ASIARIDE

EPIC TRIP TO XINJIANG

2009-05-13T04:23:00.000-07:00

Tons of pictures coming soon on this web page, relating my best trip ever and one of the best bike page of my life ! love XinJiang !

Cool riding pics from DongBaiShan last weekend.

2009-04-06T20:08:00.001-07:00

东白山 Shanghai Specialized team @ DONG BAI SHAN-

2009-04-06T04:17:00.000-07:00

We were 10 people joining in for this trip, 2 hours away of Hangzhou city heading south. Amazing landscapes in a very very special and great ambience. As far as i'm concerned i've never ridden in such thick smoke !

DAY 2 -really really foggy day !

2009-04-06T03:58:00.000-07:00

Day 2 in DongBai Shan, like yesterday, and even thicker, the fog is everywhere. Ridding on the single tracks is tremendeous, sometimes dangerous, but to be honest, is such a cool ride !

Ed has to look backwards and hardly glimpses other riders just behind him !

One of the best downhill single track

东白山 Day 0 & Day 1

2009-04-06T02:14:00.000-07:00

We leave late from Shanghai to pick up some friends in Hangzhou. the GPS will be quite useful during the trip
We slept on night on the raod, in YIJI 义鸡
We leave the hotel early morning to reach the riding spot- one hour and half later.As we reach the summit, the fog starts to vanish and let us have a quick glance on the surroundings. Quite cool have to say. We will not go further as the dirt road is too muddy for the van

Downhill section- tremendeous !

at the very top of the riding spot. Now everything is about serious downhill

2009-03-31T21:24:00.001-07:00

*C'EST ENFIN l'PRINTEMPS !!!!
*SRPING FINALLY SHOWS UP !
* 春天终于到了 !!

2009-03-30T00:38:00.000-07:00

XiShan-taihu...great place for enjoying cool single tracks with tea fields and colorful blossom trees.

2009-03-27T03:18:00.000-07:00

Moganshan British Military Fitness & Biking

2009-02-17T19:22:00.000-08:00

Our group : a bunch of Chinese & Expats

British Military Fitness on mornings : fun exercise into the bambou forest and montain- Bloody exhausted

Great barbecue, lunch meals and brtish-style morning breakfast

And afternoons : Crazy rides with the crew

real Nice 3-day trip to Moganshan british Military Fitness and crazy mtb rides

2009-02-15T18:33:00.000-08:00

Gangsta Rap Chinois- Yo bro !

Really Cozy home !

Great downhill tracks

Nothing but Fog on the top, quite nice athmosphere

our house

Suzhou ride

2009-02-09T03:19:00.000-08:00

Another day, another ride.

Teppaniakky Master ou l'envol du phoenix japonais

2009-02-03T00:21:00.000-08:00

Superbe photo pendant notre teppaniakky du nouvel an.

le principe : le chef fait la cuisine devant nous flambe l'huile au départ et les bananes en dessert

Le nouvel an a Shanghai

2009-02-02T23:50:00.000-08:00

Voila a quoi peu ressembler un nouvel an chinois a Shanhgai, la vidéo ne dure qu'une minute mais le spectacle lui dure environ une heure et demi comme ca.

烟火在上海很深刻的印象!!!

mon nouveau Casque

2008-11-17T21:18:00.000-08:00

Suite au Post sur le Chantier, je me suis dis que c'etait une bonne opportunité pour vous montrer mon nouveau casque de VTT "Specialized" (la marque). A moi les rides endiablés.

Pas tres confortable, mais très joli.

Un grand sourire le matin en me levant

2008-11-17T21:06:00.001-08:00

la journée de travail (mardi) s'annoncait maussade malgré le beau soleil hivernal. Au moment de constater , comme chaque matin, l'avancée de l'énorme chantier juste en bas de chez moi (en me diant qu'ils l'auraient éventuellement bien fini en une nuit cette tour en construction), quelle ne fut pas ma surprise en découvrant le dernier model de pelleteuse Komatsu uniquement déstinée au marché chinois très facetieux.

Un grand bol de fraicheur dans ce chantier.

merci monsieur le designer de Komatsu,

je vous laisse admirer :-)

2008-11-16T04:00:00.000-08:00

Donc j'ai fait une petite sortie dans le "no man-land" qu'est la banlieue Sud (est nord et ouest c'est pareil) de shanghai. 2 petites heures de vélos pour rejoindre ces magnifiques paysages haut en couleur (gris, noir, un peu de marron parfois)

c'est aussi Shanghai, c'est pas la chine des tours opérators ca c'est sur, mais les gens dans ces quartiers sont trop adorables. mais franchement, les conditions laissent a desirer.

RAAAACE !!!

2008-11-09T06:01:00.000-08:00

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Dog, shirt's color.

2008-10-31T06:16:00.000-07:00

New comer

2008-10-01T20:02:00.000-07:00

KUAI BAI II , mon nouveau- vieux vélo d'entrainement, a partir d'un cadre de 4 ans, monté groupe XT + disc XTR- truvativ set,pneu slick, bouuuum! par contre rouler en rigid ca fait bizzare :-)；

快白II 到底来了！！我的新的训练自信车二手的SPECIALIZED 车架 BONTRAGER 坚硬前叉 XTGROUP + XTR碟刹横吧 TRUVATIV
用硬的前叉太奇怪我不习惯了。 :-)

La nature belle et sauvaaaaage , bouh !

2008-09-24T05:56:00.001-07:00

La nature hostile du Anhui !

Les scorpions hostiles

les mante religieuse hostiles

les libelules...beaucoup moins hostiles

嵊泗岛- SHENG SI ISLAND

2008-09-18T20:00:00.000-07:00

Mon compagnon fidèle-partout, tout le temps, jamais decu.

周末在嵊泗岛-又挺放松又美丽的地方

骑自行车-游泳-坐船-打盹儿

Relaxing time at SHENG SI ISLAND 1 hour awaw from Shanghai- Quite nice and quite landscapes. clean mountain roads zigzaguing from one harbour to another.

L'ile de Shengsi, a une heure de bateau de Shanghai dans le delta du Huangpu, idéal pour sortir et respirer un peu. DEs petites montagnes et des routes bien propres circulant le long de la mer...Style un peu mediteranéen.

Ca fait du bien !

2008-09-17T21:15:00.000-07:00

Au boulot !

Chinese always

2008-09-16T03:03:00.000-07:00

Chinese remains chinese...even with potatoe chips !

Bikink crew

2008-09-16T02:57:00.001-07:00

Our team during the last mtb trip to Anhui. Around a funny baby and his / her mother

La vie des champs - Farmer life - 农民的生活

2008-09-16T01:59:00.000-07:00

La vie des champs dans le Anhui en image

la vie des champs dans le Anhui en video

Farmers' life -农民的生活

The below video was the first one i took of those farmers. I wanted to do a "national geografic like video". The first seconds were nice, you truly feel the real field labour spirit, but watch till the end. It seems that the white guy wearing underwear does not really match within the framework. :-)

2008-09-16T00:37:00.000-07:00

L'attaque de la mante pas contente !

Sports cam tests

2008-09-16T00:28:00.000-07:00

rer cej

Bike and video ?

2008-09-07T21:29:00.000-07:00

First test with the sanyo on a seat post. need someone behind me to make this video interesting, but the quality and stability is quite ok. Seat post is the best regarding angle but of course you videotape the trail behind you. i tryed on the fork or on the helmet, but did not find any solution regarding both angle and stability.

Any tips ?

As far as i'm concerned, as a montainbike rider, i've always looked for a camera to videaotape our furious trips in the remote countryside. Something both practical and solid. With a nice shape to fit on a helmet or handle bar for instance (with foam or bubble wrapper and support- like mac guyver will explain to me later).

i've found this one for a reasonble price/ Quality (around 2500 rmb for the model i'd like to buy).

A Sanyo brand product. Actually it's a digital camera but truly Mpeg video oriented (it enhances video quality and the design is more videocam-like, if you ask me)

If anyone has comments , tips or ideas, please drop a line. the bottom line is to videotape while riding. Tough and risky...maybe, but so much fun.

http://www.sanyodigital.com/products.aspx?n=298315

Otherwise, i found this little stuff(a friend found a store in qingdao). A cam completely devoted to sport actions. (water proof, really solid and compact

I'm really attracted by this product (cheap-170O RMB) but honnestly i do not know about the quality. So if anyone has heard about it or similar stuff, please leave comment.
check the link.
http://www.oregonscientific.fr/shop/product.asp?cid=3&scid=19&pid=923

Flat tire ? broken saddle in Shanghai ? Do not worry

2008-09-07T19:06:00.001-07:00

I feel safe biking in Shanghai- ripped tire, broken saddle....any problem please stop by and chose :-)

Here is a selection of best 修理车 Xiu Li Che- Bike / Scooter repair places or people. Please send me your best shot of those increadibly useful shops or people (in action or not). I'll publish them here. the best shot of the month will receive a nice gift.

Across the Huangpu river

2008-09-06T10:01:00.001-07:00

The magnificient beauty of polluated huangpu river (Shanghai)- Industrialized river- bank. Heading at Puxi.

How to switch from Slick to Knobby tires for a MTB ride

2008-09-06T07:34:00.000-07:00

Don't bother !!! do the same as us.... One of our mate came for this ride in Xiakeng-Anhui Province with slick tires..too lazy to switch beforehand at home !!

1- Remove your wheels out of the van

2- After wasting your time trying to remove the tire from the wheel, use a huge and sharpened special local tool (big knife) to split the tire apart

3- Then use scissor to cut the tire and remove the inner tube

4- Go on all along the tire

5- After having understood that there is no f***ing inner tube but only a tire completely glued to the rim, destroy it completely Actually, the flat tires was increadibly stuck on the rim....impossible to remove. we spent one hour and half in order to swich properly from one to another for both wheels. no mentioning the two flat tires we had before being ready to ride !!

Yes , you can enjoy your ride now !

Actually, we all enjoyed riding in this place !

BBQ at Moganshan- 3-hour trip away from Shanghai

2008-09-06T04:52:00.000-07:00

My lovely heart for anyone who needs it :-)

The Barbecue Master....

For your finest Chinese outdooor parties, please book your barbecue master At atomicskate@cbbq.com. Booking at least 3 days prior to BBQ.

May i remind you guys that everything is made in wood here..even the roof up here :-)

Magical shield- protects her from anything

Bzzz, Take this, bad chair !

Barbecue at Moganshan- 3 hours away from Shanghai-We had great fun that night- amazing food in a quite place away from work issues.

在莫干山-BBQ

2008-09-06T04:43:00.000-07:00

Old-style wodden mail boxes in Shanghai French Concession.

漂亮的邮箱

2008-09-06T03:57:00.000-07:00

Qui a dit que le VTT en Chine, c'etait impossible.

Grace a des locaux et des étrangers qui en veulent (Thomas-Eric...) on a pu passer un très bel été sportif.

Il va falloir assurer cet automne, retarder un maximum la sortie des pneus slick. S'entrainer d'avantage et plus serieusement cet hivers. Pour etre en forme pour la suite :-)

En tout cas Merci au crew !

2008-09-06T03:39:00.000-07:00

火钎还是搞笑？

2008-09-05T02:58:00.000-07:00

I love this street, it's wonderful, it belongs to the north-west part of Shanghai. I guess it has been built by English at the very beginning of 2Oth century. But I’m not quite sure, i promise i'll check it out. Nowadays, middle class and lower class- Chinese people live in it. I’m pretty sure they’d rather live in a high-standard 30-floor building.

我真的喜欢这条路挺美丽在上海东北区我听说英国人建造了40年以前但是不一定我不了解中国的故事

2008-09-05T02:45:00.000-07:00

Lin Nan Lee....From ChongQing !

2008-09-05T02:42:00.000-07:00

Manon, la petite fille que je viens d'adopter.......

Non c'est pas vrai, mais je pense que la mienne, la vraie ressemblera a ca, en plus belle encore

SHANGHAI (VERY) OLD TOWN

2008-09-05T02:22:00.000-07:00

Vous remarquerez le caractère entouré sous la banderolle 拆 CHAI qui veut dire "a démolire" ici. on se reveille un matin et il est la, entouré en rouge.

加快沿江开发造福于民 = Accelerer le developpement de la rive pour le bien être de tous . Je pense que ca veut tout dire. Vite vite que l'on puisse mettre les beaux imeubles d'appartements tous neufs......mais ou vont tous ces gens ensuite ?

2008-09-05T02:10:00.000-07:00

Il n'en reste pas beaucoup, mais ils sont beaux...les ptits vieux quartiers de Shanghai....

Celui ci n'a plus long a vivre on l'a déja condamné -------------> 拆