J.O.G TO MUK
An advanced warning for the Mods on Ride Asia, some of the post may need moderating just in case a few naught words do appear from time to time. 555
In the later part of the UK summer 2012 I will be riding from John O Groats to my home here in Mukdahan on the Laos /Thailand border, many people have asked why? My parents think I am having a mid life crisis and the rest think I am talking crap, or have started taking drugs.
The reasons why? I don’t actually know why but its seems like a good idea at the time the second reason and now the main reason is to raise money for a local Orphanage here that looks after about 75 children with no parents and HIV in Yasothon.
Then reality hits, WTF am I really doing I need a bike, gear, visas and my head examining so where do I start, so I decided buy a bike then your arse is against the wall as the bike will be in Scotland and I am in Thailand, so I started looking about for a decent bike that won’t break the bank, super reliable big fuel tank, started looking at GS1200 ADV, F800 GS, 990 KTMs Super Tenere and the 660 Tenere, the first two where eliminate straight away as I have had a new G1200 ADV in New Zealand and proved not to be reliable in fact I must say it was a crap bike very much overrated in my opinion{ and we all know about opinions!}. So to keep it short I decided on a Yamaha XT660Z looked on EBay UK and found new ones could be picked up for 5700 quid, got the old Man to make contact with a local company to find me a nice new blue one. The same evening as I spoke to my Dad I was trolling the bike classified in the UK and found a 6 week old black one with 600 miles in Cambridge advertised at 4700 quid, being a tight arsed Yorkshire man I thought I will ring him and make an offer he would not take to test the water, the twat had the last laugh he accepted my bid of 4200, wish I had bid him 4000.
So that’s basically how the bike came about, and now I am committed the old man did say he does not want this fking bike in his garage for the next 5 years.
TBC
An advanced warning for the Mods on Ride Asia, some of the post may need moderating just in case a few naught words do appear from time to time. 555
In the later part of the UK summer 2012 I will be riding from John O Groats to my home here in Mukdahan on the Laos /Thailand border, many people have asked why? My parents think I am having a mid life crisis and the rest think I am talking crap, or have started taking drugs.
The reasons why? I don’t actually know why but its seems like a good idea at the time the second reason and now the main reason is to raise money for a local Orphanage here that looks after about 75 children with no parents and HIV in Yasothon.
Then reality hits, WTF am I really doing I need a bike, gear, visas and my head examining so where do I start, so I decided buy a bike then your arse is against the wall as the bike will be in Scotland and I am in Thailand, so I started looking about for a decent bike that won’t break the bank, super reliable big fuel tank, started looking at GS1200 ADV, F800 GS, 990 KTMs Super Tenere and the 660 Tenere, the first two where eliminate straight away as I have had a new G1200 ADV in New Zealand and proved not to be reliable in fact I must say it was a crap bike very much overrated in my opinion{ and we all know about opinions!}. So to keep it short I decided on a Yamaha XT660Z looked on EBay UK and found new ones could be picked up for 5700 quid, got the old Man to make contact with a local company to find me a nice new blue one. The same evening as I spoke to my Dad I was trolling the bike classified in the UK and found a 6 week old black one with 600 miles in Cambridge advertised at 4700 quid, being a tight arsed Yorkshire man I thought I will ring him and make an offer he would not take to test the water, the twat had the last laugh he accepted my bid of 4200, wish I had bid him 4000.
So that’s basically how the bike came about, and now I am committed the old man did say he does not want this fking bike in his garage for the next 5 years.
TBC
