I recently took a trip up to Kanjanaburi with some friends. We stayed at Erawan National Park and did the Si Sawat Loop a couple of times. If anyone is looking for a challenging ride with incredible roads, this place is for you.

Here is a link to the route map from Erawan to Sri Sawat. In my opinion, this was the best part of the ride. http://g.co/maps/zhxk2

Edited January 24, 201214 yr by SumetCycle

Nice. Good to see the pics, I've been meaning to do the Sisawat loop for a while. Looks great. Cheers.

We might do another trip at the end on February. Would you be interested in coming along?

Probably would depending on time... we're moving into a new house the 1st of March, so I'll probably be busy watching the wife buy lots and lots of crap around that time.

Where's the planned destination?

Edited January 25, 201214 yr by hehehoho

I did that ride on my 650R a couple of weeks ago, it's a great bit of road.

Is this mission happening? My buddy and i are interested, he said it was to be the last weekend in Feb. Are there anymore details?

cheers

We are still planning on going. We are planning on staying at or just outside Erawan National Park. So far we have more than 10 bikes going. We are going to book accommodations in the next day or two. I'll give you guys more details when we get this and the itinerary sorted. Thanks.

Brian

Edited January 27, 201214 yr by SumetCycle

I did it last week and went all the way around to Bo Ploi (crap accommodation only and I do not recommend at all). Lot of leaves on the moon bay road (Si sawat curly thing) but great sticking to the centre line which was leaf free and gravel free. We got through the whole thing without an oncoming car/truck so was a blast. If you do continue on further north be aware that the roads are not that much used and loose gravel was an issue for me twice with road tires, luckily on slow stretches and she stayed up. Definitely a great ride and plan to get back out there in a few weeks but to do as you are planning and come back through the loops again. We continued on down to Chumporn, some excellent weather and riding down there also.

Edited January 27, 201214 yr by Whale

Is this mission happening? My buddy and i are interested, he said it was to be the last weekend in Feb. Are there anymore details?

cheers

Hello Deadman,

Yes the trip is still on. There are a couple of spaces left if you and your buddy are still interested in joining. Here are some details:

Sat, Feb 25th 2012

6:30 Meet at Sumet Cycle

... 7:00 Leave for Kanjanaburi (Stop for gas and breakfast on the way)

10:00 Arrive at resort

... 11:00 Leave for Erawan Waterfall

12:00 Arrive at Erawan (lunch)

12:30 Group 1 to leave for the Si Sawat Loop. Group 2 to stay at Erawan.

2:00 Group 1 arrives at end of Si Sawat Loop

2:30 Group 1 heads back to Erawan

3:30 Group 1 arrives back at Erawan to meet up with group 2

4:00 Leave Erawan for resort

5:00 Arrive at Resort

6:00 - ??? Dinner, drinks, karaoke

Sunday, Feb 26th 2012

7:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 - 12:00 Free time at resort or out sightseeing

12:00 Leave resort for the Bridge over the River Kwai

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch at the Bridge over the River Kwai

1:30 - 3:00 Sightseeing

3:00 Head back to Bangkok

5:30 Arrive back in Bangkok

Here are directions to the shop from central Bangkok:

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Asoke+Market+Bangkok+Thailand&daddr=Thanon+Prachachuen&hl=en&ll=13.72371,100.594254&spn=0.155421,0.296631&sll=13.794823,100.561895&sspn=0.038843,0.074158&geocode=FXqc0QAdY3H-BSEUQYuO6z9yHw%3BFcRq0wAdNjH-BQ&dirflg=ht&mra=ls&t=m&z=12

The cost is 700 baht per person. This includes accommodations, dinner, and breakfast. Give me a call in the next couple of days @ 081 919 8570 if you are interested. Thanks

Brian

That is the trip where I tore up my shoulder and elbow when I hit oil on one of the hairpin corners north of Erawan. But, it was a great ride. I highly recommend it..

Man I wish I could go. To bad I have to work on Sunday

Thanks to everyone you joined us on the tour to Kanjanaburi this past weekend. It was a great time and fun riding with you all. Pics of the trip will be posted soon. In the meantime, if you've got any nice photos from the trip, feel free to post them here.

Sorry I didn't take many pics. Had a great time though so would like to see some more. Well done to the staff at Sumet for organizing. I think they did a pretty decent job of getting everybody there and back safely.

Here are some photos from the Si Sawat portion of the trip. I'm in the process of uploding some videos to Youtube. I'll post the links when they are finished.

You can also check out this link to see photos of the rest of the trip.

http://www.facebook....24641797638001/ Scroll down to "First Trip of the Year 2012"

Thanks again to all the riders who participated.

Brian & Pam

Edited February 28, 201214 yr by SumetCycle

Thanks for the great video Chris. What a nice piece of kit. That was one hell of a suction cup!

http://www.youtube.c...bed/CdCrba09ifI

Edited February 28, 201214 yr by SumetCycle

Your most welcome.... Thanks to you and sometimes cycle for arranging the wonderful trip.... So when's the next one?

And we'll you can't go wrong with a gopro.

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