England to China by bicycle - and back again

0 km etc. In 14 hours time they will let me over the border, inshallah. Yesterday I haggled with the borderfolk for a long time. It really w...

Start: Hillside above Sailimu Hu, Xinjiang, China End: Khorgos (Huoerguosi), Xinjiang, China Distance: 90 km Time: 3'50" Avg: 23.7 ...

Sorry, all very quiet here on 2wheels recently, I know. I have been pedalling furiously in a vaguely westerly direction. I am now sitting in...

Start: Sailimu Lake (east end), Xinjiang, China End: Sailimu Lake (west end), Xinjiang, China Distance: 25 km Time: 1'28" Avg: 17.1...

Start: Sand dune, 20 km beyond Jing He, Xinjiang, China End: Sailimu Lake, Xinjiang, China Distance: 116 km Time: 8'27" Avg: 13.7 k...

Start: Somewhere outside, Xinjiang, China End: Sand-dune, beyond Jing He , Xinjiang, China Distance: 125 km Time: 8'27" Avg: 19.9 k...

Start: Before Kuitun, Xinjiang, China End: Somewhere after Kuitun, Xinjiang, China Distance: 120 km Time: 6'37" Avg: 18.1 k/h Max: ...

Start: Near Wutaigong, Xinjiang, China End: Near Kuitun, Xinjiang, China Distance: 122 km Time: 5'28" Avg: 22.4 k/h Max: 36.5 k/h T...

Start: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China End: Wutaigong, Xinjiang, China Distance: 98 km Time: 5'01" Avg: 19.6 k/h Max: 34.5 k/h Total: 12,58...

0 km etc. Went to find a visa at the Kazakh consulate, except that it isn't the Kazakh Consulate, it is the Passport-Visa service of Kaz...

OK Houston, Abergavenny, Bury-St-Edmunds, etc., we have a problem.   I can't access my blogging software from this part of China.   ...

Start: Dabancheng, Xinjiang, China End: Urumqi (Wulumuqi), Xinjiang, China Distance: 81 km Time: 4'36" Avg: 17.7 k/h Max: 38.5 k/h ...

Start: Culvert under G312 beyond Turpan, Xinjiang, China End: Truckstop beyond Dabancheng, Xinjiang, China Distance: 64 km Time: 8'38...

Start: Turpan, Xinjiang, China End: Culvert under the G312, west of Turpan, Xinjiang, China Distance: 47 km Time: 6'20" Avg: 7....

Start: Turpan turn-off, Xinjiang, China End: Turpan (Tulufan), Xinjiang, China Distance: 6 km Time: 0'30" Avg: 12.8 k/h Max: 23.4 k...

Start: Qiketai, Xinjiang, China End: Petrol station strip, Turpan turnoff, Xinjiang, China Distance: 141 km Time: 8'03" Avg: 17.5 k...

Start: Sandaoling, Xinjiang, China End: Qiketai, China Distance: 202 km Time: 10'52" Avg: 18.6 k/h Max: 39 k/h Total: 12,245 km Tot...

Start: Hami, Xinjiang, China End: Sandaoling, Xinjiang, China Distance: 86 km Time: 5'10" Avg: 16.6 k/h Max: 25.9 k/h Total: 12,043...

The ever-alert CW has spotted another pika: I thought my bike was feeling a little heavy the other day... and my biscuit stocks seemed inexp...

A.R. writes to say:   I cannot resist asking this question:  I recall reading somewhere that a nineteenth century explorer - possibly Si...