Tag Archives: rtw

04 Jun

Articles, Enduro

From Singapore to Chiang Mai

• June 4, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 0 comments

It’s Sunday and everyone’s out riding enduro except me. I sit in the shadowy office, trying to ignore the abandon...

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11 Apr

Enduro, Health

The Soviet Hospital

• April 11, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 4 comments

It’s time to take my stitches out, so join me for a stroll back in time to the Cold War. The cheapest hospital in...

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02 Apr

Articles, Health

Small Rant

• April 2, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
• 6 comments

I’m over it. It’s been one week since surgery and my tolerance for the suboptimal is going down. Cumulative frust...

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14 Apr

Articles

Days of Kampot

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

I’m walking down the street in Kampot when I see my friend sitting out the front of Milano Pizza. I cross over an...

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09 Apr

Articles

Life’s a beach… by a river in Cambodia

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

I am lying on a swinging daybed beside a river, gently sautéing in my own sweat. The hot wind has pushed clouds o...

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06 Apr

Articles

Bike ready, brain full

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

5.45 am, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A comfortable studio apartment in a comfortable part of town. I try to make myself...

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18 Mar

Articles

For the love of tyres

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

Tyres. Good tyres are a beautiful thing. I dream of soft compounds, of steep contours, of jagged knobs that tear ...

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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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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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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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