Chay Monster gifted us little
stuffed toy monkeys in pink and
orange. I absolutely loved my cute
pink monkey and I hung her on
my pannier right at the back of my
bike, where she will sit and
accompany me for the rest of our
ride.
We had planned to ride directly to
Bangkok, but Big Daddy and
riders had a different plan for us.
They wanted to take us via
another route to experience the
sunset by the sea. We just
followed and we placed our
complete trust in them for
everything in Thailand.
In India, it is very difficult to get a
full range of biking gear, especially
for ladies. Before we set out on our
ride, we had the option of
ordering online, but this ran the
potential delay due to customs
clearance. As we did not want to
change the date of our ride for
this, we decided to flag off from
Mumbai on 15th March with
whatever gear we already had -
and planned to purchase better
and matching gear in Thailand.
Peera, who was a
very knowledgeable gentleman,
owned the Touratech store in
Bangkok. Sanjay had introduced
him to us. (We can't thank Sanjay
And we were completely
enough for all his help through
awestruck when we reached 'Trat'. our journey).
We were amazed. as we have
Peera was kind enough to spend a
never seen a sky so pink !! It was
couple of hours with us and
another magnificent sunset - an
explained all the parts that could
incredible end to a truly wonderful be useful to us during our trip. Till
day, with our favourite riders !
now, I have been using Rev'it and
have been quite happy with its
We then rode for another 120 kms performance. However, I had
and reached a city called 'Rayong', received very good feedback
where we stayed for the night.
about Touratech gear from riders
One of the riders who came to the who have used it in different
border to welcome us, was the
climates - Sanjay uses his gear in
owner of Touratech in Rayong. As
the chilled mountains of Bhutan,
we reached the city really late the while Big Daddy & Chay Monster
previous night, he opened the
uses it in the hot & humid weather
store especially for us at 7 am, so
of Thailand.
that we could visit his store before
we proceeded to Bangkok. We
After checking and researching
met with all the riders one more
various options, partner and I
time and also had really good
zeroed in on Touratech sets. And I
discussions with the team at
do like the design and the fit. It
Touratech Rayong. We then set off may not be all that important for
towards Bangkok, accompanied
guys, but how it looks or even
by 3 riders.
what colour combinations is used,
is very important to me. Who says
We reached Bangkok and directly adventure biker chicks should not
went to a workshop called
always look their best ? !
Boxerbike, as we had planned to
get our bikers overhauled and
We were really happy about the
serviced. After we parked our
parts and gear that we were able
bikes and gave them the full list of to purchase. A combination of
work we needed to be done, we
yellow-grey-dark grey with black
headed to Touratech to check the lining was perfect gear for both of
riding gears.
us.