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In the jungle

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  1. This is where I would go shopping.

    I have no commercial connection with this Co.

    On my way back from the shops today I was passing my local auction site which is Union Auction Co. in Rangsit Klong 8.

    I dropped in because there was a tractor auction going on which is another interest of mine.

    On tomorrows motorcycle sale list which consists of 96 lots these are the ones I picked out.

    1. A little Stallions Cafe racer with 1300 km on the clock. No reserve (do they know something we don't?). It looked OK from 5 metres and I wasn't interested enough to get any closer.

    2. Lifan 110 step thru. 2015 I think. Never seen this model before. Pretty much a clone of the Honda Wave 110i but my guess is it has a carb as I could see a fuel tap. Didn't feel like bending down to confirm my guess. 10K reserve.

    3. A dog of a CBR 250 with no reserve. I wouldn't chance it.

    4. Lot 96. A 2015 Wave 110i with alloys and electric start. 1234 km on the clock. 20K reserve. Looked like a new bike. This would be the one I would want if I needed a runaround. A bummer it is the last lot.

    And a tsunami of Waves, Clicks, Scoopys, Finos at prices that make me laugh at the classified prices.

    They have a good website (by Thai standards) with a detailed stock list and photos of every lot.

    Next couple of weeks they have an R15 coming up. Looked OK but the Thai bling nailed onto it put me off. Perhaps the owner should have paid the finance rather than buying the bling. No reserve set as yet.

    Also a couple of almost new Honda Dreams. I like these bikes but, retro though it may be, I cannot accept a bike with a drum front brake in the year 2016. One had a reserve of 28K which I thought was a bit ambitious.

  2. Honda Civic plus B16 DOHC engine swap.

    Ideally the 160 bhp VTEC engine.

    I know the engine is an easy swap into an EG Civic but you would need to do your homework on later Civics.

    It's a beast of an engine with excellent reliability and fairly easy to find in BKK for a reasonable price.

  3. The thing is modern motorcycles use electronic fuel injection, so no electric at the moment of starting the motorcycle means the motorcycle not gets fuel- no fuel no start….

    Any motorcycle and scooter with electric fuel injection will have this problem…. Cheap bikes with EFI or the most expensive bikes… battery empty no starting even with kickstart or pushing...

    Some small Honda scooters with fuel injection are designed to start without battery power.

    It is covered in an article on Honda's website here:

    http://world.honda.com/motorcycle-technology/pgm-fi/p6.html

    A clever system.

    I do not know whether my small Thai made Honda works the same way only because the original battery has never been removed and has never gone flat. It will be interesting to find out and doubtless I will sooner or later.

  4. Yes the transmission locking up is the last thing you want when riding one of those.

    In the US, Yamaha could be sued for millions of $ if above happens and somebody get killed/injured.

    Pulling the clutch in would end the lock up.

    I guess its easy to say from the comfort of my sofa.

    Pulling the clutch in would not work in the event of transmission seizure as the transmission is downstream from the clutch.

  5. A quote from Yamaha USA's letter:

    “In affected motorcycles, both second gear wheel and pinion gears in the transmission may break as a result of extremely high stress and/or improper shifting. This is due to inadequate component strength and stress concentration at the gear teeth bottom land. In addition, the third and fourth wheel gears may be deformed or break as a result of excessive stress caused by hard usage. This is due to inadequate component strength. If gears fail, the transmission could lock up, causing loss of control that could result in a crash with injury or death."

    I am very surprised to hear this coming from Yamaha and I can also see the potential for a whole bunch of lawsuits hitting them.

    In a letter to UK owners Yamaha say:

    "contact your authorised Yamaha dealer at your earliest convenience, quoting your machine’s Chassis Number and current mileage, to arrange a mutually convenient appointment for them to replace the transmission assembly"

    Shouldn't there be a greater sense of urgency to the process given Yamaha know it has potentially lethal design faults?

    If I owned the latest R1 there is no way I would ride the thing until this was fixed.

  6. I have a house not far from Union Auction in Rangsit. Their bikes are mostly finance repossessions.

    Based on what I have seen there the Fino is pretty much at the bottom of the heap when it comes to resale value for bikes made by one of the big four Japanese manufacturers. Absolute bottom of the heap are carburettor Finos. They sell for loose change.

    Generally the auto trans, 14 inch wheel scooters tend to shed value quicker than the 17 inch gear and auto clutch bikes.

    King of the heap for retaining value is the Wave 110i.

    If I were looking for that type of bike new I would buy the Wave but secondhand I would choose the Yamaha Spark as, like for like, it seems to be 25 to 30% cheaper.

    Carburated Finos auctioned after finance repo.?

    no

    I said mostly finance repossessions.

    I would guess that 70% of the bikes auctioned are less than three years old and I can certainly recommend Union Auction for anyone looking for a mainstream bike within that age group. Provided, of course, that you are confident in assessing the condition of a bike in an auction environment.

    I have no connection to Union Auction..

  7. I would start looking on GSXR forums for the way forward.

    If you can work out what the ECU is communicating with you could take the key plus the other component (ECU, dash or a separate black box probably) to a country that has a GSXR K6 plus the factory tool to match the key to whatever component it is communicating with.

    You plug your bits into the K6 in your chosen country, programme the key and then bring your bits back here.

    That may sound daft but I did essentially that with the security system for an imported car years ago. Nobody in Thailand had the factory tool for matching the key to, in the case of the car, the ECU so I flew to Hong Kong and we matched the parts there on a car of the same model there. It took less than five minutes.

    An expensive and time consuming way to do it but I did not want to risk the potential grief involved in mailing an expensive ECU out and then back into Thailand.

  8. I have a house not far from Union Auction in Rangsit. Their bikes are mostly finance repossessions.

    Based on what I have seen there the Fino is pretty much at the bottom of the heap when it comes to resale value for bikes made by one of the big four Japanese manufacturers. Absolute bottom of the heap are carburettor Finos. They sell for loose change.

    Generally the auto trans, 14 inch wheel scooters tend to shed value quicker than the 17 inch gear and auto clutch bikes.

    King of the heap for retaining value is the Wave 110i.

    If I were looking for that type of bike new I would buy the Wave but secondhand I would choose the Yamaha Spark as, like for like, it seems to be 25 to 30% cheaper.

  9. Does Thailand have a car industry? I have only seen Krungthai vehicles which are actually Isuzu with the name put on, all the rest are from foreign companies. What vehicles are Thai home grown?

    No car industry in Thailand ;

    Isuzu is a huge japanese company .

    They make only pickups and trucks, no sedan .

    And about " E- Tan " which is a pejorative name;

    don't say " E " as a prefix in thai language or only if you like jokes whistling.gif ;

    Khun Tan are made with Kubota motors which are japaneses, too .

    And yet Etan is how some Thai manufacturers choose to name it.

    See etan4you.com as one example.

    Admittedly without a hyphen.

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