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04/09/2026

🏍️ THE BACK ROAD TO PAI — BECAUSE ROUTE 1095 ISN’T THE ONLY WAY

Everyone knows the usual road to Pai.

But if you’ve got a bike, a bit of time and an aversion to doing things the obvious way, there’s another option.

The Back Road to Pai. 😎

Head out to Samoeng, jump onto the 1349 to Wat Chan, and then turn right on the 1265. This is the longer, quieter and considerably more interesting way of arriving in Pai. Twisty little roads, mountain villages, cracking scenery and long stretches where the tourist traffic simply disappears.

It’s also a favourite with local riders who’ve had a gutful of dodging trucks and those ubiquitous silver tourist vans on the 1095. Nothing against the good old 1095 — it’s a magnificent road — but sharing every second hairpin with a minivan driven by a meth-head can take the shine off it a bit. 😂

The Back Road isn’t necessarily the quickest way to Pai.

That’s sort of the bloody point.

This video is from a group run along the route, accompanied by Richard Thompson’s magnificent “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” — possibly the finest motorcycle song ever written, and a pretty bloody good soundtrack for disappearing into the hills with your mates.

You’ll find the Back Road to Pai marked on our Rider’s Corner Mae Hong Son Loop touring map, alongside the classic loop and a few other ways of making a straightforward journey considerably less straightforward.

Because sometimes the best road between A and B is the one that wanders through C, D, several mountains, a noodle shop and somewhere you hadn’t planned on going.

Take the long way. That’s why you rented the bloody bike. 🏍️⛰️

03/09/2026

🇦🇺 AN AUSSIE, A HIMALAYAN & A FEW HILLS 🏍️

Old mate from Australia recently grabbed one of our Royal Enfield Himalayan 450s and headed north for a bit of quality wandering from Mon Jam to Chiang Rai.

Not a bad way to spend a few days. 😎

The Himalayan is a bloody good match for this sort of trip. In our experience riding this bike both in Thailand and in India, the suspension and the brakes are capable and predictable. This is not your granddad's Royal Enfield. Yet they've managed to keep the RE magic. The engine gives it a character that you just don't find on the NX500. We're not saying it's better than the Honda all around, but it's certainly an authentic motorcycling experience that puts a curve on your laughing gear in ways more polished Japanese bikes can't.

The hilly and twisty roads around Mon Jam are really what these bikes are about. Then keep pointing north towards Chiang Rai and suddenly you’ve got an enormous playground to explore.

Pack light, pick a direction and bu**er off into the hills.

Good on ya, mate — hope the Himalayan delivered the appropriate dose of two-wheeled fun. 🇦🇺🤙🏍️⛰️

02/09/2026

WELCOME TO THAILAND, YANKS! 🇺🇸🇹🇭⚓

After a bloody marathon deployment, the USS Abraham Lincoln steams into Pattaya today — and fair dinkum, the crew have earned themselves some shore leave.

The Lincoln has been making headlines after spending a record 270 days deployed in the Iran war theatre. And it wasn’t exactly a luxury cruise, either. Disrupted logistics reportedly meant fresh tucker became scarce, while even basics like soap, toothpaste and deodorant were running short.

So after months at sea, several thousand sailors are about to hit Pattaya — a town that’s been helping US Navy crews blow off a bit of steam since the Vietnam War.

And Pattaya is ready.

We suspect there may be a few establishments down there currently checking the beer fridges, fluffing the cushions and putting the welcome mat out. 😂

But if any of you sailors reckon 270 days aboard an aircraft carrier is quite enough straight-line travel for one lifetime, we've got another suggestion.

Head north.

About 700 km north.

Chiang Mai. Mountains. Jungle. Twisty roads. Motorcycles. And absolutely no flight deck. 🏍️🌴⛰️

Rider’s Corner stands ready to do our patriotic bit for Thai-American relations. If you’re a motorcycle tragic, come and see us. We'll find you a bike, point you toward some cracking roads, and send you off to discover the good bit.

You’ve come this far, fellas.

Might as well see the good bit.

Welcome to Thailand, lads. Enjoy the shore leave — you've bloody well earned it. 🇺🇸🤝🇹🇭

RIDER’S CORNER — CHIANG MAI
Est. 2010
Life’s short. Ride more.

01/09/2026

🏍️ ROUTE 1150 — BLOODY GOOD ROAD. OCCASIONALLY MISSING.

Route 1150 is one of those cracking Northern Thailand roads that keeps you on your toes.

It runs from the 118 northeast of Chiang Mai, climbs over the hills through Phrao, then carries on to just north of Chiang Dao — making it a pearler of a day ride from town.

And when the road’s good, it’s bloody good. Fast flowing sections, sweeping bends, mountain views and enough twisty stuff to keep everyone grinning inside their helmets.

The slight complication is that every rainy season seems to rearrange the 1150 a bit. 😂

As you’ll see in the video, you can encounter sand washed into corners, broken pavement, bits of road attempting to migrate downhill, and bloody great rocks that have decided the carriageway looks like a nice place for a lie-down.

Naturally, this means there are usually roadworks somewhere along the way as well.

So while there are sections where you can get into a lovely rhythm, don’t assume the next corner looks anything like the last one. Leave yourself a margin, watch the road surface and remember that a gorgeous mountain bend can contain a surprise package courtesy of the monsoon.

Treat it with a bit of respect and the 1150 is an absolute ripper — especially as part of a Phrao–Chiang Dao day out.

You’ll find this road on our Rider’s Corner Chiang Rai Overview touring map, along with plenty more excuses to disappear into the hills for the day.

Great bends. Great views. Questionable geology.

Just another day riding Northern Thailand. 😎🏍️⛰️

30/08/2026

🏍️ NEW FROM THE RIDER’S CORNER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

After years of watching riders complain about sore arses, heavy luggage, steep hills and the alarming distance between coffee stops, Ian has finally cracked it.

Behold the Automatic Mae Hong Son Loop Apparatus™.

Why bother with all that tedious clutching, balancing and holding yourself upright when modern engineering can do the hard yakka for you?

This magnificent bit of kit comes fully equipped with:

🫖 Tea container — because civilisation must be maintained.
🧀 Cheese storage — essential touring equipment, obviously.
⛽ Extra fuel tank — actually not a bad idea.
🗺️ Map holder — none of that GPS nonsense.
🍑 Bum cushion — 1,864 curves demand proper upholstery.
🦘 Hill-climb springs — probably best not to ask.
⚙️ Adventure Mode — activated by pulling a lever and hoping for the best.

Grom has inspected the engineering and appears deeply unconvinced, while Brap has given it the full Rider’s Corner quality-control treatment and declared it “Brap Brap!”

Initial testing around Chiang Mai has been encouraging, although the prototype has not yet been subjected to the Mae Hong Son Loop, Thai potholes, wet leaves, wandering buffalo or a Fortuner coming around a blind bend on the wrong side.

Ian remains confident.

Everyone else has moved a safe distance away.

Rider’s Corner — solving motorcycle touring problems that absolutely nobody asked us to solve. 😂🏍️🔧

Tea first. Ride later.

29/08/2026

🏍️ FATHER–SON BUSINESS, MAE HONG SON STYLE 🇩🇪

German old mate and his young bloke recently rolled back into Rider’s Corner after spending three days tackling the Mae Hong Son Loop on one of our Royal Enfield Himalayan 450s.

Now that’s a pretty bloody good father–son holiday. 😎

Forget theme parks and staring at phones over dinner. Chuck the young bloke on the back, point the bike towards the mountains and spend three days carving through some of the best scenery and twistiest roads Northern Thailand can throw at you.

The Himalayan 450 was just the ticket. It’s not a fire-breathing rocket ship, but that’s rather the point. Comfortable, sure-footed and happy chugging over mountain passes all day without constantly encouraging you to behave like a nong.

Three days later, Dad, son and Himalayan all returned safely, with plenty of kilometres under their belts and smiles still firmly attached. 👍

That’s the sort of family bonding we can get behind.

Good on ya, fellas — hope the Mae Hong Son Loop provided a few stories you’ll still be telling years from now. 🏍️⛰️🇹🇭

28/08/2026

🇹🇭🏍️ “I FOUND A SHORTCUT!”

Every bloody motorbike trip has these two blokes.

One of them's packed for every possible emergency — tools, maps, wet-weather gear, spare un**es, probably a satellite phone and enough supplies to invade Burma.

The other bloke spots a road disappearing into the jungle and reckons:

“Yeah, this’ll save us twenty minutes.” 😂

Three hours later Google Maps has given up, and some old Thai bloke on a Honda Wave has just ridden past you carrying six chickens and a fridge.

And your mate?

Still grinning.

“See? Told ya it’d go through.”

That’s riding in northern Thailand, mate. The best roads are the ones you probably shouldn’t have taken in the first place.

Grab a bike, grab a map and go have a proper stickybeak.

Just remember:

Never trust the bloke who says he knows a shortcut. But sometimes it's worth following him anyway. 🤣

27/08/2026

🏍️ DOI ANG KHANG — POINT THE BIKE UPHILL AND HANG ON

There are hill climbs, and then there’s the road up Doi Ang Khang — a magnificent bit of Northern Thailand that appears to have been designed by someone who considered gradients a personal challenge. 😁

It’s bloody steep, narrow and packed with proper hairpins, with spectacular mountain views appearing whenever you’ve got half a second spare to look at them.

Just to keep things interesting, you’ll also encounter pickup trucks, local traffic and the occasional vehicle coming around a bend occupying rather more road than you’d ideally like.

This is one of the roads where we don’t allow Rider’s Corner rental scooters — same story with the summit road up Doi Inthanon. The gradients are simply too severe. Take a suitable motorcycle, use your gears, leave plenty in reserve and don’t ride like a galah.

We filmed this run with an Insta360 on a pole, which produced some cracking footage and also demonstrated why roadside vegetation trimming is an underappreciated public service.

The bike stayed firmly on the tarmac. The camera, however, occasionally went bush. 😂🌿📹

Once you survive the climb, don’t immediately bu**er off again. The Ang Khang plateau is well worth exploring — Chinese and hill-tribe communities, beautiful mountain scenery, a cracking campsite, the Royal Agricultural Station and its gardens.

You can also turn left at the top and take the back roads to the Wiang Heng area, another corker of a ride.

And remember: what goes up Doi Ang Khang eventually has to come back down.

That’s when you discover your brakes have been paying attention too. 😬

Steep. Twisty. Spectacular. Slightly ridiculous.

Just the way we like ’em. 🏍️⛰️

26/08/2026

🚨 BREAKING BLOODY NEWS 🚨

Well, stone the flamin’ crows — looks like Harry and Meghan have finally cracked it.

Forget California. Forget Blighty. The Sussexes are apparently chucking the whole lot in and moving somewhere with cheaper tucker, better roads and considerably fewer blokes hiding in bushes with telephoto lenses.

CHIANG MAI. 🇹🇭

Sources close to absolutely nobody reckon Harry took one look at the Mae Hong Son Loop — 1,864 glorious curves — and said, “Stuff California, Meg. We’re moving.”

Meghan’s reportedly on board, although negotiations hit a snag after she asked whether there’s a Soho House in Pai.

Meanwhile, back at the Palace, Charles, Camilla, William and Kate have taken the news with remarkable equanimity.

🥂🍾🥂

Ian was waiting at Chiang Mai Airport with a couple of bikes, two helmets and some fairly straightforward advice:

“Travel light, mate.”

Unfortunately, nobody told Meghan. 😂

Welcome to Northern Thailand, Your Royal Highnesses.

Now grab a helmet, get stuck into a bowl of khao soi and try not to hold up the traffic on the 1095.

Rider’s Corner — solving international family disputes one motorcycle at a time. 🇹🇭🏍️🇦🇺

25/08/2026

🏍️ BIGGER BIKE ≠ BIGGER GRIN

Here at Rider’s Corner, we could give you the classic rental-shop sales pitch:

“Mate, you definitely need the bigger bike.”

More horsepower. More cubes. More money in our till.

Except we reckon that’s a load of old cobblers. 😁

Our advice is pretty simple: choose the smallest bike that comfortably does what you need it to do.

Because for 99% of riding around Northern Thailand, the smaller, lighter machine is often the one you’ll have the most fun on.

A little bike is easier through tight mountain bends, easier around villages, easier to park, easier when the road suddenly turns to gravel, and considerably easier to pick up after discovering that what looked like firm ground was actually a cleverly disguised bloody ditch.

And you don’t need 100 horsepower to enjoy a road with 400 corners. Half the fun is wringing the neck of something modest without reaching speeds that make your guardian angel lodge a formal complaint.

That’s why we’re perfectly happy renting you a Giorno, ADV160 or CRF when a bigger machine isn’t necessary. We’d rather you come back grinning than come back saying, “Yeah, the bike was impressive, but Christ it was a handful.”

There’s no shame whatsoever in being the bloke on the smallest bike.

Even if you’re wearing a tweed jacket.

Even if everyone else is on adventure bikes.

And even if you’ve brought your teddy bear along for emotional support.

That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re as feckless as Mr Bean.

Probably. 🧸😎

Choose the bike that makes you smile. You don’t have to be fast to have the best day.

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