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!

 

[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.

 

[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!

 

[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 .