You cannot ride on ring roads or Changan Jie. Shanghai probably has some motorcycle rules, too.

Highways should be no problem as far as I know, but I'm basing that on an assumption rather than information. But I have read several blogs about people cruising around China on their motorcycles.

Lodgerly, you drive a moto? Does your boyfriend own a shiny red one?

If you have B plates or some fake plates (Hebei or Inner Mongolian or watever), you can ride outside the 4th ring. And you cannot ride on main ring roads, only on side road. But if you manage to get A plates (Chinese bikes below 250cc, Harley Davidson bought from the official store, BMW or Honda(also official), which cost alooooooooooooooooot)
With A plates u can ride anywhere.
With B plates - outside 4th ring.

Or u can just put a helmet on, put some Hebei plates and ride anywhere...police dont normally stop ppl on motorcycles. Oh and its better if u have license as well, so there will prolly be no problem.

Lodgerly, let's go ride motorbikes this weekend. Mine is one of those Vespa copies. It's very cool.

Yeah, the ideal mode is walking around and taking cabs. Get f***ed, posbj.

Ahem, since you challenging my linguistic ability:

1. Vocabulary is not eloquent. The manner in which someone speaks can be eloquent, but their vocabulary cannot. You can say my vocabulary is large, small, vast, limited, etc., but not "eloquent."

2. Generally, in English, the noun "sphincter" would require an article or posessive pronoun. i.e. "your sphincter," or "a sphincter."

3. Additionally, the first letter of your second sentence must be capitalized, as the first letter of all sentences in English must be capitalized.

Now, would you like another cyber-spanking, or will this be satisfactory for today?

By the way for the guy looking for a bike, just go to any licensed dealer of Honda, Suzuki, etc.

I bought a brand new Suzuki, and the thing has had no problems other than the occassional flat tire in almost 9,000 km on the road.

Very durable, I've even crashed it 3-4 times, nothing wrong but a bent foot peg.

Cost me 6,500 for the bike and another 1,000 for plates.

It's just a 125 but it can do just over 100 km on the highway.

What i meant was - with real plates you have to stick to speed restrictions - below 60km/h in the city. But c'mon, who rides a bike this slow?

To the guy lookin for bike - if you want official stuff - go to dealer...pricy but less risky.
If you want something bigger and/or cheaper(alot cheaper), go to Tianjin...that where all the bikes are...its 30 mins to get there on train and ticket abt 70kuai...fast train.
I was planning to go there soon, but dunno, depends on time....my work is killin me.
Oh...and you better get some basic knowledge about motorcycle parts here....cuz ppl cheat foreigners alot here (for example change some parts from motorcycle to cheap local parts and etc)