Hello Carl,

I've seen in mychinamoto.com a photo of Lorne on the road between XiangCheng and ZhongDian. Nice to see him playing with the QingQi. I wonder if he is as fast in the mud than he was on the tarmac in DongGuan.

I took this road last year... but this time the green and blue little men f..ked us badly. We were on the Sichuan-Tibet south road when we were stop half way between KanDing and Litang by a combined blue/green checkpoint. After a passport control, they told us the area (west and north/west Sichuan) further was forbidden to foreigners and we have to go back. We argued for more than one hour, we called a backpackers hotel in Litang to get some confirmation of what they said, then they started to get upset and to threaten us when we ask them the reasons... no way to get through so we have to take the road going south to Yunnan by the Lugu Lake. Once on this road we were once more stop at a checkpoint and the funny guys want us to go back to Kanding, 300km up north. I said no this time and told them we'll call the embassy. They called some authorities and they decided to escort us with a car until we were out of the county limits. Never been so easy to drive in China when you are with a Police car.

So we missed the west Sichuan this time but we enjoyed Lugu lake (lige) and north Yunnan (Zhongdian, Tiger leap gorge, Lijiang, Dali).

Once again, we were with our 4WD and I really missed to do it on a bike. I cross the path of a group of 5/6 Chinese bikers on the Tiget leap gorge, some of them have the QingQi GY200. Nice bike.

Wait for your ride report in MCM.

Brice

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