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I've heard the final will be shown again on Monday 9:00 am on Thai TV - is that true, and which channel?
I don't really want to watch at 3:00 am but I also can't surf the channels in the morning, one surely will give away the score. Was watching all previous matches on my streaming service in the morning but I am without decent internet on Monday so that won't work.
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Don't see any problem here!!
Of course that would be everyone's first reaction.
But seriously on second thought how about caring for actually finding the guy who did it! Maybe police tortured this guy into a confession and the real killer runs free?
That's the problem here.
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Probably a scam of some sort. I mean sure go for it but I would not be too surprised if the owner "suddenly had to move back to Italy and can arrange the bike's purchase over the phone but please send him a deposit or even the whole sum" or a variety of that sort of thing.
Classifieds sites all over the world get hit with that kinds of scam constantly. Products sold for way under value to lure in the greedy, and the transaction is not done face to face, rather you just send money off into the void... might as well throw it out the window.
Another indication this is a scam - seller just used a stock image. This is not a picture of "his bike". Google image search reveals this picture is used in 100+ different articles around the web... English text added makes it clear it's a foreigner. Scammer.
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I was planning on getting new tyres for my Ninja this weekend. I contacted Showpow about the Rosso IIs and they are sold out of the front tyre until next month. They have Sport Demons at 5750B for the pair.
Does anyone have Sport Demons? How are they on the Ninja?
Sport Demons should be fine.
I'm not sure now but I was under the impression Sport Demon is just the narrower version of the DRIIs, e.g. for smaller displacement bikes. Didn't even know you can fit DRIIs on a Ninja 300.
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production electric bike Johammer.
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1 - On an ER-6n I ran wide on a right turn, stood the bike up and hit the brakes, trusting the ABS to stop me on a wet road full of wet tree parts and leaves. Bike slowed, slowed, slowed and was totally OK with room to spare. I was really surprised just how much grip I had on that road. I thought I had nothing which is why I did not dare to lean more. One of my riding buddies saw it and judged it "a really close call". Dumb riding!
2 - On a KLX250 I was going way faster than safe through some tight turns. Got carried away with how well that Dual sport with the stock knobbies takes corners! I mean - there's way more in it than you'd think. I never dropped below 80 through some really tight turns. Up to a point, so I misjudged a curve and made the mistake to use the front brake. Ended up a low side at speed, bike and I went across the opposing lane - luckily no traffic - into the greenery. Gear saved me, I had only a bruised wrist. Gear told the story of what would have happened without it: A hole in the elbow, a hole in the knee, a nice long scratch on the front of the helmet, and abrasion on the shoulder. Gotta love gear!
On 2 I am pretty sure a better rider could have recovered; no front brake, more leaning and chances are I'd maybe have ended up in the other lane but still made the turn.
The best thing to do in these situations is to not get in them in the first place, so I recommend a riding course. It will teach you how to look, how to counter-steer, and these two things will allow you to take most corners safely. Also getting carried away is never a good idea
Also only ride as fast as you can see. How "familiar" you are with a road doesn't matter if you can't see.
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'm looking for Water-resistant boots. I think Panda-Rider must have some.
With steal around of course will be good. This boot is ditched already.
The guy stopped, I called him to come look at the results, he said sorry, then I just left to continue the journey, nothing else to say. his bike was probably worth 5K.
just another experience learned. cant trust bad gear, and other drivers. I got saved by this amazingly thick leather boots.
dont trust blind spot in stopped traffic, in Thailand this is so common.
cheers
It's because you didn't expect a bike to shoot out in-between cars in stopped traffic!
I T-Boned a guy on a scooter once that did just that
he just took off, I guess nothing major broken on his bike. The sudden stop made me wobble and I very nearly dropped the bike, it took all my strength to keep it upright. I was lucky it wasn't too far leaned over. Impact was all on my front tire, no damage to the bike.Now I always look, and if I can't see, say a Van, I go very slow. Passing stopped traffic is hazardous.
Two similar incidents:
- U turn on fast road. Invariably, some scooter will pull from all the way on the left lane across the highway to the u-turn without looking, or not looking enough to see a fast bike coming. Hit one of these guys once, he fell off the bike, I stayed on mine but still had to give him money for hospital costs and inconvenience. It was actually my fault as he had his indicators on. He wasn't looking at all, and his indicators were as faint as could be on this old bike - but I was coming from behind so yes, I should have seen him.
- Passing a car while accelerating. Some crazy scooter barely going faster than the car crossed the car's path, he couldn't have been more than a meter from the bumper, to emerge on my side. That was unexpected. Same as with stopped traffic when passing a car that blocks visibility you just have to go really slow (relative to the car)
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New R1 is all over motorcycle magazines and so forth. It's all electronic everything so it'll definitely help us amateur riders cope better with all that power.
Also, it looks way better. Don't buy an R1 until that one comes out
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dont forget the regulation at the Suvarhanbhumi Airport as a couple of days ago they announced that, they will very strictly enforce 10,000 thb limit for the new good you pass from airport from now on from cellphones to watches to bags to clothes.
it looks like they can apply it to mororcycleing gear as well
so if you buy a 20,000 thb helmet, you need to declare and pay 30 percent tax plus vat at the airport, if dont and if they find it at the x ray or during a check, you have to pay 4 times of the price of the good as a penalty and/or up to 10 years of jail sentence.
be careful.
This has been cancelled and signs taken down. Remeber to wear your gear and then when returning it is used and not new:)
Sure it's cancelled? The wife told me about it in the morning. Seems like a fantastic way to put off tourists. And to piss off all the Hi-So Thais returning from their shopping trips in HK and Singapore. One of the latter probably got that removed
Just got a helmet via a friend in the USA yesterday through BKK airport, no issues.
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Looks like a good jacket. Unfortunately branded to death, like all of the A-Stars gear...
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12k for slamming into the back of a brand new sedan?
That sounds pretty reasonable, certainly within the realm of possibility. Add to that that usually, they won't try to rip you off or make money off of you, they just want to get their car fixed after some idiot crashed into it - I know I would!
For perspective: A friend of mine collided with a moto-cart, a piece of which flew off and lodged itself into the front of a small white toyota. The bumper was a little bent which did not look too bad but the entire thing had to be replaced and the cost was 6,000 Baht.
2 - I parked my Vespa and a minute later this farang turns up, fails to stop, and slams into the side of it! The result was a very small crack/dent in the floor board. Unfortunately that floor board is rather large and I had to replace the whole thing, and it cost 6,000 Baht. Luckily the guy had much better manners than driving skills and paid up right then and there. Note that despite that, I still had to run around and actually get it fixed. I did not exactly benefit from this.
Now - had it been me, and I had damaged the floor board, I don't know what I'd have done - I'd certainly have considered significantly cheaper fix-options. But it wasn't my fault and so my position was the guy better get my bike back into shape exactly the way it was. And the same goes for the owners of the new car you damaged - it's a brand new car, and they want to keep it that way, so they'll use the most expensive fix possible, e.g. just replace all that's damaged with original parts.
Pay and forget about it, and don't go too close, lessons learned
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It is a really good instructional video. It makes perfect sense - seeing the video none of this seems counter-intuitive at all.
I know what you mean when you say most people have no idea how to ride turns in general - they've never taken a riding course. I have a motorcycle driving license and spent quite a bit of time - well for a driving license - practicing. But they never taught me essential basics that you need in order to ride a motorcycle properly. My first bike was a D-Tracker and in hindsight I can say I had absolutely no clue as to how to ride it - pure luck that I got anywhere! I wrestled it around turns and I knew it felt wrong, and slow, but I didn't know how to do it better.
So I recommend everyone take a riding course. Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, and Ducati all offer them in Thailand. I've only been on the Ducati one but it was fun, very informative, and just as professionally done as you could imagine. We had more than 10 instructors, we had multiple stations with different skills to practice and one instructor on each end - the first tells you what you should do, then you do it, and then the one at the end tells you what you did wrong and what you need to do better the next turn. All participants left his course with skills way better than before.
I've learnt the following:
- Look where you want to go. If you ever ride figure eights, this is immediately obvious. If you look where you need to go, figure eights are easy. If you don't, they are impossible. This was the first lesson in the DRE riding course.
- Counter steering. Get the bike leaned over with minimal effort. Makes turns very easy.
- Throttle control - this is pretty counter-intuitive at first but staying on the throttle in turns makes for much smoother turns. 10% throttle or so is enough, just a little bit. Conversely you will mess up any turn if you brake once you are already in the turn.
Putting these together you'd ride decreasing radius turns exactly like in the video. Good to have that additional info but I would recommend to start with the basics that go into that solution.
PS: The only thing I object in the original post is this sentence: "It should go without saying that if you’re riding on unfamiliar roads, you should be going at 6/10ths of your limits to begin with." That's false. If you are on the road, familiar or unfamiliar, never go faster than you can see. Most of the time that is a lot slower than the geometry of the turn would allow were it on a race track...
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Isn't that only when the goal difference is the same?
Neither of the participants would ever admit that, and wouldn't even want to be caught secretly thinking it, but - the fact is that when both teams need a draw to advance then a draw is the by far most likely result of the match. The closer the match is to the final whistle, the more defensive both teams will play. Germany / USA is most likely going to be a draw...
If those Vegas quotes are right I should start betting....
Both teams will be playing to win; German attitude - you know...
Of course they will. When the game starts, both will be trying to get a goal - better to have one then not!
But consider this, it's the 60ieth minute and it's 1:1. Is either of those teams going to throw everything forward to get the winner? No, they are not. They are both going to play defensively. The main concern on both sides will be not to f*** this up. The facts of group qualifying attract a draw like a black hole... of course it's football and everything is possible. One defensive mistake, one lucky shot can send everyone scrambling.
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It would seem that, if two teams have same # of points, the team which beat the other - goes ahead in the standings.
No, that is not how it is decided. If the US loses and Ghana wins, then it comes down to goal differential. If that is a tie, then it goes down to which team scored the most points in their win. That means if Ghana wins 1-0, the US goes through. If Ghana wins 3-2, Ghana goes through. If Ghana wins 2-1, then they flip coin.The US team is looking rather good for going on to the next level, even if it loses to Germany. Even if Ghana wins, they'll have 4 points each, US goes through, because it beat Ghana earlier.
Here's hoping Portugal wins 1-0, but more importantly, the US beats Germany.
Isn't that only when the goal difference is the same?
Neither of the participants would ever admit that, and wouldn't even want to be caught secretly thinking it, but - the fact is that when both teams need a draw to advance then a draw is the by far most likely result of the match. The closer the match is to the final whistle, the more defensive both teams will play. Germany / USA is most likely going to be a draw...
If those Vegas quotes are right I should start betting....
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Huh? If you're racing on a race track this is undoubtedly a good skill to have.
But if you're on the road, only go as fast as you can see. It doesn't matter if you're riding on "unfamiliar roads" or familiar ones. They're roads, where the unexpected can happen. I think I read somewhere that the majority of accidents happen on the way home.
And that is actually the primary thing one learns doing a driving license where I come from. We have this extensive 40 hour mandatory course and I swear 20 of those hours were repeated drills of "ONLY GO AS FAST AS YOU CAN SEE".
If you do that, you will see the decreasing radius corner. You'll also see that truck parked behind the corner, and the cow on the road, and the fallen tree, and the oncoming truck.... you get the point. It's just common sense. It means go only so fast that you can still come to a full stop in your current field of vision.
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Cheap specifications. Partially subsidized by AIS.
Sent from my XT1032 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app
Hm - does that mean I need to get an AIS SIM to use it with? Or can I just use it with my existing True sim
Might be cheap specs but honestly this is a far cry from what one could buy for much more money last year. I remember looking at a 5,000 Baht Samsung phone with a teeny tiny and a barely working Android version just last year.
I tried the Lava phone, it seems to work well. And it has a big screen too.
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A password for Line? I don't have a password, didn't even know you can (or should) use one.
I also did not know that
Most people don't know, and most never bother.
You can set a password. As far as I know the only reason to do that is to use the desktop app. Also if you change phone number, or use the same account on multiple phones, you need the password. By default the account is simply tied to your phone number.
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What is that supposed to mean? Nationalism. You say it like it's a dirty word. You may not have noticed this but the World Cup is a competition of nations. If you want nationalism to be punished you'd better cancel the whole thing... either that or start allowing countries to field players from any country they like.There is no good English coach, and there is no reason the coach has to be English. It's not one of the rules. The only reason to do so is nationalism, and I am quite happy that that mentality gets punished every time
It is what you make it!
I love the world cup - it's teams coming together from all different parts of the planet, the teams are kinda mixed up randomly because you can't buy nationality (well except all the braziian born ... ahem... but for the most part you can't), and it's a great huge footballing party! If you're from one of the countries in the finals you can cheer for your team, or if not you can pick one to cheer for.
Nationalism is a disease of the mind ( I think Einstain said that, BTW). The core of it is that a person belonging to a particular group that they were born into without any choice is better than a person belonging to another particular group they were born into without any choice.
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Hodgson should stay, but we need to get rid of the old guys, even Lambert is 32 and that is too old, we have great youngsters who should be given the chance to shine now. The next big tournament is on the horizon, start now with the young guys.
Bye bye Gerrard, Lambert, and all those over 26.
I am amazed at that. If you manager is not successful and his, erm, omelette is much worse than the eggs he put in to say it with Mourinho, then the manager must go. It's as clear cut a case as any. Why hold on to the guy. IMO if you're England, with an English-FA-size budget, you need to hire one of the top managers in the world.
I feel sorry for the English but it's a home-made mess, and it's not due to lack of player talent.
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Theirry Henry's comment on BBC was fantastic when Hansen was saying you need world class players 'How many Costa Rica players can you name?' And then Hansen saying they wont win it, thats not the point Hansen! They got further than England though didnt they!
They also looked super solid in the match VS Italy. They won against Italy and Italy is definitely one of the WC contenders this year.
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England needs SAF.
Yes, I know he's scottish and they are English and Scots and English hate each other blah blah. But maybe it's time to get over that at some point? Also he's probably not interested. But 4 years from now, he might be. A lot can happen in 4 years.
England's players are better individually than what they're doing on the pitch. Look at Costa Rica - it's a team of nobodies, but they play together as a team, with confidence, and they get results because of it. Individually the players are most certainly worse than England. So the difference is the coach. Their performance against Italy was very impressive - they looked rock solid.
Holland is winning because they have Louis v. Gaal - one of the best coaches in the world. You want a man of that caliber to coach your national team if you're serious about it. Is Chelsea going to hire Hodgson? Is ManU? No they are not.
There is no good English coach, and there is no reason the coach has to be English. It's not one of the rules. The only reason to do so is nationalism, and I am quite happy that that mentality gets punished every time
Anyway England's not alone with this, Argentina also has zero team spirit, it's just 11 talented guys on the pitch. I don't think they'll get very far either.-
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^ I've been reading about revolutionary new ways to make batteries for many years now. None of them have shipped. The media likes to keep quiet about the fact that the step from research to mass production is huge. So I am taking the "call me when I can buy it in a store" approach with these...
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Looks good and smart of HD to try something new. At first I was a bit shocked - it sounded like they were going to sell this thing soon. But now it appears its a concept, although one that looks close to production ready.
Ive read somewhere it sounds like a glider from Star Wars - so I can imagine it sounding good too. Its a matter of opinion anyway - HD sound does nothing for me, even though it is no doubt carefully crafted by HD engineers and lots of people love it. A Ducati, on the other hand....
I would have expected production electric scooters by now - has not happened, possibly because batteries are so expensive. That will change in a year or two though as Tesla is building a battery factory that will double world wide output - the goal is to get the cost down...
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Ouch! I hope the riders are OK!
I don't think any street bike on the market has been specifically designed for crashing.
If you're interested in things that happen to bikes when they crash go to the Kawasaki dealer and look at the bike graveyard in the garage. It's awful. And you'll ride much slower on your way home.
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Is Brazil 2014 the best World Cup ever?
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Best that I've seen. I didn't watch all games but of those I did, only one or two were boring. Happy I did not watch NED-ARG live, that was just terrible... especially for a semi-final.
And Germany's 7-1 against Brazil which could easily have been a 9-0, was honestly the most astounding match I've ever seen. So unexpected, couldn't believe it as I was seeing it, I had to pinch myself after 30 minutes. In hindsight it was a huge upset but as the drama unfolded it was more like aliens just landed on earth..
I did not see 1970 but back then the game was just so much slower, can't really be compared.