The Panadol Tour to Hot and cold yet steamy North Pakistan

[vickytulla]

So finally We nine to fivers jobby people were out there in wilderness again like every year and finally back,

we started to pen out the yearly tour as early as january ' 17 initially we decided to do the neelum valley in detail then we gave a thought to do deosai and rama again because half of our riders missed it last time.
But there was a twist, we missed a lot of beauty of Noori Nar last time because when we trekked it was pitch balck, so we decided instead of mangling with heavy traffic of mansehra, abotabad we will directly appear in jhalkad from Kashmir side and this time we will go early morning so we wont miss any site seeing this time..

Learning about nori Top again half of the riders either chickened out or decided to join us from mansehra side

Any ways 7 riders with strong machines and confident hearts joined in, and we left Lahore in the middle of the night to finish the GT road before the daily rush hours (we were so wrong) GT road is a curse... will be posting why...

Any ways things kept on going interesting with each day going by.... I will post with pictures for all pakWheels buddies..

For now I am detailing the initial itenary which got screwed later on

1 - First Leg - GT Road > Muzafarbad > Sharda
2 - Second - Via Nori Top to jhalkad, cross babusar and reach thailachi
3 - Reach Rama and Camp / site seeing
4 - More site seeing in case last day was late Reach Rupal and camp
5 - Visit Trishing valley Return to Chilum/Shoesar (tentative depending on how things turn out)
6 - Day for deosai, bara pani, chota pani, kala pani .....e.t.c... site seeing
7 - Return Trip started and next two days will be used in returning back to Lahore.

@angel82 with his Offroad cham Suzuki DR250

@nomi1 with his GS150 With heavy Engine swap

@vickytulla with his Zongshen RX3

@RocketScience with his Dakar rally Honda Ba'ja XR250

@ali musadiq a first timer with his Honda CG125, but he attended offroad sessions which we do monthly so we knew he will make it the top and he did very well.

@taha66 with his Honda Deluxe Heavy Engine swapped bike

@omer bhai with Derbi Offroad 150

So the 7 Musketeers came back with 7 million memorable moments.

[gull_s_777]

While reading the title, i already knew it is vickytulla's thread.
Going again to Noori top i see. That takes guts.
But hitting it with heavy force this time.

[N0m1]

@vickytulla, it's N0m1 not Nomi1.
main post edit kro ustad.

Two wheels move the soul, two wheels hurt the A*s.

Pic while climbing Sharan forest, Balakot.

[88azi]

Ala @vickytulla sir you are great. #Salute awaiting more pictures

[syedwaqarhussain22]

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2 questions at the moment;
How did Derbi off-road 150 performed ?
What's the swap done in GS150 @N0m1 ?

Waiting for pictures ....

[mqsdrana]

Nice

[taha66]

Pakwheel ho, whatsapp ho ya Facebook ho, Rana Sb har jgaa Nice Nice e krte hain bss

[vickytulla]

actually last year we ended up town all the new commers .. this year we wanted to enjoy its serenty and we really did... (Y)

While reading the title, i already knew it is vickytulla's thread. Going again to Noori top i see. That takes guts.But hitting it with heavy force this time.

[vickytulla]

Derbi is a very Hardcore Offroader Bike and it has guts to take even a noob up hills where CG, GS150 cry for power...

1 - I have seen GS150 and Derbi 150 head to head, as long as the tour is on high ways the GS150 stay ahead as Top end of GS150 is better, but as soon as you hit the gravel, stone, mud you name it.. derby becomes 150cc Evil Knievel and takes the led immediately knocking back gs150 and cgs... e.t.c..

GS150 used by @nomi1 was engine swapped so offcourse it was dominant in its power, but he struggled with missing propblem which we though was a low oxygen issue but later found out it was a bad ignition coil, but even with bad ignition coil the bike was able to conquer nori top then rama, then deosai, then sharaan.... Too much power over came the missing issue and the tour happened succesfully for him

boxer Swapped GS150

2 questions at the moment;How did Derbi off-road 150 performed ?What's the swap done in GS150 @N0m1 ?

Waiting for pictures ....

[vickytulla]

Day 1

We gathered at shadara junction at around 10pm first to arrive was Omer and me,
the last guy to arrive was @angel82 and then @nomi1 both were just finishing up there last minutes tweaks to there bikes..

so instead of take off at 10:30 we exited lahore at 1AM ...can you just imagine that ?

But atlast we thought that would be enough for tonight... but things were just warming up in real... worst was about to happen... as I said GT road is a CURSE it really is...

We hardly exited the kala shah kaku tool plaza and heard @RocketScience to stop in inquiring he pointed us his gas tank which was leaking... I was like Oh no... the curse of GT Road has started every body had a good luagh on that ...

any ways We directed that the group should continue the journey and only 1~2 riders will stop to rectify the issue...

and the team left and continued the journey...

Now we started to diagnose the issue we found few spots under the tank which seemed to be repaired earlier as the dirt bike is 20+ years old.. so we got the Magic Depoxy out and cleaned those areas and filled it... then waited for it to dry out...

then we lifted the bike again but found out few more leaks.. then we filled those ... then waited again then again tested.. this time still there were leakes but the point where it was leaking was under the tank on the insid of frame..

this was real pain in the a$$ at those hours of night... I knew without removeing the tank from bike and emptying it from ptrol will not get fixed...

we checked our bike feul tanks to see if we have some space in out feul tanks so we can empty this tank for repair... we then moved the feul.. while moving the feul from one tank to other bikes tank.. lot of feul got wasted.. but we did not had any other option..

not after dismounting tank from bike we had complete access to under side and we filled up every doubt ful area of tank so that there should be no chance of leakage...

it worked this time... but by this time it was 4AM and our team which was traveling ahead of us was already some where near Dina.. and because we worked on bike we were already exhausted and sleepy in first 6 hours of "adventure trip"

Just before leaving lahore in midnight..

@RocketScience draining all feul out of tank to finally investigate the bottom of tank as first two attempts failed

@angel82 soaked in sweat after labor of removing tank...

XR250 laid on side for petrol to go on other side and let magic depoxy dry [first Atempt]

XR250 laid on side for petrol to go on other side and let magic depoxy dry [second Atempt]

@angel82 with his sleepy eyes

I thought screw it... at least now we can storm through empty roads as early as we can we still have good 3 hours before rush hour at least we can cross bhara kahu.. dirtiest traffic jams which is a nerve killer...

BUT I was again wrong.. the GT ROad Curse was not letting go this easy

[fahed_world]

Amazing yar .... pehli post per kay banda fresh ho jata ha

[selman]

no words Really........tusi chhaa gaye o sir g...your thread rocks:slight_smile:

[vickytulla]

Amazing yar .... pehli post per kay banda fresh ho jata ha

no words Really........tusi chhaa gaye o sir g...your thread rocks:slight_smile:

THank you for you kind feed back... I am glad you like it.

[vickytulla]

Day 1 - The Curse of GT Road Continues.

Once the XR250 Tank leakae stopped we imediatly loaded the bikes back and started to cruise again we new we have spent the crucial 4 hours of night ride repairing the feul tank which were supposed to be spended in cruising so now we had to hurry a bit before the rush hours start in gujranwala, jheleum and all the big cities we were supposed to cross.

Good part was that All four bikes were higher cc Big bikes even the Deluxe had a Boxer engine shoved into it... so we reached dina in roughly 2 hours.. which is more then 160km from muridke where we were fixing the tank.

It refreshed us a bit, but almost just about near jhelum I think we were refeuling when we learnt that CURSE OF GT ROAD is still following us through a call from our "rawal Dasta" which was supposed to be in or near muzafarabad by now was still in dina becuase the GS150 was with an old sprocket set which was all finished and chain broke and it also broke the chain cover...

So we had a big face palm yet again.. so another bike was down and GT road abhi khatam nahi howa tha...

by the time we reached them, it was hot sunny Full time Pakoray talnay wali morning every body was standing in shade and Nomi was just finishing up fixing the chain.. he added multiple chain locks to complete the broken part of chain..

chain cover was all mangled so he had to throw it away...

When we reached we planned to stop on very next hotel which ever comes so every one can have break fast and some rest and in mean while if any Motorbike shop comes then nomi can get a new sprocket set for his bike...

but na tu koi kaam ka hotel aya na he he koi mechnic ki shp agr koi aye bhi tu ya tu unky pas gs150 ka saamaan nahi tha ya band thee..

or chaltay chaltay ismabad Express way k hum bilkul pas pohanch gaye wahan humien aik "Manji Hotel" nazar aya..

Looking at "Manjee" instantly neend ka khumaar sa mahsos howa... and every body stopped

We did a break fast which was not very good at all.. motay phikay chanay, Omelete was full of oil but we had to fill bellies so we did it and then we all took a30 ~40 minutes power nap...

After the nap I advised Nomi to leave earlier then us as boys were still waking up and he should reach rawalpindi Murre road Bikes market and get his bike a brand new garari set.. as Abhi tu party shru bhi nahi huwi and garari set was exhusted..

So nomi left earlier while we all had another round of tea..

By this time my head started to ache so just before power nap I took to tablets of the Super TABLETs we had
after I woke up the drug had already kicked in well and I was fresh and ready to rumble.. later on I learnt I was not the only one who took the Power Tonic tablet

[vickytulla]

DAY 1 GT Road to Murree road saga Continues

We were soon in Islamabad after a rest and swiftly moved towards murree road, but we totally forgot that now its a rush hour time and we are on the busiest road of twin cities, the Murree road was total jam pack and to a complete halt from Lake View point untill accross complete bhara kahu...

I must mention here (with an advance pardon from some one who live in bhara kahu) that I heard Bhara Kahu area comes in fedral control of Islamabad capital City managment ? if that is correct then what the hell ? it looks like shi*t, its infested with population blast heavily, it is the only way to reach Murree express way..

Murree Express way is as useless as dead rottten fish if you are stucked for two hours in bhara kahu becuase some idiot wanted to block the road or becuase their was a suzuki pick up punctured in the middle of the road.

Any ways we after a long exhustive stuggle in a very hot weather were able to escape the crappy traffic of bhara kahu... but CURSE WAS STILL STICKING TO US ... as another bike was about to go down...

[gull_s_777]

Not even reached Murree yet and bikes are dropping like flies.
Old chain sprocket issue shouldn't have been there.
Part of very basic check up before the trip.

[nishat12]

AoA Waqar Bhai & team

Another adventurous narration is going on from your side. Reading keenly your thread and let's see the performance of GS-150 machine with swap engine, it will be interesting and more informative. Allah bless u all with all his blessing.

with Kind regards,
Ali Imran

[vickytulla]

yR bhi tu bhara kahu aya hay.. aik or shaheed honay lagi hay next post men

Not even reached Murree yet and bikes are dropping like flies.Old chain sprocket issue shouldn't have been there. Part of very basic check up before the trip.

[vickytulla]

Salam imran bhai I hope you are doing great, hum tu har dafa pori tyari say jatay hayn but sari tyari "kho khatay" chali jati hay GT road cover hotay hotay...

About GS150, It was the first time for noman to take such a heavy tour... and he rode it very professionally even though he wasnt prepared for few mishaps like broken chain or worn out garari...

AoA Waqar Bhai & team

Another adventurous narration is going on from your side. Reading keenly your thread and let's see the performance of GS-150 machine with swap engine, it will be interesting and more informative. Allah bless u all with all his blessing.

with Kind regards,Ali Imran

[vickytulla]

DAY 1 - The Roasted riders in Bhara kaho traffic

we finally made thrugh hectic trafic jam of bharakaho and refeuled from last pump and reached Murree Express way now I was just thinking in my mind that I will now go non stop and only stop when I see "welcome Muzafrabad" sign board...

But then I saw all bikers standing on the side of the road.. mon latka k.... and I was like not again... dil men socha GT road tu khatam ho gaye ye CURSE kioi nahi khatam ho rha... konsa PAKA Tona hai jo tot nhi rha..

Any ways we stopped and came to know that Suzuki DR250 rear Hub bearings are gone.. This struck to every body... and I was even more concerned becuase I knew this is a rare breed motorcycle and its parts are not common..

Any ways plan ye bana k we will take it as is to muzafrabad as tire was still fucntional but lose in its axis.. and meet my university class fellow there who is kashmiri and knows his city well, we pre informed him about the situation ..

he said masla he koi nahi janaza manji tey pa k lay ao asi jan dal dein gay us men learning that we will get help from muzafrabad we continued the journey...

It was freakingly hot day and total fry pan situation.... first day he total sun burn..

Baki pictures dekkhain... I knew by day end we all would need the "Power Tablets" again.. jo garmi ki situation ja rhi theee mujhe shak tha kisi ko sun stroke na ho jaye...