Back from China

rossage

rossage

iMTB Hooligan
I'm back! 5 weeks in China was not enough to kill me this time. But man, the lack of riding was rough.
My Merida, had been stolen and was in the hands of the thieves for 10 months! When finally retrieved, it had been thoroughly Chinesed-which I will document later. Took me a week to source parts and get it going again. Good to say the perps were arrested and spent time in jail.
Pics and more stories later. My pillow has a date with some jet-lag drool. :shock:
 
Welcome back. You probably should've popped a 5-hr energy and stayed up until 10 to try and fix the jet lag. Else just keep snoozing until you hit the time you want to wake up normally. :D

Surprised such justice was served for your bike. Bike thieves over there aren't out there to try and make a living stealing bikes, I guess. Over here, they'd have your bike(s), and others they snatched, smuggled out of country to be sold in Columbia, Chile, or whatever, and the police report you create would just be added to their police's collection, maybe in case they happen to run into den full of bikes that seem stolen, which they got a warrant to inspect based on something else.
 
Yeah. Since this was at least my 10th time over there, I am well versed in jet-lag recovery techniques. The normal way we recover is like you said, caffeine and return to a regular schedule as soon as possible. The absolute best way I've found is to go camping as soon as I return. Something about returning to the natural rhythm of the sunrise and sunset really gets you back on track.
The bike thieves I have encountered in China tend to be working in extortion gangs. They steal bikes and then sell them to unscrupulous 2nd hand bike shops (working with the thieves). The owner then needs to pay a fee to retrieve their bike, if they take the time to look around and find it. My bike was somewhat unique in that it was a higher-end Al framed, Merida Matts TFS hardtail. With a Fox Vanilla fork, SRAM X-9 components, Mavis wheels and Schwalbe Nobby Nics. Not your typical Gansu bicycle. Full story to come.....
 
I'm glad you got your bike back! You should have stripped some ligaments and tendons from those bastards to sell on the American medical market.
 
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