Hello.
I am Chinese and I am in Shanghai now.I often ride motorcycle with wife in China.Last year we does ride from Shanghai to Laos.I am glad to ansewer your question about China.

1.About guide.
Foreigner who travel in China needn't guide .You can travel by yourself.I haven't know need guide before i come hubb. It's a rumor.
But Tibet is a specific place. foreigner are not allow to tarvel by themselves.
IF you want to see the tibet scenery. i suggest you can go to west Sichuan,south Qinghai ,north Yunnan ,south Gansu.The four place scenery is as same as tibet.The Zang（Tibetan People）also live in there.

2.cost
food
chinese food is cheap.one hamburger in McDonald cost 13RMB.An ordinary meal cost 10~30RMB for one person
1dollor=6.28RMB
Gasoline is 6RMB/L now. I rember the price is 8RMB/L in May yesteryear.
Nommal hotel is 60-100rmb for one room.there is two beds and independent toilet.In Beijing ,Shanghai it cost 120-300RMB. If you live in a Youth Hostel, a bed cost 30-60RMB.

People in China generally ride 125cc or 150cc of the motorcycle, they are selling price in 7000-15000RMB.If it don't work, accessories are easy to buy, easy to repair. If the displacement is too large, it will not be easy to repair, because accessories are not easy to buy


3.how to ride in china?
There are two ways.
One is legitimate,anther is not legitimate.

1)Illegal way
Buy or rent a motorcycle in china. Use fake driving license and driver's license.
Motorcycles in China are ordinary people's transportation. General police will not check the very strict.
In this way, you can go to most parts of China.
Remember, don't go to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan central city。In this city local law not allow ride motorcycle include Chinese.

2)Perfectly legitimate
By your driver's license, through China's test, get the Chinese driver's license.
Buy or rent a legitimate motorcycle in china.
So that you can drive legally.



Of course, you can not have a Chinese driver's license, but with a legitimate Chinese motor. It's better than an illegal license and illegal car. Although this is also not legitimate.


I don't know how to legally ride your own motorcycle in China.
If you need to rent or buy a motorcycle in China, I can help you.
If you have any other questions you can ask me too.

my E-mail is lixiaoqing212@qq.com .MY name is LIxiaoqing

Hi Li,

I have a legit Chinese License and want to travel to Thailand and Laos, what are the other documents you need to travel to these countries apart from my passport? Did you translate your Chinese Driver License?

Best,
Simon

Many threads about recent changes entering a few South East Asian countries with motor-vehicles incl. bikes around the interwebs ~ read on... 'nuff said..

Thailand entry permit for motorcycles, cars & trucks
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...7th-june-88229

Pretty sure more updates coming in the future = https://www.facebook.com/groups/1024579897597702/ and as usual Ride Asia Forum based out of Chiang Mai (Thailand) = Temp. Importing a Foriegn Reg. Mbike into Thailand

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Thank you very much about the helpful information,

I have a plan to visit China around Feb-March next year. I start from Nanning and now wondering if they provide rent motorbike services there @@ (includes licence also lol). Haiz, I could not ride 125-150cc motorbike, we usually use 110cc motorbike in my country ).

Do you have any suggestions of adventure/majestic/ancient destinations near Nanning. I love Sichuan, Tibet also but it seems quite far, isnt it? @@

I suggest you go out through Mohan Port in Yunnan, China, so that the Chinese customs will not embarrass your motorcycle. It is very troublesome to go out by motorcycle at other ports