Songkhran Festival & Phuket Bike Week : Part II

I didn't recall the name of the hotel we stayed in. I think we all just kinda exhausted from the ride. Abg Wan had made arrangement for our stay and food. We each all pay RM 400 to cover all lunch and dinner including 4 night stay. It's a real bargain. After cleaning ourselves up, we meet in the lobby for tonight's dinner. The rain starts to fall again.


While waiting for other Langkawi bikers, I forgot to count but I think it's about 11 all of them, we just chit and chat and review the whole wet ride.


To get to stretches your leg after 5 hours of ride is priceless. We meet Hafiz here who then tag along with Remy Zx14.


Damn! I forgot the place's name as well. It's just 50 steps from the hotel. The food here is great. Everyone can testify how great the tea is. We are served with ulam (raw vegetables) and sambal belacan first. And the sambal belacan was outstanding!


Nice.


Tom yam that is served with. Outstanding as well.


All the pack of us enjoying a fine dinner.

After dinner had a nice tour within Danok town. I get back to the hotel and installed the GPS mount at my bike. It's a simple wire connection to the battery and tying up a few screws.

I had a good night sleep. Shared the room with Mat Nor and both of us doesn't mind we drop all the gear and put some loud Akrapovic mufflers sound while we are sleeping. We are to assemble back in the lobby fully geared at 7a.m. Me and Mat Nor were late. The cause is the late chat and we watched MU vs Porto which game I missed last week. Hehehe. Sorry guys. But then, it happen to be a habit of me to be late in the packs. Huh!


A little foggy in the morning. A Doa to ask Allah protect us through out our journey. Alhamdulillah everything went well.


After starting our journey, we pump up after about 80km of riding. The petrol here cost average of 26.00 Baht per liter, almost about RM2.65/l. Choices of RON is confusing a bit confusing.


A little snap and posing on the camera. We're riding in Thailand!


Najib try to make a get away. I caught him in the act. Err.. The are nice restroom up the in other corner. I guess it's the urgency that he had to dealt with.


Here's Hafiz on first guy on the left.


We cruise along the highway 41. Not much bump on the road and none potholes that I see. Thailand made a good road but the tarmac compound is a little bit slippery-smooth to our tyres. And the open highway gives everyone to cross over as they please. Yet it felt safe. The Thailand's driving attitude is great.



Something here caught my attention. Didn't cross in my mind if their sneeze thou. Huhuhu....


I pass on Trang about 10 o'clock. We had our breakfast and refuel here.


Our cruising speed on the highway is aroung 130-140km/h. You can't top too much on these streets. Somemore the marshall is unpass-able.


In the streets of Trang. We didn't get the opportunity to explore the town more, so 5 of us planning to spend more time along the way back.


Local food you have to try if you're here.

In 30 minutes we assemble and regroup to continue our journey.
Next stop to refuel is Phang Nga.


My bike & Mat Nor's advised fuel is to get the RON 95 and above. While Remy, Shahir and Najib is RON 90. But we all pump 95 instead.


Najib had 40 second nap. That's enough for him.


The fuel looks wired. The sign stated is gasohol. It's a fuel consisting of a blend of ethyl alcohol and unleaded gasoline, especially a blend of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline. So does it the fight fuel for us? I still in puzzle mode. But me and Najib swear our bike performance are a little bit downgraded with this fuel. Maybe the ECU need to adjust by this fuel. Some more, a labeled 91 cost more than 95 which is 29.50 Baht.


Never mind what the bike drinks, for us we just need plain water.

We then being brief that Phuket is just about 80km away from our stop. That is exiting. Most of us request to stop on the bridge. There are lot's of other bikers pass along. And most of them stops here as well.


The weather is perfect and the sun is just right. Look at the blue sky. It's so beautiful.


Najib best post.


Local fisherman boats make the scenery much more lovelier.


I snap some local who love to see big bikes passing them.

About 20km away from our hotel, we had some trouble with one of our bikes. The coolant seems leaking too fast. Shahir spot this and we stop to let it cool down for a moment.


We didn't rectify the problem instantly. It then turn out to be a cracker radiator hose. Three of us leave the bike here for a while and head down to the hotel. Later Abg Wan and his guys came back to solve the matter. No harm done.


It's hot on those leather suit. We three then when on to the hotel with two bikes.


Group again with the boys at Patong Beach. Where we stayed.