Surprisingly today was a good day. We cycled 60kms with 30 of them being uphill. Our broken chain from yesterday held up and we made it all the way to Pai. The problem was the rear gear kept slipping under load. Adding to this was the fear that the chain would break again at any […]
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Day 114 Mae Thaeng to Pae Pa both in Chiang Mai
Today was supposed to be hard cycling, but it wasn’t. It WAS hard for another reason. We only planned 34km today to make sure we could deal with the hills leading to Pai. The hills I believe would have been all rideable if it wasn’t for two problems. We’ve been having some gear (rear cassette) […]
Day 105 Somewhere in Phayao to Amphur Mueang
Cycling over the last 2 days has been hard, we’ve had plenty of hills and it’s only the start of the hilly region. We are not athletes, we are just two normal people, people that were never particularly good at sports. It’s more about will than strength. So far we’ve done nearly 7,000kms and it’s […]
Day 103 – Mueang Nan to Chiang Muan, Phayao
This was our hardest day ever, only 70kms but 1,620m of grade that was too steep for us to cycle up in parts. Plus we didn’t eat breakfast before we left the town. The total travel time was 8 hours. We usually cover 120km in this amount of time, but today was long hard work. […]
Day 90-91 – Mueang Phichit
Day 90 – To Mueang Phichit I have no idea what’s going on with me. Last night I visited the bathroom too many times with diarrhea, but didn’t feel that bad. So we slept in a little and headed out around 8am for an 80km or so ride. I was fine until just before the […]
Day 87-88 Petchabun and province #50
When we arrived, I wanted Pizza. Not many pizza restaurant choices out here so we rang Pizza Company, 1-1-1-2. They’ll even deliver to your hotel room. Natt spent 10 minutes talking to the Pizza Company girl on the other end of the phone because they were having trouble finding our location. The girl says “you […]
Day 85 – Had our Broken Pedal fixed at Two Wheel Shop in Korat
Today we rode 96kms and we found only 4 resorts. Two of the resorts, despite having a shit load of signs announcing their locations from the main road, were not yet finished with construction and therefore NOT OPEN. One other resort was fairly nice, but it overlooked a very loud trucking road and the cost […]
Day 56 – Mueang Surin to Mueang Si Sa Ket
Leaving Surin was hard, because I didn’t want to get out of bed. The freight train of on air conditioner rattled all night long and it didn’t help my sleeping… obviously the motion of the train is the most important part! We awoke, we rode… we visited a historical location about 35km outside of town […]
Day 42 – Chachoengsao to Chon Buri with Dog Bites
It started out as a lovely morning… we were riding quiet roads and the sun was shinning. At around 25kms a massive storm front came through and we waited at a Tesco Lotus Market for over an hour for the rain to settle down, the road was 3 inches think in water and so was […]
Day 37 – Suphan Buri to Nakhon Pathom and Stubbornness
It was a big 125km and 6 hours on the bicycle today. Subsequently, we ate 2 awesome hamburgers at the restaurant in the Rose Garden. Firstly, if you ever visit the Rose Garden please order a 220 Baht hamburger, it was amazing, with some real English style Chips (or French Fries to you Americans) plus […]
Day 31 – Repacking the Panniers and Leaving Hua Hin
After a couple of days break from our ride, to join a wedding in Surin, we arrived back in Hua Hin to repack our panniers. Today we will swap from the 4 large and 2 small panniers to 4 small and 2 large ones, something we most likely should have done from the start. Running […]
Day 5: Panniers with holes and Buffaloes that swim?
Last night we discovered that our two front panniers (Ortlieb roller classic rears) have both got a few small 20 cent piece sized holes in them. I thought they were pretty much indestructible, but I’ve been proven wrong. In the evening we removed all the heavy items like the tool bag and spare cables to […]
Day 4: Nakhon Si Thammarat to Phatthalung
Was our longest day today, 110kms… not the hardest out of our 4 days but it is getting easier, or at least easier after the day off. We left at 5:30am because we wanted to arrive to our destination before the really hot part of the day. Arriving just after 1pm we managed to avoid […]
Shipment arrives from German but needs…
The box arrived with not only replacement parts for the freewheel but with two whole new cranksets and other assorted parts to accomplish the upgrade. I was very happy with their service! I hope that nothing goes wrong in the future, but knowing that the company is responsive makes me feel good about the 5,500 […]
Hase Bikes (Germany) and their Customer Service
I would like to say something about the customer service we received from the Hase company when we experienced some problems with our bike on our maiden voyage. You need to remember that our Hase Pino Tour was purchased from the showroom floor of a Hong Kong bicycle shop by the name of Velocity Racers. […]
