Adam Teale: News From Above

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

What started out as a seemingly cruisy ride up into the Cameron Highlands soon turned into some serious hard yakka. 10km south of Ipoh down Highway 1, after a great breakfast of roti and curry, we headed east along the A181. … Some guys were selling bamboo on the side of the street and were cool enough to go grab us some water from their supply up the road (i think from the water that was running off the mountain).

“hey Nick… how’s you going?”
“…I’m running on auto-pilot…”
Around 160km per day seems to be a limit we reach before weird things begin to happen.
Time slows down, your body starts to spasm, the bike shorts feel tighter than normal, your hands are now more numb than ever. And you can’t stop thinking about what weird fizzy [...]