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	<title>Silkriders Diary</title>
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	<description>Retracing Marco Polo's steps</description>
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		<title>A Big Thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In order for it to happen an expedition like this gets assistance from a lot of people along the way. We have been very fortunate in getting our party through on time and without any significant mishaps to people or machines. For us that provides a tremendous sense of satisfaction and confidence to proceed with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=101</link>
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		<title>Finally to Beijing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Beijing, or as Kublai Khan named it, Cambaluc, is our final destination and there are a few significant sites for us to cover off before packing and shipping the bikes and winging our way home.
Firstly there is of course the &#8216;great&#8217; part of the Great Wall &#8211; that part which has been fully restored, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Rebecca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of our arrival in Beijing on Friday 8th July the New Zealand Ambassador to China, Tony Browne hosted a reception  for us at the NZ Embassy in Beijing. Present were members of the local BMW owners club, together with other invited guests from the local and expatriate community. There was also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=99</link>
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		<title>A Mongolian Motorway to Nowhere</title>
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On this trip we have experienced a wide variety of riding surfaces .Everything from sandy tracks,  gravel tracks  , gravel roads , &#8220;sealed roads&#8221; where the pot holes took more of the road than the seal , roads under repair and nice new sealed roads . The longest stretch of road under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=97</link>
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		<title>Show stopper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we moved into the Mongolian  area. Great  open spaces and a far more traditional feel with people walking their cows and sheep for grazing alongside the road.
We passed through a little town with a market day on in the main through road, driving between the stalls and causing chaos. We stopped at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those Magnificient Men and Their Three Wheeled Machines</title>
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By far the most common  configuration for commercial vehicles in China is three wheels, one steering wheel at the front and two driving wheels at the rear. 
 It would be fair to say that most Kiwis would not have seen a three wheeled vehicle unless of course they were fans of Rowan Atkinson&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=95</link>
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		<title>The Weakest Link</title>
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Expedition motorcycling is different to any other form &#8211; whether it be cappuchino canters on the road, adventure rides, trail riding  or touring. The requisite motorcycling skill is necessary of course but beyond a certain competency that factor becomes irrelevant. In self-organised expeditions like the one we&#8217;ve nearly completed everybody has to bring something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Out of Xian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we again experienced the inflexibility of the Chinese toll-gate manager. We are farm machinery and as such can&#8217;t use the motorway. We were therfore relegated to the lanes and muddy tracks that wind under this wonderful construction and travelled 25 km in two hours. we wouldn&#8217;t have had a show of getting out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=93</link>
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		<title>I put Salt on Mine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The food on our ride has been varied in quality and taste ,but there has been one vegetable that has been consistently outstanding and that has been the tomato .We have all agreed that the flavour  of  the tomato&#8217;s, particulary those we have sampled through Central Asia and China reminds us of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=92</link>
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		<title>A Lobby for the Bikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Luochuan after an easy but wet ride from Xian. Easy in the sense that it was only a little over 200ks  however there were still the challenges of avoiding trucks passing on blind corners ,cars cutting in when they find that there is oncoming traffic and the wonderful slow farming machinery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.worldbybike.com/silkroad/?p=91</link>
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