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- vienna (A)

Kilometer: 3,324

[cycling to the roof of the world]

Date: Oct 9, 1999

tibet N-S traverse xining - golmud - lhasa - kathmandu

"stop! stop!" bettina is shouting. we have just started the tour and already the first problem. the low-rider of my travelpartner is completely distorted. back in xining, the starting point, we are able to find a small workshop including a lot of metaljunk, a welding torch and a friendly couple. that´s all we need. perfect! you can imagine that it is quite challenging to explain what we require so badly - a new low-rider - to people who haven´t seen such a thing in their live before - without a single chinese word of course. it takes some times but all together we manage to develop a new carrier. on the next day back in the workshop we cannot believe what we see: a perfect looking, new low-rider! it costs just one dollar, though it is a very heavy one. it doesn´t matter, this steel-made carrier "made in china" will last out the whole 3300 kilometer through tibet.

chinese raod workerwhile repairing one of our bike, a cyclist with a lot of luggage is approaching. two baskets made of metal are fastened at the back of the bike, the bagage inside is protected with simple plastic bags, on the top a low-priced sportbag, a chinese flag is fixed on the handle-bar. it is a chinese man cycling through whole china! fro...

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(@ uli nullnegativ 1999)

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