Kawasaki Triples Club

Many of you will know Ian Coggin (Cheesy) a long time Triple (H2C) enthusiast.

He has just embarked on a massive adventure. After flying to Nairobi he will pick up a Chinese motorcycle which he intends to ride on his own to South Africa.

If you would like to follow his adventure he has set up a YouTube channel. Please like follow and subscribe.



https://youtube.com/shorts/DtBP1aVU6QY? ... 5eDMqjwa9U

g6mow wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2026 7:00 pm Many of you will know Ian Coggin (Cheesy) a long time Triple (H2C) enthusiast.

He has just embarked on a massive adventure. After flying to Nairobi he will pick up a Chinese motorcycle which he intends to ride on his own to South Africa.

If you would like to follow his adventure he has set up a YouTube channel. Please like follow and subscribe.



https://youtube.com/shorts/DtBP1aVU6QY? ... 5eDMqjwa9U

Blimey! That’s a trek & half Simon, will take a look!

It certainly is Ian. He’s a braver man than me !!

g6mow wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2026 8:51 pm He’s a braver man than me !!

And me

Maybe he could get some advice from Noraly.....its not a trip I would consider....even when I was able

Wow, I reckon that's about 3,000 miles! He sounds out of breath just filming the bike

No chance , I won't visit any country where various regions puts little value on life.
Hope the trip goes well and safe for him.

I think of the two going around the world and were told not to go into a real volatile country Iran in January 2025.
There still there in prison and that country has deteriorated so much due to world events.

The idea doesn't appeal to me at all,but we all must follow our dreams. Long time dead and all that.

I've subscribed and will be following his exploits. I hope everything lives up to the dream.

No chance.....too many scumbags around that way. Life is cheap there.....why do you think they all have 10 kids

Me neither. Though not just due to the safety concerns, more to the bureaucracy you encounter- I've ready lots of accounts of such trips and they seem to involve regularly spending hours or days waiting at borders & consulates for visas etc., plus being stopped to check your papers (& get a bribe) numerous times a day. Never sounds too much fun.

robh1f wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2026 1:48 pm No chance.....too many scumbags around that way. Life is cheap there.....why do you think they all have 10 kids

The reason for having 10 kids is a numbers game so there is more chance that some will get over here to pizz me off

And to the original question,

Not a chance in hell would I ride through anywhere like that, look what happened to the couple that rode through Iran

They were strongly advised NOT to go to Iran Mike?
And what mess they are in now some 18 months later

If i was a lot younger and had sufficient funds, maybe?

But I'm not and never.

Good luck.

Doc

Nothing on YouTube since 11th June,or have I overlooked further additions?

skub wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2026 9:30 pm Nothing on YouTube since 11th June,or have I overlooked further additions?

He has had a few days of sorting out paperwork insurance etc which had held him up unexpectantly .
Although he had filmed quite a bit of content he is struggling to get it off the camera and onto his laptop. Last time I heard off him he was intending to speak to his Grandson via FaceTime to talk him through the process!!!

g6mow wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2026 9:35 pm

skub wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2026 9:30 pm Nothing on YouTube since 11th June,or have I overlooked further additions?

He has had a few days of sorting out paperwork insurance etc which had held him up unexpectantly .
Although he had filmed quite a bit of content he is struggling to get it off the camera and onto his laptop. Last time I heard off him he was intending to speak to his Grandson via FaceTime to talk him through the process!!!

Pending then.

My lad's just turned 19 and seems to have the travel bug. Last week the idiot went to Transnistria. No, I didn't know either but it's an automonous breakaway territory that aligns itself with Russia. It's on the Ukraine/Moldovan border. It's one of the places that the Foreign Office advises against all travel to.
Anyway, he managed to get in and out unscathed. Fkn idiot.

Mitsui Spy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2026 12:25 pm Anyway, he managed to get in and out inscathed. Fkn idiot.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

You know Mitsui Spy to have previous then?

Charlie Morriss wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 2:50 pm You know Mitsui Spy to have previous then?

When I was 19 I considered a weekend camping at Scarborough an adventure, never mind going to the edge of a warzone in an unrecognised state .
That said, I was also a fkn idiot at that age and did stupid things that now, as a parent, I'm ashamed and mortified by.

But he did get a fridge magnet so that's the main thing eh?