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The delights of Biking in Borneo even with Terry Mills Terry, I’m afraid it about the best I can write about staying with you on your holiday, if you want better bull-shit you’ll have to write it yourself. Joking apart good luck, I enjoyed myself, but do take on board what people want to do. Most of the touristy things are a good bike ride, which suit the bike purists, other want to ride a bike and see Borneo, but the riders can go on riding, while the gawpers gawp a bit, and meet up in the evening. For yourselves your going to see a lot of the same bits of Borneo, many, many times, lets hope it doesn’t get boring for you. I think it indicative of how I was treated, that I would do this for you, but I thought I had better not mention your generousity in not asking us to pay, till we’ed been home a fortnight. Pleasure to do this for you, hope it helps, if there are any particular bits. I’ve left out and you’d like gilded let me know, Best wishes to you, Rose and everyone, Kiss fo my young brother, Dave Betteridge.
HOLIDAYING WITH BORNEO BIKING ADVENTURES.
The hospitality and comfort at base were second to none, food & drinks first class. The Aprilla Motorcycles a pleasure to ride, on and off road, handling great. Borneo itself was magic, and the tarred roads generally first class surfaces, but akin to British A & B class roads, in type. Lots of good fast straights, plenty of swoopy bends, and quite a few blind drops, and fantastic climbs and falls around mountain style roads. Borneo roads are nearest to an “Isle of Man” TT paradise this side of Heaven. Plenty of easy dirt surface mileage, and some real jungle type tracks, for the enthusiastic off-roader, roads you never expected to meet trucks on – but invariably one turns up unexpectedly, just when your on a difficult line, testing nerve and bike riding. Nevertheless I never found myself in a real dangerous position, thanks to the confident guidance by Brian Wade & Terry Mills. Brian’s guidance on riding and handling a bike added to the pleasure of the ride, and improved my riding technique even at 70, with 50 years experience, including off road under my belt, albeit sidecaring. I only fell off in Borneo when I forgot to put my foot down when I stopped. The other thing was that what you wanted to do Terry & Brian would attempt to bring to reality, and the times when I went off to visit the off-shore islands, with snorkling, swimming, beach style bar-b-q’s, and mud bathing, put another dimension on my holiday. Would I do it again? yes but there’s still a lot of the world to see, and I ain’t got a lot of time left. I must say that Terry, family, staff and yes even their friends couldn’t do enough for us, and all added to a memorial holiday on and off bikes. You have also found a new bunch of mates.
“Cheers”
DaveB
