Some of the roads around Chiang Mai, Thailand are the best motorcycle tour roads in the world! Doing this loop anti-clockwise, the Chiang Dao Nest near the Chiang Dao Cave makes a perfect lunch stop This is Chiang Dao Nest “1” that does the good Thai food, go to CDN “2” for western food 200 […]

We’ll be riding towards the province of Nan which has some of the best curves in Thailand Kawasaki Z 800 (right side) Flickr & below I A lot of the bikes had less than 200 km range, so to risk some fuel headaches we took on some pump up on R 1148, gave the pump […]

This is one of the most beautiful off-road riding areas in Thailand The trail off R 1009 is beautiful Heindrick came with us too and was having a great time George got caught up in a rut and had a spill, nothing serious R 108, first time I’d used one of these automated fueling stations, […]

A 7am start for this Thailand off road motorcycle tour. We know where the trail head is, a little tarmac north, then R 1090 is under repair, a good warm up i suppose. Gassing up, the Karen lady was shy and didn’t what her photo taken Even from the start, we could tell this was […]

The south west monsoon has hit hard early this year and is in full force already. Looks like we might have a rain free day, not too hot, so less likely to have the afternoon thunderstorm. Westwards on R 1269, no rain, still some sandy/ gravel corners to watch out for but a great road […]

This 8 day, Myanmar motorcycle tour takes us out of Thailand & to the wildest, lawless town in Myanmar, at the China border – Mongla. Xiaomengla (小勐拉) or Mongla as it’s commonly known, grew from a small town in the early 1990’s, to a multi million dollar, mafia run, crazy township that it is today. […]