It is now day 11 and after a very long day yesterday I have now got the energy to write about it. We started alone at dawn in Thailand’s largest Muslim town, Narathiwat. This was the first time we had ridden anywhere without someone accompanying us, but we had been told that there would be […]
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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 […]
Final Check of the Hase Pino Tour
Today was the final bicycle check with friend John Graham from Bicycle Thailand. We spent a few hours making some small adjustments and playing with the length of the boom for Natt as well as sorting out a GPS mounting location on the unusual handlebars. It was great working with John. He knows his stuff […]
Natt and Paul get their Tandem Bicycle!
Thanks to Corbett Rowell and his team at Velocity Racers in Hong Kong we managed to get ahold of this Hase Pino Tour. A semi-recumbent tandem where the captain is in a typical cycling position and the stoker enjoys the comfort of the recumbent position. We tried one of these in Canberra in early 2010 […]
