Your bike will break down. If you’re doing serious big bike touring in Southeast Asia, covering thousands of kilometers across countries with roads that range from excellent to genuinely punishing, something mechanical will go wrong at some point. The question...
The ride from Bangkok south to the Malaysian border and beyond into Peninsular Malaysia is one of the most varied pieces of big bike touring available in Southeast Asia. You start in one of the world’s great urban chaos machines, descend through an increasingly...
The Mekong is one of the great rivers of the world. It rises on the Tibetan Plateau, drops through Yunnan Province in China, then forms the border between Myanmar and Laos before continuing south through Laos, along the Thai-Lao border, through Cambodia, and finally...
Nobody who has done big bike touring in Southeast Asia will tell you that land border crossings are their favorite part of the trip. They’re a necessary friction between one excellent riding country and the next, and they range from smooth twenty-minute...
Packing gear for Southeast Asia on a big bike is one of those things that sounds simple until you’re soaked through at 38 degrees Celsius, your visor is fogged, and you’ve got another four hours to the next town. Nobody told you it would feel like riding...
