Thread: Pattaya to Penang By Motorbike

Well after reading some of the latest girlie threads on journeys by motorbike to different countries I thought I would tell you about a real proper motorbike journey, a motorbike journey where you learn what it feels like to be anally raped by a donkey on viagra.

Anyway, I have done this journey on a 125cc honda fighter, now that was a nice bike, unrestricted but a real old piece of crap, and I have done it on a 400cc yamaha with a pillion, although some of the time I was the pillion and that bike was also a real old piece of crap, I think 120km was it's top speed where as the 125cc honda fighter roared as things fell off it.

Now remember both these times were more than 17 years ago, the first time I done it on the 125cc bike was because I was young and stupid and everybody said you couldn't do it, so my only justification that time was I done it because people said I couldn't, why I done it on the clapped out yamaha 400cc I have no idea, probably some drunk idea whilst we were out or something in Pattaya.

So the journey, both were the same apart from I done the first one by myself, going there we stayed at Hua Hin, Chumphon, Surat Thani and Nakhon Sri Thammarat but stopped off at loads of other places, here's the map.



Now I can't find a picture of the Honda Fighter, think I paid 10k baht for it but had to do a lot of work on it to get it going real good, and boy did it go, but remember at this time I hadn't come to live in Thailand, UK was suffering real bad money wise and I only intended staying in Asia for 3 years till the money got good again, the idea was for Pattaya to be the place where I stored my shite and every month travel round Asia a bit, the best laid plans of mice and men etc etc.

So here's the yamaha.



Note the nice comfortable back seat, when we got into Malaysia we went to a furniture shop and bought some 4 inch foam sponge stuff and taped that over the whole seat.



Now I have never liked mornings and both times the aim was to get to Hua Hin for the first night, by rights with competent people that is a 5 hour journey from Pattaya, both times I left at 10am and it has taken me 9 hours, both times I got stopped in Chonburi and had the police try to extort money from me, that was the days when I actually stopped for police, learnt my lesson and now don't bother stopping, but why is it when you are in Bangkok and can see the bridge to get across the river you can never get to the bridge, both times many hours were wasted trying to get to any poxy bridge to cross the river.

So we get to Hua Hin around 7pm, damn it's a long way to Hua Hin from the main road, in those days all hotels and guesthouses were cheap, so we find a real cheapy, hit the piers for some seafood and then get pissed out of our brains, yep, Hua Hin is ok.

Although on the 400cc my mate was driving towards the Hua Hin area, it was Songkran so we had those problems of revellers throwing buckets of water over you whilst they are on pick ups and your doing 120km overtaking them, this was when we nearly got wiped out by a bus, he was used to English driving and was overtaking the bus on the outside but tight against him, that was when the bus decided to overtake something on the inside lane SCARY


Next stop Chumphon.