles now for future bike transport. Pretty easy job lifting the wooden pallet with the bike strapped onto and off trucks with fork-lifts and the bike sits rock solid in the truck and the wooden pallet is secured with ratchet straps to the truck sidewall rails.
Pit-Bull: Pit Bull Motorcycle Stands-Motorcycle Accessories
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Upgraded a Jialing JH600 for China long distance ADV touring and rego'ed the bike in Huzhou (Zhejiang Province / China) just after Chinese New Year 2013.









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Really hate the ever changing weather in Shanghai this time of the year (February / March).
Got a bottle of sun lotion out of the cabinet, loaded the JH600 for a decent run-in ride and heading South via national highway G320 for another China road trip...











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Went straight through Hangzhou city in Zhejiang province, actually rode very close to the West Lake area (painful slow riding as they build new elevated roads in city once again) following my GPS directions, got quite a few strange looks from car drivers and cops at stop lights due to the "no motorbike ban" in Hangzhou. Never got stopped by the ever present cops and two gave me actually a thumbs up sign, must be bikers themselves.

Between Hangzhou (Zhejiang) - Quzhou (Zhejiang) passed a lot of stone carving displays for sale at the road side, the stone / concrete carvings are everywhere in all sorts of shapes and sizes......…









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After a night in Quzhou (Zhejiang) heading further down on National Road #320 in search of the sun and better weather...…







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Passing an area called Longhushan along the #320 National Road, good scenery but misty and becoming sort of warm and humid, off comes the base and waterproof goretex layer.....



















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After covering quite some distance starting from Quzhou (Zhejiang) the bike died with no electrics working at all, quick check (hate ever changing Shanghai weather and electrical vehicle problems) found out the battery was totally fried. No charge at all in the middle of Jiangxi province at a small Sinopec gas station. The station attendants were very helpful in letting me charge my phone, Schuberth helmet and iPad, offering me oranges / tea and getting a bike repair guy from a nearby village over to source a battery suitable to mount into the JL to get me back on the road again. Battery is not the original full size (half the height actually) but works fine. The two attendants at the gas station refused any tip and just filled up a bit of gas (73RMB) but handed over 200RMB and drove away leaving the change as money for the assistance….







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The bike was performing well all the rest of the afternoon on the way to Ganzhou (Jiangxi) and passed quite a few interesting signs and sights…..













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Some more roadside shots…..













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Had very long day with approx. 700k's covered (Quzhou / Zhejiang > Ganzhou / Jiangxi) and rode well into the night passing a tree right in the middle of the road in a village..... awesome emergency brake set-up in case your vehicle brakes fail for some strange reasons. Skipped a visit to the "Long March Starting Point of the Central Red Army" in the dark but got pictures to proof that I was very nearby during my ADV cruise to the Sun in Sanya.

Why roads always turn to pot-holed nightmares in the dark, makes you wonder, eh?





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Checked into a suburban hotel in Ganzhou and they only had a suite available with the full on set-up like mahjong table, TV sets, tea ceremony set, gourmet cup noodles, coffee, tea, various condom packs, pink female shaver displayed in a glass ashtray (somehow that "thing" looked like a potato peeler), male / female lubrication, playing cards, business towel, lounge area, bathroom and a bedroom equipped with a bed as hard as a concrete road slab for the royal sum of 258RMB (the suite had easily 95-100sqm. space).
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Ganzhou (Jiangxi) is known as the "Orange Capital of the World" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzhou
Did not spot a single orange tree and on the way South passed many sawmills, looks like they cut the trees down to make wooden pallets and chopsticks…..



















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Just down the road from Ganzhou everything became a typical China countryside industrial wasteland for a 100k's, boring to ride - polluted, dirty and dusty….









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The National Road #105 improve a lot and became much wider with no traffic, great long sweeper bends, good relaxed riding while listening to music….













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Rolling down national highway #105 passing some peaks near Relong Hot Springs not far from the Jiangxi / Guangdong province check-point...…













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