Hello all. Long time reader first time poster here.

My name is Rhys, from England but have been living in Sydney for the past four years riding a Triumph Street Triple R. I've recently jacked everything in and gone travelling with the Mrs, Danielle, for a year.

We're currently travelling South East Asia on foot but the plan is to fit in a few bike trips while we're away. We bought a Yamaha Tenere (called Ken) while we were back in the UK which is currently sat in the garage waiting for us to ride around France watching the Tour de France in July.

After that we are planning on sending Ken to Florida where we will ride across to burning man festival in Nevada and then hopefully all the way down to Ushaia in Argentina.

Aaaaaanyway, on to the point of the post. We are travelling through India and the Himalayas as the next part of our trip. I would love to do Ladakh to Leh as I've heard it's amazing.....only issue is the official tours charge ridiculous amounts and we are on a tight budget. I've had a search on here and can only find one post but it doesn't go in to detail of pricing. Does anyone have any experience of doing this? With a cheap tour company? On your own back? How much did a bike cost? Is it feasible to do it alone? We don't have our bike over here at the moment so I guess I'm after bike hire prices/places or really cheap tours anyone knows of.

I'm currently blogging daily about our travels and have been for months here www.365daysoffwork.com . I'll make sure I do some detailed posts for horizons unlimited with pics and details of the motorcycle parts of the trip when they happen later this year.

Thanks all, looking forward to finally being a contributor rather than just a reader after all these years.