Issanman

A Japanese friend had one and let me borrow it for a week to go on my high school graduation field trip to Shimoda in June 1971. I was 17 years old. It was green and awesome. I believe it was a 1969 model. Very thrilling exhaust note on those early CB750s.

Some of the guys I rode with in Japan during the time I had my A7 Avenger. 1970-1971 We were called the Auto Duck Club. About 50 members in all. Based at Kitatama Motors Kawasaki shop in western Tokyo.

1980 Kawasaki KZ1300 six-cylinder. Bought new for $3995 Went back and got the correct fairing a few months later. Sitting next to my 1985 FXRS, also purchased new. Florida in the 1980s.

A few more of my z1 pictures: Florida This was at a race in Dade City Florida 1974. I took 2nd place in the unlimited class. Me and my Bell Star. This was the only track race that I ever entered in my life. The payments on the Z weren’t even finished yet. Monterey, California 1975 San Francisco 1976 San Angelo, Texas 1975 Ft Worth Texas 1977

May 1973 I bought new, one of the very first Z1 Kawasakis sold in my area of Florida. $1995 Largo, Florida 1973 Seaside, California 1974, now with Dunlop TT100 K81 tires and Koni shocks.

Kawasaki Mach III 500 Upper Arlington, Ohio 1972 A friend and I did a round trip from Columbus, Ohio to Nashville, Tennessee summer 1972. He rode his brand new 1972 H2 750. During our return trip coming back from Nashville on a cool and humid night ride on I-75 through Kentucky, we got into a high speed top end race with a 429 CobraJet Torino. Somehow my H1 ended up in front of both the H2 and the CJ. Go figure. My friend wasn’t thrilled about it and the CJ guy lost the race or maybe just chickened out. From a stoplight, my H1 couldn’t get near the H2. Not even close.

Less than a year later and I had an actual DL. My dad payed for half of this 1967 Kawasaki 350 Avenger.

My first bike. Tokorozawa Japan late 1969. I was 15 years old. The bike was previously used as a shuttle at a Toshiba factory and was painted the Toshiba colors of red and yellow. It was slightly refurbished and presented to me for helping out in a small Honda shop during the summer of 1969. Honda Super Cub, unknown year

How about cool bikes we once owned but no longer own? Is that OK? I have pictures.

I moved to Phuket over a year ago and I love it. The traffic is starting to suck now, but I am walking distance from anything I need, other than immigration. If you think it is too expensive here, then you didn't stay long enough to learn where the bargains are. I have my own wheels. So I never need expensive taxis or minivans. There is a lot more here to see than tourist areas and traffic jams.

I lived in a rented house outside of Udon Thani in the mid 70s. We were buying Thai sticks wrapped in newspaper, 3 layers of 7 sticks per bundle. 21 sticks for 20 baht or $1. I found a couple of pictures from back then. Back to the present day, I recently bought a very fresh batch of NKP red string from a distributors house on the Mekong river in NKP. I had lived near that area for years (now living in Phuket) and have some good friends there that pointed me in the right direction during a road trip we recently took up there. This is the best brick weed I have sampled since forever. The very clean and clear quality of the high is far better than any of the old brown brick weed from the past and made me think of the old Thai stick days. The smell is also very similar to the original Thai stick weed, as I remember it. Where I am staying now in Phuket, I can walk to 5 or 10 different weed shops in a few minutes. Seems like a new shop opens every day. But they will no longer be seeing my face in any of those shops. The weed they are selling looks very nice, but costs hundreds of times more per gram than the 3.3฿ per gram that I paid for my NKP brick weed. And there is very little difference in the strength. I still have some of the megabuck weed that I bought before our road trip to compare it to directly. Happy days are here again. "Highly" recommended. Non-believers need not respond.

That information was posted 10 years ago. It may not be there now.

I was told that in person at the St Petersburg, Florida Social Security office. Apparently YMMV.

I drove through a couple of days ago at around 3pm and the checkpoint was unmanned.

I changed from a Thai address to a US address because they said I would not be able to access my online social security account with a foreign address.

Mekong riverside NKP

https://www.checkraka.com/motorcycle/suzuki/raider/1456410/

Here is my Suzuki Raider J Crossover. It is Suzuki’s version of a heavier duty Wave-type bike. I have modded it a bit with slightly larger wheels/tires and YSS gas shocks on the rear. The fork tubes on this 113cc bike are thicker than on my NMax 155 by 1 mm at 31 mm vs 30 mm. Notice the proper front end of this bike with actual handlebars that make this bike far more manageable on or off road than any Wave or Wave clone that I have ever ridden. It’s a blast to ride this bike as the handling is very easy and it rides great. About 57000฿ without the modifications.

Anyone know of any long term car parking near Chalong circle?

I was recently invited to see some weed in a small village located in Nakhon Phanom at a house that had the Mekong river in the back yard. You can easily see Lao. I am not offering any connections or information to buy. Just wanted to post a few pictures for the brickweed fans of what I saw and sampled there. It was actually much better than it looks. Offered at 3000฿ per kilo, so 3฿ per gram.

I’ve done all of that. Thank you. Just looking for past human experience about this matter. I already know very well what Garmin and Google suggest. Computers don’t know everything.

Thank you guys for suggesting Google Maps. But I would rather hear about actual real-life driving experiences from actual human beings rather than computer recommendations. That’s why I am on this forum. We stopped at a hotel on 4 this afternoon in Nakhon Pathom near 338 after driving nearly 12 hours today. Leaving out early in the morning to try and miss the traffic. If it is still a mess, then I will try alien365s suggested route on the return trip in a week or so. 850 km today and about 750 km tomorrow. A thousand miles. Thanks for all the suggestions.

Rama 2 is the main road that I want to avoid. My Garmin loves to tell me to go that way. We are leaving Phuket in the morning. Thanks guys.