this is probably going to be one of the last times i say this but welcome back to koh samui
i'm here with dreamy and i've got a very important announcement
if you're new to the channel let me in a nutshell explain what's happened so at the end of march i
left my job in chiang mai in northern thailand and i put my little honda dream over there
on a train and we went all the way down to the south and since april i've been
covering the southern provinces in the attempt to go to every single province
in thailand on my little honda and i assumed it would take about a year
and here we are we're about four or five months into it and we've only covered 18 provinces
two months ago i made it as far as kanchanaburi it was a long hot day's drive and i arrived at
this place called tiger temple and it just looked incredible and i stayed there however that same
day or that same week i should say things started to get really bad with the covered wave in a panic
i rushed back down to one of my favorite places that i had seen on my travels which was koh samui
and i've hunkered down here for the last two months and dreamy's basically taking a break
and you know things have started to get better and i'm gonna get back on the road guys and there's a
bunch of reasons why and there's a bunch of things that i need to do in order to you know do this
trip and continue this trip as safely as possible and there are loads of reasons why i'm going to
be heading back on the road i have a certain destination in mind i have a certain reason
and i'll explain all of that in this video but first me and dreamy we're going to go to the
garage because she needs to get some very important updates and new parts and we'll
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we'll also get to know quite a little bit more
about dreamy and her model and year and all the parts involved because
at the honda shops they actually have the original honda dream manual the engineering manual it's
let's just go to the honda shop and i'll explain more okay on the right here is the honda shop
most provinces have about a dozen of these every town sees that seems to have a honda
shop a yamaha shop and they don't only just sell honda motorbikes but they also
normally as this one has they have a honda service center attached to it like so here it is basically
i ordered a part a very exciting part for dreamy okay so i was just telling him everything that
i want i just need the brakes checked because they're a little bit squeaky and it's good to get
them checked as often as possible i want to get the usb removed because i really don't need this
and it's just become loose this cables come out of the thing anyway um and this is the exciting part
the exhaust as you see one of the things that dreamy has always suffered from is this really
rusty old exhaust and i think she's a stock piece of equipment you know she came with the bike and
she's you know every time i take pictures of dreamy or show you dreamy it's the one i saw
i think other than when she's dirty like she is now and she does need a good clean
so i've been looking for a new exhaust for a long long time and i've been coming
to these honda shops and i've asked a few in different provinces and they've always said no
but this guy he was really helpful and he used his initiative and he found and i'll go show you the
original honda dream of this model the engineering booklet and he was able to find the serial number
of the exact piece and then he contacted a bunch of garages in bangkok and warehouses and he found
an original honda dream this model uh exhaust now i don't know if it's i don't know if it's
a used piece i don't know if it's brand new but we ordered it last week and it's finally here so
this is basically the last piece in the puzzle that i need in order to get off ko samui
and be confident that you know she's going to make it all the way up to where i need to go
so this is when we find out if it's brand new is it used i don't know you know because there's a
language barrier here guys i'm not 100 sure i just fingers crossed hope it's the exact
correct model you know it looks exactly the same as the one i have and it's nice and shiny
but to be honest anything better than the one i've got i'll be happy with
wow
this is what it looked like when it was new huh
wow look at that shiny wow that's gonna look so good thank you
okay this is the i don't know why i'm whispering um so yeah this is the uh the honda dream manual
the engineering manual and as you can see it's really old and it looks like an old pirate
treasure map or something and the reason why it's really old is i can actually finally find out
the age of my bike because i've always guessed she was 20 something years old but never knew
the exact date and according to this manual if you look on the top left it says that this
was published on the 11th of the 10th in 37 now that doesn't mean 1937 okay um that's the thai
year now in thailand um you probably might not know but it's like 500 and something
i think 550 something years old sorry older than the uk and the western time
years so basically when you revert that thai year to a british year or a western year
um it works out to 1994 so this this book and my dreamy was made in 1994 and you can see
the different models that they released so you've got the red and white colorway which is the one
i have and then they've got this like a black one which looks really cool and then they have
this like two-tone version of like a turquoise and blue with a green seat and that looks really cool
and then they have like a black and white one with hints of purple and when i think
of 1994 i think of the world cup in the usa when baggio missed the penalty in the final
and all of the cool like adidas uh colorway football kits that everyone was wearing
and just 1994 was such a colorful retro year and you know everything with the branding of dream
and the colorways and just the styling is just so cool and as you can see in these
old pictures here the the exhausts used to be so shiny and bright and obviously when i look
at jeremy she's so rusty in banga and you know she's 27 years old if she was in 1994
you know she's 27 years old and that exhaust has never been replaced you can tell right so it's so
great to have an incredibly shiny new exhaust so once um she gets her new exhaust put on and
we change the oil check the brakes remove the usb and just just tighten a few nuts and bolts we'll
be good to go so um as you can see they're really busy here so i'm gonna leave it here for the day
and i'll pick it up in the afternoon maybe around three o'clock and then um i will probably see if
i can find somewhere to give her a clean i want to wash all the mud and dirt off her because i've
been up in the mountains and it's been raining so she's dirty and then once she's clean and
we've got the new exhaust we'll give her a test drive and we'll see if she sounds any different
okay she's clean and the new exhaust uh it gives it a little bit more of a rumble a
little bit more of a tumble a little bit more zippy it's not giving her like you know any
extra horsepower but it feels a little bit more responsive and then just look at it it
just looks way more stock it looks way back to normal it just gives it that extra pop that she
looks like she's being restored bit by bit she's going to get restored hopefully maybe by the end
of this trip or after this trip we'll we'll try and restore her back to her 1994 edition
um but i mean as she is now she's still beautiful she's still the most beautiful bike on the island
every time i see these new new posh fancy bikes i'm always like yeah they look nice but then when
i see you dreamy and once dreamy gets you know her oil changed and she gets her nude breaks and she's
got you know any new engine parts that make her rumble and move around a little bit more quickly
i realize that there is no other bike there is only dreamy there will only only ever be dreamy so
in total everything so the cost for the oil change removing the usb because i simply just wasn't
using that never used it once and i was worried that i was going to drain the battery one day i'd
left it on or something or it flicked it off or on by accident so i just got rid of the usb and
front and back disc brakes are replaced so there's new brake pads i should say
on the front and the back because they were a little bit worn out
and um a general service fee and of course installing the new exhaust all together
the cost was 2102 baht which is about 67 or 68 us dollars and it was in there for half
the day getting fixed up and new engine parts and that's another reason why there is no other bike
to travel around thailand on than an old honda because the replacement parts although the
exhaust was kind of hard to track and it's taken me a long long long time to find an original og
1994 edition you know that swooping style you know because the newer if you see the newer
models of honda dreams and even the honda waves that the exhausts have diff have changed and it
just doesn't have that classic look and i think in the future you know the honda dream collectors out
there and will be like oh that's not the original exhaust so it's nice to get the new one installed
and um she looks great she looks better than she's ever looked in my opinion she looks absolutely
gorgeous so yeah um so where am i going where and when so basically um you'll be seeing this video
on friday and that's the day that i will leave koh samui so look i've waited here for two months
and the covered numbers went up and then they flattened and now they've gone going down
vaccinations are flying they're typically doing anywhere between 500 000 and 800 000 vaccines
a day in the dark red provinces and in other areas of thailand and you know they are almost
like flying to halfway through the vaccination process in the last two months they seem to just
like drip drip drip drip of vaccines and now it's just like a tidal wave and so it's nearly my time
to get a vaccine as a 35 year old foreigner in thailand i am quite low on the list and so a
lot of my friends have been vaccinated they may be foreign they may be thai but mostly they're
older and they have health issues and so they were vaccinated a couple of months ago but finally um
it's coming up soon to my to my vaccine and i'm registered to get a vaccine in chiang mai and
i might get the email or the text message to come and get my vaccine next week or two weeks
or three weeks but it's coming soon and i need to be in chiang mai for my vaccine that's just simply
the case so i could stay i could stay on samui and like you know get some more paperwork and whatever
but you know let's go let's go things things are looking like they're getting better and i'll be
getting my vaccine soon which is good and we can knock off some more um provinces along the way
we'll drive up to kanchena brewery it might take a couple of days to get to kanchanaburi
and then depending on how i'm feeling um we might knock off some of the provinces in a straight line
up to chiang mai or i might just blitz all the way to chiang mai and try and fast forward the
vaccine process because i've heard people are getting vaccinated even if they're under 40
when they just walk in so um but they you know they have work permits and stuff like that which
is what i have as well so i think i might be able to get a vaccine so i'll i'll let you know in the
next few videos but i'll document leaving the island getting back into the provinces getting
back into the real adventure and um we'll see a bunch of really interesting places on the
1 300 kilometer drive to chiang mai i think we'll stop off at some other provinces along the way
obviously i won't show you the ones we've been to although i'll show you a couple of things that
i do want to show you in trompon and elsewhere because i drove past them or i didn't include them
in the videos when i was there and they're amazing so stay tuned the we're getting back on the road
me and dreamy you know she's finally ready those exhaust pipes and things were the last bits of the
puzzle miss p she had a vaccine her final vaccine the other day and she's good to go back to bangkok
so we're gonna part ways and i'm gonna get back on my bike literally get on your bike paddy
and when i look back at um koh samui it's been an incredible time i'm so glad that i came down
here and i got to hang out with my friends do some incredible experiences like jet skiing to ko pang
yang and lots of fishing trips and just lots of uh videos that highlighted local businesses and
hopefully helped and of course the boxing which was just next level and we raised twenty thousand
dollars for charity so it's been a really positive and up and down a little bit you know i did have a
little bit of a mental breakdown at the beginning of samui but we got through that and we came back
stronger and now look at dreamy and look at me we're good to go we're good to go and um i can't
wait so see you in the next one when we'll be on the road me and dreamy are you ready babe
she's ready see you the next one oh and i'll leave you i'll leave you with um the sound
of her new exhaust because it's a little bit different you might notice the difference i'll
just drive back down to the area i live in and you can have a little listen okay i'll go now
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