At the bottom of the “how to get a Chinese visa” page, it says, “Tourists are
not supposed to bring their own bicycles and vehicles into China without
permission.” When I rang the embassy to clarify, I was told that this includes
unicycles, and that I’d have to apply to the Chinese International Travel
Service in Beijing.
Is there some loophole which allows unicycles through (which will acually work
at customs) or is there some UNICON-related document I can get hold of, or do I
actually have to contact the Travel Service? This is the kind of thing it would
be nice to see on the website.
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Peter Haworth pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com “Would it not be more
meaningful to compare … the weight of my cat with the weather in
Heverlee?” – Chris Gray <grayc@se.bel.alcatel.be
> At the bottom of the “how to get a Chinese visa” page, it says, "Tourists are > not supposed to bring their own bicycles and vehicles into China without > permission."
. When I rang the embassy to clarify, I was told > that this includes unicycles, and that I’d have to apply to the Chinese > International Travel Service in Beijing.
This is the first I’ve heard of this. It did not come up when we went to China
for the Great Wall Marathon in 1993 (about 70 foreigners), and I don’t expect it
will be a problem this time, or our hosts should have mentioned something.
I imagine that rule is to promote people to buy their transportation in China
and not bring it in. Florida has something similar with cars, where you’re
charged a big sum if you bring a car when you move to the state. I don’t think
it applies to us for something like a competition though. We are not bringing
unicycles for transportation, they are our “personal sports equipment”.
However it does raise the issue of what if this does happen to somebody at
customs? This should be asked to our CUA contact to see what they suggest.
> At the bottom of the “how to get a Chinese visa” page, it says, "Tourists
are > not supposed to bring their own bicycles and vehicles into China without > permission." When I rang the embassy to clarify, I was told that this
includes > unicycles, and that I’d have to apply to the Chinese International Travel > Service in Beijing. > > Is there some loophole which allows unicycles through (which will acually
work > at customs) or is there some UNICON-related document I can get hold of, or
do I > actually have to contact the Travel Service? This is the kind of thing it
would > be nice to see on the website. >
We will have to ask our Chinese host to take care of that. I don’t think that
they are concerned about the used unis that we will use. They are concerned
about ew ones for sale on China. Andy Cotter, Jack Halpern, and myself went to
Beijing in January and took our unis without permission. Did not have any
problem. A few years ago, there was a uni event at the Great Wall and I don’t
think that there was any problem.
Alberto Ruiz IUF President
> > – > Peter Haworth pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com "Would it not be more meaningful to > compare … the weight of my cat with the weather in Heverlee?" – Chris Gray > <grayc@se.bel.alcatel.be> >
> At the bottom of the “how to get a Chinese visa” page, it says, "Tourists are > not supposed to bring their own bicycles and vehicles into China without > permission." When I rang the embassy to clarify, I was told that this includes > unicycles, and that I’d have to apply to the Chinese International Travel > Service in Beijing. > > Is there some loophole which allows unicycles through (which will acually work > at customs) or is there some UNICON-related document I can get hold of, or do > I actually have to contact the Travel Service? This is the kind of thing it > would be nice to see on the website.
I would not be too concerned about brining unicycles into China. We
brought unicycles in with us when we were there in January with no
problem. The government is sponsoring the event so I wouldn’t think there
would be much trouble.
I’ll talk to my contact in China and make sure he is aware of this
possible problem.
In message “Re: Getting unicycles into China”, Alberto Ruiz wrote… > >----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Haworth ><pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com> To: <unicycling@winternet.com> Sent: Thursday, >June 15, 2000 3:39 PM Subject: Getting unicycles into China
I(ve been to China several times and never had any trouble with bringing
unicycles in. Several dozen non-Chinese participants attended the Great Wall
Marathon in 1993, and I never heard of any trouble. I think we don’t need to
worry. And if there is trouble, the Chinese gpvernment cam bail us out… they
are, after all, running the show.
>> At the bottom of the “how to get a Chinese visa” page, it says, "Tourists >are >> not supposed to bring their own bicycles and vehicles into China without >> permission." When I rang the embassy to clarify, I was told that this >includes >> unicycles, and that I’d have to apply to the Chinese International Travel >> Service in Beijing. >> >> Is there some loophole which allows unicycles through (which will acually >work >> at customs) or is there some UNICON-related document I can get hold of, or >do I >> actually have to contact the Travel Service? This is the kind of thing it >would >> be nice to see on the website. >> >We will have to ask our Chinese host to take care of that. I don’t think that >they are concerned about the used unis that we will use. They are concerned >about ew ones for sale on China. Andy Cotter, Jack Halpern, and myself went to >Beijing in January and took our unis without permission. Did not have any >problem. A few years ago, there was a uni event at the Great Wall and I don’t >think that there was any problem. > >Alberto Ruiz IUF President > >> >> – >> Peter Haworth pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com "Would it not be more meaningful >> to compare … the weight of my cat with the weather in Heverlee?" – Chris >> Gray <grayc@se.bel.alcatel.be> >> >> > > > >