silver sea

4 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

How did he get the name BJ? Kneeling to the gov?

41 minutes ago, silver sea said:

 

I remember from an earlier article that as a boy he played cards with his dad. His favourite card was the Joker, so dad called him ‘Joke’ as his nickname. 

 

He is a Lieutenant General, so being high ranking, the press nicknamed him ‘Big’; it might be all high ranking officers are called ‘Big’ too.

For completeness, this is the article, I was thinking of, which had been linked in a ThaiVisa article: 

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2019/01/16/superstar-cop-big-joke-on-his-rise-and-plans-for-expats-visas/

3 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

How did he get the name BJ? Kneeling to the gov?

I remember from an earlier article that as a boy he played cards with his dad. His favourite card was the Joker, so dad called him ‘Joke’ as his nickname. 

He is a Lieutenant General, so being high ranking, the press nicknamed him ‘Big’; it might be all high ranking officers are called ‘Big’ too.

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

2. Thailand is not a foreign country. It is a distant planet. 

4 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

Funny as I say this all the time. As dorky as it sounds, there are so many analogies to a crew member from Star Trek who is lost with no phaser and no communicator on a pre-warp drive society planet while trying to uphold the prime directive and being in Thailand, that the list is endless.  

 

And Thailand is a perfect example of what would happen to a planet if the prime directive was broken.

 

"The Prime Directive applies particularly to civilizations which are below a certain threshold of technological, scientific and cultural development; preventing starship crews from using their superior technology to impose their own values or ideals on them.^[2] Since its introduction in the first season of the original Star Trek series, it has served as the plot focus of numerous episodes of the various Star Trek series."

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3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

 

OK guys. Pay attention. This is what is referred to as a brilliant reply. Funny, smart, flip, satirical, and clever. Lets give this man an A for effort! Thank you. 

The Thais would seem to believe to believe that farang from a distant planet too, as under Thai statute law, we are called “Aliens” e.g. under  WORKING OF ALIEN ACT, B.E. 2551 (2008) an "Alien means a natural person who is not of Thai nationality”.

3 hours ago, tifino said:

This is an identical situation that U-turning lane drivers face over in Chang Mai, around the Old City Moat loops road (till now I always thought it was only a CM problem,... now is a universal glitch! that encompasses Phuket roads also)

Straight thru drivers ignore the vectored lines that indicate the Right lane is no a Through Lane, over the NoManland lines...

 

Ute driver (victim) here, responds just like a rabbit at night...

stops and stares into the oncoming headlights! syndrome.

These are three of the photos from the linked article.

I am not sure that I would agree that the victim was responding like a rabbit frozen in headlights at nighttime. If he had pulled forward and turned right he could not have accelerated away quickly enough to have avoided being rammed up the backside by the car.

Maybe, he stopped, because there was not much traffic in the left lane and he was hoping that the car driver would swerve to the left, and go round the front of the pickup and then go back into the right hand lane to avoid the other traffic in front of him.

Unfortunately, the car driver was simply not paying attention, and was driving too fast to take advantage of the space that the pick up driver had left him.

The car driver not only flipped over the pick up onto its side, but demolished the road signs behind as well. He must have been going very very fast. There was nothing the pickup driver could do to avoid being hit; the poor man was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

3 hours ago, JackGats said:

Drug crimes are victimless crimes. No one is forced to takes drugs. Anything people decide to do to themselves should never be a crime.

 

The cowards and hypocrites who applaud the death penalty here are easily pictured: ruddy-faced, orange peel skin, ethanol-pickled.

The guy was a dealer not a user. Yaba (‘ba’ is thai for ‘mad’ which should give you a clue) is bad news. I don’t have much sympathy, although I’m not a member of the “hang ‘em and flog ‘em” brigade.

Anyway, he got lucky. I hope he’s genuinely grateful and gets the chance to pay his brother back the life savings of £80,000 (2 million baht) that were used to get him home.

This is how the Daily Mail reports the story:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6616949/Banged-Abroad-Former-postman-Jimmy-Kelly-jailed-selling-crystal-meth-Thailand.html

Although it prides itself on being a ‘family newspaper’ it doesn’t pull any punches. He was renting out girls from his ‘lady bar’ on Koh Samui and then started selling a large amount of yaba which naturally didn’t please the local Thai owned bars. He was living on borrowed time from that point on; he was never going to have a happy ending.

Here’s a link to an article about Professor David Nutt of Imperial College London. He was educated at Cambridge and was once the chairman of a government drugs advisory panel. He got into trouble for saying that horse riding (‘equasy’ as he called it), and which caused 300 deaths a year, was more dangerous than ecstacy, which caused 100.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/av48qa/drug-by-drug-guide-rational-drug-policy-david-nutt-522

His view on crystal meths: 

“Crystal meth would be banned completely. ‘Smoked methamphetamine is like crack, and  smoking stimulants makes you very addicted, very fast.,’ says Nutt. ‘Methamphetamine is longer lasting than amphetamine, and certainly longer lasting than cocaine. Certainly injecting or smoking methamphetamine is a bad thing.’”

9 hours ago, sanemax said:

The 26 year olds eldest daughter knew about the affair and knew where the 71 year old lived and the Husband was unaware of the relationship or where he lived .

   This could be a double murder , made to look like a murder /suicide ?

So you’re saying the daughter killed them? ????

1 hour ago, DrJack54 said:

That goodness this tripe was shorter than your previous. Nonetheless, realize now your living hua hin, I understand the boredom.

At very least nice white sand.

Oh dear, humour is not one of your strong points is it, Scrumpy?! Never mind, better luck next time ☺️

4 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Are you that seriously bored to think expats here would be remotely interested in your essay. 

I am not bored in Thailand; I love it here. So much to be grateful for ????

I love writing. I could have spent the afternoon on the beach here in Hua Hin walking along the shoreline, watching everyone enjoying themselves and having fun, but chose instead to type up that post.

BTW, out of interest, which ‘Jack’ do you get ‘tanked up’ on before you come online? Is it Scrumpy Jack, or Jack Daniel’s or is it any old Jack Sh*t that gets you going?

3 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Maybe a bit too much info. I doubt if not having tatooes or a moustache, or not smoking or drinking has any relevance to being allowed entry.

 

Thanks for the feed back. Much appreciated ????

The reason I included such personal details (and I agree that I did go on a bit!) was because of TunnelRat69’s earlier comment (near the top of page 4 of this thread). It’s quoted below.

I was trying to show that people tend not to notice or remember me, unlike the man that was stopped and rejected in TunnelRat69’s post. He may have had a heart of pure gold, and back home was known for helping old ladies to cross the road. Sadly at BKK Airport his outward appearance counted against him..

On 1/20/2019 at 12:18 AM,  NanLaew said: 

Age, nationality and ethnicity are also some of the unstated criteria in any Thai IO's decision-making process.

TunnelRat 69: Darker skin, disheveled dress, alcohol breath............tattoos on the face, neck, hands, spell 'criminal' in their eyes - yeah, stereotyping is alive and well in Thai Immigrations..........me and my lady had ti wait while they questioned a 40 something guy with tattoos all over his body as evidenced  by his wife beater tank top, spoke with a heavy british accent..........they (two female IO's) refused him entry and he was taken away - I understand a fair amount of Thai and heard bits of their converation with each other "Farang Na Gliete"  "Bak Men"  'Key Mao Lao'  things like that..........its all up to the interviewing officer.  I don't care what kind of Visa you have, it's up to them if you pass their station.  Quite frankly I would have thought the airlines would have had a problem letting him board, I could smell him 10 feet away.

56 minutes ago, JackThompson said:

I am glad it worked out OK in your case.  But, sometimes, even those with less than 6 mo in the country get a much more negative experience:

As this report demonstrates (and we don't hear the other hundreds of similar stories not posted here) even a older, 5-mo/yr Snowbirds from wealthy European countries are being targeted for harassment.  It is not because they "work illegally" or "cannot afford their stay" (the biggest lie they use) - or even "live here too much" (which is not a legal reason for denial) - but solely because they are using Tourist Visas, which don't feed a corrupt-money pipeline to immigration.

Thanks for reading my post and for commenting. Much appreciated. ????

i read your link, and I am sad that he had those problems. I am not sure what I would have done in those circumstances.

It is generally only when things go wrong that people post on this Forum; if things go ok then people don’t feel the need to post, and so we as a community don’t get to hear about them. It is easy therefore to begin to assume that the problem cases that get reported here are the ‘norm’ and that IOs are out to get us, or to squeeze money from us.

That was why I decided to post my story. I have had more TVs than most people without much trouble, despite the various theories that you read here about how many TVs you can have in a calendar year.

But I am not sure if my experience, which includes flying several times from Surathani to DM, is the ‘norm’ or whether I have just been exceptionally lucky. 

3 hours ago, ukrules said:

He wasn't driving the boat at the time of the accident. It's like blaming a passenger for an accident.

Usually you are one of the ‘sane’ posters on these forums ???? but for the first time I disagree with you.

She was his date; whatever one’s views about sexual equality, she was under his care. It was his boat, and he was responsible for making sure she was safe, but he didn’t and she wasn’t. When the boat capsized, all he cared about was saving himself. And now, having been convicted of her manslaughter, he’s done ‘a runner’.

If she had been your daughter, or sister, are you saying he has done nothing to be ashamed of, and it was her fault?

42 minutes ago, sanemax said:

The link that you provided does not state that Jack was driving the boat when it crashed 

Hi Max,

Thanks for taking the trouble to read my post.

The article does say:

“As Shepherd, who’d been warned for speeding at least twice by police in previous weeks, drunkenly careered down the river, Charlotte, a 24-year-old business consultant, was heard exclaiming: ‘Oh my God, you’re going so fast!’

‘Shortly before midnight, the boat hit a submerged log and capsized near Wandsworth Bridge.

‘Shepherd was found clinging to its hull, calling ‘Help me!’ (not, it was observed in court, ‘Help us!’). He was also unable to give rescuers his companion’s name.

‘Charlotte was eventually plucked from the freezing water but she never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead in hospital.”

My reading of the article is that Shepherd was driving the boat at all times. I agree that that is an assumption, but not an unreasonable one, and that the article does not include the words “... the [boat driven by Shepherd] hit a submerged log....” Maybe the DM journalist was careful to word the sentence in that way.

Sadly she was pulled “from the freezing water but never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead in hospital.” If he swore on the Bible that he wasn’t the one driving the boat, Charlotte wasn’t in a position to contradict him. Even if she had been, maybe some people would still prefer to believe him rather than her.

46 minutes ago, Netease said:

Interesting the Daily  Mail only offer reward to UK residents 

If they really want to get him it should be open to all Nationally 

Yes interesting point. Netease ????

The DM offer was originally published on 2nd January, and so before the claim about his being in Thailand was made.

I guess they haven’t noticed that now he might be in Thailand, it’s more likely that someone who is not a British resident will be the one to spot him!

Point 6 says: “The Daily Mail may vary these terms and conditions if it is reasonable or necessary to do so.”

The DM can well afford £25,000. I don’t think anyone would object if a Thai hands him in and claims the reward, because “he’s not a British resident, goddamit!”

Anyway, for completeness, this is the link to 2nd January article:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6549743/Jack-Shepherd-got-six-years-jail-killing-date-24-going-run.html

According to the Daily Mail, it was Jack Shepherd who was driving the boat when it hit the log, and it is the young lady who is heard shouting; “You’re driving too fast.” 

She was not the first woman to jump aboard. The boat was part of his seduction technique, along with giving the young ladies plenty of alcohol.

The police had warned him twice before about his speeding; the life jackets were not easily accessible in an emergency; the boat was poorly maintained. It was an accident waiting to happen; and it did, with tragic consequences for one poor young lady.

Anyway, the Daily Mail is offering a reward of £25,000 for his capture and return to justice before the English courts. Full details, including information about his past, are here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6608547/Fugitive-Jack-Shepherd-sneering-justice-exotic-bolthole-Thailand.html

16 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Takes about 2 months for a scooter battery to go flat. About 500 baht to replace. I would not worry about it.

If you're concerned about inadvertently draining the battery with an accessory that draws current, simply disconnect the battery at the positive terminal. That's the one with a red cable, or a plus (+) sign on the battery itself.

15 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Recently a friend bought a battery for PCX. 950 Baht.

Disconnecting a battery, negative first, then positive. Reconnecting, positive first, then negative.

Thanks guys. Very helpful information, which I am sure will be of interest to other readers and not just to me ????

Thanks alx123, I shall follow your advice. Thanks for posting ????????

On 12/24/2018 at 8:14 PM, Moon37 said:

I've got a 2017 PCX 150 and have had battery problems, but it was because of my incorrect use of the key fob. 

Refer to this recent link with step by step on how to approach disarm , arm and depart.  I had it all backwards and was draining my battery

 

 

And the battery will last seven days or seven weeks without using

 

best

Moon

On 12/25/2018 at 3:22 PM, jackdd said:

I once parked my PCX (with "normal" key, but i don't see a reason why keyless should use more energy if not doing anything) with the alarm turned on for 2 months

Another time i parked it with the alarm turned off for 6 months

In both cases no problems, started on first try

 

You are thinking way too much ????

Thanks Moon37 for the link. I found it very helpful. Like you I didn’t understand how it all worked either! I was using the fob to lock it manually so that the light turned from green to red.

Now I keep the fob with the light on green in my backpack, turn the knob round to lock, and just walk away. I turn around to make sure the two front orange lights come on momentarily so that I know that the bike has been locked automatically. All makes more sense now. Thank you ????

Thanks jackdd for your advice, which was very helpful ????. I shall lock it so that the handlebars can’t be turned, but without the alarm being switched on. 

Yes, you are right, I think too much ???? But that’s ok in this case, because I learned something new about my bike.

Anyway, thank you wgdanson, Jan Van Caeyzeele, Moon37 and jackdd for taking the trouble to reply to my OP. Very much aporeciated.

Finally, here are two young ladies from my home country who would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas ????

1 hour ago, peter48 said:

Well, I thought Hua Hin quieter too than before. Seeing or hearing  Brits this year here is as rare as snow in Issan. Thailands currency too high for Brexit Brits as the UK sinks into poor currency status and unpredictability.

Maybe your ear is only attuned to London accents, or maybe it is just wishful thinking on your part.

I have lived in Hua Hin full time since March. High Seasoon started quietly, but over the last week more people have arrived, and plenty of them have British accents of various types.

I lived on Samui from 2013-17. In the last three years or so there had been a gradual decline in numbers, although there had also been a change in the type of tourists coming: more young families and Asians.

The 60 day millionaires who blew their money on booze, birds and late breakfasts have been slowly disappearing, and that was happening before the Brexit referendum in June 2016.

One of my friends, who lives on Samui has just sent me this comment:

“I went to Macro Christmas Eve...about 10 shoppers in the entire place...can it be the high prices they are charging... or this new government hiking all the taxes onto the stratosphere...? Cigarettes have gone from 23 Baht a pack to 99 Baht...beer, 89 Baht a bottle from 27 a few years back...do people feel like they are being f***ed, and have ventured over to Vietnam by any chance...?”

Thanks for your quick responses.

27 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Disconnect the battery??

I don’t have a owners manual in English so I am not sure how to switch off the battery. Is it straightforward? Are you PCX 150 owner?

17 minutes ago, Jan Van Caeyzeele said:

I have the same PX 150. No problem with the battery! Make sure the safety system is switched off!

When you say “no problem with the battery”, do you mean I don’t need to switch it off, as suggested in the other post? Instead of switching off the battery, you are suggesting that I should switch off the safety system? If so, how do I do that please? Again, I don’t have an Owners Manual in English, but I appreciate your trying to help me.

Does anyone know how many days/nights you can leave the bike before the battery goes flat please?

i am going away after Christmas for the New Year and so the bike won’t be used for 6 or 7 days.

1. I will put the bike on the back stand so the rear wheel is off the ground. I am not sure if that makes a difference in relation to the battery ????

2. I won’t switch the alarm on.

3. I will use the radar key fob by pressing the bottom button with ‘key’ sign with handle bars turned to the left so that the bike is locked. In other words, I will press the bottom button so that the light on the fob turns from green to red.

4. While I am away,  I will leave the idling/stop button switch on.

5. I will put the rain cover on over the bike; potential thieves won’t be able to see that the alarm is not switched on i.e. there will be no periodic red pulse on the locking dial 

6. I have a big ‘D’ shape padlock which I will lock the front wiheel with, so it can’t move forward.

Maybe, if I am using the ‘D’ padlock to lock the front wheel, I don’t need to lock the bike by pressing the bottom button on the key fob to lock the bike and maybe I should switch the idling/stop button off too.  

Basically, I don’t know which features above will act as a drain on the baatery while I am away.

When I bought the bike in March 2018, I asked Honda how many days  I could leave the bike without using it and they said 3 days. Since then, I have been back to my home country twice to get new visas. Both times, I left the bike with somebody. They used the bike while I was away and so the battery was ok when I returned.

Unfortunately, since I got back in September, there has been a ‘falling out’ and so we are no longer friends, and so leaving the bike with them for 7 days is no longer an option.

There is somebody else I could ask, but aI don’t know them very well. They are really only a last resort, if the advice on this thread is not to leave the bike unused for more more than three days, because the battery will go flat. 

What do other PCX 150 owners, with radar keys, do when they have to go away and cannot take their bikes with them?

I used to live on Samui, but since March this year I have been living in Hua Hin.

On Samui, the local cops were all driving  black and red PCX 150s. Just before I moved away from the island, they were all given new bikes: the all white N-Max.

When I arrived in Hua Hin, again, the cops were all driving the white N-Max. However, I was used to Honda and so bought a new PCX 150. I paid extra to have some metal plates with foot grips placed on the foot runners and also a box was added on the back. 

The new PCX  has only a choice of 4 colours: red; white; black; and grey. My previous PCX had been black and white, so for a change, this time I chose red. And I am very happy with my choice.

Out of interest, I rented an N-Max for a few days. It looked about 18 months old, or older, and so was not as new as the ones driven by the cops.

The Thai shop, I rented it from, was charging 500 per day. They had three PCXs, which looked about 3 or 4 years old. The rental price for these was 400 per day.

I used to have a PCX which was 5 years old and so similar to these at the Thai shop: it had a cruising speed of 60 - 80 km/h, and unlike the recent PCXs, a traditional key for ignition.

Anyway, I had the N-Max for a few days. It has 155 cc. I did notice the extra 5 cc seemed to give it a bit more bite on acceleration. 

Secondly, when stretching your legs forward (I am 5’ 10” or 1.78 m), there was room on the raised foot plate for the whole of the soles of my feet. On the PCX, the soles of your feet are only half covered. That doesn’t bother me, but it was something I noticed.

Thirdly, having driven off on the N-Max I stopped for a coffee. I couldn’t work out how to unlock the seat cover. The N-Max, including the new ones, have the standard ignition key. 

I played around on the internet and was able to find an N-Max owners manual. You have to put the key in the ignition and then fiddle around to get it to unlock the seat. It’s ok once you’ve done it a few times. Like anything, once you get into a routine, it works but it’s ‘fiddly’.

Also you use the key to unlock the petrol cap. Again, ok once you get the hang of .it, but still a bit ‘fiddly’.

Personally, I am happy with my PCX. I think it is better looking too. Several times, Thai women have smiled at me and have said ‘Nice bike’. I would add that I have the kind of face that only a mother could love, and she died more than 20 years ago. So they know I am not going to believe them if they say ‘Hansum man”. But being nice about my bike gets a friendly smile from me, and a ‘thank you, kind lady’.

The latest PCX 150 has a cruising speed of 90-110. My previous 5 year old  PCX cruised at 60-80 km/h. It was ok going at 100 km/h but I could sense it was a bit of a strain on the engine. No such problem with the new PCX. Of course, I still get overtaken by the bikers and everyone else going hell for leather at 140 km/h. But I don’t mind. 

I prefer the radar key on the new PCX. You can lock the bike, although I don’t bother with the alarm. Sometimes in a big car park, I can momentarily forget where I have parked the bike so you can press one of the buttons on the remote and the lights on the bike flash and there is a buzzer sound.

Also, if you are deep in thought when you walk away from the bike, you might stop and then wonder whether you remembered to lock the bike. You can check from a distance and if necessary lock it remotely without having to walk back to the bike. Yes, I agree: I am very forgetful.

However, when you buy the bike you are only given one remote key. If you want to have a spare radar key, then you would have to pay an extra 1200.

I also bought a rain cover for 400. I don’t have anywhere to park the bike at my hotel.  I keep an eye on the daily weather forecasts. If rain is expected, I always put the rain cover on. Sometimes, in Hua Hin, we have heavy downpours, and I am always worried about the rain getting into the electrical parts of the  bike and damaging them.

I also prefer the buttons on the PCX that you can press to open the seat or the petrol cap cover. No fiddling around with traditional keys.

Apart from all the cops now riding the N-Max, there is one other thing I have noticed here in Hua Hin. People have commented on this thread about the N-Max being a lot cheaper than the PCX, so you would expect all the local Thais to choose the N-Max. However, apart from the cops, 95% of the N-Maxes I have seen in HH are ridden by farang. The locals, in the main, if they want a new bigger bike have bought the PCX. There are a lot more new PCXs around than the N-Max. The new PCX is easy to spot from a distance because the rear red lights have a V shape.

So why do the locals choose the PCX? Maybe it is brand loyalty; or maybe there are more Honda dealerships around in just about every town, small or large; or maybe new parts can be ordered from Honda HQ in Bangkok within 4 days; or maybe the bikes keep their value as they age.

When I owned my previous PCX, I drove it from Samui up to Laos and back to get a new visa. It was a round trip of 3000 kms. On the last day of the trip I drove out of Chumphon towards Surathani City, a distance of about 200 kms.

I was about 40 kms out of Chumphon when the rubber drive belt broke and the bike came to halt in the middle of the highway. Fortunately, there was no other traffic on the road at that particular moment! I got off the bike and quickly pushed it off the road.

I was in the middle of nowhere. <deleted> do I do now!!! Well to cut a long story short, there was in fact, luckily for me, a small busines close by. Although the workmen couldn’t speak English, the Universe smiled on me and they took me to the manager who was a biker with a big BMW. 

He jumped on his bike, and within 10 minutes a Honda pick up truck was on site. They put my bike on the back and I got a lift to the shop. The Thai biker guy wouldn’t accept any money; he was happy just to help me. 

The Honda shop was on the other side of the Highway, below a dip in the road. I would never have noticed it if I had driven by and then broken down. 

Anyway, within 2 hours, I was back on the road and it had only cost me 1000 baht, including a tip for the mechanic.

So that’s why I will always buy Honda: their repair shops are everywhere; always friendly; know what they’re doing; and there is usually at least one person who can speak a little English.

That all happened about three years ago on my old Honda. Interestingly, to me at least, on the first day I got my new PCX I was driving around getting a feel for the bike. I pulled into a petrol station to fill up. There was a farang in front of me with a Ducati bike, so it was a manual rather than an automatic. It looked at least 500 cc, but maybe a lot more.

Having filled up, he jumped on his bike and started to drive off. As he got back onto the main road, there was a loud bang and he stopped. He got off and was looking down at his bike as I came by. 

I stopped. I could see the bike would not be going anywhere. He was French, but spoke some English. He said that the chain drive had broken. As there was a Ducati shop about 15 kms further up the road on the way to Cha am, I offered him a lift. As a real biker he seemed a bit hesitant about being seen on the back of a PCX, but eventually he swallowed his pride and climbed on the back.

So on the first day of having my new bike, the Universe had given me an opportunity to repay a debt. My fan belt had broken, I was in the middle of nowhere, but a biker got me to the nearest Honda dealership very quickly. In return,  a biker’s chain shaft had broken and I, on my automatic, was able to get him to the nearest Ducati shop to sort out a repair very quickly. The Universe moves in mysterious ways, but I guess that is all stuff and nonsense to the  hardbitten cynics on ThaiVisa, who don’t believe in such silly things.????

Anyway, the N-Max and new PCX are both good bikes. By saying I prefer the PCX I am not saying the N-Max is useless. For me, and maybe for the local Thais, the price difference is not the most important factor to take into consideration when making your choice. I am not rich. I pay 10,000 a month to live on my own in a hotel room with a hot water shower. 

Finally, it is true the N-Max has ABS, and he PCX doesn’t. If ABS is important to you then maybe wait until next year’s model comes out to see if they at least offer the option of ABS being added to the PCX as an extra.