Day 3:Trivia of Damnoen Saduak

Damnoen Saduak is the infamous Bangkok floating market.No wakeup call, bikers rose early to ride the final destination. Took morning coffee and heat-up engine under drizzling rain. Situated at Bangkok outskirt, journey from Petchaburi to floating market is only 85km.
The challenge today is not of the road condition but the wheather and Bangkok traffic. Hell lots of insane riders , we braved through heavy rain and light tropical thunderstorm nonsuch happy kids endured the road under constructions, sort of additional challenge we'd never anticipated.
Wet wet wet...thanks to the invention of rain gear! The road is too very slippery. Tell you pals, it is indeed very important to have safe and confortable riding gear, waterproofs. Motorbike too, must and must in good condition for round trip. Before riding, invest a little on brake pad, cable and hose, do adjustment and what not; including re-set of the suspension.

Touring will definitely adding loads from a place to another . That will paid off by comfort at road handling under misery wheather.
Phew.. shed off out riding suit at the market enterence and hang it over letting the rain water drip off. With light t-shirt and pants, we went lepak-lepak around and tried out brewing coffee with cookies round. Refeshed!

PakMan&wife,Anuar&wife,Bangcik and Bob rented out boat for 50baht/head / 30 mins. Free and easy but pity the makcik peddled out with baby elephant sized bikers onboard! 

It was still early when we arrived so the boating was smooth. We took photos and checked again the things to buy list before decided to zoom off. As this not a shopping trip, everyone made resolution to come again with family. It is still raining when we said goodbye to floating market. Mr Ezad looked fresh riding in rain, otherwise our man will be yawning along the way. His carbohidrate level is fast burning maybe that he is fast asleep and need to stop for a quick nap!
Next disty is Pruachap Kiri Kan which is 246km away. We ran out of time actually, thus the group decide in-situ as where to stop for meal and continue the journey for another 180km to Chumpon. Stop for refreshment at Cha Am beach but a couple of bikes extended to Hua Hin. They were riding faster than Pace Rider and got to find their own hotel in Chumpon. No sweat, as long as everyone is safe and sound. No "horray-hooray" tonite as group are in total worn out after rain bath in Bangkok and sunny way to Cha Am. A few get down for food and some others having maggi cup happy meal.At hotel, PakMan made alternative plan for the journey nex morning as heard of news that Surat Thani is nonstop raining.

More challenge for tomorrow's home leg to cross border Thailand/Malaysia... sawadee....
CHA AM BEACH FACING THE SIAMESE GULF



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Day 2 Myanmar Overland

Overnite at the Royal Princess Hotel. Sleep like a log!
Resting the engine on this second day ; we took boat ride to Kawthaung in 45 mins to do Myamnar overland.

MYANMAR FROM SEA VIEW

At Myammar immigration post, Bangchik paid USD10 for passport clearance. Kawthung township at background.
Syah Badang searching for USD to pay at toll. White building is the one and the only Kawthaung Hotel.
Before reach at mainland,have to stop at Thai army checkpoint(island)and Myanmar army checkpoint.


Kawthaung is more or less a cowboy town. We 're greeted by hungry children begging for money but it's just for a while. Suddenly all the hanky panky went quiet when army troop took charge. Not knowing what's happenig, we 're then ushered to a road dance show. Followed by that was a roar of platuns of army escorting a big someone patrolling the road. Nasib baik sempat sembunyi camera, kalau tak nahas kena rampas dek junta! Visiting this town was limited to 2 hours, nothing much can be done but only to the first attaction here - germstone. Burning the baht, everyone took home good a grade jade.

Back to Siam mainland, checked out and headed to Petchaburi through the hilly Lang Suan. Raining. Shah skidded over the wet oily road. Just a minor bruise and a little breaking the right firing of the Blackbird! He's not alone though. 2 Siamese pick-up vannet was then seen went off road, masuk gaung jugak! Kah kah kah!





Riding to Petchaburi took about 586 km. We started late as to wait for bikers back from their shop till drop trip from Kawthaung. Like it or not, need to hit Petchaburi before nightfall yet has to tolerate timing for re-fuelling both the tank and the tummy. Lucky enough the experienced pace maker PakMan had marked through his earlier trips of his favorite foodstall along the highway that served yummy food. Have to move quickly after meal as the Petchaburi ia still far away.Stop by road side at ISTHMUS OF KRA for refreshment(nice blended coffee).

Yours truely who lead second group is now asked by PakMan to move first as one of my team member Haji Taki having short vision at night. With Haji Taki riding behind me , I will be waiting at the next gas station for grouping then all of us will then riding together to downtown Petchaburi. The plan is the plan...parked by the road side and waiting...saw Haji Taki heading forward. Hah, here comes the thrill. As the second group arrived, Pak Man took back leading bikers to hotel and I dashed up tracking Haji Taki. I was worry of him with his poor sight at night kept searching him for more than 50 km. Had no choice as it was at midnight, I returned to hotel with worn out mind and body and konged-out mobile phone just to find that Haji Taki is already in his la la land...snoring...Me?ha ha ha

GOOD NIGHT PETCHABURI(with a pager vibrating around my stomach)

Adventure Ride Day 1

Day1: Friday 4th April 2008
Dannok-Ranong
Distance : 567KM
Departure: 08.00 local time ( jam Siam wooo...)

Team members :
Pace Maker aka Forward Bike: Azman Said (PakMan Jeniang) : Yamaha TDM 850
Azhar ( Bangcik): Aprillia Pegaso Strada 650

Hj Ahmad Takiyuddin : Honda Goldwing 1500
Khalid : Kawasaki Voyager
Anuar : Aprillia Coponord 1000
Izat : Aprillia Pegaso 650
Fauzi : Honda Africa Twin

Shah: Honda Blackbird 1000

Bob Wafa : Honda Goldwing

Azman:BMW R1000

Spare Rider: Cikgu Mat
Sweeper Bike1: Anwar Wajdi - Pacific Coach

The first day leg was wonderful, though the wheather is bruisingly hot like Sahara! Reached Ranong and checked in at Princess Hotel. Marked a record of over 300km of today's journey. Bravo brothers...congratulation to the first timer amongst you! Bangcik had express his gratitude of missing Allahyarham Suhaimi Joleman very much as the group bikes through the route arwah used to make; after nearly two years of his departure.

to be continued........

Adventure Ride 4th ~8th April 2008

Burst out off work? Stretch out off post duities & on-calls after the PRU-12? Lets flee....

Bikers took off to challenge the riding endure crossing of northern border today. Journey kick-off before dawn, to be exact at 4.30am to the Penangite, to join the Pace Maker & Sweeper Biker; assemble for dawn prayer at Dataran Gurun, then riding in group to Dannok. Must reach before or by 7.00am. After settling the immigation gritty-nitty, bikers will move on to first stop, Patthalung bypass for refreshment and refuelling...

Rule number one: NO MARSHALLING

Let everybody ride at their own confortable and safe pace.

Stay tuned for more update! ( mod nak pi kerja!)

BIKERS DALAM KENANGAN

Bila bercakap tentang trip ,teringat saya kepada seorang kawan yang boleh dianggap"SIFU" diarena motor.Walaupun kenal tidaklah begitu lama tetapi sikapnya yang cool dan tidak lokek ilmu menjadikan beliau senang didampingi oleh sesiapa pun.Banyak perkara yang boleh dipelajari sepanjang perkenalan kami berkaitan dengan ride.....
tentang keupayaan motor,keselamatan,kerenah manusia yang berlainan budaya,tempat-tempat menarik dan macam-macam lagi.

Bila ibu jari terasa sakit akibat kemalangan dua tahun lepas(masih lagi sakit sekali sekala)teringat soalan pertama yang diajukan..."masa kejadian tu macamana yang boleh retak ibu jari ja?tempat lain takda pun luka".Bila jawab ja masa tu hanya pakai sliper Jepun,apa lagi kena syarahan dari "SIFU" lah.

Mana tidaknya anggaran sebulan sebelum kejadian Anuar,Man Uban berserta isteri dinner kat rumah malam tu.Sambil makan banyak tips yang ditekankan dan yang paling mustahak katanya bila ride ja motor besar mesti pakai boots atau kasut kulit yang sesuai,sebab tu la kena syarahan masa accident tu.

Kini semua nya tinggal kenangan kerana anak Melayu pertama yang mengelilingi benua dengan bermotosikal telah kembali kerahmatullah.Sampai masa dan ketika saya berserta beberapa orang kawan akan meneruskan rutin yang dilakukan oleh arwah walaupun hanya berlegar disekitar benua Asia Tenggara InsyaAllah.Bersama-sama ini saya lampirkan bersama kenangan beliau bersama isteri(DIAMBIL DARI ALBUM TRIBUTE) menjelajah benua dengan motornya.Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat keatasnya.AL-FATIHAH

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RIDE KE JOHOR

Pada 27/11/2007,Penang Cop Bikers telah melakukan penjelajahan ke selatan tanahair dan mendapat sambutan yang menggalakan.Bertolak pada awal pagi dari Penang dan berkumpul di R&R Juru bagi melengkapkan ahli dari tanah besar sebelum bergerak beramai-ramai menuju destinasi.Kaum ibu juga tidak ketinggalan mengikuti ekspidisi ini dan "BRAVO" kerana tiada siapa yang demam atau "flat" walaupun sedikit keletihan.

Dalam perjalanan menuju ke Selatan kesemua bikers telah singgah sebentar di KL atau lebih tepat lagi di kedai Sunny Cycle untuk menukar rantai salah sebuah African Twin peserta.Salah sebuah motor lagi pancit tayar depan dan sementara menunggu proces pemasangan siap kesempatan yang terluang digunakan untuk relax dan ada juga yang sempat shopping.Tidak ketinggalan yang sempat melelapkan mata akibat keletihan.

Setibanya di Johor PCB telah disambut oleh bikers dari beberapa daerah di sekitarnya
dan dibawa meronda ke beberapa lokasi yang menarik.Tak cukup dengan naik motor PCB telah berkesempatan meronda dengan bot pelancong untuk menghirup udara segar selat Tebrau.Kepada bikers dari Johor yang bersusah payah menyambut kedatangan PCB ribuan terima kasih diucapkan dan kami mananti kedatangan anda ke PENANG(nasi kandag beb!)

Selamat Datang Buyau Bikers

Welcome to Penang. Bila bikers Buyau sampai pada 2/12/07 melalui BKE, kita sambut depa dengan nasi k......Nasi kandaq Nooooo, nasi kenduri! Ha ha ha, Bersama lebih kurang 20 motosikal menyambut ketibaan , kita berkonvoi ke Serdang makan kenduri seorang kawan. Perjalanan lancar bersambung pulak jalan kampung yang berbelok-

belok.. Kona baring la, apalagi jalan berbukit.Dalam dok syok-syok layan kona salah sebuah motosikal goldwing dari group P.C.B kena electrik shock tapi alhamdulillah kebetulan "dr Lan" dapat mengatasi masalah dalam masa yang singkat.
Selesai makan kenduri kesemua bikers bertolak ke Pulau untuk bermalam sebelum bertolak pulang keesokan hari.Terima kasih kepada ahli Buyau Bikers kerana sudi meluangkan masa bersama-sama P.C.B walaupun dalam masa yang singkat.