Step 1: Preparations

STEP 1: PREPERATIONS

We booked our flight with AirAsia, return from Perth, cost us around $500 – and this included taking my own bike, I decided to do this because A. It was only $50 extra on the flight and B. I would be more comfortable on the trip with my own bike.

After some very good advice from a childhood neighbor, Hugh, who completed an epic world cycle from London to Rio in 2014 to raise money for UK based charity TackleAfrica, I started to get my arse into gear and prepare myself, starting with knowing how to fix my bike. I booked it into a service with some local legends from South Beach Cycles, they took me through a full service and equipped me with some info I might need on my trip (tuning the gears, fixing spokes, etc), needless to say my shitty memory discarded all of the information as soon as I left the shop, so I am now googling ‘step by step guide to tuning bicycle gears’ and downloading the info into a printable document which I can take with me (and probably forget I have when the moment arrives).

So next thing on the preparations list was – Watch loads of videos and read loads of blogs.

I found a couple of ok blogs on the area we want to cycle, the most helpful was A cruising couple , these guys did Hanoi to HCMC, which took them 6 weeks. We are only doingNha Trang to Hue, the route they chose is not the route I want to go on but alot of the information in their blog is relevant and helpful.

90% of the videos on cycling Vietnam are shit, boring and not that informative or exciting. I will be recording our journey, so I will try and not make the same shitty videos.

I’m going to leave it at that and get back to you once i have all of the stuff ordered off Ebay (panniers etc)!

This is the route we will be taking:

Cycling Vietnam: Step 1: Preparation

Danny  and I will be cycling the coast of Vietnam in May from Siagon to Hanoi, I only have three weeks so there will be a little train travel but the distance covered on my bike should be over 800km

Once in Hanoi I will cycle to Ha Long Bay and back which will finish the trip.

Help me raise funds for beyondblue - a supportive organisation for anyone affected by anxiety or depression. I want to support beyondblue because I want people who may think they are depressed or suffering from anxiety that there is a place to go for help or advice.

This bike ride and fund raising will be in memory of my Brother, Jake Walton who left us in June 2012.

We booked our flight with AirAsia, return from Perth, cost us around $500 - and this included taking my own bike, I decided to do this because A. It was only $50 extra on the flight and B. I would be more comfortable on the trip with my own bike.

After some very good advice from a childhood neighbor, Hugh, who completed an epic world cycle from London to Rio in 2014 to raise money for UK based charity TackleAfrica, I started to get my arse into gear and prepare myself, starting with knowing how to fix my bike. I booked it into a service with some local legends from South Beach Cycles, they took me through a full service and equipped me with some info I might need on my trip (tuning the gears, fixing spokes, etc), needless to say my shitty memory discarded all of the information as soon as I left the shop, so I am now googling 'step by step guide to tuning bicycle gears' and downloading the info into a printable document which I can take with me (and probably forget I have when the moment arrives).

So next thing on the preparations list was - Watch loads of videos and read loads of blogs.

I found a couple of ok blogs on the area we want to cycle, the most helpful was A cruising couple , these guys did Hanoi to HCMC, which took them 6 weeks. We are only doing Nha Trang to Hue, the route they chose is not the route I want to go on but alot of the information in their blog is relevant and helpful.

90% of the videos on cycling Vietnam are shit, boring and not that informative or exciting. I will be recording our journey, so I will try and not make the same shitty videos.

I'm going to leave it at that and get back to you once I have all of the stuff ordered off Ebay (panniers etc)!

This is the route we will be taking: