Cycling North of Beijing

This is a document of Deryk and Karen's experiences travelling North of Beijing by bicycle over a period of 5 days in Late October and early November 2008.

The Gear we took:
Map International Travel Maps BEIJING China1:20,000 City Map 1:100,000 Region Map was accurate and more than adequate for the task:
Karen's Bike - a Bianchi Camaleonte II
Deryk's Bike - an Azzuri Opal
Enough stuff four four days crammed into a MTX TrunkBag
Karen carries a backpack but says she would have preferred a TrunkBag to lower her centre of gravity.

The Gear we didn't take
A Spare Saddle Post Clamp (don't ask - just see Prelude - A Baptism of Fire)
A Compass (would have been handy at times)
A spare tyre (other than the one around my waist)
A few more tubes (5 Punctures and two tubes and one tyre was the final count)
A lot more lights (Christmas trees don't get run over by eighty seater buses)

This account is divided into Days:
DAY 1 - Beijing to Changping and Ming Tombs
DAY 2 - Changping to Juyongguan and Badaling
DAY 3 - Changping to Huairou
DAY 4 - Huairou to Mutianyu
DAY 5 - Huairou to Beijing

Google Earth reference placemarkers and routes are provided along with photos of road conditions.

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