Insomnia night, me and the red wild bee honey took a night ride to the Gandjuran church in Bantul area. We headed south, taking a slow stroll enjoying the bright clear night with its mild breeze. We hanged by the church for an hour, then we headed north to the city, in the first intersection we were tempted to go right to the Imogiri town, we went, the night was young, we needed more kilometers to spend the night.
In the Imogiri town there were road sign, to the right was to Gunung Kidul through Siluk-Panggang road, straight ahead was to Gunung Kidul as well through Imogiri-Dlingo road, to the left was head back to the city. We have taken the right road and we definitely not taken the left road to the city. Straight ahead into the unknown, it was the very fist time we took the road. As usual before we took the climb, we make a rest stop to chill down the engine, rest and smoking.
And here we went, twisted the throttle and ran away, but all for sudden it was a dead end. We were accidentally entering the parking lot of Imogiri tomb of kings, this cemetery is royal cemetery for the descendant of Mataram empire, which now consist of Jogjakarta Sultanane, Pakualaman Principality of Jogjakarta, Mangkunegara Princedom of Surakarta, and Surakarta Sunanate. Their kings, princes, and princesses were buried here.
After taking the correct route we started the climb, the climb was less steep than Siluk-Panggang road, but the climb is longer, in the second long climb we had a trouble. It was difficult to gear down and we were losing power, fuck the engine stalled, make a quick u turn and restarted the engine with the gravity, thank god it worked. near the top of the climb fog appears and drizzle came down, nice, then the road flat out and villages appear. There was T-junction that showed direction to Dlingo and Pathuk, we think we're gonna take Pathuk, it got nice view of Jogjakarta city from above, we took it but the road gotten narrow and was back to climb again with an extreme steep and the villages are gone then teakwood forest appeared.
Fuck for the second time the engine was stalled, fuck again it was pitch dark in the fog no light from villages nor head light and fuck we made mistake by pulling over to the shoulder, it was a mushy damp leaves and mud, our wheels got stuck. We managed to restart the engine by the kick starter, but the wheel got no traction at all, I had to walk in the side of the wild honey bee gave it a push while throttling. After that wild climb we went to the wild descent, we was thinking of going back since there's no presence of civilization there. But going back meant we had to make another extreme climb which may cost our engine stall again, maybe this time we need to spent the night in the forest. We only got faith that it will lead to civilization since the asphalt quality is fine even though the road was narrow. After a while we saw in the distance a small light, artificial light, we were so happy, it was the edge of a village. We met village and village and more village, with people by the side of the road, it was safe passage now. Finally we met the Pleret-Dlingo intersection, to the left is going down to Pleret town, to the right is Dlingo town, and straight is Pathuk hill.
We got bright streetlight here then we stopped, we adjust the clutch so we can make a better climb to the Pathuk hill. There we found out that our fuel was leaking through the fuel filter, ooooooow nice. The engine got the proper power after we adjust the clutch, but we need to open on and off the fuel line so we didn't lose much fuel since we haven't saw any fuel sellers by the road. The Pathuk hill is beautiful but unfortunately the drizzle made me had to kept the camera off the water. We stop a while to chill down the engine again and take a smoke..... awaaaaay from the wild honey bee, because we still worried about the fuel leak.
The final descent was worry free we reached Jogjakarta-Wonosari road, refuel and head home, it was about 2 hours to dawn, it's enough, head home snuggle to the blanket and watch TV until I fell sleep.
Wake up lazy head you need to fix the fuel line in the morning.Riding distant : 102.8km
Riding duration : 5 hours
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