Motorcyclin'
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Just finished a trip in Vietnam/Laos - riding parts of the Ho-Chi-Minh Trail.
- Some videos on YouTube - they get better edited later in the trip/playlist - as I remember/learn how to use GoPro Studio over the two weeks
- Was an organised trip by Cu'o'ngs Motorbike Adventures - can't recommend highly enough... staff going above and beyond, even coping with this one fat kiwi idiot who'd never really ridden trail before.
- Much, much harder than I expected, but I got through it, with only 5 flat-tyres (of the group's 12 total); and about 7 or 8 offs - all at 0km/h - just fucking up attempted restarts.
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@Kruse said in Motorcyclin':
even coping with this one fat kiwi idiot who'd never really ridden trail before
Well, it wasn't me.....
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First ride of the year...feeling blessed
Access to the outside world for us since December has been either via a steep, algae-clad road with water running down it or a pot-holed ford with water 60cm deep - neither remotely safe on 2 wheels.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Motorcyclin':
First ride of the year...feeling blessed
Access to the outside world for us since December has been either via a steep, algae-clad road with water running down it or a pot-holed ford with water 60cm deep - neither remotely safe on 2 wheels.
Living in Qld I almost have the opposite problem. The winter is the best time for riding. Normally cloudless settled weather with a slight chill. Perfect for riding. The summer can be too hot to ride for whimpy old me.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Motorcyclin':
Living in Qld I almost have the opposite problem. The winter is the best time for riding. Normally cloudless settled weather with a slight chill. Perfect for riding. The summer can be too hot to ride for whimpy old me.
We've had 700mm of rain so far this year.... Spring and Autumn are my favourite riding times. Like you, a slight chill makes for the perfect ride.
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Occasionally get this sort of shit in the holiday period. Once had a fluffybunny in a car slowly move forward, pushing me into the hedge and running over my foot.
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@Victor-Meldrew were his panniers really that wide?
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@Bones said in Motorcyclin':
@Victor-Meldrew were his panniers really that wide?
Cornish hedgerows are actually stone walls and these seem to have been recently trimmed so that's the actual width.
You can sometimes push into the vegetation but not always.
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Yeah - I can appreciate that they are great engineers. But nothing at all "sexy" about a single one of their bikes, in my opinion. At least they're not Yamaha - what's that god-awful Yamaha cruiser? Virago? Ugh.
Maybe I'm just racist. Although my first bike was a Kawasaki. Bought solely because of how ugly it was, to be fair. -
@Kruse said in Motorcyclin':
Yeah - I can appreciate that they are great engineers. But nothing at all "sexy" about a single one of their bikes, in my opinion
Nah. (Cruisers, yeah. )
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US of fucking A....
I'm a 40-something year old man, with drivers licence (including motorcycle) from both NZ and UK - having ridden in over 20 different countries - wanting to ride a motorcycle here, and I need to...- Do a theory test
- Do a practical test driving a car
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- Now have my equivalent of a Learner's Licence
- Do another theory test
- Do another practical test driving a car
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- Now have my Driver's Licence
- Do another theory test for motorcycle
- Do a practical test on motorcyle
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- Now have my equivalent of a UK CBT
- Do another theory test for motorcycle
- Do another practical test on motorcycle
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- Finally - proper motorcycle 'endorsement', buy a bike, figure out insurance and shit
OR - go up to Canada for a week or so - convince them I'm a resident (not sure what I'd need for that), and swap my NZ or UK licence for a Canadian one... come back to US, and swap Canadian licence for Washington-State one.
