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03 Mar

Articles

The ground is for sleeping (Part 2)

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 13 comments

The track had long ago turned into a hard enduro playground. Steep, slippery with scree, washed out by ruts ...

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24 Feb

Articles

Yes, but did you die? (Part 1)

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 3 comments

One, two, one, two… I count myself through each step. If you put enough of these tiny, zombie shuffles together, ...

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15 Feb

Articles

Buy your own roses

• February 15, 2022
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 2 comments

Today is the exact anniversary of 5 years on the road – 15 February 2017 was the day I rode out of Sydney, never ...

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14 Feb

Articles

Modification & accustomisation

• March 25, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 0 comments

I've been busy manically removing parts from the new KLX230 to make it a lean little jungle machine.

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11 Feb

Articles

Sustainable Vagrancy

• March 25, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 1 comment

I sit in the HiVolt shop, surrounded by motorcycles and trials gear, and wait. Darkness falls and the high timber...

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04 Feb

Articles

A Time to Learn

• March 25, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

It's six in the morning and the dawn light is bleeding into the valley, slowly, through a somnol...

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31 Jan

Articles

Good Advice

• January 31, 2022
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

Good morning my lovely people. It’s four a.m. which means it’s time to write, but you should have seen the strugg...

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24 Jan

Articles

Pleasure and Pain

• January 24, 2022
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 1 comment

It’s 4am and I’m disturbing the sleep of the hotel receptionists. I come downstairs, toting my laptop in the dark...

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22 Jan

Articles

Years of Life

• March 25, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 4 comments

I just came back from the Death Railway cemetery in Kanchanaburi. It is this beautiful, still place under a tropi...

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18 Jan

Articles

Risk Calculation

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 7 comments

Today let’s talk about risk, and sweat, and tears. Now, it’s been a while since I was travelling fully loaded on ...

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11 Jan

Articles

Ruins and Memories

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 3 comments

Today’s blog post nearly didn’t happen, because I killed my computer. By dropping it down a gully? Drowning it in...

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06 Jan

Articles

I’m On A Boat

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 5 comments

Putting your motorcycle on a boat is typically a terrifying experience. Sometimes that's because it's a massive b...

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03 Jan

Articles

Before Times

• January 3, 2022
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 7 comments

Back before covid sank its teeth into the world, vagrants like me used to do border runs. You'd get your thirty d...

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29 Dec

Articles

Complimentary House Dragon

• December 29, 2021
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 9 comments

Here in south-east Asia we have these magnificent tokay geckos. They like to live in your house and eat all the i...

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28 Dec

Articles

Traveling monks and breakfast beers: Thailand

• December 28, 2021
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 0 comments

When I first checked into the roadside guesthouse, there was an old lady running the show and she seemed positive...

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