Ant's Sumatran Adventure

ant

AngryAnt
Day 2 - Lhokseumawe to Banda Aceh (270ish km)

L-Town is quite nice actually.

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Hit paydirt today. A nice run out of L-Town this morning, terrain mostly flat as before. After lunch - boom, mountain time. No bike issues to speak of. Foolishly hammered it through the twisties, wide good road little traffic. Only the occasional overtake on the blind corner coming towards you, yes that's common here.

Some more friendly locals along the way.

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Kids going home after school.

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Lunch in this town with a river view

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ant

AngryAnt
Use the trip meter Ant. My fuel gauge stopped working after Blacklocks replaced the fuel pump. Been relying on the trip meter ever since.

All over it boss. My first bike, the mighty Zeal had no gauge. I'm getting about 20km per litre.
 

ant

AngryAnt
One more... misty mountains.

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Notice the dry rice fields in foreground, they'll burn these off, plough and replant.

Got my front brake fixed over dinner, shitty master cylinder apparently. Didn't see what he did but it's farken great now. $2 seems to be the standard rate to fix everything on a bike here. Gave him three.
 
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glitch

Mapping the next ride...
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Got my front brake fixed over dinner, shitty master cylinder apparently. Didn't see what he did but it's farken great now. $2 seems to be the standard rate to fix everything on a bike here. Gave him three.

Keep telling John that (after him bleeding 1800 bux on a service/ repair and he'll pack up his tent and Bimmer... relocating to Sumatra. Or kill you slowly on your return. :bs

Mate, LOVE the yarn, LOVE the pics... this is great stuff....and at those prices, also makes the feet twitch. Aren't those blackbellies par-for-the-course over there?
Are there any specific times/ periods when the weather comes in or is it just a chance-thing/ seasonal?

Hope you'll keep going with this, it's a fantastic read (and gawk).
Thanks for the time and efforts :thumbs:
 

ant

AngryAnt
Thanks for the kind words guys! Pete, the clouds seem mostly over the mountains in the afternoon, I've got a rain suit but have so far been lucky. It's end of dry season/start of wet season, septemberish apparently. When it does rain here it dumps down.
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
Thanks for the kind words guys! Pete, the clouds seem mostly over the mountains in the afternoon, I've got a rain suit but have so far been lucky. It's end of dry season/start of wet season, septemberish apparently. When it does rain here it dumps down.

Guess with those temps and humidity it'd be wetter inside a rain-suit than it could possibly be on the outside.
That little Tiger looks pretty sweet :so
 
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