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Trat Province, Cycling Day Trips – 60 Pics
henrik2000 replied to henrik2000's topic in Cycling in Thailand
Oh, also to do with the surface. Maybe you've mostly been on paved roads. Dirt roads are full of thorns, some of them extremely tiny but effective, others monstrous (pic above). -
Trat Province, Cycling Day Trips – 60 Pics
henrik2000 replied to henrik2000's topic in Cycling in Thailand
Thanks. If you wanted, you could copy a pic and paste it into a reply box, either by right-clicking or by Ctrl C, Ctrl V, and comment on that one. (I just tried that, it works on my system.) -
Trat Province, Cycling Day Trips – 60 Pics
henrik2000 replied to henrik2000's topic in Cycling in Thailand
"Bike paths"? It was exactly here:
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Trat Province, Cycling Day Trips – 60 Pics
henrik2000 replied to henrik2000's topic in Cycling in Thailand
Did you get those: (Schwalbe Marathon Mondial tire after off-roading in upcountry Uttaradit.)
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Trat Province, Cycling Day Trips – 60 Pics
henrik2000 replied to henrik2000's topic in Cycling in Thailand
Schwalbe Marathon Plus - exactly the one i use. I have the Schwalbe Marathon Plus Tour - which is made more for offroad. Last winter i cycled 4000 kms in different parts of Thailand, with a lot of forest and fields (i.e. full of thorns), and didn't have 1 single puncture. That's phantastic compared to earlier trips. For the Marathon Plus the manufacturer recommends using a pump with pressure gauge, they say you can't properly check the pressure with your thumb on that tire. I do have a small pump with pressure gauge to attach to the bike - and find it very difficult to get even the minimum of 3 bar into the tire. It's much easier with a big stand pump or compressor. The Schwalbe Marathon Plus (Tour) has a protection level of 7/7 according to manufacturer, but it isn't foldable, if you wanted to bring it into Thailand from the West. Schwalbe also has a tire called Marathon Mondial (?), which is foldable, very small in its paper box and has a protection level of 6/7 (beware, you have to pick the right, more protective, less smooth-running "Mondial" variety). This Mondial gave me exactly 1 puncture on another 4000 kms of country bicycling in Thailand (industrial strength thorns), which is still very good compared to using cheap local tires + tubes (20+ punctures on yet another winter sojourn). I would also recommend Schwalbe AirPlus inner tubes, i believe they have a big advantage over cheaper inner tubes, and they are helpful even if you have low-quality tires. (There maybe other good manufacturers, but Schwalbe is just so well established in my territory.) -- Another good thing if you do have a puncture are Thai people. Workshops are everywhere and usually super-friendly, often insisting on helping me for free (barely managed to give them some oranges). Several times when they saw me pushing a flattened bike, cars and trucks would stop, put my bike inside (including inside family vans) and take me to the next workshop. (I do carry the equipment to fix a puncture, but in Thailand prefer a workshop.) -
Daytrips out of Khung Wiman, Chantha town, Laem Sing in Jan 2025. (Uploaded Pics looked crisp on my machine.)
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Trat Province, Cycling Day Trips – 60 Pics
henrik2000 replied to henrik2000's topic in Cycling in Thailand
I think it is very much a matter of personal preference - for a bike, for certain kinds of roads -, not what's generally best for Thailand. If you go country, my number 1 tips would be unflattable tires, and certainly not the tires that come with cheap bikes. -
Day trips out of Khao Saming near Trat town. (Pics looked crisp on my machine before upload.)
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Day trips out of Phimai, Chaiyaphum, Det Udom village, Surin.
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Thanks, yes, i forgot that option. Even though in January prices might be higher.
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What i had was 60 days + 30 days tourist visas or visa waivers. I didn't fully listen to this officer, because i already had researched, and rejected, the visa that he wanted to promote. I think it was for 50+ year olds, which applies for me. Maybe "non-O"? I think it required showing bank statements from 3 different months and maybe other stuff that i found inconvenient in my personal case, even if a trip to Immigration in-country may be inconvenient as well. But let's discuss the original topic at hand.
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I do that.
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Then you trust the phone agreement more than i do. I've had phone bookings gone wrong, with staff forgetting to put my name into their computer or receiving an online booking 1 second before they could put my name into their computer (and then online booking comes first, i was told) accepting phone bookings beyond capacity out of confusion I'd at least write via Facebook, which is possible with some resorts. When i search their phone numbers from Google Maps in Line, mostly they don't show up there. When a place is "sold out", booking sites will not show their prices. I'd like to know the prices before calling, and often they don't have their own website, and on their Facebook they usually don't show prices.
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Recently at Bkk airport, the immigration officer in his booth noted the visa extensions stamped into my passport to allow for 3-months-tourist stays in previous winters, and he may have noted a 1-day-overstay-stamp. For 5 minutes he explained another kind of visa that would make 3-months-stays easier for me (in his estimation), while 50 travelers in the queue had to wait. I didn't look very "quality tourist", but he wanted to have me in-country.
