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Photo by Hendi Kaf, in Cambodia

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


Photo by Hendi Kaf,
in Cambodia



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Old 16 Apr 2017
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Trail riding my G650X in Yorkshire..river crossing gone wrong! (Video)

Made a little edit of our Easter ride! Ending with us face planting a river..



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Old 16 Apr 2017
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don't you just hate river bed slime?

Good you had a fun ride though, well done!

Best part is the bike is now crashed, so no fears about dropping it again Enjoy!
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good video, thanks for posting.

and the worst ... the phone went in as well ...

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At least you laughed on the way down
My excursions on slime & concrete has a lot less playable verbal content
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There is a reason why my luggage is always in supposedly water proof bags.

Making a cup of tea to find all your tea bags are wet is not fun.
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Thanks for watching Grant! Its true, the fear of dropping my bike has been faced and it wasn't so bad.

We were like bambi on ice on there!
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Hi mika!
I know, the phone was under water that whole time. BUT! It survived somehow
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Funnily enough Bucket1960, we had to edit quite a lot of the sound out..!
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Waterproof luggage is now what we're saving up for.. luckily we were on the way home from camping, but would have been bad if we were just heading out Warin!
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