And doesn't this make you really stop and think about this site? The best thing to do in the ancient capital city of China is to get into a Chinese copy of a Russian copy of an ancient German BMW design bike and go for a ride to the Great Wall. Really?

Going to the Great Wall might well arguably be the best thing to do in Beijing, and if read carefully it's precisely that that is being enthused about in some postings, not specifically the bike, and obviously in many cases by people who have tried no other options.

Like much else on Trip Advisor, which is about as useful as looking at chicken entrails when it comes to reliable advice on China, there appears to be manipulation in the responses.

Does he realise that for the same price that is being asked per person here, the entire family could go to the same destination in a hotel limousine? Or that three different Great Wall (tomb, temple) destinations could be visited on three separate days by the whole family in taxis?

It's not encouraging that the company can't even spell its destinations correctly, and that at least one of them, Huang Hua Cheng presumably, it is not legal to climb (as big signs there make clear, although these are widely ignored). It is possible, but unlikely (they certainly make no claims), that the company has the local licences it needs to run these tours or to use the bikes as private hire vehicles.

Peter N-H