Tag Archives: motorcycle
The Accident
There’s a feeling of cold horror when the traffic parts in front of you, and all you see are skid plates.
Don’t get me wrong, ...
From Singapore to Chiang Mai
It’s Sunday and everyone’s out riding enduro except me. I sit in the shadowy office, trying to ignore the abandoned gecko tail on my de...
End of a Season
The sun has been red for two weeks: the burning season is here.
Every year, from the beginning of March, the mountains of north...
Days of Kampot
I’m walking down the street in Kampot when I see my friend sitting out the front of Milano Pizza. I cross over and take the empty seat ...
Life’s a beach… by a river in Cambodia
I am lying on a swinging daybed beside a river, gently sautéing in my own sweat. The hot wind has pushed clouds over the mountains and ...
Trail of Bruises
I’m feeling a little beaten up today. I love dirt biking but some days you bite the dust harder than others, and yesterday was one of t...
Extraction (Part 5)
The next day we walked back into the jungle with a tow rope and a couple of strong young men. The sun was shining gaily and the sheetin...
Buy your own roses
Today is the exact anniversary of 5 years on the road – 15 February 2017 was the day I rode out of Sydney, never yet to return. I had i...
Modification & accustomisation
I've been busy manically removing parts from the new KLX230 to make it a lean little jungle machine.
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Sustainable Vagrancy
I sit in the HiVolt shop, surrounded by motorcycles and trials gear, and wait. Darkness falls and the high timbered ceilings glow with ...
A Time to Learn
It's six in the morning and the dawn light is bleeding into the valley, slowly, through a somnolent layer of mist. It's always peaceful...
Good Advice
Good morning my lovely people. It’s four a.m. which means it’s time to write, but you should have seen the struggle when it came to get...
Pleasure and Pain
It’s 4am and I’m disturbing the sleep of the hotel receptionists. I come downstairs, toting my laptop in the darkness with the objectiv...
Risk Calculation
Today let’s talk about risk, and sweat, and tears. Now, it’s been a while since I was travelling fully loaded on the KTM: my whole life...
Ruins and Memories
Today’s blog post nearly didn’t happen, because I killed my computer. By dropping it down a gully? Drowning it in a rice paddy? Not eve...