As everyone in my place now has got a bigger bike, we decided to go on a daytrip to test both bike (CBR250R) and newbie Bigbike-rider Neung.
Riders:
Neung - CBR250R
Preuk - NINJA250R
Franz - FJR1300A
Distance: 400kms
Routes: 107 to Chiang Dao, 1178 to Arunothai, 1340 to Doi Angkhang, 1249 & 107 to Chaiprakarn, 1346 & 1150 to Phrao, 1001 back to CNX
As the rain on the night before cleaned up the roads and air for us, the first few kilometers to Mae Rim were quite chilly and the air was high on moisture and fog but the roads were clean and not so slippery anymore. First we had to get some nutrients so we decided to stop at the X-Center for some good breakfast.
After having filled our stomachs we rode at a leisurly pace up to Chiang Dao and then further on to Arunothai. As Neung is a newbie on a bigbike, I told him to take it on his own pace and not to worry about speed but to concentrate as to what lays ahead. In the beginning he never rode more than a slow 80kms/hr but that gave Preuk and me the chance to stop & wait and have a smoke. After Arunothai it cleared up a little but not enough to take some photos of the hills, here we stopped near Doi Ankhang, on the 1340, shortly before this viewpoint there's some roadworks so slowly - slowly was the rule.
Coming into Di Ankhang we finally got some sunshine. Amazing was that even this was a Sunday we were nearly alone there, no visitors at all, maybe 3-4 cars with other plates than CNX.......but finally Neung seems to have got the feeling of his new toy and other than mentioning that his wrists hurt, he did a good job, even on the gravel.
After a short mum-mum, we carried on down to his place in Chaiprakarn where he got the ahhhhh's and uhhhhhh's from his family for both bike and equipment. To put a little individual note on it, he asked me to play with some rim-stripes. As his jacket has some blue in it, I put some blue rimstickers all over his bike, fitted both the 30 lts GIVI topbox and as he insisted also the small sidecases. Now he can go with me on a longer tour.
The way back to CNX we decided for the lovely 1346 to Phrao and from then on it was 'squeezing time' back to home. I have ridden a mere 100-120 the whole day which brought the overall consumption of the FJR to 37.5 gallons per mile (don't think I ever achieved that before), so I decided to twist the throttle a little bit, well at home I had to wait for Preuk another 15 minutes and for Neung it came to half an hour.
The amazing thing about this ride was the consumption of the CBR, he did the trip on one tank !! The Ninja could have done it also nearly on one but then the risk at the end would have been to big and maybe he would have been stranded shortly before home. As for the FJR, well one tank of 91 was all she needed but then, the tank is more than double the size as on both smaller bikes.....
It was a real lovley ride, no complaints by anybody, not the usual farang rant about everything on the way, just pure riding pleasure and pleasant company. To be repeated on another route soon.......
cheers, Franz
Riders:
Neung - CBR250R
Preuk - NINJA250R
Franz - FJR1300A
Distance: 400kms
Routes: 107 to Chiang Dao, 1178 to Arunothai, 1340 to Doi Angkhang, 1249 & 107 to Chaiprakarn, 1346 & 1150 to Phrao, 1001 back to CNX
As the rain on the night before cleaned up the roads and air for us, the first few kilometers to Mae Rim were quite chilly and the air was high on moisture and fog but the roads were clean and not so slippery anymore. First we had to get some nutrients so we decided to stop at the X-Center for some good breakfast.
After having filled our stomachs we rode at a leisurly pace up to Chiang Dao and then further on to Arunothai. As Neung is a newbie on a bigbike, I told him to take it on his own pace and not to worry about speed but to concentrate as to what lays ahead. In the beginning he never rode more than a slow 80kms/hr but that gave Preuk and me the chance to stop & wait and have a smoke. After Arunothai it cleared up a little but not enough to take some photos of the hills, here we stopped near Doi Ankhang, on the 1340, shortly before this viewpoint there's some roadworks so slowly - slowly was the rule.
Coming into Di Ankhang we finally got some sunshine. Amazing was that even this was a Sunday we were nearly alone there, no visitors at all, maybe 3-4 cars with other plates than CNX.......but finally Neung seems to have got the feeling of his new toy and other than mentioning that his wrists hurt, he did a good job, even on the gravel.
After a short mum-mum, we carried on down to his place in Chaiprakarn where he got the ahhhhh's and uhhhhhh's from his family for both bike and equipment. To put a little individual note on it, he asked me to play with some rim-stripes. As his jacket has some blue in it, I put some blue rimstickers all over his bike, fitted both the 30 lts GIVI topbox and as he insisted also the small sidecases. Now he can go with me on a longer tour.
The way back to CNX we decided for the lovely 1346 to Phrao and from then on it was 'squeezing time' back to home. I have ridden a mere 100-120 the whole day which brought the overall consumption of the FJR to 37.5 gallons per mile (don't think I ever achieved that before), so I decided to twist the throttle a little bit, well at home I had to wait for Preuk another 15 minutes and for Neung it came to half an hour.
The amazing thing about this ride was the consumption of the CBR, he did the trip on one tank !! The Ninja could have done it also nearly on one but then the risk at the end would have been to big and maybe he would have been stranded shortly before home. As for the FJR, well one tank of 91 was all she needed but then, the tank is more than double the size as on both smaller bikes.....
It was a real lovley ride, no complaints by anybody, not the usual farang rant about everything on the way, just pure riding pleasure and pleasant company. To be repeated on another route soon.......
cheers, Franz
, not just the Caterpillar "Mining" Gloves from an OZ friend who brought them as a present - although they wear pretty comfy but don't offer the protection you have from something like RACER SpeedTop gloves.