Riding through China

Me and my girlfriend are planning to go to Thailand on the 125's but I'm struggling to find out why China is so difficult to ride through... Does anyone know what you have to do to ride a UK bike in and around China??

Reading matter.

"How to Ride-Drive ones foreign owned motorcycle through China unguided."

http://tinyurl.com/ozolm59

Cheers Shorty.

Sod that though... I'll go through the war zones... Probably easier lol.

Me and my girlfriend are planning to go to Thailand on the 125's but I'm struggling to find out why China is so difficult to ride through... Does anyone know what you have to do to ride a UK bike in and around China??

There's a strange couple gone through China and the likes clocking up something like 30,000 kms on a two wk650tr's (cf moto 650tr). If you Google the bike name it'll come up. They've just about covered and experienced everything that can ever happen in that area of the world and made a blog out of it.

There's a strange couple gone through China and the likes clocking up something like 30,000 kms on a two wk650tr's (cf moto 650tr). If you Google the bike name it'll come up. They've just about covered and experienced everything that can ever happen in that area of the world and made a blog out of it.

http://themotorbikeforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=60692

You have to invole a Chinese tour agency and you have to apply for the route, which is fixed after that. You have to get a Chinese riding license and you have to travel exactly along the applied route with a guide from the agency. For all this you pay approximately a 100 bucks per day. That´s the very short version.

Some managed to do it without all this, but it´s far more diffucult than you might think.

For a short period it was legally possible last year, but I think they stopped it again because some 4x4 travellers overstepped their limits massively.

Cheers

Frank