Kunming To Naguzhen To Jianshi

Our first official trip with luggage and all out into the wilderness and adventure of China, after the pre run shake down and setup runs and everything went well, a few adjustments made which were.

Took the rubber inserts out of the foot pegs mainly because of me knees which like a little more space and the nearly 20mm extra room is coul. Also the rubbers when wet were a little slippery...take that how you will, Kevin I know what you prefer LOL.

Adjusted the rear brake pedal down because the pegs height was lowered.

Set the rear static spring sag for the weight, there was basically no spring preload so it was saggy in the bum so with two up and a 3 cases although only 87L total the rear spring needed tightening (maybe too much duck and pork belly LOL) to take fatso on the front.

Adjusted the forks to be more compliant …at least to start while everything is new and tight but now it sucks up Chinese road bumps better than a (insert your favourite sucker here), also dropped the forks through the clamps 10 mm for standover assistance (insert your favourite dwarf joke here)

After viewing some footage from our on board camera the front is slightly on the piss so I straightened that out…sorry and no you were not drunk.

Set the height for the centre stand to rest up properly to give us more ground clearance.

Some other minor adjustments to levers etc to my preference so nothing other than customizing the positioning to my liking and comfort.

First trip out was to Naguzhen city near a lake, we made a fairly epic navigational fuckup along the way which turned into a coulas road through little villages and rolling hill country, not sure were we missed our turn but the travel Gods looked after us.

Our hotel, 5^th floor with very very quiet neighbours, they were all dead as it was a cemetery, the Police came and passported us in which is standard practice, there are some hotels we simply cannot stay at but this one was good, the Police were very friendly and helpful and the dude at the front desk had a Landrover 110 model toy, must be a good bastid.

Out for dinner across the road that evening to a Muslin based eatery, the ladies were very nice to us and the food was outstanding, nice to be writing this in amoungst the crap we get fed everyday about extremists as these guys were just doing their thing ....like us.  

After an uneventful night and a good sleep with AC we piled off on our next stop Jianshi which was only 90 km away, we planned to stay two nights here but on arrival turned that into three nights, what a cool place, as luck would have it we rolled in the door and got sorted with heavy rain tailing us so we made it in without getting wet by the skin of our teeth.

The road in through the city was an education with lane marking meaning pretty much nothing so it provided entertainment with vehicle ripping through spaces skinnier than a size 00 supermodel.

Jianshi....more to come.