29 May Update

After 6 days of riding finally reached Deqin, we are staying at Feilaisi(3300m) a small town some 10km away from Deqin over look the Meili Snow Mountain the view is spectacular.............

To get here the ride was dam 'Siong' ah!! We had to cross over Baimang snow mountain (peak 4200m) and is the first time me expericing high attitude ride, dam shack we have to get up at 4am the day before and instant noodle for breakfast............ no lunch

40km up hill to the summit( i gave up after 30km too shack , took a lift from a passing by truck to the top ), 7km of rolling hills follow by 36km of down hill( it was great) finally 8 km flat to Deqin. Tomorrow we will be riding to Longqin another 100km ............

Tues 22 May 2007

Wah lan eh............... after almost 9hrs of bus ride i finally reached Lijiang .... staying in one of the Hostel inside the old town only 20rmb ( cheap cheap) , the old town is very happening at nite lots of pubs and MM too (mei mei).


Just after breakfast..... weather so far so good, 20 degree on the average, will be doing some final check on the bike,tmr will be our first day , riding to Tiger Leaping Gorge which is about 70km away .

Cheers, Eric.

The Bird Takes Off

Eric the Birdman has taken off on a month-long, self supported bicycle ride from Lijiang, China to Lhasa, Tibet.

Eric is known as the Birdman for his Blue Bird Talk (sounds more familar in Hokkien). He's doing the ride on his Blackbird Bike (Thorn Raven). This bike's got no multiple chainrings or cogset... all 14 gears are inside the Rohloff hub, and that's no bird talk.

Lijiang is in Yunnan, situated on a plateau at an elevation of 2600m... this is the starting point of their journey, which will take them ~2000km to Lhasa.