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  1. henrik2000
    Lazy bicycle day trips out of Ta Phan Hin, Phichit Province, in December 2023. Pics looked crisp before upload.
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    Lazy day trips out of Ayutthaya old town in December 2023. Pics looked crisp just before uploading.
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    Strictly lazy day trips out of Amphawa, Samut Songkhram province, about 80 kms SW of Bangkok in December 2023. Pics looked crisp before upload.
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    Strictly lazy daytrips out of Phetchaburi town. December 2023. Pics looked crisp before upload. Phetchaburi province on Mapy: https://mapy.com/s/mabuhomoco (can't make it clickable)
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    Thanks. As mentioned, pics are from around New Year 2023/24. Back then it should have been open, but wasn't. At least the still accessable front terrace served well as a rain shelter. (As much as i hog Thai seafood every day, i'll cycle out of my way for a *good* pizza.)
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    Strictly lazy day trips out of Prachuap Khiri Khan City and out of Bang Saphan Yai (Prachuap Khiri Khan province) around New Year 2023/24. Pics looked crisp on my machine at moment of posting. Intended sequence jumbled up after upload
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    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).
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    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.)
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    "Bike paths"? It was exactly here:
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    Did you get those: (Schwalbe Marathon Mondial tire after off-roading in upcountry Uttaradit.)
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    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.)
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    Daytrips out of Khung Wiman, Chantha town, Laem Sing in Jan 2025. (Uploaded Pics looked crisp on my machine.)
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    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.
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    Day trips out of Khao Saming near Trat town. (Pics looked crisp on my machine before upload.)
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