Buy 1 get 1 FREE Bikes

Never knew that even motorcycle have buy 1 get 1 free promotion....Was surprised to heard that the local Kawazaki dealer have this sort of promotion for their China Made motorcycles....buy one and get another one FREE...


for example this Blue color china sport bike selling at around $7880 and get another same bike for absolutely FREE...! the naked bike as well......

just wonder why people want to have 2 same bikes.....or maybe the quality is so bad that the owner can use the identical bike as SPARE PARTS or in case the 1st bike break down the owner can take the 2nd bike as a stand-in, so no one actually know your bike breakdown.....

Another Charity Ride....

as usual HOG Brunei will never reject any call for charity, so once again all the dudes got up early this Sunday at rolled their bikes to the Yayasa School for another session of charity ride for the school.......

response was cool at the beginning.... so everyone just sat around chatting and "Bullshiting".....

but gradually people started coming for the ride....

























































YES..! finally got business coming......

The Toughest Road Trip Ever

Finally the day has come, we are all ready for the ride to TAWAU SABAH, via the NABAWAN mythical gravel route to TAWAU...we have chosen this route for its shorter traveling distance although we have to ride on 150kms of gravel road which we know nothing about its condition....but it is worth to try....we expect this to be normal point A to B and back to point A kind of ride liked what we used to did before, but it turn out to be the Toughest PAN-SABAH RIDE we ever have.....

Distance Traveled : 1700+kms

Total Time : 84 hours

Total Traveling Time : 38 hours

Longest Traveling Time : 18 Damn hours

Weather Condition : 50% Sunny and 50% Storm

Road Condition : Tarmac, Gravel, Mud, Water and countless of Road kills + Elephant Crossing warning sign.

Type of Bikes : Adventure, Dual Purpose, Naked and Cruiser.

No. of Bikers : 13

Trip Summary : with the limited time given & less suitable machine to ride with, this road trip will only be suitable for insane people...but we enjoyed it to the fullest, and proud of doing it.....but will I do it again...? not until I got the right bike for this...be the 1st person to ride through these with a Harley Davidson Sportster....once is more than enough.

as usual all meet up at coffee shop for breakfast at 5 in the morning....with some simple briefing about the trip and we ride to the border and cross it once the checkpoint open..

crossed over to Malaysia border, get everyone paired with the Communication Units and head straight to our destination without much unnecessary delay or stops....have to cover as much millage as possible before the sun set.....

Flying lap on the infamous "Crocker Range", some dude get so high with all the bends & corners....



































a quick stop at KENINGAU Shell Station and drinks for ourselves....

Next is PEKAN SEPULUT before entering the gravel road.....

Pekan Sepulut

Tarmac ends begin of gravel.......



just got to the gravel road and most bikes are low in fuel right now and no gas station for the next 100kms ( both direction )











seek help from the Head of some Long House for their spare fuel before we head on to where the civilization ends....

Finally we are on the mythical gravel road in the middle of jungle that we knew so little....

everyone is so enjoying the ride up to this point, till the NIGHTMARE falling on us.....










photos taken near the jubction to MALIAU BASIN CONSEVATION AREA

half-way through we were forced to stop at this coffee shop in the middle of the jungle to decide our next move, go or not to go...? cos some logging trucks driver told us the road ahead are filled with foot deep wheel spinning slippery mud due to the heavy rain, and the sun light is fading rapidly, they recon no street bikes on earth can get through that...

but we decided just go ahead regardless of whatever shits lay ahead of us....is either now or never, just bite the lips and do it...

this is where the real NIGHTMARE begin....

stopped to evaluated the condition and try to figured out a way to ride on this damn muddy road.....

i expect to drop my wheel on this kind of shit.....










no photos are available from this point onward, due to the intense incidents and riding in a total darkness rainy night with more gravel, more mud, more bike sliding and more of everything a biker can imagine.....








This is what all we can see through out the night x 3 times worsened by distorted& Fogged up vision due to the rain, your just have to be there yourself to witness and experience it ....luckily we only have to go through this once.....

but... the next challenge after this is NO fuel station for the next 100kms after the gravel road ended...and we have to hunt for fuel at Kelabakan village, filled our tanks with some local pre-mixed gas with 2T oil in plastic mineral bottles....can't be a chooser when you are low in fuel...and more rainy night ride ahead till we reached TAWAU around 1am...

damn...we have been riding for 18 solid hours....no words can describe how our bodies feel....sleep is the only thing everyone desperately need right now......

THE KUHARA COURT - the place we checked-in early this morning around 1 am....some of our room were sold-off due to our really late check-in....

he survived the freaking gravel road last night....that proved a HARLEY DAVIDSON SPORTSTER can go places...but just pity him have to endured these ridiculous cursed road for the MAD owner.......

first thing in the morning, send the bikes for cleaning....