Don’t bonk like this! Who wants to feel like they’ve just hit this famous barrier?

The Bonk is something dreaded by cyclists. Also called “hitting the wall“, we try to avoid it by on-bike eating.

But how about bicycling along the Great Wall of China?  Or even a tour through the country? To tour the entirety of China by bicycle would take a long time; the country is 3.7 million square miles. That’s nearly as big as the USA!

The terrain is very diverse. Some areas are mountainous; others are flat. Not surprisingly for such a large nation, the climate, too, is quite diverse. So, if I were to take a bicycle tour of China, which part would I visit? There’s much more to China than the Great Wall!

I would have to be prepared for culture shock, I’m sure. The language barrier wouldn’t be one tenth of it! The only Chinese words I know are “ming“ ( bright) and “ma”; and “ma” can mean one of four things, depending on the inflection.

The food eaten day-to-day by the Chinese people, I hear, is quite different from what we in the USA know as Chinese food.  Of course there’s the matter of safety. And lodgings; visas; courtesies; you name it.

So I’d spring for a guided tour. If I tried to go solo, I’d run into numerous barriers as hard as the Great Wall! No, I don’t want to bonk like this.