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Nice. Learning from the Thai drivers how to drive with only 50% concentration on actually driving. Maybe watch a lakorn while you're at it!

Not really distracting for a confident motorcyclists - and that doesn't mean somebody that hasn't ridden a bike in the last 40 years and bought a Click when they hit Swampy.

On my last two Gixers, I had radar detector, GPS, phone/music, and a 2-way intercom. All linked through a switching device to built in headphones in my Shoei.

The switching device was able to be programmed to give priority to each circuit. First was the radar (for obvious reasons), second was the GPS, third was the intercom, last came the music\phone.

So if you're cruising along at light speed listening to AC/DC and the missus starts talking on the intercom, the music cuts out and you can hear her. But while she's talking to you and the radar detector picks up a signal, that will override the intercom, or GPS or phone.....so you can't hear her saying foul words as the back wheel is dancing in the air.

"Honest officer, your radar must be faulty. You say you locked on to me at 95klm, I thought I was doing 100 - maybe my speedo reads a bit fast. But if your machine said I was doing 200 before you pushed the button, it must have been a low flying plane or something."

I actually used that line once and the cop had no choice but to let me go. Funny thing though, in the 50klms I had to travel to get home in rural NZ, I saw about 20 cops and the radar was virtually singing so much I turned it off. He called ahead and alerted all the coppers on the route - he didn't know I had a detector because it was mounted inside the front fairing, so expected me to gat caught by somebody else.

It's bloody hard to keep a Gixer under 100klm/h for nearly 50klms. It feels like you're about to fall over the clip-ons.

I avoided that road for a few months after that.

There's a seafood restaurant on WS that sells them cooked. Not sure of the name but about 100m in from Beach Road, opposite Mandarin Agogo.

Been there a few times (the restaurant, well, been to the gogo as well but that's another matter), and the legs (crab legs ) are quite good.

I've got a few Canuck friends and they tell me they are the real deal and thought they were excellent eating, though somewhat expensive.

Daffy, looks like a really professional job. Just a thought - why not put a flasher unit in-line with the LED. This would make it more noticeable.

But then again, LED's are pretty bright so might be a waste of time.

I did something similar back home. Not for my tailgate, but to tell me the boat trailer was attached. Used to moor the boat some weekends and take the trailer home - other times I'd take the boat home. Had a 6L V8, so when the trailer was sans boat, the performance wasn't affected and I'd merrily be passing everything in sight and not leaving sufficient room. Plus I couldn't see the trailer in the mirrors until it started to fishtail.

I made a circuit and linked an electronic pulsing unit to the light as a constant reminder. Every time I glanced at the dashboard the yellow light was flashing vigorously.

I just had the circuit linked to the trailer power plug with a spare pin for earth. Trouble was, the circuit went live regardless of the boat being on the trailer or not.

I was going to put a pressure switch on the trailer so it would only light up when the boat wasn't attached, but then I got divorced and had to sell the cars, the boat, my motorbikes, and most of my watch collection. Bugger!!

Anyway, nice job you've done - think about the flasher as a retro-fit.

Noooooo flashers on this forum chummy............

Are winkers allowed?

Daffy, looks like a really professional job. Just a thought - why not put a flasher unit in-line with the LED. This would make it more noticeable.

But then again, LED's are pretty bright so might be a waste of time.

I did something similar back home. Not for my tailgate, but to tell me the boat trailer was attached. Used to moor the boat some weekends and take the trailer home - other times I'd take the boat home. Had a 6L V8, so when the trailer was sans boat, the performance wasn't affected and I'd merrily be passing everything in sight and not leaving sufficient room. Plus I couldn't see the trailer in the mirrors until it started to fishtail.

I made a circuit and linked an electronic pulsing unit to the light as a constant reminder. Every time I glanced at the dashboard the yellow light was flashing vigorously.

I just had the circuit linked to the trailer power plug with a spare pin for earth. Trouble was, the circuit went live regardless of the boat being on the trailer or not.

I was going to put a pressure switch on the trailer so it would only light up when the boat wasn't attached, but then I got divorced and had to sell the cars, the boat, my motorbikes, and most of my watch collection. Bugger!!

Anyway, nice job you've done - think about the flasher as a retro-fit.

No excuses for the security staff over reacting to this situation and they deserve some punishment, //

Maybe you could wait to know what really happened

before condemning staff of one of best Walking Street agogo ...

According to the staff last night,

the Canadian girls started a fight with a dancer inside the agogo while waiting,

and the dancer had to go to the hospital for facial injuries.

Looks like she forgot to mention that to Police and medias...

Thanks for clipping my post - you made me look very one sided which is a little nasty on your part. Here's my original post in full to clarify for you and others:

"A 5,000 Baht bin at a gogo bar racked up by two female Canucks. That implies a <deleted> load of lady drinks bought for the girls. Or maybe they bought a few baskets of ping pong balls as well?

Sounds like maybe they bat for the other team.

No excuses for the security staff over reacting to this situation and they deserve some punishment, but really, the two chicks should have had more sense than to rack up a bill that size and not have the cash to cover it. "

I based my comments on the information available at the time, which was that the second girl was assaulted when she allegedly left to find her friend. Based on that information I made the comment you quoted and clipped - I was actually more scathing of the two dumb Canucks for being stupid to get into that situation.

I know that gogo, and I know one of the service chicks there who used to work in Jomtien. I'm surprised anything untowards happened as it's one of the tamer and less pushy bars in WS. I've drunk their frequently and never had an issue.

So Mr Pattaya46, if you are correct and the Canucks started a fight inside the bar before this happened, then I think they are more stupid than they first appeared. If the bar is closed for 5 years (or at all) as another poster has said, then based on more up to date information than was initially published, this would seem to be very unfair and unjustified - that is assuming the Canucks were totally to blame by trying to leg it and starting the fracas as has apparently since been reported.

But once again, can we believe anything we see in print in Thailand to be totally factual anyway.

Equally, bars need to train their staff that the first response in these situations is to avoid physical violence/retaliation as best they can and get the cops involved as soon as possible to mitigate the fallout in their direction.

Anyway, naughty YOU for clipping my post which was unfair and unrepresentative of my entire post, regardless of apparent facts that have since come to light.

I'm already queued up for my 19 baht refund.

I'm the one in the sleeping bag at the head of the queue in case anybody is looking for me.

A 5,000 Baht bin at a gogo bar racked up by two female Canucks. That implies a &lt;deleted&gt; load of lady drinks bought for the girls. Or maybe they bought a few baskets of ping pong balls as well?

Sounds like maybe they bat for the other team.

No excuses for the security staff over reacting to this situation and they deserve some punishment, but really, the two chicks should have had more sense than to rack up a bill that size and not have the cash to cover it.

Didn't they have the common sense to create fake invoices and pay the VAT to stay under the radar?

Translation - keep the agricultural sector at the subsistence level.

I smuggled drugs through an international airport today.

Ten packs of Thai ciggies.

Take that Border Patrol Nazis!!!

Don't worry, the ATC staff managed to avoid any collisions. Probably got on the roof and fired flares to signal the pilots, a la WWII.

Green for land now, Red for go around again, Yellow for your undercarriage has been taken out by flak.

ATC has battery back up

Would they be AA or AAA?

Donna Summer.

"She works hard for the money."

I work on the assumption that the Air Traffic Controllers in Thailand are as professional as the Royal Thai Police, The Justice System, The immigration Department, The Bus Companies, the Railways Department etc. etc.

I mean really, why should we assume the ATC people are any better? Or the pilots come to that.

So I never fly on a Thai air company. I always fly Emirates and whenever entering or leaving Thai air space, I'm shitting bricks, re-reading the safety card, and timing my run to the closest exit.

In most other countries I sleep through the landings and take-offs.

I got it wrong

Rumour has it that there is only one legal version of Windows 10 in the entire country.

Don't worry, the ATC staff managed to avoid any collisions. Probably got on the roof and fired flares to signal the pilots, a la WWII.

Green for land now, Red for go around again, Yellow for your undercarriage has been taken out by flak.

This really is a case where the tree jumped out and hit the car.

Perhaps this would be a case where paying an immigration "fixer" a processing fee to get this application through. I don't mean a bribe, I mean one of the visa services that have ways of doing things that mere mortals can't.

Do you seriously believe that using any of these "fixer" services does not involve a bribe being paid to obtain the desired result?

The whole point of these services is that they pay the bribe for you.

I doubt that a bribe is involved. A visa service will be visiting immigration almost every day. They know the people at immigration and the people at immigration know them. And they know what immigration needs and how to talk to them if a problem arises. And they save immigration time. Relationships are important everywhere. Though 25,000 Baht is really steep. I've been using a service for years for just for convenience, but it's about half that price.

I'm sure no bribes are paid. They prefer to call it a facilitation fee.

Explain how anybody over 50 can get a visa service to prove they've got 800k of seasoned money in their bank account the day before the visa is due for extension.

The bank employee gets a facilitation fee, as does the immigration employee. It's how things work here. End of.

Gypsum board is ideal - dunno why you think otherwise. Properly sealed and painted it will last for decades.

You're looking for a "reduced shank" drill bit.

Shank 10mm to fit your chuck. Tip to be 12mm to suit your requirements.

However, you probably won't find them.

You'll find that if you get a 10mm masonry drill, you'll be able to get a bigger hole by wiggling the drill round while drilling. Drill over length, then retract to half way out and start to exert pressure in a circular motion.

Unless you require an exact 12mm hole for a specific purpose, my method will make the hole big enough to use a 12mm rawl plug or whatever.

Why would they want dash cams?

They rarely stop anybody for a moving infringement.

Was following a BIB in my truck at 90klm. A Vigo ute underpassed us both doing at least 160 and making a helluva racket. BIB carried on and took the next exit (without indicating I might add).

Whether or not a landlord requires a work permit is moot. The landlord should at least have a tax ID and submit tax returns on the income. Maybe confirmation that the landlord is registered with the Revenue Department might be sufficient.

The same problem was reported today at Pattaya. Report.

Um......Pattaya and Chonburi Immigration are one and the same. So is Jomtien Immigration.

Whether or not a landlord requires a work permit is moot. The landlord should at least have a tax ID and submit tax returns on the income. Maybe confirmation that the landlord is registered with the Revenue Department might be sufficient.

The same problem was reported today at Jomtien. Report.

Um......Pattaya and Chonburi Immigration are one and the same. So is Jomtien Immigration.