Quote Originally Posted by bikerdoc View Post
Just a quick update there foxy... Prince666 made it to Northern Thailand on the YBR125-KG without any problems. Bike went well. He's now in Chiang Kong for a few days, and probably sitting at a local cafe having coffee/latte with cake as I type this...
Cheers doc, good to hear.. Prince when/if you read this how about putting down that latte for a moment and writing up a nice trip report for us bored folks back in the Medium Kingdom?

I'm starting to think more and more lately about heading south at some stage. Should be getting the bike this week, fingers crossed, then starting from mid-July will have 4 and a half months or so to play with.. I can possibly see problems arising with China visa issues down the track, and after say three months of traversing the wild west and north , with a side of Central Asia, may well be ready to throw the bike on a train, pop back to Kunming and meander down to the Laotian jungles, Thai hinterlands and Vietnamese paddies.. Doc when are you thinking of riding down into SEA? I'm currently hosting David from Budapest in Kunming, they have already covered quite a bit of ground on their GS125, so all in all I think the YBR125 would have been a goer. Their bike is already starting to lose power though, and Kunming is not quite 1900m, so I think it'll be more comfortable on the 250.

Doc what oil would you recommend for the YBR250? I got the windscreen you recommended, seems solid, thanks for that. I've also Taobao'd a Xena disc lock, a Suolide rear chain lock with a different Xena d-lock, and am looking at a GPS tracker or two and alarm system, so she should be secure all in all