4th Gear is Rob's favourite gear, 2 days ago he rode all day in 4th gear, even when pulling away, an impressive feat but not good for the bike. Today we all rode in 4th gear because we rode 150km to the Vinh Moc Tunnels along route 1, the main road in Vietnam. It's the main road but it is still only single carriageway. The tunnels themselves were extremely impressive, 40km of underground tunnels and over 2000km of trenches. A total of 46 babies were also born in the passages during the US war. Having seen the passages I was left in no doubt as to why the vietcong beat the US. On the way there we almost had a couple of accidents, all of us, on more than one occasion skidded. The reason being that motorbikes ride down the hard shoulder which is covered in grit and gravel and every now and then another rider would swerve, meaning you would have to break suddenly, locking up either the front or rear wheel, creating a skid. On the way back this happened to me when an articulated lorry swerved towards a concrete barrier whilst I was undertaking it (the safest way for bikes). I slammed on my brakes, both wheels locked and the bike went down, smashing the mirror. I received road rash and a couple of larger cuts down my left leg and a few small cuts on my right knee, my fingers were also run over by the last 2 sets of wheels from the lorry, some how they're not broken! On the way I also managed to brush my leg against George's exhaust when we stopped for water so now have a 2 inch burn on my left leg as well. A little sore but otherwise perfectly alright.
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