Damrongsak

I once rode in the open back of a pickup from Nakhon Pathom to Loei.  I think there were 4 of us in the back, 3 in front and a lot of luggage.  About 560 km - Never again!

Here's a Ghost Rider Moscow riding a R1.  Starts to get really  hairy at 4 minutes in.

1 hour ago, Bday Prang said:

Probably purely coincidental that in Thai   the word for  "debt"   and the word for   "running away and disappearing"  is very very similar, only the presence of a tonal marker  distinguishes between  the written words and a  slight difference in tone distinguishes between the spoken words,   I don't have a Thai keyboard anymore but the word is pronounced   "Nee" when the rising tone is heard it means to do a disappearing act  when spoken with a high tone ( i think)  it refers to a financial debt.   Worth keeping one's ears open for either of these words  

Interesting. (I think "debt" is falling tone.)

หนี้  H̄nī̂ debt

หนี  H̄nī  flee

25 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I travel cattle class. If some fool pays twice the price - or more - for the same flight, same distance and same time out of their lives , then good luck to them getting a bit more. ...

I used to travel a lot for business.  I used to say I traveled "strapped to the wing" class. Cheap ...

25 minutes ago, handymax said:

Hey Doc, now you know how we foreigners feel every day we're in Thailand, try going to a national park and paying 10x the entry fee, just because we're not Thai, or the local market and paying double for a simple bag of food. Doesn't taste good, does it?

Last fall I went to Phu Reua park in Loei.  No charge for people over 60. A Thai friend of my wife paid maybe 20 Baht.  I scooted under the radar as I'm old and no one wants to mess with all the old Thai women I hang with.  Ignorance is bliss.

Looks like there are three versions, from most  to least expensive I believe:

front disc brake/mag wheels

front disk brake/spoke wheels

front drum brake/spoke wheels

There should not be a large difference in price. 

https://www.thaihonda.co.th/honda/laravel-filemanager/files/shares/TH_Wave110i_Catalogue.pdf

EDIT:  Also some have electric start and some do not. 

"Stainless" steel varies in its resistance to corrosion and magnetic properties.  Some stainless utensils are quite stainless and non-magnetic due to a high nickel content. I went around the kitchen and tested some spoons and ladles (mostly non-magnetic), the stainless stove (magnetic) and some other things.  Weirdest of all is the stainless sink.  It has magnetic and non-magnetic areas - probably because it has low nickel and has been work hardened in certain areas.

Magnets hold best if the steel surface is sufficiently thick for the particular magnet.  You may need a wider magnet on a thin sheet metal surface (like a refrigerator). A taller magnet may  be needed to hold up many sheets of paper. 

I have a few of those hard drive magnets.  They are very powerful.  Bought some surplus from a used equipment seller at a market in BKK years ago.  Down by Yaowarat/Pahurat.  Also got a few from tearing apart old drives from a file server.

.. but as I ask him to show me the "storage under the seat of the honda lead" he told me ..its locked... "

I would have reached into my pocket and produced a  key chain with a screwdriver and said "No problem, I can pry it open". But seriously, I know enough Thai language to at least embarrass a salesman, or start a fight.  I just can't tolerate a lackadaisical attitude like that. 

For a number of years our house in Loei was on an unpaved alley and we are the last house on our side.  Then my wife petitioned to get it paved, which it was a number of years.  Now there's at least one racer boy on a clapped out bike with no muffler who zooms past our house at high speed.  I knew that would happen.

Hey, I have a T-shirt like that!  I made it for a public demonstration in the U.S.A. some years back.  I ripped up a shirt and spray painted <deleted>BAR on the front.  ????

On 3/21/2023 at 3:21 AM, sidneybear said:

It's amazing how powerful the big dope lobby is. Who would have thought that Thailand would have legalised it? Fact is that dope causes mental illness in some of its users.

The word "dope" goes way back.  It can refer to intoxicating substances or merely stupidity.  Now, let stupid people revel in intoxicating substances and what do you get?

Ganja has been around Thailand forever.  But the new hype brought about by dreams of profits ("medical marijuana") isn't so good with impressionable youngsters who could do without it.  Why walk around in a fog unless you're stuck on a farm 100 kilometers from nowhere?

I hadn't taken vitamins for years and I've been a vegetarian for 50.  Not that I eat well.  Last fall after a checkup the Doc said I was low on Vitamin D, so now I take that (1000 IU)  or every 2-3 days a multi-vitamin with same D amount. 

I do not believe in overdosing on vitamins.  Beer is a different story. ????

I have a handful of Laotian Kip notes if he's interested.  Pre-commie days.  And a couple of Zimbabwe notes that are 10 or 100 million dollars, which are the small ones. 

8 hours ago, Goat said:

You want me to do backflips? Or an armstand dive?

Triple Lindy ...

10 hours ago, eisfeld said:

320k THB is not cheap but 40k for green color? <deleted>? ... 

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That's for the higher-grade Ninja ZX-4R SE which includes dual-direction Kawasaki Quick Shifter, USB outlet (ZX-4R SE only), and front fork with adjustable spring preload. Not sure if the traction control and riding modes are included in both models.

There are a couple Youtube videos comparing "zx-4r vs ninja 400".  I'm not sure if there is a difference between zx-4r and zx-4rr. 

Such as: 

Sleaze bag politicians, no matter the party.  They got into politics because they had no real marketable skills, other than talking a good fight.  Latch onto the Federal teat and suck as much as you can.  I think some of these people actually believe they are right and doing the correct things.  They seem to have very high opinions of themselves.  Proud of it even. 

I was in northern Virginia (outside Washington, D.C.) during my teenage/college years in the late 60's - mid 70's.  Big boom times, lots of $$ flowing. 

From what little I've read about, there are a couple Chinese/Taiwanese clone bikes that copied a couple good engine designs.  Not high tech but proven old designs.  Honda, Suzuki ...  Trouble is, which factory copied which ones and how was the quality? 

They are clever ...  DAMN THEM.