BritManToo

Never bothered me, Thais have their gardens at the front of the house, western people hide at the back of their house. I Think the Thais have it right, and we're the secretive ones.

Used to mix with old folk back in my UK town as part of my voluntary work. Isolated, lonely and desperate is how I would class most of them. The high points of their week would be Friday drop-in at the town hall for warmth plus coffee and biscuits, or me coming round their big empty house to change a light bulb, more coffee and biscuits.

Don't really care about the burning season, as long as the weathers dry enough to go cycling, I'm happy.

Loads of mushrooms around at the moment, I cycled past locals coming out of the forest with baskets full of the big white ones yesterday.

This is different to running a pig farm?

Similar to me, Up before 6am, let the rabbits out and give them a snack, cycle for 25km, then back home for a yoghurt and granola breakfast. Then laze around on the sofa for the rest of the day reading novels.

Weight of a real 18650 cell =47gm 30Ah = 130 cells 130 x 47 = 6.1Kg If it weighs less than 6Kg it's fake. PS. I suspect your 20ah battery is also fake and at best 17ah as I've never seen a casing that will take more than 65 cells (13s x 5p, so 5x 3400ma= 17ah) If we examine a real advert .... https://shopee.co.th/♛สำหรับจักรยานไฟฟ้า-48v-20Ah-28Ah-40Ah-58Ah18650-Li-ion-Battery-Pack-13S2P-1000w-and-54.6V-2A-Charging-i.845819876.25850441781 Says 18650 cells 13s2p so in reality 2 x3400ma = 6.8ah at best if using genuine Lithium batteries. But they're probably using fake 18650 batteries claiming 9000ma (which only really have 1000ma capacity) so 2ah. Not to mention the fake batteries usually only last a few charges and not the 800-1000 charges of the real batteries.

Don't hit the curb/potholes or drive through a deep puddle ........... guarantee void plus a 300,000bht repair bill.

They're fakes.

That's great but my Nissan bigM diesel pickup is 27 years old and still works well.

No real lithium batteries for evbikes sold at under 6kbht on Lazada. My evMTB takes a 48v lithium battery, cost of the 65x Panasonic 18650 cells it's made from is around 5-6kbht, but so many fakes to sort through. Just do a quick search for 18650 batteries, they can only fit 3400ma in one of those, anyone advertising a higher capacity is selling fakes that usually don't work for more than a week.

Link to any lithium battery that will run a evBike for 2k2bht please. Cheapest I can find (that actually works) is 6000bht. Lots of fakes around!

No, she was second hand.

My wife, a bargain at 100kbht for 15 years of her life. Obviously there's additional running expenses but that's the same with anything that floats or flies!

Don't think the property owners give a flying one. There's allegedly not many of them, they're super rich and own entire streets free and clear They are happy to just sit and wait for the land prices to inflate. Supposedly Niman is owned by 2 families, Loy Krow owned by one.

CM In town rents are so high now it's hard to see how the bars could make any money no matter how many customers they have or how high the beer markup is.

I'm giving electric cars a miss at the moment. 1. I don't like driving cars. 2. I worry about price drops, maybe when they're less than 500kbht. 3. I worry about the battery warranty/life/replacement cost/fire risk. I read these stories about manufacturers refusing to honour battery warranties, 'you hit the curb', 'you flooded the battery', then all the cars sitting quietly and bursting into flames stories, then think how often do I hit a curb in Thailand, how often does a road I drive down get flooded in monsoon ......... then think NO, I don't need that trouble, my 1997 Nissen Diesel doesn't care about any of those things. If my eMTB battery bursts into flames, I can just hop off and walk away, it gets charged away from the house so no problem there, and when the battery wears out (after 800-1000 charges, 2-3 years) a new one costs about 6,000bht (48v 750whr).

But if you truck on down to the Moonmung/Loi Krow area of Chiang Mai, about half the shops are locked and abandoned. Guesthouses, bars and restaurants many closed, those open mainly empty, usually more staff than customers.

Don't forget to add the 400bht/month charge for getting off peak electricity. Charging my EV from solar at this very moment. I need about 150whr, which will take 90 minutes.

I had roast pork and baked potato in its jacket covered in Tesco onion gravy yesterday. Today is roast pork sandwiches. Breakfast was honey yogurt and Japanese Nissin fruit granola.

I think you'll find Anutin's party + Senators have a controlling number in the government, plus control of the EC. Any opponents will be either removed from office, or sidelined from any of the money making trough posts.

You have some very strange fantasies Nick.

My (her) mortgage on a 3 bed detached house is 10kbht/month, back in the UK a rented room in a shared house would cost double that. There is no need for anyone to buy imported goods, make your own jam and it costs almost nothing, plenty of coffee shops charging 25bht a cup, no need for an imported machine and filters. As for taxing our foreign incomes ...... it'll never happen!

I married a lady 20 years younger than me, that left school age 12, then I sent her to high school and university, didn't even cost much. 15 years later we're still together, have a great 12yo son, and I'm still happy with her, and don't feel the need for any other female company. I hesitate to pronounce on her feelings for me, but earlier this week she announced I'm the best dad she's ever had! PS. I do all my own shopping and cooking.

The only cost that matters is housing! Nobody needs a pot of jam, but you do need a place to live.