Bike Race across China 5,000km in 50 days

[MickeyFinns]

Hi all,

Not sure if some of you are already following along but me and a friend have spent the last 8 months cycling from London/Dublin to the Chinese border with Kazakhstan (I'm just about to leave Almaty and will hit the border in 4/5 days).

For this final leg we have the challenge of crossing the whole width of China to Shanghai within the confines of our visas leaving us about 50-55 days to do it including days off and days spent extending our visas meaning we need to average 120-140km each day we ride.

We are self supported and carry all our own gear and sleep rough in bivvy bags over half the time (Bike and gear weighs about 40kg+ depending on food and water).

Anyway we both get a lot of encouragement and support from the people who have been following us and we could do with some more for this final challenge! If you'd like to follow along here's some links

https://www.facebook.com/121degs
https://twitter.com/121Degs
http://www.121degrees.co.uk/

Cheers!

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Top blog and challenge I linked a few people to it few weeks ago

 

[arknor]

I take it everyone who does these bike charity rides actually love cycling and it's not really much of a challenge more of a dream adventure and for this reason I refuse to sponsor them.

 

[Vonhelmet]

I take it everyone who does these bike charity rides actually love cycling and it's not really much of a challenge more of a dream adventure and for this reason I refuse to sponsor them.

Take it elsewhere.

 

[uv]

I take it everyone who does these bike charity rides

This isn't a charity ride

it's not really much of a challenge

5,000km in 50 days is easy, it's practically your rest days AMIRITE


I've enjoyed reading your blog Mickey, it's truly inspirational. Looking forward to the next leg

 

[Glaucus]

I take it everyone who does these bike charity rides actually love cycling and it's not really much of a challenge more of a dream adventure and for this reason I refuse to sponsor them.

Not at all even if it was a charity even like that. Most people in it won't to do such things rather than trained their whole live for such things.

 

[MickeyFinns]

Top blog and challenge I linked a few people to it few weeks ago

Chers thanks

I take it everyone who does these bike charity rides actually love cycling and it's not really much of a challenge more of a dream adventure and for this reason I refuse to sponsor them.

Wasn't a cyclist before the trip (weighed 107kg, never changed a flat tyre and had never been camping).

Whilst it has been a great adventure I don't think that particularly demeans trying to use any interest it creates to do a bit of good.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

I expected this to really well recived in here

Seems to be more popular in GD shock horror.

Keep the blog entries coming and chuck casual post in here when you do

Cheers and best of luck.

 

[Nullzzz]

Incredible stuff, looking forward to reading back through your journey to date.

Any chance of a link to the GD thread?

Cheers,

 

[Jimbeam3678]

https://jamesftravel.wordpress.com/...akhstan-to-urumqi-china-511-miles-7309-total/

Another brilliant blog entry well worth a read.

 

[Murf]

I take it everyone who does these bike charity rides actually love cycling and it's not really much of a challenge more of a dream adventure and for this reason I refuse to sponsor them.

It's not as if the sponsorship is funding the trip.

The blog has been an excellent read too. I'll be donating before the end of the trip for the quality of the read alone.

 

[Jonny69]

I feel like I've read some of your North Korea blog before. Did you post it on here shortly after you did it? I could also have found it through a Google search. Either way, it's a brilliant read and I'm really enjoying reading it again. I love it when people write about their adventures, particularly all the anecdotes

 

[MickeyFinns]

I feel like I've read some of your North Korea blog before. Did you post it on here shortly after you did it? I could also have found it through a Google search. Either way, it's a brilliant read and I'm really enjoying reading it again. I love it when people write about their adventures, particularly all the anecdotes

Yeah I did put the NK ones up on here a while ago

Cheers divaboy for bumping with the blog post!

 

[uniQ]

I only loosely followed your blog but thought you had been riding solo?

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Yeah I did put the NK ones up on here a while ago

Cheers divaboy for bumping with the blog post!

My pleasure I don't normally enjoy reading blogs but yours is a very worthwhile read

 

[MickeyFinns]

I only loosely followed your blog but thought you had been riding solo?

Was solo until Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Been chatting with another guy doing Dublin-Beijing so we met up and are going to Xian together.

My pleasure I don't normally enjoy reading blogs but yours is a very worthwhile read

Cheers .

 

[Ransom]

Hay mickyfinns so far read your blogs twice!! i find them that well written and interesting

today i brought my 1st road bike a Carerra TDF still waiting on hosting with Warmshowers though altho set up my account.

good luck an keep safe out there and thanks for the blogs,
looking forward too buying the book when you get around to doing one

 

[Roady]

Hey James just started reading your blogs, keep going!

Thanks for supplying me with some great reading materials for the next few weeks

 

[jsmoke]

As I said before, this is truly inspirational for me, I can't believe your weren't a cyclist at the start, I really want to try this, I guess spring would be best time to start as you can get all the good Euro weather?

Do you have a kit list?

 

[GSVBagpuss]

Awesome blog, great read. Donated too