July 20, 2004 to September 2 am the night of the month and a half hours and I did a companion Xining - Golmud - Lhasa - Lanzhou travel, which ride along the Qinghai-Tibet line for 15 days, riding mileage of 1264 kilometers. Here will be riding in the process of publishing the specific data to facilitate later in Taiwan.
Three of us, cars are also assembled the Giant, the purchase price in 1200 ~ 1500 per hour, a good car in the lowest entry-level considered. My car is assembled, lightning frame, against the big three stalls Small 8 stall speed mountain bike 24 speed, car has been riding for nearly 3,000 km, but the tires are looking from another both inside and outside before starting a new one. Tube is positive the new 26 * 1.5 tire, tire construction used large slick tires. Mano speed and braking are the Jubilee, the performance of good, that is, the assembly of Hangzhou, a good chef did not adjusted transmission, not 3 * 8 files do not increase, that is stuck atop a file. Then get Golmud, side car shop is not familiar with my master set of transmission is still not well cultivated. So, I almost always full with 2 stalls, 2 * 4-2 * 8 adjust riding between. Very happy that our trucks are very competitive and the entire process that have not had any problems in advance to bring a spare tire completely useless. Before departure is to learn what did not fill tires to display their opportunities, Hehe. Huazhong University of Science met in Lhasa, a group of kids, they bought cheap second-hand car, the way is very hard, every day spent in the tire repair, but also because the vehicle had to turn back ... ...
Our luggage weight of 3 is about 50 pounds, 25 pounds, 15 pounds. Sometimes heavier. Body weight were 140 pounds, 110 pounds, 95 pounds. The body are good, there is no history, no high blood pressure. Climbers have been to one of more than 5,000 meters record, the other two who have been on the tour along the Yulong Snow Mountain at an altitude less than 4,000 meters.
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Date: July 22 Venue: Xining Railway Station - the town of Tar Huangzhong Rouchard elevation: 2275 meters Xining mileage: 40 km Fact: Xining City route is as follows: Station - walk south Jianguo Road -- Bayi Road to go east, East Main Street - West Street - Kunlun Road, to the Kunlun Mountains on the road there is a fork in the road are road south turn, on the yet to be completed, but small vehicles can already access the West Tower high-speed, and then follow the signs to go Tar can be reached.
Accommodation: Tar Ideal Hotel 30 yuan / person Standard Room 160 / room
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Date: July 24 Location: Tar Monastery - Qinghai Lake daotanghe elevation: Tar daotanghe about 2400 meters up to 3,200 meters, crossing the 3468 meters Riyue distance: 101 kilometers average speed: 13.9 kilometers / h Maximum speed: 53.5 km / h Minimum speed: the Riyue pm 7 km / h Fact: Tar to huangyuan the first dirt road after 50 km asphalt road, at the monument in 1983 kilometers on the 109 national highway. 109 is a two-lane national highway road conditions better than the average. There is a meter-wide gravel shoulder as a small bicycle and sidewalks, bicycle riding can be accounted for driveways, but there are big trucks out of date must be clued up to the shoulder, or dangerous. After Lhasa, along the way until almost all of these roads, only a very small number of damaged sections of a pit or a road. After a period of walking on State Road West down Highway, quasi-expressway, two-way four-lane, in the middle there is isolation belt, very comfortable and safe, there are signposts along the road.
Accommodation: Sun and Moon Township daotanghe hotels, Pu between 30 yuan / rooms, toilets were dirty mess
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Date: July 25 Location: daotanghe - heimahe elevation: 3200 meters distance: 113 km Maximum speed: 40.5 km / h Minimum speed: Braving a strong westerly wind retrograde, slow to 10 km / hour, concluded , the mountain can also be hard to turn, the real big but can not stand the wind.
Traffic: the day along the Qinghai Lake, north of rolling mountains, south of the blue Qinghai Lake, the middle is the vast expanses stretching dozens of kilometers of flowering rape, cauliflower open is brilliant. A straight road leading to the horizon like a remote control.
Accommodation: heimahe Haisheng Hotel, 10 yuan / person, it is strongly recommend it home, clean, and the corridor filled with potted flowers, a dark horse into the river left side of the road, but remember the name of a little bit inaccurate
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Date: July 26 Location: heimahe - Caka Salt Lake elevation: up to 3200 meters heimahe tea cards 3300 meters, 3817 meters climb rubber Yamaguchi mileage: 82 km cycling time: 5 hours, does not contain a break to eat and so on the road all other times, simply the time average Qizhe Che: 15.9 kilometers of the high speed: 63 km! This is the entire record I set in the next rubber mountain time, but unfortunately it did days have been completely black, can not be completely put gates, otherwise, to achieve higher speed can also be the minimum speed: rubber Mountain is the most terrible kind of zigzag winding around a mountain Road, the first of 2 * 4 files, 7 km an hour ride by 6 kilometers, days heat exposure ah, I think of someone else's discipline, said organic on the road is too steep when the cart than riding trucks so as to avoid too much damage, so push down 2 km, Tuozhao 10 kg of luggage, speed can only reach 4,5 km. Later, most regret, and this is my only cart full of two kilometers, after which all of the mountain, even if it is difficult to climb the most famous online Fenghuoshan, Don Regula, I were riding to their work.
Fact: After the car left the Qinghai Lake is very scarce, and good road conditions.
Accommodation: Tea Green Card salt hotel in town, 80 RMB / standard room, the entire floor of the white-wall screens I liked it, open the windows you can see blue sky and the distant green Hai Lanlan of Salt Lake. Salt Lake is said to be the best hotel in town, but the road to the salt leaving 109 to go inside.
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Date: July 27 Venue: Tea Cards - Ulan Fact: riding tea card only from the town to the Salt Lake 11 km round-trip distance at noon from the tea, take the train to Ulaan card, 70 kilometers car opened 2 hours 40 minutes, are being rebuilt, very worn out, and I sat in the car inside a gray lens sunglasses have become, but fortunately there is no cycling.
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Date: July 28 Location: Ulan - Golmud elevation: 2807 meters Golmud Mileage: according to plan in order to save time, a direct train from Ulan to Golmud. 8759 plays late to arrive in Ulaan 22:20 station, on the 28th morning 8:06 arrival punctuality Golmud.
Accommodation: The complex way trade Kunlun Hotel (city hostel 3 minutes walk to the shopping center direction), 68 RMB / standard room, very spacious and clean. Municipal Guest House Standard Room 100-120 yuan, because it is peak tourist season, do not discount a penny to play. Golmud, the second time only to find is the city center, very convenient way to have better 81 hotels, prices are cheap, such as fly hotels, among 40 S & P, S between the 60 or so, there is steam sauna free of charge, but that time is In late August, maybe it is discounted.
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Date: July 30 Location: Golmud (109 State Road Monument at 2744 kilometers) - Namibia Red Taiwan (Lu Tablet 2828)
Elevation: Golmud 2800 increased to approximately 3573 meters Nachitai mileage: 93 km, riding mileage and National Road to the discrepancy between the figures, because the road would be returned to the side road or riding on a play camera time: 6 hours 48 minutes on average Speed: 13.7 km / h maximum speed: 46.5 km / h Minimum speed: 8 km / h Fact: there are 30 kilometers out of Golmud China Railway Bureau four great a work area, Golmud River meandering along the national highway 109 away, the same as the color of jade , 47 kilometers is a small gangou, 59 km to Dagangou, these two points, there are many gas stations you can drink plenty of water breaks in the hippocampus and Sanxin the two largest supermarkets, gas stations also sell things, the price better than Golmud expensive, but otherwise this area almost the size of gangou uprooted grass is not long. Very very very dry air, call into the nostrils burning, my water was poured over the wet scarf tied to his face, but doing 5 minutes of a hard-Qiao Qiao.
Accommodation: The first live depot, depot Nachitai 100 yuan 3. Along the way stayed in the depot price from 25-50 yuan has, in general talk about the good things to talk about the price of 25 yuan to win, but the horse racing festival during the festival such as the depot price adjustment is very powerful, not to live in less than 50 yuan. Military depot rooms are 4 people or 8 human (high and low bed), there is hot water wash laundry room can be. Drinking water has been more intense. Girls are often not convenient to the toilet, dignitaries waited at the outside (many of which were only men, no specific female toilets).
Author: miniluo
