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08/10/2026

🇳🇱 SIX DAYS, 1,864 CORNERS & ONE VERY HAPPY DUTCHMAN

Old mate from the Netherlands recently grabbed one of our Royal Enfield Himalayan 450s and bu**ered off for six days around the Mae Hong Son Loop.

And judging by the verdict when he got back, the Himalayan did its job rather bloody well. 😎

It’s exactly the sort of trip this bike was made for. Comfortable enough for long days in the saddle, happy on the rougher bits of Northern Thai tarmac, easy to chuck through the twisties.

It’s not a bike that spends all day screaming “LOOK HOW FAST I AM!”

It just quietly gets on with the job — and somehow makes you want to keep riding the bloody thing.

Six days later, old mate rolled back into Rider’s Corner saying he loved the Himalayan and he’ll be back again.

That’ll do us. 👍

Another Mae Hong Son Loop successfully completed, another convert to the Himalayan 450, and another perfectly good excuse for a return trip to Chiang Mai.
See ya next time, mate — we’ll keep one warm for ya.

07/10/2026

🏍️ THE TAIL OF THE ELEPHANT — A NEW DIRTY CLASSIC?

A few days ago we stumbled across a trail that made us think, bloody hell, where have you been hiding?

This absolute ripper runs from Route 108 near Mae Hong Son across the mountains to Ban Wat Chan. It’s new to us, so with absolutely no authority whatsoever, we’re peremptorily giving the bu**er a name:

THE TAIL OF THE ELEPHANT. 🐘🏍️

Why? Because it roughly follows the course of the legendary Elephant Trail, which has been a staple of dirt-bike riding around here for yonks.

But the Elephant Trail is gradually being concreted over. That’s fantastic news for the people living in the villages along it — getting to school, market or hospital without wrestling through mud is considerably more important than keeping a bunch of grubby motorcyclists entertained.

For us dirty bu**ers, though, it means finding somewhere else to play.

And we may have found it. 😎

From the 108, the Tail starts with a properly steep climb up towards the Bua Tong sunflower fields. From there it winds across the ridges and valleys of Mae Hong Son Province, through magnificent mountain country, before eventually delivering you to Ban Wat Chan.

It’s remote, beautiful, challenging and — most importantly — still properly dirty.

Could this eventually take the old Elephant Trail’s place in the hearts of Northern Thailand dirt riders?

We’ll see. First we’ve got to ride the bastard a few more times. 😂

But first impressions?

Absolute bloody pearler.

And yes, the GPX track is up on our sister site Chiang Mai Dirt Bike. We'll chuck the link in the comments so you lot can have a crack at the Tail of the Elephant yourselves.

06/10/2026

🏍️ NEW PHONE MOUNTS — THIS BU**ER IS RIDGY-DIDGE

For years we wondered why somebody didn't make a proper, all-metal motorcycle phone mount with vibration damping that didn’t cost as much as a scooter.

Well, we reckon somebody finally did.

For the start of high season, we’ll be fitting new Lamicall phone mounts to our tourers -- NX500s, Transalps, Himalayans et al. And after testing them ourselves, we’re bloody impressed.

In fact, so far at least, we prefer them to some of the eye-wateringly expensive systems out there.

No special phone case. No extra widgets to buy. No mucking about.

Pull up the spring-loaded top, chuck your phone in and let it clamp back down. Then — and this bit is important — snap the locking lever on the back. Once that’s locked, you can physically tug on the top clamp and it won’t open.

Your phone is staying put unless you forget the bloody lever. At which point we refer you to the ancient Australian legal principle of “Yeah nah, that one’s on you, mate.” 😂

The mount sits on a RAM-style adjustable arm, so you can easily get the screen exactly where you want it. Better still, the design means the arm can’t simply fall apart if some enthusiastic galah keeps loosening the adjustment k**b beyond where common sense would suggest stopping.

The whole assembly is screwed firmly to the handlebar. No quick-release clamp for somebody to lose or nick.

Pick the thing up and have a fiddle with it and you immediately notice how solid it feels. Proper metal construction, nice mechanisms, no cheap plasticky rubbish.

One thing we’re not going to make grand claims about yet is the vibration damping. Motorcycle vibration can murder phone camera stabilisation, and only plenty of kilometres will tell us how well any mount handles that. But with rubber-mounted springs at the back combined with the adjustable arm, we think your expensive little camera has got a fighting chance.

Just one more upgrade coming to the Rider’s Corner touring fleet for high season.
Your phone stays on the bike. So Google Maps can continue confidently sending you down some goat track because it reckons it’ll save three minutes. 😎🏍️📱

04/10/2026

🏍️ FROM THE ARCHIVES: TWO-STROKES, MUMMIES & PAPUA NEW BLOODY GUINEA

Here’s one from 2019, when we joined a motorcycle trip into Papua New Guinea — a place where simply getting around can qualify as an adventure.

The trip was organised by Niugini Dirt Tours, based out of Lae, and the crew did an absolutely superb job. PNG can be a bloody challenging place to travel — expensive, logistically difficult and with some serious security issues — so having people who genuinely know the country makes all the difference.

Our steeds were KTM two-strokes. Light, noisy, smoky and just about perfect for the job. 😎

And when we say riding in PNG, don’t picture ordinary touring. The roads are so primitive that travelling by road often feels like off-roading anywhere else. Rough tracks, mud, rocks, river crossings and badly deteriorated roads are simply part of getting from A to B.

In other words, you don’t necessarily have to leave the road to go dirt biking. 😂

One of the great things was the reaction in the villages. Motorcycles aren’t an everyday sight in many of the places we travelled through, so a mob of two-stroke KTMs suddenly braaaping into town caused a fair bit of excitement. Kids came running, adults gathered around and everyone wanted a squiz at the strange orange contraptions and the equally strange galahs riding them.

One of the most extraordinary stops was Aseki in Morobe Province, where the local people have preserved the mummified remains of their ancestors on a hill overlooking the village.

Whatever adventures you’ve had on motorcycles, standing in a remote PNG village looking up at generations of ancestors watching over the community below is something you don’t forget in a hurry.

And that was Papua New Guinea in a nutshell.

Hard to reach. Hard to travel. Rough as guts in places. Frequently astonishing.
And on a screaming KTM two-stroke through some of the wildest country imaginable?

Absolutely bloody unforgettable. 🏍️🇵🇬

03/10/2026

🏍️ WANT A BIKE? NOW YOU CAN SEE WHAT’S ACTUALLY BLOODY AVAILABLE

We’ve given the Rider’s Corner booking system a bit of a spruce-up, because there’s not much point spending three weeks planning the perfect Northern Thailand motorcycle trip only to discover the bike you wanted is already disappearing towards Mae Hong Son under someone else’s arse. 😂

At the top of our booking page, simply chuck in your start and end dates and the website will show you which bike models are available — and exactly how many of each we’ve got left.

Already know what you want? Go to the bike on our home page, enter your dates, and you’ll see how many of that particular model are still free.

And this is becoming rather important because high season is shaping up to be a bloody big one.

We’re already close to fully booked for big bikes in mid-November and again in mid-January. December and February still have a decent selection available for anyone dreaming about bu**ering off into the mountains for a week or two.

If you’re travelling solo, you’ve usually got a bit more wiggle room.

But if you’re coming with a group and need several bikes at the same time, don’t muck about. Getting six mates to agree on dates is hard enough without discovering there are only three bloody motorcycles left. 😎

Pick your dates. Check what’s free. Book the bike. Then start arguing about which road you’re taking to Pai.

Northern Thailand is waiting. The bikes might not be. 🏍️⛰️🇹🇭

02/10/2026

🦎 BRAP’S ESCAPED THE BLOODY LOGO

Look what rocked up at Rider’s Corner today — our first fridge magnets! 😎

Featuring our resident lunatic Brap the Gekko, who’s apparently decided sitting politely inside the Rider’s Corner logo is for mugs. He’s busted out on a motorcycle and headed straight for one of Northern Thailand’s glorious twisty roads.

Good on ya, Brap. We’d do exactly the same. 🏍️

There’s also a QR code linking straight to our website, so months after your Chiang Mai trip you can be standing in the kitchen looking for a b**r, spot Brap on the fridge and think:

“Bugger it. I need to go back.”

We’ll be giving one FREE to rental customers who return their motorcycles without any damage.

Nah, just taking the p**s. Everyone gets one. 😂

Want a few extras for the b**r fridge, toolbox, shed, mum, neighbour or some random bloke you met at a petrol station? They’re 30 baht each in the Rider’s Corner shop.

Stick one somewhere appropriate and let Brap spend the rest of his life reminding you that there are still bloody roads in Northern Thailand you haven’t ridden.

29/09/2026

🏍️ MAP #12 — FOR THE BLOKES WHO CAN’T LEAVE A BLOODY SIDE ROAD ALONE

Our 12th Northern Thailand touring map has landed: the ADVANCED MAE HONG SON LOOP.

Our regular Mae Hong Son Loop map is plenty for most punters doing the Loop in a few days.

This one’s for the incurable bu**ers. 😎

You know the type. They see a tiny road disappearing over a mountain and immediately think, “Wonder where that bastard goes?”

If you’ve got a couple of weeks rather than a couple of days, we’ve packed this map with back roads, border roads, side quests and enough squiggly blue lines to keep you happily bu**ering about in the hills for ages.

We’ve also highlighted a few sections where our road bikes are NOT allowed. Some are dirt, some are rooted, and some are just ridiculously steep and narrow.

Take the road up to Microwave Village. It’s concrete, but so skinny that meeting a pickup coming the other way can turn into a Mexican standoff on the side of a bloody mountain.

Want to ride those bits?

Grab a CRF. That’s what the little bu**ers are for.

Now, we know this map will start arguments. There are heaps more dirty tracks we could have included, and some smartarse will inevitably tell us he rode one of the highlighted sections two-up on a Vespa wearing thongs.

Good on ya, champ. 😂

You’ve got to draw the line somewhere.

Map #12 should give you plenty of excuses to get lost, find something brilliant, and turn the Mae Hong Son “Loop” into several weeks of glorious mucking about.

28/09/2026

🏍️ CHIANG DAO — ROCKS, RIDGELINES & RAIN

There’s something bloody special about pointing a dirt bike towards Chiang Dao and seeing what sort of mischief you can find in the hills.

This one started properly, with a cracking rocky climb that got everyone warmed up before taking us onto a ridgeline and through a beautiful pine forest.

Then we reached the top.

And the weather decided we looked far too dry. 🌧️😂

It started raining, then quickly progressed to absolutely p**sing down, and pretty much stayed that way until we rolled into Chiang Dao for lunch — wet, muddy and ready to eat the legs off a table.

Fortunately, salvation came in the form of burgers at Jerns, one of our favourite places to grab a feed in Chiang Dao. Few things improve a burger quite like several hours of dirt riding and water slowly working its way into places your waterproof gear promised it couldn't reach.

But this is exactly why we love rainy-season riding.

The countryside is ridiculously lush, the mountains are green from top to bottom, the air up high is beautifully cool, and everything feels alive. You might get soaked. You might encounter a bit of mud. Your boots may develop their own internal ecosystem.

Worth it.

Chiang Dao itself remains one of our favourite places to explore around Chiang Mai — spectacular mountains, little back roads everywhere and enough dirt tracks disappearing into the hills to keep a curious rider occupied for a very long time.

And perhaps the second-best thing about a day like this?

Once you’ve finished bu**ering about in the mountains, eaten your burger and decided you’ve had quite enough rain for one day, Chiang Mai is only about an hour away on the main road.

Adventure on the way up. Easy run home.

Bloody perfect. 🏍️🌲🌧️⛰️

We’ll chuck the link for the GPX track for this ride up on our sister site, Chiang Mai Dirt Bike, in the comments.

26/09/2026

🏍️ ROUTE 4015 — WHAT’S UP THERE, THEN?

Some roads announce themselves with famous viewpoints and a steady procession of touring bikes.

Route 4015 isn’t one of those roads.

This little side road runs north off the 1095 northeast of Mae Hong Son, heading all the way up towards the Myanmar border. If you’re trying to find the bu**er, it’s east of the turn for Ban Rak Thai and west of the road up towards Ban Jabo.

At first, we weren’t terribly impressed.

Nice enough. Bit of road. Some trees. Nothing to write home about.

Then the scenery suddenly opened up and — bloody hell. 😎

Big mountain views appeared between the hills, followed by a stretch of dense tropical jungle where colourful birds were flitting through the trees. The further we went, the more it felt like we’d stumbled onto one of those little roads that hardly anybody bothers exploring.

Which, of course, immediately makes us want to explore it.

Eventually the 4015 runs out of Thailand. There’s a checkpoint at the Myanmar border, and that was the end of our northward progress. Fair enough. Turn the bike around.

On the way back we pulled into a little village restaurant for a bowl of soup noodles, had a bit of a yarn with the locals and watched village life carry on around us.

And somehow that was the best bit.

No bucket-list attraction. No famous café. No queue of motorcycles waiting for the obligatory photo. Just a beautiful little road, jungle, mountains, friendly locals and a cracking bowl of noodles somewhere most visitors will never see.

These are the rides we bloody love.

You don’t need a destination. You just spot a little road on the map and think: “Wonder where that goes?” Then you go and find out. 🏍️⛰️🍜🇹🇭

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