Bikedan in Asia

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Qinghai Lake Tour arrived in Qilian – dubbed as East Switzerland by the Chinese and it was easy to see why. It was a stunning contrast to the wide open  green grasslands, endless rolling hills devoid of trees. Now [...]

Stage Seven of the Qinghai Lake Tour was supposed to be a decisive stage and the winner of the overall to emerge. But since the Iranians took Yellow already and they had no more reason to go out on the attack, they just paid the Amore & Vita CONAD team to ride on the front [...]

Stage Six was unbelievable! Three riders ride away from the peloton over a flattish stage and average 49km/h for over 150kms! Two Iranians from the Tabriz-Petrochemical Team were doing all the work and hauling their 54-11s all day long, even going 57km/h at one stage up a hill. Behind them was a full-on chase with [...]

Today’s stage was raced in dismal weather conditions. Riders were freezing cold in the rain, sudden drop in temperatures and cross-winds. It was almost like some of the weather we get in New Zealand and today was a much better day for the Subway-Avanti NZL team as they all finished reasonably well. Later on in [...]

I am continuing to cover this mega-event here in remote Qinghai – but internet has been limited and when I have been on the internet, it has been to up-load photos and reports for www.cyclingnewsasia.com  – you can visit for complete reports and more photos. We are now on Qinghai Lake and tomorrow is a [...]

Croation National Champion, Radoslav Rogina takes impressive solo win over stacked field This is the second day at the Tour Qinghai Lake – and today was a complete change from yesterday. We had brilliant sun-shine and amazing scenery from Xining to Tongren. I managed to get sun-burned too! Enjoy the photos and if you want [...]