Date:

12 May 2024

Time (Estimated Length):

51 min (29 km)

People on trip:

Dom & Tracy (Suzuki V-Strom 1000), Australian David (Royal Enfield 250 Interceptor), Tall David (Honda CB 650 Naked Street Bike), Jessica (Honda Click 125), Wonder (Honda Rebel 500), Harley Dave (Harley Davidson Road Glide 1950)

Trip Checklist

Tire & PSI:

Good

Fluids:

Full

Lights:

Good

Lic. & Reg.

Good

Weather/Temp:

Sunny (37 C)

Route:

https://riserapp.com/trips/799807

https://riserapp.com/trips/799981

Type of trip/Ride:

Lunch run with friends

Points of interest:

Sailom Bang Pu Restaurant

Motorcycle Performance:

Excellent

Why?

It has been a long time since I’ve done an extended ride and it felt really good.

Departing KM:

40767

Ending KM:

40825

Will I do this ride again?

 No 

Why?

Most of the ride was going down Sukhumvit road and the traffic was bad.

Memorable events/notes:

This time we started from Big Mike’s restaurant, The Deck, which is a great restaurant.  Tracy and I were a little bit late, but only Australian David was there, so Tracy and I ordered breakfast while we waited for the others to arrive and chatted with Australian David.

Next to arrive was Tall David, and we chatted to him a bit.  Next to arrive was Wonder with her new friend, Harley Dave.  

We had a plan for kickstands up (KSU) at 12:30, and we almost hit the mark this time.  Jessica, our last scheduled person to show up, arrived at 12:28.

I learned a valuable lesson with this trip.  Do not travel down Sukhumvit road at all cost.  Traffic is terrible and it’s so difficult to get beyond 60kph.  Since we couldn’t really get any speed, at that time of day, it made it super super hot.  

I really liked starting off from The Deck.  It felt like having a home.  

The destination restaurant wasn’t so good either.  That was a bad choice.  In the future, I will choose places North, East, and West of Bangkok and stay away from South as we would spend too much time on Sukhumvit.  

As a first ride, I felt it went really well, and we left at around the time I wanted and got back in plenty of time.