talltuktuk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:43 pm I did a lot of Cambodia on a Honda Click. I got a lot of shit from the macho motorcycle expat community for not buying a huge macho bike and being as cool as them. I did mountain roads and dirt roads and villages and even rode it in the woods. I wanted to do as the locals do in as many ways as possible. I have no regrets and would do it again without hesitation. My longest ride was 8 hours from SR to Kampot in one shot, stopping only for fuel. Rode 10k miles total when I was living there. Easily one of the best years of my life.

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1611 pics and the top one chosen is of a barren dirt road devoid of, well everything.

Maybe it signifies what the journey was like and how the rider felt about the trip after they had completed their journey? after looking back through their photos he looked and said thats it.

Kammekor wrote:

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 4:32 pm

Kammekor wrote:Did Ratanakiri-Mondulkiri 10 years ago with a friend. Two guys, two Honda Dreams. Unforgettable experience, couldn’t have done it alone. Had to carry the bikes across several streams, worrying about water entering the engine. My friend was hospitalized with a combi of dengue and malaria afterwards.

By a great adventure. Not sure a scooter could have done it.

Scooters literally can go anywhere. Loggers use supped up (double/triple suspension) scooters to carry out logs from single tracks all over the country's dwindling forests. Easy to get across rivers too, just use a snorkel.

Maybe scooters are useful in the forest, but driving a scooter across a waist deep stream is impossible. It took three people to get our Honda Dreams across, the two of us simply couldn't because of the force of the water. Had to wait for someone from a village nearby to support us.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. They do it all the time. We do it on dirt bikes too (using wood under the swingarm/or floating them across in tubes etc), but on scooters it's easier. I'll try to dig up a modded chaly I once saw with a snorkel coming out of the airbox that went about 1.5m up (not for carrying wood obviously, just for fording rivers in Mondulkiri). They're also easy to start up if drowned. Just take out the spark plug, dry it up and voilà. It's more when it gets seriously muddy that scooters as useless and the tractors are the preferred weapon of choice. Well, the tractors are always preferred as you can haul more, but I've seen them haul 2-3kip on bikes before in the tight singletracks in the mountains.

I see the bamboo bridge in on of your photos, I know they made it smaller this, past time, but did you get to ride across to the island, we were not not allowed on our last visit.