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The incoherent ramblings of a motorcycle traveller who has about as much of an idea of things as a monkey trying to understand the inner workings of nuclear fusion

19/04/2024

I need some help from someone who is creative, I am not, not in the slightest. Plus I am tight and don't want to pay an stupidly high fee for a marketing company.

What I need for my M8 MOTO business, is help with creating a poster design for motorcycle tours to Pakistan and/or Australia, plus, designs for a couple of pull up roller banners for tours to Pakistan & Australia, plus a flyer for a competition I am running.

Anyone willing to help with some ideas?

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23/10/2023

I am in the process of planning a very special private Adventure bike trip for a small group of 3 Italian riders. 21 Days riding and exploring the valleys of Northern Pakistan, some of which I have never even been to.

I can add 1, maybe 2 additional riders.
Starts 15th June 2024.
Interested?

12/07/2023

Wednesday next week it's bye bye Blighty and hello Pakistan. Will be there for about 6 weeks. A bit of riding, a bit of trekking, plenty of eating etc.

I will be posting updates on my M8 MOTO page as I am supporting a number people coming on tours.

For a change, I am going to also have a bash at doing some video, if I remember to get the camera out, that is something I am definitely not good at remembering to do.

Riding the worlds highest cold desert near Skardu, Northern Pakistan

21/06/2023

Friday night at the Adventure Bike Festival this weekend, who fancies coming over to the van for some Sarawak Laksa?

Let me know and bring a bowl

02/05/2023

ABR Festival.

I have decided to go down in the van and put the beast in the back.

That way I have a cold beer fridge, available for others also, and if anyone needs secure storage, happy to keep it locked in the van for you.

It also means I can cook, and shower.

See you there.

02/04/2023

Not somewhere I would be normally go, but on the 23rd 24th and 25th of June I am going to the Adventure Bike Festival at Ragley Hall. Anyone followers from the UK going, would love to say hello and have a chat.

26/03/2023

Here is me sat in the shade with a my Husky 701RR upright in the sand.

It's official, I am heading back to Aus in 2024 to run 3 outback trips, two 2 week rides from Sydney and the Red Centre and back, plus a really cool and possibly hard(ish) 6 day Red Centre loop.

What are you plans for 2024?

We are heading back to our homeland Down Under for some Epic and challenging trips to the Australian Red Centre

https://www.m8moto.com/tours

25/11/2022

Maybe I should make one of these with my Lego Mo, there could be an entire series

Orders now being taken for Adventure Pies

15/11/2022

$1800, that is how much of our personal belongings were either stolen or damaged in transit from Pakistan. In actual fact it is more, but that is the sum of the stuff we actually care about.

This thefts happened at the Pakistan end of the journey, the damage was in transit due to the bikes not being secured within their crates as per the original photos I got.

The advocate that organised everything has not read any of my WhatsApp Messages for a week after he asked for a list of what was stolen or damaged.

Do I name and shame, continue to bug him, attempt an alternative avenue, just write it off and forget about it, Unsure quite how to proceed right now.

11/11/2022

Bit of open engine surgery, many many things to fix.

26/10/2022

It's official, the bike is on British soil.

Just got to wait for DeVanning and customs release now. Getting excited at be reunited with the wee beastie.

24/10/2022

Well the bike was in the UK for a bit, the boat stopped at Southampton, then buggered off to Holland and now Belgium.

The boat is supposed to be back here again tomorrow, at Felixstowe, not convinced yet.

17/10/2022

I have travelled a good proportion of this world we live on, by motorcycle, by car, by air, for pleasure and for work. Of all the countries I have been two, Pakistan has been one of my all time favourites, and I would love for others to be able to experience some of what I have experienced there.

I have therefore set up a new venture doing nothing but riding in the fabulous Karakoram mountains, I have called it M8 MOTO https://www.facebook.com/m8moto feel free to check it out, would appreciate any feedback on the FB page, or the website www.m8moto.com

In other news, the boat carrying my bike has now passed the pillars of Hercules and is in the Atlantic heading North towards the UK, not long now until I can be reunited with the mighty Hope to be able to do a few trips in the UK, if anyone fancies showing me around a few spots, please let me know.

11/10/2022

Can you tell what it is?

02/10/2022

When you're out walking the dog and you pass a pub, well, it would be rude not to call in wouldn't it?

29/09/2022

Arrived UK, I am absolutely frozen, bring back 30c plus temperatures, please. When is it summer here?

The bikes have been loaded into the container and the container loaded onto the boat "America" bound for Mumbai, then a few other ports in India before heading to the UK.

Expecting to be able to be able to collect the bike around the end of October. Then it's time for work, cleaning and servicing the bike, maybe with a bit of UK riding before hand.

26/09/2022

What you do on a lazy Sunday afternoon in Belochistan

24/09/2022

You have probably seen it on the TV or read it in the news, but until you have been there, it is hard to imagine the shear scale of destruction and loss people have faced in Pakistan because of the recent floods.

It's the smell that you notice first, the flooded fields look rice paddies and it's hard to tell if this is normal or not, but the smell of decomposing flesh wafts over the road as you head through the areas worst hit by the floods. Carcases of Buffalo, dogs, goats, sheep and cows, some with their legs still tethered to a tree, unable to escape the rising food waters. Then there is the smell of mould adding to the above, at times it can be quite overwhelming.

Then you start to notice the fields, as we travelled, km after km of ruined crops as far as the eye can see, this went on for for hundreds of kilometres, bananas, cotton, maize, all gone.

Thr remnants of peoples accomodation, it is not fair to call them houses as more often than not, where people lived is not much more then a few wodden uprights and a roof made if grasses or anything else than can be scrounged. The people are now living in one of the many tent cities that have sprung up along the roadside, the tents being provided by charitable organisations such as UNHCR etc.

It is a very humbling sight and I wish I could do more than just donate a bit of cash to the relief effort as we in the west are incredibly rich and affluent compared to the 99% of the people affected by the floods.

I have never asked others to donate to a cause in my life before, but seeing this, please, find a charitable organisation such as UNHCR, WFP, Islamic Relief, EDHI and throw some cash their way to help them help the people in Pakistan eat, rebuild their homes and lives.

23/09/2022

A misspelling, advertising or both?

22/09/2022

Got to get me one of these Honda's, they sound like a fantastic bike.

18/09/2022

Not a lot has happened recently, my days have been as follows

Wake up
Eat breakfast
Ride
Stop at hotel
Eat dinner
Sleep

On the way South from Islamabad we stopped at a little town called Sarai Alamgir. Remember a few weeks ago on the way up to Naran and Skardu, we met a group of advocates/lawyers that we rode with for a few days. They live in this town. We spent a wonderful evening and the following morning talking, visiting friends and getting a tour of their workplace, we had a chat with a judge in his chambers, many photos were taken before we had to head off to Lahore.

15/09/2022

Typical Pakistan bus, Reminds me of Dougal from the Magic Roundabout.

11/09/2022

After spending almost a month in and around north Eastern Pakistan, helping 3 tour groups, getting to know a few locals and the area a little better, it is time to say goodbye and head West. The latest tour group from Poland is to head over the Deosai plains to Astore whilst Dominic and I head towards Gilgit and west towards Booni, Chitral and the Kalash valleys.

We made good progress to Gilgit but the road west got bad, and quickly. At times we were lucky to get into second gear and over 20kph. The going was slow, the road for most part was no wider than a single car width, unsealed of course with multiple landslides only recently cleared, heavy machinery still working on some after the recent rains.

We made around 320km to the town we stopped in, it was less than an hour before sunset and the next town with a possibility of accommodation was 45km away, so we stopped for the night. I had misjudged my fuel situation, I thought me front tanks were full, but they were not. I estimated I had max of 40km of fuel range left, according to the map, the next fuel (from a shop) was over 50kmnaway and the next petrol station 134km away. Managed to deduce that fuel was an hour behind us, and the map said there was a shop 9km behind selling fuel, it was Friday tomorrow, I hoped the shop was open.

The following morning, I set of back towards Gilgit at 7:15am and found the shop open after asking a few locals, ianaged to fill the rear and half the front tanks so was good for about 400km plus. We set of early and hoped to make Kalash that night, but it was not easy.

The road continued to be slow, 20kph, second gear, 30koh if we were lucky, then it started to climb and the close valley scenery opened up to a wide high altitude meadow (Shandur Meadow and Lake) after a hundred kilometres. Cattle grazed lazily on the grass fed by glacial run off from the snow capped peaks surrounding us. The road widened and became straighter allowing us to gain a little speed. On the descent, my hunger as we had not had anything to eat yet, became too much, remembering I had some protein bars in my bag for the ride to the Iranian border, I stopped to eat a couple, which gave me some much needed energy.

The remaining 180km was a bit of torture, occasionally I suffer from Sciatica, I have not had it for over a year now, but today was the day it came back, every hole, rock, corrugation, turn was agony, I had run out of water and had nothing to take painkillers with, not that they would have done much good, the last hours and the next 4 of 5 were not going to be fun.

Eventually, after 279km and about 10 hours of riding, we eventually got to the Kalash valley where we found a hotel for the night, I took a number of pain killers, had a shower and fell immediately to sleep

06/09/2022

Masherbrum (formally K1) got almost naked for me today.

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Bit of open engine surgery, many many things to fix.

What you do on a lazy Sunday afternoon in Belochistan

A typical Pakistan pick and drop taxi/bus

The destruction the flood waters are doing in Pakistan right now is quite terrifying

Karakoram Highway up towards Gilgit, hope there was no one in the bus

Gov vehicle testing the waters, we were next across

This is where the bridge was washed away, building a new road and helping the locals across

Thursday 25th August 2022 Said goodbye to our new Polish friends this morning, it has been a wonderful 12 days with them. They fly down to Islamabad and onto home in and around Warsaw, we head down Naran to meet a group of 22 Malaysians exploring the Karakoram Highway whilst we continue to wait for our Iranian visa. The journey to Naran is about 360km, most of the road is sealed with a few sections of dirt and areas where water has eroded the sealed surface. We decided to do the journey in the Hilux and leave the Bikes in Skardu, it's a good job we did. We had faily good weather leaving Skardu, cloudy, but warm, as we climbed Babusar Pass at over 4000m it started to rain, crossing the pass the rain increased, it has obviously been staining here for a while. As we approached a queue of stationary cars we realised the good journey up until now may be about to take a turn, the road was flooded. The torrent covering the road was running fast and had washed away a lot of the stone surface, eventually a government owned Prado gave it a go to try and cross, which it did successfully, we pushed our way to the front and crossed next. As we descended into the valley and passed Batakundi we crossed more water that was quite deep and flowing fast. At the side of the road, a trio of a father and two sons flagged us down, they had no luggage and had come off seriously damaging the father's had that was already swollen to twice it's sive. We put the bike on the back of the Hilux along with the people and ran the gauntlet through two more deep and fast streams running across the road that would not have been possible to cross on the bikes or in anything that was not a 4wd with higher clearance. About halfway between Batakundi. And Naran our progress was blocked by a landslide (see video, this was shot by a local on the other side from where we were). Rocks had been fallibg all along the road and the rain was constant, we could not proceed and we're unsure of returning the 9km

I am getting concerned, on the 25th of July we submitted, via TasteIran, our visa application for Iran. TasteIran sat on it for a week and only submitted it for approval after being chased on the 1st of August, this is the second time they have sat in our application and not submitted it without being chased, will it be using them again. That is not the reason for my concern though, visa applications I have been told, should take 2 to 3 days, mine has now been over 3 weeks. We have had communications in that time, mainly about clarification of the itinerary, Tatseiran have promised to call, find out what is happening and get back to me, they never do get back to me when promised, not without being chased, and then there is no real info. Today, they informed me, again after being chased, that it is highly likely our visa will be rejected due to the amount of time it is taking. I have no idea if this is based on real information, or is speculation. Dominics Pakistan visa expires the first week of September so what I am thinking is looking at the option of shipping the bike out of Karachi to somewhere, anywhere in Europe or even the UK. I think it prudent to start getting quotes for shipping now, so If anyone knows of any shipping agents in Pakistan worth contacting who give a good service and may be able to help, please reach out. Also, here is me riding a horse up to Fairy Meadows, much more scary than riding a motorcycle, it does things I do not ask it to do. Motorcycles are more obedient.