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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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 ...Continue reading
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, ...Continue reading
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 ...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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 ...Continue reading
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...Continue reading