G'Day to all and sundry. I'm a Kiwi based in mainland China for the past 13 years. Been riding for 35 years (crickey that bloody long, where'd it all go!), starting out learning on a school mates little 100cc, before busting out some of my own hard earned cash to buy my first bike, a Honda XL250 at the age of 15 same year I got my drivers licence.
Very active forum participant on multiple motorcycling forums/communities for many years, finally joined GT-Rider.
Current rides include, XT1200Z, AN650L4 ('14 Burgman [NZ]), AN650K7 (Burgman [China]), CF650TR, Jetmax, XVS1100AC (recently sold). Been back and forth to Thailand since the early nineties, and the last trip was for 7 weeks (15000km) riding Northern Thailand on a CB500X based out of CR. Had a blast and after all these years in China, the driving etiquette of the Thais is head and shoulders better than mainland Chinese by a long shot, in fact it was down right bloody civilised in Thailand. plus, petrol stations, that have air for inflating tyres, lots of food choices, and clean toilets. Anyone care to trade countries..!
Planning to ride from China-Thailand with a bunch of other misfits round the end of 2014 on our collection of bikes. One of our group has ridden back from China to Thailand to test out the borders on a China plated bike, with UK passport and Chinese D/L. All good, and he's been having a blast of a time back in the LOS. Lucky bugger!
Shiny side up...
BD
Very active forum participant on multiple motorcycling forums/communities for many years, finally joined GT-Rider.
Current rides include, XT1200Z, AN650L4 ('14 Burgman [NZ]), AN650K7 (Burgman [China]), CF650TR, Jetmax, XVS1100AC (recently sold). Been back and forth to Thailand since the early nineties, and the last trip was for 7 weeks (15000km) riding Northern Thailand on a CB500X based out of CR. Had a blast and after all these years in China, the driving etiquette of the Thais is head and shoulders better than mainland Chinese by a long shot, in fact it was down right bloody civilised in Thailand. plus, petrol stations, that have air for inflating tyres, lots of food choices, and clean toilets. Anyone care to trade countries..!
Planning to ride from China-Thailand with a bunch of other misfits round the end of 2014 on our collection of bikes. One of our group has ridden back from China to Thailand to test out the borders on a China plated bike, with UK passport and Chinese D/L. All good, and he's been having a blast of a time back in the LOS. Lucky bugger!
Shiny side up...
BD