The 10 June starters leaving Beijing
Fong Huo Lun and a great wall
Inner Mongolia. I was so sure we'd have no rain I didn't even bring a raincoat.
Some shelter at last. An accidental detour from route 110, inner Mongolia
Ting getting dirty
Crossing the yellow river
Coal everywhere.
Tricycle food stands
Biofuels
Picture taken during a storm, at 0900!
Sack of rice on a flying pigeon.
The "old road" 110, next to the express way, just before entering Inner Mongolia. Great wall in the background.
Lunch Break
Fank on the expressway, Inner Mongolia.
Ting in the haze.
First of many punctures, in my defective Schwalbe Marathon HS368's.
Friendly officers from the highway patrol.
Noodles for all.
Aaron Haung and some coal.
The team in a town I've forgotten the name of.
Candice prepares to part from the rest of the team.
Horse power.
Farewell to Candice.
Entering a Tunnel on the expressway.
Ting in Inner Mongolia.
Bread delivery
Family cycling
Taking a brake for lychees.
Flying Pigeon.
The local bike store.
Meal break.
We got a little dirty.
Fong Huo Lun also got a little dirty.
The air was also a little dirty.
Ting racing the rain.
Sheltering from the rain.
Our stylish new atire.
Time for an emergency banana.
Two speedy Taiwanese chicks.
Fong Huo Lun and Toronado cross the yellow river.
Good bye Inner Mongolia, hello Ning Xia.
It rains in Ning Xia too!
No idea what is in those barrels.
These PVC ponchos are all the rage now.
The school run.
Bicycle made for two.
Better not let Ting see this. She might get ideas.
A great place to read.
Can I try that?
School run.
Cycling by the flowers.
Fong Hou Lun enters Gansu
Ting and Toronado looking stylish.
Taxi
Yellow river again.
Ting and the Yellow river
Incredibly this American fellow was riding from Beijing to Paris, and he had never heard of us, or any of the classic car rallies doing the same thing!
Ting and Su Chun in Gansu.
Hello Gansu.
The desert at last!
An Austalian in the desert, how unusual.
Stopping to take a GPS and Altitude reading.
My next project.
When there's a bike there's a way.
Apples?
The world's most mass produced bicycle.
We enter the "Hallway", between the Gobi Desert and the Qilian mountain range.
In the hallway.
Anchient, marker posts.
Su Chun
Bicycle in Gansu.
My what a great wall you have there.
No idea what that is.
Rice and bicycles.
What a tourist!
Solar rice cooker.
This fellow was riding back from Lhasa, after cycling there from North East China, on a Shanghai Forever single speed.
Kevlar guard my ass.
These innocent looking visitors peed on my bed!
We started at 0430 to avoid the heat.
Good bye Gansu, Hello Xinjiang.
Su Chun rides the Hami Basin.
Ting in the Hami Basin.
At last we find some shade, and escape from the mid afternoon heat.
Frank and a fancy hotel.
Welcome to Hami. Our warm reception by the local bike shop, and meeting some riders from Urimuchi.
First minor repair of the trip.
Frank looks a bit tired.
The market in Hami.
Xinjiang, the land of stylish hats.
Leaving Hami, and testing our stylish Korean-style face masks.
Journalists.
Hmmmm
Rasin drying in the foreground, mountains of fire in the background.
Vineyards near Turpan.
Turpan.
After Turpan. Ting and I are on our own now.
Beautiful carpets and mosque.
Nice scenery.
The master baker.
Breakfast.
Xinjiang bread.
Donkeys everywhere.
Camping under the road.
Ting in her bivy bag.
My defective Schwalbe Marathon HS368's again.
Delicious little steamed things with cinimon and sugar in the middle.
Sailing the Tarim Basin.
Olly on the way to Atushi.
Drinks break.
Water mellon every day.
Or three.
Our attempt at using the camera on timer.
Atushi.
Atushi
Trying to buy melons during prayer time.
The main mosque.
Up into Tien Shan, the weather deteriorates.
It was really cold and wet.
And wet.
We stumbled into this un used shepard's hut. A great resting place for the night.
Apparently our panniers aren't as dry as I had hoped. (It didn't help that Ting fell into a river either).
Snug as a bug in two sleeping bags.
Clear sky the next morning.
Kyrgyzstan here we come!
Nice scenery
Ting crossing the Tien Shan range.
Not far to the border now.
Chain cleaning.
