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Thanks Michael, glad you liked it!

Awesome! Always glad to hear of our trip inspiring other travelers. 一路平安！ Where are you planning on going?

Hey henry91w thanks very much! Really appreciate the support and glad you enjoyed the video. One great thing we experienced in our travels actually was the growing community of Chinese adventurers and travellers doing their own similar trips. 加油！

Weihua Shi Thanks! We really appreciate the kind comments. Glad you enjoyed the video. We're hoping we can make this into a mini-series sometime soon too, so hopefully more to come!

Buck Perley I lived in China more than 30 years, but I have only been to Beijing, Shanghai, Henan Province, Anhui province, Jiangsu province, Zhejiang province, Guangdong province, Guizhou province and Hunan province. I know there are lots of parts of China with wonderful natural scenery and different culture. But I don't have the courage like you guys to travel so long distance in China by riding a motorcycle. You guys are awesome!

Weihua Shi It definitely is a big country with so much to see and do, people to meet, and food to eat! Even 5 months and 21,000 miles wasn't nearly enough. Courage is all in the mind, just have to find your opportunity, something you care about, and get out there and ride! 加油！

Buck Perley 兄弟，加油，期待你更好的大作！

+Rupert Utley Ditto for your trip! Did we run into each other on the road? We were very happy and pleasantly surprised by the CF after it was all said and done. Only problems were due to human error and natural wear and tear, despite the conditions being less than ideal!

Thanks Kyle Glass! Really glad you liked it. Hopefully there will be more to come in the not too distant future!

Thanks Anthony!

Thanks Claude! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching! Don't sell yourself short either. 9000km can be an adventure too. My very first motorcycle trip was a few thousand miles with my dad down the east coast of the U.S., and ever since then I was hooked :D

+john a stirzaker Unfortunately the record has since been beaten but yeah it's definitely going to be tough to do again in China considering motorcycles can't use the expressways (legally)

Yep, we definitely had our fair share of challenges but nothing compares to travel by motorcycle!

Hey Ryan Wilson, thanks very much and thanks for watching! Definitely is a lot of work taking care of all the footage we managed to gather along the way, especially after a full day on the bike! :) Happy travels

Your welcome Buck, you deserve the praise. I've been through the same troubles in filming my own travels. If you get a chance I'd love to get your feedback, I'm always trying to improve!

Ryan Wilson Appreciate it! I managed to have a quick look through some of yours and I think it looks good. Like your use of music! Most important thing is to just stick with it. It's been over a year since we finished the trip and we're only now on the verge of finally finishing a pilot for a mini-series. Lots of ups and downs!

Wei Luo Thanks! Trip is all done actually :). Working on the book and tv show now!

Thanks MrZyg86 ! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

谢谢你啊！这样的支持对我们能成功很重要而且在路上的时候中国人这么欢迎我们让我们感动！

Buck Perley 佩服！怎么不试一试318国道川-藏线？

+Zhen DING Thanks very much!

+ForEsTbiLLoW Thanks so much for saying so! We really appreciate it and glad you enjoyed the video.

+syncmaster915n Thanks! China is definitely an amazing place to travel through.

Hi Rohiman MJ, thanks for sharing your experiences with your CFMOTO! Totally agree. It's quite an impressive bike and does a good job of dispelling a lot of the suspicions people have of quality when it comes to Chinese made products. Keep the paint side up and the rubber on the road!

+Shiran De Silva Thanks Shiran!

+MrPanda415 Haha, thanks! Was challenging at times, but to be honest you get used to it and it sort of just becomes your new normal, a new "nine-to-five"

+Buck Perley please6

Thanks Daryl!

+Binter Bishop 谢谢！

Thanks +Lucas!

Thanks! Peru is definitely similar in terms of the variety of landscape. Incredible how much of it is stuffed into smaller area! I would absolutely love to do a trip in Peru sometime :)

Very true, lots of diversity in a small territory. Still cheap too but getting more expensive year after year. Hope you guys get to ride there sometime soon ;) cheers

Thanks hitmanhunters!

WHAT IS BIKE MODEL?

Hey Likhi Ondov Thanks very much! Amy, my girlfriend who's in the video too, is also half Chinese but grew up abroad and a big part of the trip for her was learning more about that side of her background. She's also an architect and so she wanted to learn more about China's ancient and varied vernacular architecture (which there is so much of around as diverse and old a country as China!). Glad you liked the video. There is A LOT more footage actually. We filmed the whole thing, probably over 80 hours total. We're in talks with some people to hopefully put together a mini-series. So fingers crossed that we can make that happen. I'm also working on a book that should be out hopefully next year. You can sign up at our website if you're interested in getting it for 50% off when it's released. Thanks for watching and keep the rubber on the road!

+王果 Thanks!

Jesus Christ, good job

+just charlie We went through Chengdu (and Chongqing) as well! I'd definitely recommend getting yourself a bike if you have the chance. I loved Sichuan myself. Some very remote and beautiful areas, particularly out west. And since you're in the area, you can just make a short holiday out of it!

+Buck Perley I think I will do that, I recently discovered a WeChat group for Chengdu expat motorcyclists. There are about 80 of us. I will share your video with the group, very inspiring trip you took and great that you documented it like this.

+just charlie Thanks so much! We're actually currently trying to produce a 7 or 8 part mini-series documenting the whole trip and just recently finished the pilot, so if you liked this video definitely subscribe to the feed or sign up to our newsletter on our site to find out when the show comes out! Also glad you found a group. There are a few good ones that we met around the country as well, everywhere from Hebei, Fujian, Zhejiang, Beijing, Shanghai. China, despite the restrictions, can be a great place to motorcycle.

+just charlie hey, have you got a link for the wechat group please?

Joshua McBride I can't link to wechat groups, but if you add me on wechat I can invite you, my username is justcharlie

Thanks so much! Our goal is to produce this as a full mini-series (we have around 80-100 hours of footage) and we did produce a pilot episode. The plan was to sell that to a network so we could afford to produce the full thing (around 6-7 episodes). Unfortunately, we hit some roadblocks, but we do hope to release the pilot soon and then who knows what will happen! Be sure to subscribe to The Great Ride of China channel to find out when that's available.

Buck Perley riding a 650 cc motorcycle across China. I think that is difficult to sell to the population in China. When the 125 cc is the main workhorse

Thanks!

Haha, yeah definitely happy about that! A lot of luck with a dash of just having gotten used to the drivers in China, got us to the end. Best part is, we only ever had one fall the whole trip! That fall in the mud that's in the video was in the middle of a big rainstorm in a town where all the roads were completely ripped up. Was less than two weeks into the trip too, just north of Harbin (www.thegreatrideofchina.com/day-10-rain-rain-go-away-and-our-first-accident/)

+Ben Cheng Hey Ben, where's your hometown?

Buck Perley bozhou anhui province.

+Ben Cheng 哦对对。我们路过亳州而且在阜阳住一夜 :)

你很厉害，赞。welcome.

Hey tronable, So sorry for taking so long to respond! Glad you enjoyed the video. When are you planning your trip and for how long? As for advice and stories, we've got plenty, and probably too much to fit in one youtube comment :). You could check out our site which lists out our equipment, has maps, and a daily trip diary where you can read about the difficulties we ran into. Honestly though, the most important point of advice I can give is to go out for some practice trips. Even if it's not as "rugged" as you may get on your SA trip, you'll still work out some of the kinks of your systems (what to pack, how to pack, how to unpack, etc.) and then the rest you'll learn as you're going along. Each person is different and so everyone has their own systems and their own "must pack" items. Other than taking practice trips, I would also recommend having some sort of "home base" back at home. Someone you can trust to handle postage of things in case you need to send things back. Also take the time to maybe try and set up some waypoints along the way where people can send you mail. This can be good for morale (friends and family sending you care packages and letters) as well as for making equipment upgrades. Finding the International Youth Hostels in the major cities you know you'll be passing through is probably a good strategy. This was a little tougher for us to manage since in China, bikes aren't always allowed in cities and foreigners aren't always allowed to stay in hotels so not many hotels would make a commitment to accept packages ahead of time. Hope that helps!

Oh and one more thing to add- pack XL sized ziplock bags (1L and up) and duct tape. Invaluable tools. (send extra ziplocks to your mail drops too as they will wear down and can be hard to find).

Yes, agreed! It's a shame that they make it so difficult because it's such a perfect country to explore from the back of the motorcycle. Amy is actually half Chinese but she grew up most of her life in Europe. Our motivation for the trip though largely came from the fact that we had been living a couple years in Beijing but felt like we were missing out on so much that the country had to offer. The plan just grew from there!

Yep, definitely would have been great to have any kind of adventure bike but there were a couple of things that led us down the CFMoto route. One was that this was a trip really all about China. We were going for a world record and we thought it would be nice to do it on a Chinese bike. Second, if anything went wrong it's very difficult if not impossible to get parts and have repairs done in China (you basically have to import parts illegally and that would have been a major time suck). Last, it's just cost prohibitive. Imports of motorcycles in China are treated as "luxury goods" and so are taxed heavily (as much as 50% of the base cost) and then sold at a high premium. A KTM 1190 probably goes for around ¥100k ($16-20k) in China. It made for a few bumps (often literally), but in the end it more or less worked out! Next time, not in China, I'll probably opt for something a little higher and with more suspension (650cc is more than enough for engine size though even with two people!)

Of course, a Chinese brand called CFMoto. Some mechanical problems but mostly human error. you can learn more from our blog or the book www.thegreatrideofchina.com

Thanks for watching Anunaki! We actually did do a pilot TV episode, a first that we hope can eventually be a mini-series that covers the preparations and the first 10 days and several provinces. You can check that out here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbCDlMqAqdq6Y6M.html As for every province, we unfortunately didn't spend enough time per province for each one to be its own episode. Since we were on a motorcycle, we were severely restricted by weather and had to keep to a timeline that would make sure, for example, that we didn't get stuck in Tibet with the snows. That said, on our website, thegreatrideofchina.com, we have a way to navigate through blog posts we did for each province. You might also be interested in the book we published that goes into more of the details from each province too!

MO CHEN Yes, I believe it is! Good eye.

Hi Arjun, I just stopped by and noticed that the response I had written to you never got saved for some reason. In terms of resources I can recommend, you can check out our website as a good place to start where we've got lots of maps, photos, trip diary, etc. In terms of your route, definitely make sure you look into how you're going to get into China with your motorcycle. We stayed within the country, so this wasn't a problem for us, but many people I know who have tried to ride in from outside found it prohibitively expensive (and I've heard from some that you're required to have a guide in this case). Also there tend to be restrictions on foreigners traveling in Tibet, so make sure all your paper work is in order and you've confirmed your route is open. All that said, I'm so happy to hear that you've been inspired by our story! That's been our main goal of sharing our trip online and I wish you the best of luck in the planning and execution.

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