How to go to Tibet by bike?

Before all the equipment is ready, the first thing to do is exercise. Riding to Tibet is most afraid of altitude sickness, so everyone will exercise before going. Altitude sickness is not necessarily related to physical strength, but to the adaptability and adjustment ability of the body. It is best to start aerobic exercise one month in advance. Personally, I suggest running for an hour every day, which is the best way to improve endurance and physical fitness. But one week before departure, reduce exercise time, maintain a good mental state and have a good rest.

The equipment for riding Tibet is as follows:

1. Bicycle (second-hand Merida Warrior 550 that doesn't look rusty around 900 yuan, or second-hand Duke Merida 300 around 1200). If you don't have enough money, you can buy second-hand Merida Warrior 550 around 600 yuan. It really doesn't matter on the road. My bike is 900 yuan's second-hand Warrior 550. No problem on the road, but it's easy to ride. I still feel like I lost. I should buy a cheaper bike, which is between the problem and the problem. Riding a bicycle that will almost go wrong in Lhasa is the best choice. But such a bicycle doesn't exist, because as long as it doesn't rust, you can ride it anyway. If you can't even afford a second-hand bicycle, go to Merida bicycle store and discuss with the owner whether you can sponsor cycling in Tibet, so that you can advertise with Merida and send all the photos you took on the road to the store.

2. The stopwatch (19 yuan) is still very useful. How many kilometers have you ridden today, how many kilometers are left to reach your accommodation, how many kilometers of bad roads you will encounter, how many kilometers of uphill and downhill you will start, how many kilometers you will get off, or how far you are from your teammates, all of which are reflected in the stopwatch. If you ride blindly and don't know what is ahead, how far ahead, how far there is a canteen selling water and how far there is a village, you will lose your goal and motivation. )

3. Car front bag (26 yuan, Bohr's car front bag and waist bag are combined into one, which can be used as car front bag and waist bag, and many things can be loaded. The front bag of the car is generally loaded with cameras, mobile phones, loose change and other items that are taken out at will)

4. Rear seat frame (50 yuan, generally buy steel, don't buy aluminum alloy, buy a solid one, otherwise it will be easy to bump on the road).

5. Tie the rope (2 pieces, 1 ***6 yuan, don't buy too much, it's not easy to put too much, putting it in the bag will increase the weight. You really only need two pieces.

6. A pair of frog lights (10 yuan), one on the riding cap and the other on the tail of the bicycle, flashes at night to prevent other teammates or cars behind from hitting you. In fact, this frog lamp, in the process of riding, I found that the function is not very great, but it must be equipped)

7. Bicycle password lock (20 yuan, it is best to use a password lock, because if you use a key lock, you have to stay on the road every day and be busy every morning. It is most likely to leave things in the dormitory, and it is easy to lose your keys during riding, which will be very troublesome. Other bicycle locks are also optional equipment. Generally, we usually go to the dormitory with our bicycles on our backs, or push them to the special bicycle place in the dormitory on the way. )

8. Inner tube (two 28 yuan, 30% of people on the road will not have a flat tire, 60% will have a flat tire, and only 10% will have a flat tire more than once).

9. Brake pads (if you buy an old bicycle, buy two pairs of brake pads; if you buy a new bicycle, buy a pair of brake pads. 10 yuan/pair. ) The road is so exciting. There is a 90-kilometer downhill road. I don't have to step on the car all the way. After four hours of walking, I almost fell asleep on my bike. I am so sleepy that I want to sleep. Push the brakes to the bottom. In fact, there are many downhill slopes of 60 km, 40-50 km and 30-40 km. Turn 72 is 45 kilometers downhill, which is very steep. Its slope is divided into two layers, one is that its slope is steep, and the other is that its highway is also very oblique.

10. Chain oil (6 yuan a bottle, a little chain oil every day, and the position of the brakes and gearbox, one bottle is enough).

1 1. One set of tire repair tools (1 1 set, with inner tube skin 1 1 piece, one bottle of inner tube glue, and three tools for tire removal).

12. A set of repair tools (15 yuan, that is, some hexagonal sockets are integrated together and specially used for disassembling and decorating bicycles).

13. Flashlight (10 yuan, a small rechargeable flashlight. Of course, those rich people buy a special riding flashlight of more than 90 yuan, which can also be installed in front of bicycles, but such a flashlight is easy to be stolen).

14. Portable high-pressure pump (25 yuan, if you want to buy a pump that can be mounted on a bicycle, you need 60 yuan. I bought it in 25 yuan and put it directly in my backpack).

15. Kettle rack (2, 10 yuan/piece, generally water consumption on the road is large, so it is better to buy two).

16. raincoat and rain pants (60 yuan, very useful, can be used as an ordinary suit to change clothes, shelter from the wind and rain, and can be used as a coat).

17. camera, mobile phone, card reader (needless to say, it is really useless to buy two pairs of camera batteries and mobile phone batteries, and there is no need to buy plugs, which is bulky, takes up space and wastes. There are queues everywhere for accommodation on the road. And many teammates also have rows)

18. Cold medicine, antipyretic, Radix Isatidis granules, glucose powder, body temperature agent (no need to buy laxatives, the effect is not good, buy some Radix Isatidis, it is easy to have diarrhea on the road, and it is wet all the way, which is not acclimatized. Just drink some Radix Isatidis. There is no need to buy "Rhodiola", it is a medicine. Basically, all people who ride all the way to Tibet have no altitude sickness. Altitude sickness is just a cover used by others to promote rhodiola. Rhodiola is too expensive, tens of hundreds of yuan a box. Why don't you buy a bag of 12 yuan glucose powder, which is practical, quenches thirst and replenishes energy, and can be drunk for a long time. Some young people on the road even buy oxygen, which really makes people feel cute, but it is also a scenery that can be photographed. While riding, they put oxygen tubes in their noses. )

19. Clothes (2 sets of underwear)

There are two pairs of thin outer pants. When it's cold, two pairs are folded in half. If it's not good, fold your underwear and rain pants and wear them.

2 pairs of thin underwear, 1 thin coat, all folded in cold weather.

Don't buy cycling gloves for a pair of gloves. Cycling gloves are all more than 100 yuan. Just buy a pair of gloves with 1 yuan used in the construction site. If you can't bear to spend this 1 yuan, take a pair of gloves from home for the winter. The function of gloves is mainly to prevent moisture. The humidity in the mountains is heavy, and the hands are cold when the wind blows down the mountain. When encountering particularly strong ultraviolet rays, it can also prevent hands from getting too tanned.

A pair of wristbands are also used to prevent wet steam, downhill colds and sun protection. Use a pair of smelly socks that have not been worn, drill a hole in the front, and then put a condom in, and you can make a wristband.

A pair of knee pads, 6 yuan/Deputy, rode for a long time, and all the meridians of the knee were opened, and wet steam easily entered, forming rheumatism. And wearing knee pads, just like playing wrist pads, is easier to exert strength.

A pair of leggings, 3 yuan/pair. It doesn't matter whether you want this one or not, but it's not tied to your feet. Sometimes it is easy to screw the trouser leg into the chain, but this kind of thing is extremely unlikely. It's very hot in tights.

Two pairs of socks, one more pair is wasted. ? Two pairs of pads, one more pair wastes and takes up space.

A pair of shoes, these shoes should be able to prevent a little mud and rain. No need to be cold? , drag? Waste, things that take up space, and places to stay on the road are dragged? .

20. Helmet (1 10 yuan, special riding helmet makes people look more handsome. Riding helmets are used to prevent landslides and stones from falling when riding mountain roads. However, there were many landslides along the way, and no falling rocks were encountered at one time. If you can't afford a helmet, you can give it to workers on the ground, but it seems a little big and inconvenient to carry. It seems that many places in Chengdu sell 30-40 yuan helmets, but I'm not so lucky. I always wanted to buy a cheaper helmet, but I never met it. Helmets can be bought online, which is cheaper. )

2 1. Magic headscarf (1, 6 yuan/piece, Polk said that I usually buy 2-3 pieces, and my other magic headscarf has never been used once on the road, and I always use a headscarf. Buying too much takes up space. There are four bad days on the road, and there is a lot of ash on the road every day. A headscarf is used to cover your nose. There are many downhill slopes and a lot of cold air. Inhaling cold air is easy to hurt the stomach, and you will feel diarrhea immediately. If you have a magic headscarf, you don't need to suck air conditioning. Another function of the magic headscarf is to cover the face and prevent the strong ultraviolet rays on the plateau from drying themselves into Tibetans. )

22. Three-layer backpack+matching bag+rain cover (a *** 193 yuan. Many people use 75 yuan's three-layer backpack on the road. Bohr suggested that I buy 193 yuan's, saying that 75 yuan's backpack is easy to break down, but I have seen that most people who use this bag use it well on the road. )

23. A copy of the Raiders (find it online or find a teammate, print it out, what is a Raiders? The strategy of riding Tibet is to ride from where to where and stay every day. It will give you two or three cheapest hotels to choose from. The telephone number, hotel treatment and conditions, access to the Internet, taking a shower and washing the car are all clearly written. The tour guide said that we should pay more attention to where there are many kilometers of rotten roads, many kilometers of downhill roads and many kilometers of uphill roads, where there are villages, where there are canteens and where there are fierce dogs. There are some scenery there. Where Tibetan children rob things, these trips with stopwatches will make it clear what they will pass and encounter. )

24. Kettle (1, 1, 26 yuan, aluminum alloy kettle. Some people on the road just used two drink bottles instead, because we all put boiling water in them when we left the hotel in the morning. Boiling water can easily burn plastic substances in beverage bottles into water, and high plasticizer particles may be harmful to our health. )

24. ID card, postal bank card, two small plastic bags, and bank account number for online booking (tickets for Lhasa are difficult to buy, so you have to buy tickets in advance 10 yuan, or you have to stay in Lhasa for three more days like me, and the connecting ticket will take 10 hours. )

25. Hair dryer (Bohr price 26 yuan, in fact, this is a necessary equipment, because experiments have proved that hair dryers can only dry socks, underwear and the like, and shoes can also be barely dried. Clothes that thick can't dry pants at all. Moreover, on the road, we usually tie the washed clothes and pants directly to the back of the frame to dry while riding, or if the ultraviolet rays are particularly strong, we can tie them to the back of the car to dry at once. Some people are even more interesting. They tied a wooden root behind the car and put underwear on it as a red flag.

Do you want it? In fact, if you don't want to spend more money and bring so many things, you really don't need it. It's just that many people itch in their hearts and don't buy unpleasant equipment:

1. Give a hand and take a rest (a pair of 20 yuan, maybe pretend to look more handsome, and the camera truck looks handsome, too. )

2. Sun hat (I was basically useless all the way, just tied in front to keep out the rain and the rain in front of the car. The front of the helmet has the function of shielding the sun)

3. Sunglasses (I'm useless, I have a riding hat to block the sun, and I can't see the road clearly with glasses)

4. Outer tires (basically all cyclists don't have them)

5. Cushion (20 yuan each, I didn't bring it)

6. Tents and sleeping bags (people who ride in Tibet don't need it, people who walk need it, and people who ride in other places that are farther away and more sheltered need tents. )

7. Mudguard (No, all people riding in Tibet don't have mudguards. )

8. Handkerchiefs, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, washing powder (I threw away my handkerchief on the way, only took a bath with my hands and cut off two thirds of the soap. Then I threw away the soap and washing powder. The accommodation on the way was full of these things, and two-thirds of the toothpaste was squeezed out. Later, I simply threw away my toothpaste and toothbrush and didn't even wash my mouth, which was troublesome. )

All expenses should be controlled within 4000 yuan. After all, riding to Tibet is an experience and a plan for yourself. A successful plan may have an important impact on your life.

The other is to have more courage on the road, to deal with some local people, to understand the local customs and meet unexpected people and things, which is also the significance of travel. You never know where the next warmth will appear.

This is a short talk by Bian Xiao. I hope to help all the friends who want to ride in Tibet but have never had the courage. If you find it useful, remember to share it with more people.