Ryshia Kennie ...The adventure begins today!: Flashback Friday

Friday, March 13, 2020

Flashback Friday - Over the Handlebars and Into the Fire

One thing of the many things one should not to do while abroad - fight with the persistent slide of your person down the fender of a very shaky dirt bike on a very busy highway.
Here is how it all went down:

It was the last bike on the lot. A dirt bike that was questionable from the start especially with plans to ride a deus and hit a Thai freeway from Chiang Rai, Thailand to the northern border town of Mae Sai, Thailand. Apparently there was a reason that it was the only bike left on the lot:

...It spit oil - everywhere!...The speedometer didn't work!

...Its burning hot exhaust pipe stretched out where
the passenger's legs went!

...The bike wasn't the only thing that had only one left - a helmet
in my size was the second!

...And the seat wasn't meant to double - apparently

neither was the fender!

So, in one of the most uncomfortable rides of my life we headed doubling down the Thai highway. A relatively busy foreign freeway is not one whe

re you want a breakdown. So we valiantly kept up with the flow of traffic as oil peppered the driver's legs. But the faster our speed went the more the wind resistance seemed to send me sliding down that shaky seat - the fender. And when I wasn't repositioning, I was using my free hand to push the helmet up that had fallen over my eyes.

Next time you hear that there's only one rental left - walk fast - very fast - in the other direction. And don't go driving down Thai freeways on a worn out dirt bike. I know for sure you won't see me out there - at least not on a dirt bike

Until later.

Dream big and travel safe.

Ryshia

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