Richard-BKK

Both the BT-012ss and the BT-002 are sportbike tires with track capabilities. I would advice going for the Bridgestone BT-002 tire, as the BT-002 has replaced the BT-012ss tire some years ago. The BT-002, is softer than the old BT-012ss, with more give in the carcass and a better feeling for the contact patch on the tarmac.

Matter of fact, your question would even have me wondering at the tire shop, if they have both. The BT-002 fresh from the press or a BT-012ss which maybe hanging around for a few years in the Thai climate…. For my experience rubber and Thai climate not go’s well to long so I will go for the BT-002.

For the Blue hue some tires seem to sweat, it is harmless. Read here Tire shows Blue Hue

The Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Custom is a nice cruiser, it is also for sale in Thailand. Currently my 47kg/165cm g/f is driving one around in Bangkok, great bike, not heavy. It's 900cc V-twin engine sounds smooth good torque, more then enough power and still a comfortable dive. Even for me, I'm a 196cm tail farang the driving position is fine

For the people who need a good connection, I can say one thing. Get a ToT and a True line get on both ADSL and by magic you have always a relative good connection....

ToT 1024/512 cost 590 Bht

True 1024/512 cost 599 Bht...

For the cost you not have leave it....

It is amazing how much people, who can build a bike blindfolded, or even so-called tire experts at gasoline station, know about tires. When driving in Thailand, car or motorcycle, the first thing you need to buy is a decent gage to measure air pressure. Even if, by some miracle, a Thai gas station have a air-pressure gage it is still likely it not works correctly.

An similar article about tire pressure Tire happiness

Transmission to the purpose of the bike, I would hate manual-gear transmission on our paksoi bike, and I would hate automatic transmission on one of our regular bikes.

If the new Yamaha Nouvo cost 55 - 60,000 Bht, why not buy a Yamaha Spark or Suzuki Raider 150R ... or save a 3000 more and buy a Honda CBR150 or even a 200cc Tiger...

I belief you mean the Bridgestone BT-021 tire, which is indeed a good all round tire. For the difference in road conditions for Thailand and the West. If I take the average tarmac temperature (34-40c) of a high-way in Thailand and the average temperature (12c) in Europe.

The difference is on regular good grade tires hard to detect but say we switch our everyday Bridgestone's to Bridgestone Battlax BT-002 semi-track tires, in Europe I would be scared to take them for a ride on a highway. As I probably never get them on the right temperature to get top grip, but in Thailand, getting this Bridgestone track tires up to temperature is not that big problem. Matter of fact with some aggressive driving it would even be possible to let the tires sweat blue jelly compound juice...

But for a big bike with sporting futures I could advice the Bridgestone Battlax BT-002

Lets face it.... nobody can say anything helpful, we have no idea which Bridgestone tires he is using. A common problem with imported big bikes is that they come from "mostly" colder countries, and in colder countries people most of the time use softer compound tires.

I remember our first Ducati 1098S, imported direct from Italy, I belief it was possible to just follow me by the tire track I leaved behind. After we changed the tires to something what was more suitable to Thai weather it was fine.

@apetley, the shinny reflection you sometimes see, is in simple terms light reflecting from the heat that build up just about the tarmac, this together with colder air turns the tarmac into some form of lens, this also happens in deserts, over water...and commonly know as fatamorgana or mirage

I once installed a bore-up kit on a Yamaha Fino (190cc) 63mm piston, including high performance 4-valve custom made cylinder head. We replaced the standard 25mm Mikuni BS25/1 carburetor with a Mikuni BS32 (32mm) carburetor.

And on the roller-bank at Red Baron the Fino did 180km/h, but on the road the bike became dangerous to drive just after 100km/h. A Yamaha Nouvo with the same bore-up upgrade, was stable to drive around 120km/h but it was still like driving something what could break anytime/any-moment.

Turning a Fino in a Racer

I forget to tell that we "sort of" balanced the wheels and tires to about 180km/h, It was very difficult to balance the Fino and larger Nouvo wheels as they start to wiggle about 130km/h.....

I have no idea why Goodspeed list different bore-up kits for the same engine, I can also see differences in CBR-125R and Honda Sonic 125 which is the identical engine. It is not the first time I deal with Goodspeed, and I can ensure you that if you call you get the same answer I say. The engines of all 3 motorcycles (CBR-125, Sonic 125 and CBR-150) is the same. (For the CBR-150 the only difference is the cylinder, piston and head assembly)

For people thinking to bolt-on a CRF-250 cylinder or CBF-250 cylinder, I would say not get you hopes up and not talk about it in a motorcycle garage, you will surely become the laugh of the day

Ask any Thai mechanic a CBR-150 cylinder, piston and cylinder head assembly fits on any CBR-125R and Honda Sonic 125 engine. The Honda Sonic is using the same engine as the CBR-125R.

The only difference between the two engines, SOHC and DOHC is in the cylinder head. Anybody who says otherwise has never seen both engines.

The Honda CBR-125R is also liquid-cooled single-cylinder four-stroke engine, and as I said before identical to the CBR-150 (with exception of the cylinder and cylinder head)

SOHC stands for Single Overhead Camshaft. That means that there is only one camshaft per header. Inline engines will contain one camshaft. V-type and/or flat will contain 2 camshafts. For a SOHC engine there are usually 2 valves per cylinder but there can be more with the addition of cams for each valve.

DOHC stands for Double Overhead Camshaft. Now there are 2 camshafts per header. So in an inline there are 2 camshafts because there is only one header, but there is 4 in a V-type or flat engine. These DOHC engines usually have 4 valves. One camshaft for the exhaust valves and the other for the intake valves.

Advantages to having a DOHC engine over a SOHC is that the engine has twice as many intake and exhaust valves as a SOHC motor. (Main difference between CBR-125 and CBR-150, 2-valves or 4-valves) This makes the engine run cooler and more smoothly, quietly, and efficiently. But the downfall is that DOHC engines cost more for repairs. To ensure against expensive engine repairs, make sure you change your engine's timing chain about every 60,000 miles. (In both the CBR125 and CBR150 the camshaft is powered by a chain system)

The Honda CBR-150 is using the same engine as the CBR-125R and Honda Sonic 125, the main difference is the cylinder and cylinder head. In basic is a CBR-150 a bore-up for the CBR-125. If we calculate the bore and cylinder wall I would say that paying it safe would be around 175cc (what is also compatible with bore-up kits available on the market.)

Placing a 250cc cylinder of a CBF-250 (bore x stroke 73.0 x 59.5 mm) on a CBR-125/150 is technical a bit more complicated, first "biggest" problem is the mounting screw holes are not the same, second major problem is the length of the stroke which is for a CBR-125/150 only 47.2mm

If I was you I will not import a Honda CBR-150R, I will just walk in India to your Yamaha dealer and buy a Yamaha R15, cheaper, bigger more performance and spare parts are easy to obtain.

Typical Microsoft, never deliver a real '100% working' operating system, just let people pay more for the next step. Microsoft did the same with MS Windows ME...sure special price... but still more then upgrading from Windows 98 to ME then to -> XP.

Windows 7 is all about back to basic, if Windows Vista looked like a Linux build (from the way it works), MS Windows 7 will even do it more, as Microsoft is again using 'legally' copied open-source technology. And this time, without getting to deep into technology, on how the linux kernel 2.6 is using multiple cores or processor unites. (newer open-source software is protected with the latest GPL 3, which states in short...when you not contribute you cannot use it)

With looking at MS or Apple operating software can anybody tell me about sources which was not freely available before?

O and I forget the high Red Hat numbers where if you install all packages included on the DVD's.

That means several servers who do the same thing like 4 http servers, Squid Proxy server, several office applications...etc..etc..

It is therefore more suitable to compare Red Hat Server with MS Windows Server + MS Office Backend server + Microsoft or 3th party Proxy server + Microsoft IIS Server with all extensions (which also include Perl and PHP server capabilities)

So if we compare the security errors now, Red Hat is not standing out that much....

Security is not so much the concern of the Operating System. So can a bug on a Linux computer be documented and track the progress, but nobody do anything with the bug.

It seems that everybody hates Microsoft, and if, it is on its own a very small problem, everybody with some computer know-how try's to put a crowbar between it to see how they can make Microsoft Windows display its inside wide-open.

I bet, if all this people concentrate on OX-X or even my beloved Linux they would be capable to do more harm...

But then a bug, or software exploit, will not bring so much profit. If I needed to write a software worm which would have effect on major linux distributions I needed to distribute them on a CD-rom to be able to infect most linux computers.

For example, not ever kernel (hard of a OS) is the same, with which version of C-compiler was it compiled and so I need to include the right libraries, and even kernel 2.6.23 from Fedora doesn't have all the same default packages as the kernel 2.6.23 of Ubuntu.

Anyway building a virus, worm, mall-ware, which can infect linux computers to take some advantage of it is maybe 700mb big not something you can attach in a email of hide on a USBstick. All Windows computers running Windows XP Professional or Home or even Basic use the same kernel. So if you can use that one you can take-over the world....

As crazy as it may look, most of the older 2-stroke motorcycles where privately owned motorcycles, so I guess the police officer who owns it would be able to sell it. Other motorcycles that are owned by city administration and other government and semi-government organizations would be sold in an auction.

If there is enough interest I can inform members of upcoming auctions, but be aware the motorcycles, and cars, may not be with license plates (But for smaller bikes they are relative easy to get, with some help of Thai speaking friends)

THe TZM is/was very popular in Malaysia.

Still new available are the Kawasaki KKR-150SSR, for the Yamaha I'm not sure I belief the last run was last year.....

Thai/Bangkok Traffic police has still a lot of motorcycles which need to be replaced, the second big wave of Tiger Boxer 200cc motorbike will be delivered in March. Other police motorcycles you see, with exception of the Honda Phantom and higher cubic volume bikes are being replaced in 2008.

One on one is the Honda CBR150 no match for a Thai police version of the Tiger Boxer 200cc, anybody who wants to try PM me. If you win you get glory and a bottle of Whiskey, if you lose you pay the Whiskey.

Tiger Motorcycle, debuting and winning 2 podium places in the 2007 Philippine IRGP 115GP motorcycle race, Tiger motorcycle told reporters that they are looking forward to participating in the 2008 racing season.

In 2007 the competition the main competitors where factory teams from Yamaha, Honda and Kawasaki.

Source: http://www.motorcycle.in.th/article.php/Ti...-ready-for-2008

Very interesting story, but please explain how you get Suzuki pistons and Honda Sonic/CBR125 Valves in a Yamaha Nouvo engine.

As we know has the Yamaha Nouvo a 4-stroke, SOHC 2-valve, single-cylinder engine with a 50mm bore and a 57.9mm stroke the 50mm bore diameter is what we almost can call unique as I know not of any Suzuki motorcycles that use a 50mm piston diameter which will be remotely compatible with the Yamaha N115 engine.

You not need a registered bike to get insurance, true. But your insurance doesn't need to pay if your bike is not road legal......

For Thailand we probably have to wait until mid March 2008 as it is likely that Yamaha waits until the Bangkok Motor Show

Game manufacturers make game to what hardware is most likely available on the market, any game manufacturer who concentrate on DirectX 10.1 only is actual doing suicide and killing its market share.

As the market share of DirectX hardware higher then DirectX 9 is Nvidia 10 graphic cards to 1 or 2 ATI/AMD graphic cards.