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If you look closely there should be an area on the dip stick which is not smooth, i.e. some sort of crisscross pattern. Correct max. level is when this area is fully immersed in oil.

As for the drive, the amount is just a small bottle of gear oil, about 50cc, which is often sold together with the 800cc engine oil as a set (e.g. Tesco).

Change both at the same time in 3000 km intervals.

In the second clip you can hear the guy scream something like"...f***ing ya ba..."

I'm sure that must have something to do with it. Can't imagine that booze alone causes you to be like that.

If you come off a bike on a race track both your clothing and the track are designed to minimise any ensuing damage.... A major factor  of race tracks is perfect road surface and no trees accompanied by no oncoming traffic and a qualified medical team on permanent alert.. Try finding those conditions on a Thai road.
As for individual anecdotes ...there will be as many of those who died at ultra slow speed as at ultra hi speed..as any scientist will tell you, the plural of anecdote is not data

 
I regularly see posts from motorcycle riders in the US who have crashed at speeds in excess of 100 km/h and have walked away without a scratch.  Heck, look at all of the professional riders who crash at over 100 mph.  
 
Yet, there are people who die in accidents at speeds of only a fraction of that.  Hit head on at 40 km/h and go full superman?  Yeah, that's going to hurt (if not kill you).  But laying it down at 100 km/h and sliding down the road while wearing protective gear will probably result in nothing more than some friction burns.  
 
It's not the speed.  It's the type of impact.  
 
 

This guy really needs psychiatric help. What a jerk! Hope they catch him soon and lock him away. Thanks for this post ajarngreg, I'll do my part and share it with everyone I know.

Yes, sure (yawn), it's solely speed that kills, not the non-existing driving skills among motorists and their total disregard for their own safety and that of others (yawn again).
 
A motorbike crash can be just as deadly at 40 kmh as at 60 or 90. Ask any expert. But not Thai "experts", of course, because they know s**t (as glaringly obvious from the OP). 

I'm really not a Trump fan but if he blows N. Korea into outer space I won't have a problem with it. Only seeing that fat pig dictator's face makes me want to puke.
And btw the Thai foreign minister has got no clue of what he's talking about. Well, would be a surprise anyway to see a Thai official with competence.


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I write this every year: 28 000 road fatalities each year = 78 per day.
So 167 fatalities in three days instead of 224, while bad, is a relief (ha ha... the police will be claiming that their actions were successful).

i don't have any tattoos, but since i live in Thailand now i have been thinking about getting ATM tattooed in big block letters. Not sure where.

On your forehead of course LOL!

How do you change a culture? Slowly consistently over a longer term. Cannot happen when there are repeated coups and new governments that change Constitutions and basic laws every few years. The country's selfish Elites including Military leaders are responsible for the current status quo.

 

jerojero the unstable government situation may have something to do with it but, even without that factor, I believe the Thais just can't change. They, certain individuals excepted, are just too narcissistic, have almost no self-criticism and lack general knowledge and education (no wonder since they hardly ever read anything). In short, they are intrinsically incapable of change for the better.

The fact is most people on here cannot see the big picture . Songran in designated places in  the middle of a village or city to me is ok but if you live in rural thailand there is a water station at every house along the roads between villages and at all shopping places on the big fast roads and some of therm you do not see until they run out into the road .
 Lots of times they stop me then try to ram whisky and beer glasses into my mouth to make me drink and have cut my mouth on more than one occasion.It is not the same songan as most of you living in farangland will see .
 From my house to the village is a straight road about 400 metres and about 6 water throwing stations . So to go to the shop and back i am hit a dozen times ?! they cannot all share at one house but have to have their own at their house making it if i drive to the main road i will be hit at least 20 times each way on a 2km stretch of fast road .
 I am this morning waiting for the first ambulance of the day to pass . There were lots last year.
 I have stocked up and will not go out for 3 days so am not bothered except i would like to experience the friendly songrans of years ago.
  Also it is not water pistols in the villages it is buckets of  5 litres or more  of water and ice that are thrown at you . Being hit by 2/3 of these at the same time on a motorbike is not nice
 

What upsets me every year is the senseless waste of water due to "playing Songkhran", and that during the hottest part of year when water is scarce already. This has absolutely nothing to do with the original tradition where you just sprinkle a few drops over your loved ones. I'll never understand how people can be that inconsiderate.


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