My Ride

My 2nd ride to Indochina country in 2012. 28^th April – 11^th May 2012.

It has been sometime I’m not updating this blog. Here is my 2^nd ride in Indochina country in 2012. I’ll update the 1^st ride later on. J

Distance - almost 6500km

Day 1 – Home – R&R Sg Buloh – Cha Am

Leaving home around 10pm 27^th April 2012, meet with 2 other riders at RV point.

After a short briefing and as agreed with other, we start the long way up to Cha Am, Thailand at 1:30am 28^th April 2012. The distances of riding were about 1,453km. For me, it’s normal to ride this far, but for the other riders this is new to them and it going to be a challenge to them.  Today it will be an iron butt ride.

We reach the border around 7am after sorting out our documentation and changing the currency. After the border, we have our breakfast and did rest for about 2 hour before we continue the ride at 9am.

Well, this route as usual, straight and some part of the road are bumpy and pot hole. It’s bored!!! Stop for lunch at Nakhon Sitamarat. This is my favourite pit stop for lunch. The stall is bit hide out from the main road view. The dishes are delicious & hot too but I like it….

Just after lunch, we have another stop for 1^st refuelling in Thailand. Here we bump up with a rider from Malaysia who is on the way to Cambodia. Sorry no pic, hehe..

Well. We have past Hat Yai, Pathalung, Nakhon Sitammarat, Surat Thani before have another stop for 2^nd refuelling at north of Surat Thani province. It’s very clear that the VERSYS are fuel economic for long range ride with the capacity of it tank for 19 litre. Since today are the longest distance, we need to stop around every 250km or about 2 hours of ride. This will prevent the rider from losing their focus and our body can have enough rest for the ride.

In Chumpon, we have our tea break at one rest area. It’s a big rest area where food stall are well organize and it has a special area for Muslim food. Here, we have a beef soup and ice tea just to fill our stomach before continues the journey. We have our 3^rd refuelling along the highway 41 in Prachuap Khir Khan.

It’s Saturday and the traffic are not that heavy, however we ride in a very caution way since we already on the bike for almost 18 hours. It’s getting dark once we leave Chumpon rest area. We reach Hua Hin district around 11pm, before we have our late dinner or consider dinner plus supper already just about 60km to Cha Am beach. After dinner we ride thru Hua Hin town toward Cha Am beach just around midnight. Arrgghhh….. all hotel, motel &  guest house are full tonight. But we are lucky, with help from the local people, we manage to fine a room which it was big enough for 3 of us.  No need to argue or what…. Most importance is to have a good rest/sleep after a very long ride. Conclusion for today, we have ride about 1,453km and it took us about 23 hours on the bike.