Ant's Sumatran Adventure

John_Johnny

Long Timer
And now a respoking? It seems like your Sumatran adventure has been mainly bike repairs, but it sounds like you're enjoying that just as much as the scenery. I think I'd be the same. Sitting beside a mechanic chatting away and tinkering with your bike for next to nothing in cost. Hold on, this is sounding familiar...

Grease monkeys and doohickeys



Enough to give you grey hair! :bs
 

nev

Super Térrarist
Hi Hans, every small town here has at least one bike workshop because here there are many more bikes than cars! So easy to find wherever you go. Just pull in and they fix it while you wait!

When Jo and I were in Phuket a few years back, we hired a scooter and rode a twoup lap of the island. It got a flat tyre right outside a 'biker bar'. The bar owner made a phone call and a guy turned up and rode the bike with the flat down the street, and half an hour or so later turned up again with the tyre repaired.
 

ant

AngryAnt
Ride Day 5
Meulaboh to Takengon - probably 200 km

Thought I'd head back into the mountains - Google Maps said impossible but locals said possible. Good enough.

Today put the A in ADV on this trip. Flat tyre not far from Meulaboh along with heavy rain on top of the mountains. I'd been meaning to swap the rear hoop out as it was stuffed. Sure enough, that funny feeling hit me and yep, tyre was flat. Workshop only 200 metres up the road so time for a new tube and tyre. $20 fitted. Lucky I was not in the mountains as the situation would have been very difficult for me.

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Some say this is a Mickey Mouse operation but so far so good.

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Sorted, up into the hills. Road quality deteriorated rapidly.

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But views were good.

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Up and up, into those blackbellies Pete!

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Washouts were common, and large.

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Then it dumped down. Rain gear time.

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Luckily I found a road stop with about 20 other travellers - it being Ramadan all the kids were "pulang kampung" - heading back to their villages to be with family over the holiday period.

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Rain eased a bit so time to head out.

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I was running low on fuel, and stopped. Some passers by told me it was only about 10km to the next village, so I pressed on and turned down the hill to this village of about 300 people.


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This girl sold me 5 litres of petrol from a barrel

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Then her family took me into their home for coffee

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These guys were builders, but they told me the village actually grows citronella plant.

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Energy restored, another two hours down the mountains to my next stop, Takengon. Soaked and cold, hot chocolate and a donut helped!

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EDIT - a year later, I can still taste the chocolate syrup from that donut! I really needed that after a long day.
 
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When Jo and I were in Phuket a few years back, we hired a scooter and rode a twoup lap of the island. It got a flat tyre right outside a 'biker bar'. The bar owner made a phone call and a guy turned up and rode the bike with the flat down the street, and half an hour or so later turned up again with the tyre repaired.

Yep - easy to get help in Asia if you aren't too far from civilisation! For a price of course, but it's usually not a lot.
 

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Tassie...where tyres are flat and nights are long
When Jo and I were in Phuket a few years back, we hired a scooter and rode a twoup lap of the island. It got a flat tyre right outside a 'biker bar'. The bar owner made a phone call and a guy turned up and rode the bike with the flat down the street, and half an hour or so later turned up again with the tyre repaired.

Amazing experience :so
 

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Tassie...where tyres are flat and nights are long
Day 5.....
Love that story! Shows a lot of experience by the way:clap:
 

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AngryAnt
No Wi-Fi here but so no photos today. A much drier day riding through the mountains today.
 

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Big Sumatran ride Day 6

Catch up post as no Wi-Fi last night

Takengon - Blangkerjeren

About 250km

Much drier in the mountains thank goodness, but also hot. The usual bike repair in the morning - replaced front guard which snapped off the day before. Explained why I was getting dirty water thrown in my face all afternoon. A quick lap around Lake Laut and then into the mountains.

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The usual absurd mountain views and about 5 hours of twisties. It's tiring!!!

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This section was a great downhill stretch. There were local boy racers with their girls on the back - they went a lot faster than I did, as there were large potholes which they could anticipate but I couldn't. When I ran into these holes they thought it was hilarious of course.

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Then up a mountain into some great pine forest - not what you expect in the tropics.

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In the afternoon was hijacked by the obligatory English teacher and his students... all good fun, fed me fish and beautiful local grown coffee. The teacher is a coffee exporter in his spare time apparently.

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Planned to get to Kotacane today, no way. With bike repair, the lake and the diversion to teach kids basic English, I had to stop on Blangkejeren which was nice enough. Would have taken another two hours of challenging mountain roads (as I found out next day) past dusk to get there so good decision to stop.

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