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??

What a day!

We left Chumpon about 6.30am and got back onto the highway and spent the rest of the day riding – for 186km!

MotionX GPS app on my iPhone says e were riding for over 9 hours straight, averaging 21 km/h.
Highways are definitely easier riding than the ‘shortcuts’.

I am very surprised. I guess the 300baht massage yesterday and a reasonably long sleep really paid off!

Not much to really say about yesterday except that we aimed to get to a town called Chaya and spend the night there, but we just kept of riding.

We figured we’d find a place to crash for the night in a town called Ta Chang, unfortunately there was no where to stay when we got there!

So 25km or so into the night we made it to Phun Pin – a town close to Surathani town.

Nicholas just reminded me to put down that we saw a lot of dead dogs and snakes along the side of the road.

Staying at the only hotel in town: Queen Hotel just near the train station – not bad, room with 2 large single beds and a fan/shower/toilet – 260baht

Total km: 186km

3 Comments

• At Sat 18, July 2009, Lachlan wrote:

  You guys are starting to look a little like starving Sudanese refugees who are sponsored by Gatorade. EAT SOMETHING! and Adam, in one of those photos you look like you're about to lead a commando force on a dawn raid of Surat Thani, which is funny. But keep riding! This bike trek is awesome, and has everybody talking, and we can't wait to see the videos. Wish your journey with safety!

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

  dude!!

  The weird thing is we are eating all the fucking time!

  Every hour or so i get really hungry. I think my body goes into shock each time i get on the bike and panics and says to itself, get me some sugar!

  Will start cutting some footage today, hopefully can get something out of it

  What you upto? When u coming on an adventure again?

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

  Adam you're taking these comments way to serious, come on, put up a smile when you're behind your laptop. ;-)

  Getting a nice suntan though. :-) Keep up it up, 180 KM is AMAZING! Don't forget to stretch though, you might be seriously damaging your joints otherwise...

6.30am left Ban Boet. Road solidly for an hour along the coastline and then went inland, picked up some sticky rice and carved our way through the jungle to Don Yang.
Riding along the coast before sunrise is a great way to start the day.

It’s really is beautiful out here, people doing their thing on their farms or stores, everyone seems pretty happy.

Everyone since Bangkok has assumed Nicholas to be a farang (foreigner). I think it’s driving him a little crazy and giving him a identity disorder. I was riding next to him today and he was talking in some weird germanic language. Yeah, he’s losing it.

It’s a lot more hilly down here, more pain.

Nicholas nearly got bitten by a snake, but i think he really just ran over a stick. But he is sure is was a snake. He says it was a little horrifying.

Had a great lunch up in the hills in between Pathiu and Chumpon – “Laht Nah” – something along the lines of noodles in sticky sauce. Passed out for half an hour and then hit the road again.
Strange though, within 30 minutes I was starving again and got that wobbly no energy feeling. Had to get a quick cola/sugar/biscuit fix then slowly came back to life.

15km or so we made it into Chumpon.

My legs are lead

We’ve been getting a bunch more video so hopefully we’ll be able to cut something together at the end of the trip. Perhaps what we lack in charisma we’ll have made up in kilometres.

total km today: 86km

1 Comments

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

  Seeing that last picture feels a bit frightening. Just that thin aluminium between you and a very painful road may you slip when you drive almost 90 KM/h down a unpredicatble road... ;-)

  But very cool, you guys really made a lot of KMs on basically just a bit of rubber + aluminium and a lot of manpower!