N.O.B ride Friday 16th March, 2012

[KTMphil]

N.O.B ride Friday 16th March, 2012



Anyone up for a ride in the jungle and route ideas?


I'll see if Rudi and George are keen.

Max is back today.

Darren - Johns last ride?


Alex?

Matt has a broken leg

Loop?

Mr Hanley -have you come up for air?

I'll ask around

 

[Loop]

Yeah i want to ride.
Not sure about route but i like fast and flowing.

 

[LivinLOS]

I am up for air.. Not that its much cop back here !!!

Got a shed load to catch up on, would say its unlikely this week. Will confirm later.

 

[KTMphil]

This will be WR250 Jon's last Nob ride for 2012, he will be missed.

I think there's a route in mind towards Mae Rim and turtle track etc......


Maybe meet 10.00am at 700 year stadium on Canal Rd?

 

[jkrfjessjess]

This will be WR250 Jon's last Nob ride for 2012, he will be missed.

I think there's a route in mind towards Mae Rim and turtle track etc......


Maybe meet 10.00am at 700 year stadium on Canal Rd?

Yep 10.00 sounds good to me

 

[Loop]

Ok..

 

[alexuk]

I'm coming too, may have to leave early

 

[KTMphil]

I'm coming too, may have to leave early

Leave early to get there alex

 

[KTMphil]

Checked the trails today, looks like the ground was so dry that the torrential rain we had last night (Wednesday) got absorbed pretty easily. With the huge wind, it has brought down humongous amounts of leaves, now these are hiding a lot of the ruts on the trails, which should help keep things exciting.


There maybe 3 UK guys joining us in the morning too.

 

[KTMphil]

A great days trail riding for WR250 John's last trail ride before he heads back to the UK for a few months. The trails were only slightly damp in places, but there were leaves everywhere hiding the ruts.


12 Bikes turned out quite a gathering to start the day at the 700 year sports stadium

Alex had some kind of fuel injection control device he was testing gaffa taped to his tank, i dont think it stayed there long

A map of the tracks we took are in the map below. Starting at the 700 year stadium, then north towards Mae Rim, then south west towards the turtle trail






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[alexuk]

short clip from todays ride

nice to meet you all, and finally ride past Buddhas Footprint

 

[KTMphil]

Waiting for your turn to get through the "dip" on the single track between Huay Thong Tao and Mae Rim

Stopping for a breather just before Mae Rim

 

[KTMphil]

One of the guest riders from the UK took an alternative route and ran into some nasty rocks

LUFC at the north end of the single track between Huay Thong Tao resv'r and Mae Rim

Harry, who does some off-road tours in the region, just back from Mae Sariang, came out on his first NOB and had a blast

 

[KTMphil]

Alex and Tony

KMA in the front

Max giving the thumbs up with the mountains in the background

 

[KMA]

Yeah todays ride was a blast. Great riding with everyone and cheers John, you will be missed on these rides mate!
Some of my shots from today. Time for a new camera though I think. Broke it on Last Man Standing a few weeks ago

Phil and the guys taking a breather before Mae Rim

Onto Turtle track. What a fun trail!

Bunch of us got a little hung up through here

another break before the hill climb and the really fun part of TT

 

[KTMphil]

Which way?

Another rest approaching the Turtle track

Harry getting some snaps

Viz. was much better after the rainy weather system had past through 2 days before

Then onto the hill climb challenge which seems to have got everyone's attention

It's steep, loose and no-ones got the top yet, here where it is up Doi Suthep







& here's the GPS co-ords at the base of the hill climb challenge if you want to give it a shot

 

[KTMphil]

Lunch in Hmong Village

Couple more shots of the days riding

The hill climb challenge capturing a victim

The hill climb challenge sacrifice - broken plastic

 

[KTMphil]

One from Harry

 

[KTMphil]

And here's some video of the hill climb climb challenge, very amusing.

[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdFAfsJttLc[/VIDEO]



[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScd_Y5OfHg[/VIDEO]



[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7zlj_CyrOI[/VIDEO]


[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGnB_PCa4fs[/VIDEO]

 

[KTMphil]

Couple more hill climb attempts - No one has got to the top yet



[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys4f2B9hDK0[/VIDEO]



[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAFRBBczFi4[/VIDEO]



[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af4NMDkjRHg[/VIDEO]

 

[Loop]

We might see something like these having a crack at it soon?

 

[KMA]

LOL! I'd like to see one of those things getting there on Turtle Track!

 

[johnnysneds]

Did anyone have a helmet camera on and record the hill climb attempt?

 

[KTMphil]

Did anyone have a helmet camera on and record the hill climb attempt?

I think Tony may have

 

[KTMphil]

Now MR. Rossi think he can get to the top on his first attempt, we shall see ......

 

[KTMphil]

A few of the N.O.B rider's were asking when Max's girlfriend Fon's band (Itchy Band) were playing again. Max is racing Enduro today in Mae Jo and asked me to post that they are playing at 11pm tonight (Sat 17th March 2012) at a bar called "Play" on the north east corner of Chiang Mai moat square (across the moat from Rider's Corner). Fon plays base guitar.


The flyer for their gig tonight is below




Fon on base guitar

 

[johnnysneds]

How did they come up with the name "Itchy"?

 

[barrygrussell]

Enjoyed the pics and vids, thanks Phil!

 

[MastaMax]

A few of the N.O.B rider's were asking when Max's girlfriend Fon's band (Itchy Band) were playing again. Max is racing Enduro today in Mae Jo and asked me to post that they are playing at 11pm tonight (Sat 17th March 2012) at a bar called "Play" on the north east corner of Chiang Mai moat square (across the moat from Rider's Corner). Fon plays base guitar.


The flyer for their gig tonight is below

[attachment=1:3ifnkl75]itchy band.jpg[/attachment:3ifnkl75]

Thank Phil. It starts at 10:30pm and there is open bar until 9pm

 

[Loop]

A few of the N.O.B rider's were asking when Max's girlfriend Fon's band (Itchy Band) were playing again. Max is racing Enduro today in Mae Jo and asked me to post that they are playing at 11pm tonight (Sat 17th March 2012) at a bar called "Play" on the north east corner of Chiang Mai moat square (across the moat from Rider's Corner). Fon plays base guitar.

Damn..wish we`d known earlier me and another coupla drunks (LeU & LiL) were in the area and would`ve loved to check it out!

 

[KMA]

yeah fun band and great energy

 

[johnnysneds]

Is there a youtube video or a music link to there music? dying to hear the "too drunk to ****" song

 

[KTMphil]

Is there a youtube video or a music link to there music? dying to hear the "too drunk to ****" song

When you get back how about a NOB outing to watch the itchy band

 

[johnnysneds]

Is there a youtube video or a music link to there music? dying to hear the "too drunk to ****" song

When you get back how about a NOB outing to watch the itchy band

hahaa sounds like a Spotlight aftermath!

 

[MastaMax]

Johnny, the name of the band comes from the thai meaning of itchy, ask a thai what it means to be itchy

Just put 2 videos together, Toni's contour video and one of Phil's clips:

 

[LivinLOS]

I also never got that Ja-Turbo itchy ear euphemism either.. Itchy is kan / kun / ??? and she was using hoo so ?????

I dont know how ??? relates (or rhymes) to horny (which has a few I can think of ngian, seow, dtuen jai at a stretch, etc etc).. I kinda guess that maybe the itchy ear was a play on the physical putting the finger in for a scratch but its not one to ask the language teacher !! Plus of course you can change the vowel in hoo to an ee and get itchy twat but see that as the hoo miss pronounced not the itchy part ??

What am I missing ??

 

[johnnysneds]

I also never got that Ja-Turbo itchy ear euphemism either.. Itchy is kan / kun / ??? and she was using hoo so ?????

I dont know how ??? relates (or rhymes) to horny (which has a few I can think of ngian, seow, dtuen jai at a stretch, etc etc).. I kinda guess that maybe the itchy ear was a play on the physical putting the finger in for a scratch but its not one to ask the language teacher !! Plus of course you can change the vowel in hoo to an ee and get itchy twat but see that as the hoo miss pronounced not the itchy part ??

What am I missing ??

:bash 3

 

[LivinLOS]

alai na ??

I assume you caught the whole Ja Turbo brew ha ha last year.. When she was on that talk show and he was a cunt to her..

[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjbnjJlFDk[/VIDEO]

 

[LivinLOS]

So no ones knows why 'itchy' relates to horny ?? We are just repeating it but not knowing why ??

I am curious on this one.. I was when the Ja Turbo thing came up last year, and 2 or 3 expats with similar weak thai to me assured me itchy rhymed with horny, like they were in on the joke, but then when I ask them ok what is kan rhyming with, they just mumbled.. Its not rhyming with any of the words I know of for horny, but my Thai vocabulary is poor..

My best guess is its a vowel play on hoo to hee, or at least thats how it seems with Ja Turbo's version. Her song is all double entendre tho.. I used a cotton bud on it, maybe I got water in it when I showered, give me an injection of good medicine, etc etc etc.. But did she start this itchy thing or is 'itchy' in Thai as Max hints a pre existing slang ?? and she ran with it..

I know itchy ears in Thai is a idiom for someone talking about you, like 'your ears must be burning' in English.. But this is one I havent understood right from last year or two when the Ja turbo interview was all big Thai news / gossip.

Surely the better Thai speakers on here can set me straight ??

 

[johnnysneds]

I did some investigative work last night, but to no avail. Itchy = Kun, didn't get any feedback of a sexual nature...hmmmm

Awesome video LivinLOS, when/where is Ja Turbo's next concert?