I was searching the net for scooters and found an offer but the guys where saying something about inter provincial travel is forbidden for this 50cc scooters. Than he showed me this nice looking bike.
A '98 Yamaha TZM 150cc 2-Stroke motorcycle.
Nice, but even I got a motorcycle license back home in Germany I had never driven a bike after driving school. Just Scooter, Cars and a Camper. I start searching the net for all info on driving in China. Not too many info that gives you hope. I checked with the guy and he showed me the doc's that would come with the bike. A small blue registration book and the original invoice. Since I don’t speak any Chinese and didn’t want to get cheated I wrote the license plate number down and went to a police station to check if its stolen, but all was fine. They said I could buy it. I would just need to renew the license until the end of the year.
Month later I figured out that it was a duplicated license. They make 5 bikes with the same frame and engine number but register only one. Than claim they lost the doc's and apply for new ones until they have enough for all the bikes. I learned it the bad way when my bike got confiscated in October 2007 in Shanghai. Only because I had the real invoice and the invoice I did with the seller I got my bike back after paying a heavy fine and was forbidden to drive it. But sure I didn’t stopped driving.
After making a contract on the back of a KFC tablet paper and handing over 7000RMB (about 700euro) it was mine and I drove off into the chaos of China.
This baby would carry my ass around all China
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