MastaMax
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- Apr 28, 2011
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- 19 ktm 300tpi 6 days / 15 Yamaha YZ250F / 08 Husky 450SMR / 13 ER6N / 13 KTM 300XCW(sold)
Last Sunday Alex (USA) and me went out riding for a long day of riding again.
This time we wanted to find some trails near the Mokfa waterfalls.
The day started with single track from 700yrs stadium all way to Mae Rim, then following the 1096 to about 500m after Pong Yeng. There we took a right on a small road that has long offroad sections. At some point (Alex can give the waypoint later) we took a right in what seemed like a trail (wasn't on the gps map but we still wanted to give it a go).
After 100m it turned into a thick bamboo forest on a cliff. The trail was about 20cm large so no way to turn around anymore... At this point it started to get sketchy, half of the bamboo forest was actually dead fallen bamboos all over the place. As soon as there was a single root it was big trouble cause the track was not larger that 20-30cm, and if a wheel started to go down, we had to lift the bike back on the trail.
Then eventually the inevitable happened (and luckily it was sooner than later), Alex's bike got down pretty badly. Saw Alex and the bike falling of the cliff, the bike being on Alex's head...
Not really hurt but more into trouble to get the bike back up we tried several times but the bike just kept sliding down on the big dead bamboos underneath.
Eventually we gave up and tried to find another solution. A solution may have been get the bikes down the cliff since the gps seemed to indicate a road not far. We decided to walk it (slide down) first. After about 100m downhill there was another trail but unfortunately even worse than the first one. We then walked back to the road (400 very very long meters) and called Thon our magician mechanics to the rescue. 1 hour later he was here to help. While waiting a lone thai rider stopped by and offered his help (for free, we couldn't even manage to buy him a drink afterwards).
Don't have much pictures, just those rescue mission pictures, but have some nice video footage. Will try to edit the video and post it as soon as I have time.
As usual the pictures don't reveal how steep it was, but the video does (coming later).
This time we wanted to find some trails near the Mokfa waterfalls.
The day started with single track from 700yrs stadium all way to Mae Rim, then following the 1096 to about 500m after Pong Yeng. There we took a right on a small road that has long offroad sections. At some point (Alex can give the waypoint later) we took a right in what seemed like a trail (wasn't on the gps map but we still wanted to give it a go).
After 100m it turned into a thick bamboo forest on a cliff. The trail was about 20cm large so no way to turn around anymore... At this point it started to get sketchy, half of the bamboo forest was actually dead fallen bamboos all over the place. As soon as there was a single root it was big trouble cause the track was not larger that 20-30cm, and if a wheel started to go down, we had to lift the bike back on the trail.
Then eventually the inevitable happened (and luckily it was sooner than later), Alex's bike got down pretty badly. Saw Alex and the bike falling of the cliff, the bike being on Alex's head...
Not really hurt but more into trouble to get the bike back up we tried several times but the bike just kept sliding down on the big dead bamboos underneath.
Eventually we gave up and tried to find another solution. A solution may have been get the bikes down the cliff since the gps seemed to indicate a road not far. We decided to walk it (slide down) first. After about 100m downhill there was another trail but unfortunately even worse than the first one. We then walked back to the road (400 very very long meters) and called Thon our magician mechanics to the rescue. 1 hour later he was here to help. While waiting a lone thai rider stopped by and offered his help (for free, we couldn't even manage to buy him a drink afterwards).
Don't have much pictures, just those rescue mission pictures, but have some nice video footage. Will try to edit the video and post it as soon as I have time.
As usual the pictures don't reveal how steep it was, but the video does (coming later).
: Will post up the coordinates of the turn off later - maybe someone can prove us wrong and ride it all the way through.
