Bicycles/motor bikes on country highways
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I dont normally do long distance cycling, and dont plan to. I take my bike on the back of a minivan. However:SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 4:37 pm Would you consider cycling further up into Cambodia?
Narrow roads with a lot of traffic are the most dangerous. Roads with very little traffic are not a high risk. Wide roads are much safer than narrow roads, even with traffic.
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What kind of bike do you use?explorer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:35 pmI dont normally do long distance cycling, and dont plan to. I take my bike on the back of a minivan. However:SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 4:37 pm Would you consider cycling further up into Cambodia?
Narrow roads with a lot of traffic are the most dangerous. Roads with very little traffic are not a high risk. Wide roads are much safer than narrow roads, even with traffic.
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If you read the other posts you would have seen I ride a fat bicycle.
It is ideal for cycling in and around Cambodian villages, particularly when you come across sand and mud.
I am also fat challenged, and it takes my weight without breaking.
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Sorry E, ' dreaming distracted disjointed. All three.
Truth tell, I wasn't really paying attention to the authors just then - just humming along to the tune of hard rubber over the different tarmacs/sands/gravels/clays and muds. Good posts.
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Was that your top speed or average speed?andy_morris wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:16 pm I've cycled most of the highways in Cambodia and at 35km/hr +/- feel pretty safe. Many locals on motos appreciate that you are going at it pretty hard as you can often keep up with them. Car and van drivers are less sympathetic but still, rarely had any too close for comfort experiences. It is often partly my fault too as going from high speed (for a road bike anyway) to tight, slow traffic past a market area causes impatience or frustration, and a keenness to get back up to a good speed.
Bokor is a different animal. They do regularly overtake on the hairpins going up and down. Absolute idiocy pretty mu h guaranteed every time.
That’s pretty fast for a mountain bike but a proper focused road bike it’s achievable, if you’re super fit (my mate just told me. He’s 32yo fit and his average speed on a 120 min run is 26kmh on fairly flat roads. I hate him. He’s also done Bokor and he said it killed him! He does have a $4k Cannonball though. Idiot)
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Or add "Dave" at the end of each question.phkachhouk wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 10:27 am If you added “Micheal” at the end like “I have had a 70 kg = 155 lb man on the back, making the total 190 kg = 420 lb, Michael” you’d could be KITT from Knight Rider.
Literally off the scales when we arrived (most medical scales are considered inaccurate beyond 165kg) because reasons, now around 110kg. Moving to Cambodia has literally saved my life.I’m 135kg. Beat that!
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yep, doable on the flats an a smooth paved road with a good bike an in great condition.phkachhouk wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 9:35 pmWas that your top speed or average speed?andy_morris wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:16 pm I've cycled most of the highways in Cambodia and at 35km/hr +/- feel pretty safe. Many locals on motos appreciate that you are going at it pretty hard as you can often keep up with them. Car and van drivers are less sympathetic but still, rarely had any too close for comfort experiences. It is often partly my fault too as going from high speed (for a road bike anyway) to tight, slow traffic past a market area causes impatience or frustration, and a keenness to get back up to a good speed.
Bokor is a different animal. They do regularly overtake on the hairpins going up and down. Absolute idiocy pretty mu h guaranteed every time.
That’s pretty fast for a mountain bike but a proper focused road bike it’s achievable, if you’re super fit (my mate just told me. He’s 32yo fit and his average speed on a 120 min run is 26kmh on fairly flat roads. I hate him. He’s also done Bokor and he said it killed him! He does have a $4k Cannonball though. Idiot)
my last trip in August from Kep to Koh Kong, DRIVING a car, I barely manged 40 kms /hour....
Over the last several years, the winner of the tour de France has posted an overall average speed of right around 25mph (40kmph)–but that encompasses an entire tour. Uphill, downhill, time trial, flatland, it’s all averaged at 25mph. .
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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I took a taxi from Kohkong to Kampot then mini van Kampot to PP recently but trips scared the shit out of me crazy driving overtaking etc.
I'll stick to riding my motorcycle slowly as much as I can
I'll stick to riding my motorcycle slowly as much as I can
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
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What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
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I don't boat just for pleasure, beauty and sanity.
As much as I have been grooving along with all these road trip stories, highways scare me s***less.
I do appreciate the road warriors tho' - Brave and fearless total nutters, all.
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Re: Bicycles/motor bikes on country highways
Or even The Hoff.StroppyChops wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 10:10 pmOr add "Dave" at the end of each question.phkachhouk wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 10:27 am If you added “Micheal” at the end like “I have had a 70 kg = 155 lb man on the back, making the total 190 kg = 420 lb, Michael” you’d could be KITT from Knight Rider.Literally off the scales when we arrived (most medical scales are considered inaccurate beyond 165kg) because reasons, now around 110kg. Moving to Cambodia has literally saved my life.I’m 135kg. Beat that!
This heat is killing me.
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It’s making me sick.
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