News Forum - Thai man rides motorcycle 20,000 kilometres from Thailand to France

[Thaiger]

A Thai man went viral on TikTok for riding a motorcycle 20,000 kilometres for 55 days from the Krabi province in southern Thailand to France. A Thai TikToker, newkooy, who was travelling in Slovenia shared a video of a touring motorcycle with a Thai flag and Thai registration plate on her TikTok account yesterday, December … …

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[rattlesnake]

This is a long time dream of mine (I am French). I seriously considered doing it about 12 years ago, then circumstances prevented me from it.

One of the difficulties was getting a Thai registered bike into China (technically an import), I wonder how this guy managed it.

[oldschooler]

Route taken was clearly the best with large parts of the journey in friendly nations to Thailand like China, Kazakhstan, Turkey, EU. Doable. 

[oldschooler]

19 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

This is a long time dream of mine (I am French). I seriously considered doing it about 12 years ago, then circumstances prevented me from it.

One of the difficulties was getting a Thai registered bike into China (technically an import), I wonder how this guy managed it.

He “ managed it” having a Thai Passport. Welcome in all those countries.  The other “difficulty” is your western nationality making it impossible I reckon to get visas. Even then you’d be a target in all those nonEU countries he went through. Bad Idea……Doubt you’d  get the bike or yourself into China or Kaz for starters. Russia would be impossible. No other serious route either…..

[TedG]

I'd like to know if he dealt with any issues at the various borders. 

[oldschooler]

2 minutes ago, TedG said:

I'd like to know if he dealt with any issues at the various borders. 

Good business English for sure, no nationality antagonism as Thailand irrelevant internationally &  everyone’s friend  …..and they would assume he was broke being Thai….. no bribes or robbery or kidnap then

[oldschooler]

9 minutes ago, oldschooler said:

Good business English for sure, no nationality antagonism as Thailand irrelevant internationally &  everyone’s friend  …..and they would assume he was broke being Thai….. no bribes or robbery or kidnap then

Surprised the bike wasn’t lifted though….. worth a fortune in all those non - EU countries…. Very lucky

[Ramanathan.P]

It is his life time dream. Good for him. We have a Malaysian couples travelling to Europe and 30 countries all over the world in their 150cc motorcycle....husband and wife.