Day 116. Bilaspur - Sema Kui
A big day for us today. Around 280km which included about a 15km detour due to a navigation error. We set off about 8:30 and arrived at the hotel at about 5:45. It probably sounds like I’m riding like a nana but I don’t think I could go any faster without increasing the already substantial risk factor exponentially. Met this big bugger on one of our unplanned detours. No one was messing with him! Today I gave up any hope of fine tuning the suspension and have wound out both the compression and rebound dampers on the rear shock, we bounce along a bit but it is easier on both the bike and the bum. I’m not going to drone on about the roads and the traffic just take it as read. We think Alf was letting us know he was keeping an eye on us. A real mixture of road conditions and temperatures today, from comfortably warm to bloody hot and humid. Our faces by contrast to yesterday (mud and dust) look like we’ve just completed a shift down the Denniston mine. One town we passed throug...