When I can get to some great bandwidth I’ll upload the HD version.

On July 12th 2009 Nicholas Ward and Adam Teale left Bangkok Thailand and rode their bicycles south through Thailand and Malaysia, and after 2100km and nearly a month of riding, made it to Singapore

Here it is via Vimeo:

Dude, where’s my Jakkayarn? from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

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6 Comments

• At Tue 24, November 2009, Patrick wrote:

  Awesome video Mr Teale!

  Where are you at now btw?

• At Tue 24, November 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Hahaha, awesome video. Gives a nice touch to all the reading. :-) Loved the spy cam. :-D

• At Thu 26, November 2009, Adam wrote:

  Thanks Guys!

  @Patrick - am in southern thailand hanging out on Koh Lanta island. You gotta check it out sometime!

• At Thu 26, November 2009, Luke wrote:

  Thanks for sharing the trip with us, great work on the bike-cam and editing. You two rock.

  L

• At Fri 27, November 2009, ano wrote:

  well done sir. quite jealous. next trip?

• At Fri 27, November 2009, Adam wrote:

  cheers fellas!

  @ano - Next trip - not sure, heading to Sydney to work until July next year. By then I'm sure i'll be keen to go on an adventure again!

  What about you dude??

Could this be it???

Yes.

WE MADE IT TO SINGAPORE!!!

But what a hell of day!

I was joking about having some contracted some kind of disease yesterday. But today I felt very ill all day. But it could just be fatigue combined with lots of mosquito bites. TIme will tell.

After working out what would possibly be our last route to take we said cheerio to Batu Pahat and headed to Pontian Kechil.

Luckily as we got into the ride my flu symptoms started to go away ad we were able to get some distance covered.

(The entrance to Singapore we think we should have taken).

After 100km or so we made it to the home stretch and everything was coming up roses. The guy at the toll booth / customs to exit Malaysia let us through without having to pay.

(free exit)

So here we are, passing into Singapore Immigration. Everything looked great. Until a couple of officials came running up to us and looked very worried.

We’d joked about how we’ll probably accidently break the law in Singapore.

Before we knew it we were inside explaining why we had ridden our bikes into Singapore.

Apparently it had been 20 years since the last time someone rode in through this bridge. Why?

Well it turns out …. IT IS ILLEGAL!

The Customs officials were going to send us back to Malaysia to reenter Singapore from the Jahor Bahru entrance. If I hadn’t just cycled 120km I’d have been ok with it but I was exhausted.

LUCKILY after a few phone calls to their superiors the Customs guys let us through and escorted us to the highway (which is also illegal to ride on).

(Tiger beer brewery!)

Awesome – Nicholas and I got flat tyres within 5 minutes of each other . It felt like we were never going to make it to Singapore!

So here we are. We made it to Singapore!

It feels weird. It’s been nearly a month on the road. We’ve ridden something like 2100km!

I have felt better.

Total KM: 150km

3 Comments

• At Sat 8, August 2009, Adam wrote:

  yeah yeah!

  Nicholas we are cool.

• At Mon 10, August 2009, Chris Crowell wrote:

  What? They didn't check you for Swine Flu???

• At Mon 10, August 2009, Angela V wrote:

  Congrats guys, hope you've enjoyed it, the blog has been really interesting to follow, loved all the photos. Get better soon Adam! Ang

So close to Singapore! Nearly the home stretch! That’s if can make it…

I am covered in some sort of bites, assuming them to be mosquito bites, but yes I’m not a doctor. Fingers crossed I don’t have dengue, n1h1, malaria or any other excellent disease.

We said goodbye to Steven and the Shirah’s guesthouse and continued towards Singapore eventually stopping at a town called Batu Pahat.

Got some great vegetarian food here with ‘fake meat’ (why even bother?).

BP is a pretty decent sized town but was a bit of a struggle to find a place to sleep. Ended up in a brothel but the price for the room inc. girl for the night was too high.

Ended up at the cheapest place we could find called “Fairyland” – 30RM.

Total KM: 95km

Not a bunch to say except that the highlight of the day was getting fresh pineapple and pineapple juice just as we entered Malacca.

Amazing pineapple!

Had some good luck finding a place to stay – Shirah’s guesthouse run by a guy called Steven – sounds like he’s travelled a lot!

Looking forward to checking out Malacca tomorrow.

Total KM: 66km

Left the ‘love shack’ at Than Phannara around 7am an headed down highway 41, but then took a left down highway 4195 towards the mountains and then onto highway 4015 – towards Nakhon Sri Thammarat!

Was a great morning through this area, great jungle/forest around, lots of little villages to pass through, some big mountains with clouds floating past, very green.

We crossed through the Nakhon Sri Thammarat mountains after a fairly decent accent – Nicholas managed to beat it, my lack of gears got the better of me and had to walk it. Errrrr.

But the ride down the hill was cool – pretty steep and no traffic. My iPhone says i got my bike up to 92.1 km/h!

The rest of the ride into Nakhon Sri Thammarat was nice and flat, but HOT.

Total km: 78 km
Max Speed: 92.1 km/h

5 Comments

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Chayanon wrote:

  ????????????? 92 ????????????????? ?????????????????...???????????????????? ?????????????????? ????

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Lachlan Prior wrote:

  re: where to go in Malaysia - may I suggest the east coast? I know it's awkward because you've got to skip around yala, narathiwat and all that nastiness plus it probably means skipping KL but the east coast is supposed to be sprinkled with beautiful, deserted beaches. panang on the west coast is fairly nice as is kuala lumpur but it's palm oil plantations almost the entire distance (ie, fairly boring).

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Almost halfway! I can see you've got bored of that highway 41. And I can't blame you, highway 4015 seems to be much nicer to ride.

  Then I guess Lachlan got a good point in going on the east side of Malaysia. The west side is more developed and has tourist resorts... East seems much more fun to explore by bicycle. :-)

• At Wed 22, July 2009, ???? wrote:

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• At Thu 23, July 2009, the tall guy wrote:

  @Lachlan - good suggestion! It's on the cards but might end up just taking the west coast and maybe crossing over to the east when we get down south near singapore.

Phunpin is a great . Little town in Surathani province. The train station where most tourists come to to make their way to get the bust to the ferries to Koh Samui.

Kind of a nothing day, highway riding and very hot. After yesterday’s ride I am feeling pretty stuffed!

Stopped at a roadside hotel, a.k.a a “mahn rooht” hotel (sliding curtain), the kind where folks go to shag their neighbours/others.

very sore hands!

Total km: 62 km

Max Speed: 41.3 km/h

1 Comments

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Chayanon wrote:

  yo yo !!!! nick & adam how are you guy !!!! your are very very awesome man .. I hope your good luck all the way.

Left Prachuab Khiri Khun around 5.30am and managed to get on to the highway as the sun really got up.
Nicholas picked up some ‘meat on a stick’ and sticky rice to munch on later.

Riding in the rain – as good fun as yesterday.
Many little hills, not too bad. Possibly have more strength/stamina than yesterday.

Around lunchtime we stopped to fix Nicholas’ seat (would be a regular a event for today) and met an old bloke who recommended a short cut to Bang Saphan Noi. Cheers Uncle!

Very cool to ride past the farms that are so close to the sea. Not sure what the are growing there but looked like it was working.
We rode through a bunch of villages and the people are so friendly!
If you’re ever down this part of Thailand make sure you get off the highway and spend some time driving around.




Lunch – amazing fried chicken “guy tot” with sticky rice and some tasty soup. The ladies working here were really funny. Apparently one of them wanted to join us (more interested in Nicholas than myself I was told later) to Bang Saphan Noi for some lovin’ later that night! Horny old lady.



At a point it seemed that Uncle’s shortcut was not really that short but before we knew it we found out we were pretty close to Bang Saphan Noi.

I think around 2pm we passed Bang Saphan Yai and I started to flake out as I seem to do in the heat. Eventually we passed through Bang Saphan Lek and decided to ride on to Ban Boet.

As I was flaking out we luckily passed by a turn off to a waterfall and went for a swim. Hell yeah! That recharges the batteries – followed by a packet of chips, a fanta and a bottle of water.


Forgot to mention, drinking lots of water, maybe 3 litres a day – i think it is turning straight to steam!

The last hour or so we fought the good fight against some significantly steeper/longer hills than yesterday, which were made more difficult by the fact we had spent most of the day covering over 100km in the heat.

Getting into Ban Boet was a perfect ending to the day’s ride – all down hill and in the afternoon shade.

Ban Boet – next to the beach, dogs getting it on on the street, small town, big cliffs out to sea, nice food
Staying at the “Khun Thong” hotel – 300baht/night. Clean, friendly, fan rooms

Right now drinking a beer and sitting by the sea.
Perfecto!
Tomorrow… Chumpon?

8 Comments

• At Thu 16, July 2009, Lisa wrote:

  wear sunscreen tall! ouch ouch ouch ouch

  nice pics though!!

• At Thu 16, July 2009, Nad wrote:

  GOGO Boy!!!! i have something about yip man bruce lee 's master Have fun while rest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbNETKezmns

• At Fri 17, July 2009, Nick Ward wrote:

  Mmm thanks anyway Khun Nad! 555

• At Fri 17, July 2009, Chayanon wrote:

  yo yo !! nicholas & adam .......go go go ?????????????????????????????

• At Sun 19, July 2009, the tall guy wrote:

  @lisa - i know, you'd think i'd have learnt that lesson by now

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Nice scenery! Watch the ladies Nick! ;-)

• At Fri 24, July 2009, aoth wrote:

  Wow that is Amezing trip :))

• At Fri 24, July 2009, aoth wrote:

  Lucky or bad luck to get an old horney lady hahaha

Vincita Company Limited
9/20 Chaiyapruek 9
Ramkamhang 118
Bangkok 10240

tel: +66 2 7296265
email: vincita@vincita.co.th
web: http://www.vincita.co.th

Talking to Ward we thought we should post up any links/locations/reviews of places that go to to get bike stuff.
Maybe someone may find it useful one day.

So here’s the first one.

PROBIKE
ph: +66 2 2533384
237/2 Sarasin Rd., Lumpinee Pathumwan Bangkok Thailand 10330

http://probike.co.th/

2 Comments

• At Mon 3, August 2009, Hannahberry wrote:

  Hey Adam,

  I was hanging in Melb with a friend from Bangkok who told me you were doing this crazy bike ride. I'm back in Aus and training for a similar ride through Thailand (sth - nth) in Sept with my friend Chris who is doing an 8 year epic ride around the world. He is currently in Bali, but is heading north- maybe you'll pass him on the highways www.cyclestrongman.com

  Good Luck!

  Hannah

• At Mon 3, August 2009, the tall guy wrote:

  Hey Hannah great to hear from you!

  Wow your mate Chris is amazing, what a journey he's about to have!

  8 years! woah!!

  Which side of Thailand will you take? I wished we'd taken the west - maybe next time!

  Good luck on your adventure!

can’t wait to go to Singaporee!!

2 Comments

• At Wed 1, July 2009, the tall guy wrote:

  dude cool headshave. Did u end up getting a new helmut?

• At Wed 1, July 2009, Nick Ward wrote:

  nope, I'm sticking with my old one.