khastan

6 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

That's probably the reason, as they don't want to be stuck with them come September. Have you tried exchange booths? (If you're lucky, maybe they are not aware of it yet.)

Yes I manged to exchange them at a exchange booth attached to a bank. The main reason of my post is to warn anybody who has these notes to exchange them as soon as possible.

Have no idea if i am in the right forum but here goes with a warning to people.  

Thanks to all. Which is the quietest for bedroom both inside and out

Just a good reliable very quiet unit for bedroom

Have got a Econo 3 18000 btu evaporator in living room coupled to a Mr slim 18000 compressor and very happy with it. The matching long throw adjustable width Mr slim 18000 btu evaporator circuit burnt out and nobody up here could repair it so it got binned. Can you buy separate compressors and if so where. 

Sorry have no idea where to put this topic but here goes.

Anybody know if this air con is any good?? https://th.sharp/en/products/air-care/ah-x13yebh-sharp-j-tech-inverter-13000-btu?v=1549

33 minutes ago, topt said:

Quick search found this and its for 3 years ago -

https://www.unbiased.co.uk/life/pensions-retirement/what-is-a-serps-pension

 

So highly possible........

Interesting I was not aware of this. I worked all my life up to 60. In total I had 44 years fully paid up contributions and was contracted out for a maximum of 10 years working for MB encouraged at the time by Thatchers government. It states serps is £10.17 per week but because |I was contracted out I loose £7.17 of that. It also states that serps was applicable to earnings from 6th April 1978 to 5th April 2002. After this it was replaced by something called the second state pension.

Like you I have had no pension increase for 10 years whilst living in Thailand. I also know nobody or have even heard of anyone that receives 11.622 pounds a year UK  state pension. Thats 223.50 a week I wish. Just were they have got this figure from god knows.

Hi thank you for your input. Its what I suspected. Its very hard to make right.. Having a devious mind do you think it has been done deliberately, knowing full well how hard it is to correct to artificially inflate the figures they are actually paying in pensions. We are after all one of the lowest paid in Europe and would probably be the lowest if it was not for this. 

Have just had a letter fron the HMRC for 2022-2023 informing me of my tax code. It states I recieve 11622 State pension (I wish) which in reality I get just over half of this amount. Has any other citizen of the UK recieved similar and if so what did they do to correct the error. 

2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Cheers, where I live is a good  place for a bike. 

We have ridden pretty everywhere in Thailand and I have never found it anymore of a problem than riding in UK in fact fine it better. 

 

On our ride outs we avoid morning and evening rush hours and try and route away from any big Cities, I would never want or need to ride into places like Bangkok. 

What can I say,  mayby I am totally wrong and the roads are safe.  I thank you for your positive comments though and will take due notice of them.  

On 10/19/2021 at 9:07 PM, Kwasaki said:

IOM a great place for bikers went there twice a great memory.

For sure get ya self a s/h cheap bike doesn't have to be large cc.

I can ride whenever I want and when I do it just makes me feel more alive.

I just luv acceleration power of my 900 Blade never mind top speed. 

Here is what my wife calls my Mia Noi. ????

 

Could not agree more any true rider who has never been has missed something special. I hope it comes back soon so at least I can watch it and those titans on two wheels on TV. To be quite honest the people using the roads in Thailand scare the s--t out of me so its doubtful. I never seen such an appalling standard of driving and riding. I lived in Spain for 12 years before I came here in 2007 and drove all over that country.The Spanish are very aggresive road users and road rage is an everyday thing for them. You learn very quickly to adopt their driving style and not to hold them up or get in their way but they are nothing like and far less dangerous to the road users here.Yes fully agree riding a nice responsive bike is the stuff of dreams. and I do envy you. What a beautiful mistress you have!

I forget did they allow you to ride something over 250cc whith a provesional licence when you were 16. It was 250cc max in my time. One of the main reasons we sold lots of benly 125 and dream 250s to those with L plates. Yes agreed impossible to ride off road. 

The Blackbird it terrified Peter my mate and he was an utter lunatic on a bike. Regularly used to loose the boys in blue chasing him through Keighley on the way to the Tomato Dip cafe so your blade must be awesome.

They must look at it at the side of theirs and be green with envy surely.

Yes tragic but it must have been really intersting to stay in the same hotel though.

Mad sunday was never my cup of tea too many would be racers with ambitions above their skills.

Yes agreed it is but I have watched countless onboard laps and they are a split second away from disaster many times.

You never know I might just do that!

9 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Wonderful stuff, my Dad was a Motorbike man having a Rudge 500 for I can't remember how many years, when he chop it in for a Triumph speedtwin it was something he regreted.

So about parents I said to my Dad it have enough money for a s/h scoot he said I don't want you having those things and on my 16th Birthday bought me a 600 Panther well OK but starting it with the kick start was a problem for a while ???? it launch me on the ground a few times and lucky I it didn't break my leg. 

Long story over the years but as said after a few bikes got my Blade here again in Thailand and I luv it.

I'm 74 and will be riding for a as long as I don't fall over and that reminds riding to Germany on my Blade I had in UK to do autobahn speeds without being nicked. 

Met a guy with a BM boxer he had been riding for as long as had been made great engines to work on. 

He was 85 years old. ????

 

Great and very nostalgic and how lucky to have parents who encouraged you in your dreams. I hated scooters and never felt safe on them so well done dad. 600 Panther remember it well a beast of a machine. I presume you rode it off road!? One of my mates kept on riding throughout and bought a Honda blackbird. He said it scared the s--t out of him and before he was always the leader and took more risks then all of us. He had a Eddie Dowd built Norton Commando. He told me the black bird was like having two norton engines under you with twice the acceleration and speed. You would not believe the bikes that came in part ex for the new breed of Japanese high end bikes when I worked at Cowies. We even had a black shadow I kid you not. I think it was in the show room a day before it was sold! You are a very lucky man and how i envy and admire you still riding one of the most beautiful and fastest bikes ever made. I wonder what the Thai ton up boys on their little bikes make of it when its parked near them. My home time was Bradford so I was well aquainted with Jefferies of Saltaire Road Shipley and his sons racing careers. It was a tragedy when David was killed in practice. Did you race in the TT or Manx TT.  I watch the riders of todays TT with absolute dumbstruck awe and wonder how is it possible to lap that circuit at well over 130 mph, a lot of the time it is even impossible to see the road ahead clearly, they really have got balls of steel. Over the years whilst I have lived in Thailand I have looked at the bikes like a kid in a candy shop on sale here many times and thought should I they seem such good value for money. My style of riding in the sixties was very aggresive and with so much power at my disposal probably not a good idea but I can dream and nobody can take the memories of a mispent youth away.

24 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Interesting may I enquire you sound like you were into bikes more than me at the time or your older than me. 

My cousin built his own Triton and use to do track racing. 

I remember him coming around showing his rear tyre they had not long been out from memory and he called them triangular shape tyres. 

Never understood why they were not called "Trinort" the Norton frame was special in its day but anything at the time was good enough for me, different bikes I  rode you just changed your riding style to suit. 

 

Honda dream emm remember being in the Ace café and some brave guys turned up on 250 Honda dreams they were quick. ????

 

Remember the MV fascination because they were winning a lot of races at time, I was not that impressed not from envious perspectives they weren't really made available to guys like Honda's were in there cost. 

 

Later on the best thing ever for me was riding IOM road circuit on my Blade and Dave Jefferies set the suspension up for me,  not that would make any difference to my race experience. 

 

My eldest son still has the 1200 Bandit I sold him,  my youngest son has the latest R1 and my middle son thinks his brothers and me are crazy,  I managed to get hold of a Blade in Thailand which is 1 year older than the one I had in England after a few other bikes here so I am a happy bunny. 

Ride to Live. K.

Okay here goes.  Never rode a push bike parents would not allow me to have one to dangerous they said.. Then when I was 16 purchased a beat up 125 bantam and learnt to ride in a local park. Fell off more times than i could count and that goes for bruises also. Eventually I got the knack and put in for my test and past first time. Swopped the 125 for a C15 250 and rode it thousands of miles all over the UK and had it just before I reached twenty one. My parents hated motorbikes and offered to buy me a sports car for my 21 st. No I said I want a bike , then you buy it youself I was told. I heard that Joe Jackson a small dealer in Saltaire who had raced quite a lot had recently got a RGS with racing credentials for sale. It was love at first sight and I had to have it. When Joe saw what I was riding he said go on have a go but if you drop it you have to pay for any damage. Having worked at cowies I was used to big bikes so was not worried. The power that that thing had was unbelivable and drunk fuel like an alcholic but unlike a Goldie it was just has good in traffic. To cut a long story short it came home with me that day and my parents pratically disowned me. I only had it for about a year then like a fool sold it to get married. After about five years without bought the Triton from Padgetts and took it up to John O Groats on its first real outing. Have not rode since but I really do miss it and above all else the friends who rode with me

The MV I rode which is the top of the range and is in mint condition is in France now. The guy that owns it raced bikes and was also a pillion passenger in sidecar road races so a complete nutter. He says he will never get rid of it and wants it to be buried with him. He once gave me a lift on it and scared the living daylights out of me, boy was I glad to get off. I am nearly 77 to answer your question.

36 minutes ago, khastan said:

Yes agreed scary but what a thrill. A lot I should imagine. They were ten of us and we lost 4 to bike heaven. I graduated from a BSA C15 250 to a BSA RGS that had beedn raced in the |IOM tt. A lot of riders did that big jump in engine capacity has soon  has they had past there test which without doubt inceased the death rate.

4 hours ago, seedy said:

All bikes I rode in the late 60's and 70's were damn scary compared to today - those rock hard bias ply tires !

Wonder how any of us survived until better rubber came around, and much needed advances in suspension tech.

Yes agreed scary but what a thrill. A lot I should imagine. They were ten of us and we lost 4 to bike heaven. 

11 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Never really like those bikes 110 mph on those things must of been scary. ????

I liked the later Triumph's then trading that in for the first superbike CB750 a much better ride and reliability.

Stayed with Japanese bikes ever since.

 

Try 120 only once and never again and I still had throttle left! A few years later I bought a Triton with a Bonneville engine built by Padgets of Batley. What a diffence that featherbed frame made to handling. Yes the ride was much better but the big differnce was realibility and how they were equipped compared to the british bikes. They used to come in crates partly built from Japan and we could not get enough of them. Especially the Honda 250 Dream and 125 Benly which learner riders were allowed to ride then. They sold like hot cakes to the would be Hailwoods. Not rode for 50 years now but miss it very much although  I did have a go on my mates priceless Hailwood replica MV Augusta and it scared the s--t out of me about 20 years ago. 

1 hour ago, khastan said:

The factory RGS hada standard carb but the option of a rrt2 gearbox and a compression ratio of about 9.1.1. Fitting a GP2. rrt2 and increasing compression boosted performance by about 7%.  I had no problems bump starting mine which I quickly learnt was the safest way to start the beast. Yes a bath plug was very useful! All Goldstars to my knowledge had large gp carbs, rrt2 and a very high compression ratio. I worked at Cowies as a salesman and we got quite a few secondhand DB32 and DB34 Goldstars in part exchange and all of course had to be tested to see they were okay! They were swopping them for the new breed of high performance Japanese bikes just starting to flood the market. What a glorious motorbike and anybody who never rode one missed the thrill of a lifetime. Like you say would not tick over due to being fitted with a racing carb,  impossible to ride in traffic due to clutch slip but once on the open road oh what joy. The sound produced and smell of Castrol R never to be forgotten. I believe Hailwood took a praticaly standard DB34 and won a race after being challenged that part of his success was due to his fathers influence and money and being supplied with the very best bikes of the day. Yes two great riders and the most challenging and dangerous race track in the world full stop. 

Came across this advert for a new RGS in 1962 and fifty two quid was purchase tax!

The factory RGS hada standard carb but the option of a rrt2 gearbox and a compression ratio of about 9.1.1. Fitting a GP2. rrt2 and increasing compression boosted performance by about 7%.  I had no problems bump starting mine which I quickly learnt was the safest way to start the beast. Yes a bath plug was very useful! All Goldstars to my knowledge had large gp carbs, rrt2 and a very high compression ratio. I worked at Cowies as a salesman and we got quite a few secondhand DB32 and DB34 Goldstars in part exchange and all of course had to be tested to see they were okay! They were swopping them for the new breed of high performance Japanese bikes just starting to flood the market. What a glorious motorbike and anybody who never rode one missed the thrill of a lifetime. Like you say would not tick over due to being fitted with a racing carb,  impossible to ride in traffic due to clutch slip but once on the open road oh what joy. The sound produced and smell of Castrol R never to be forgotten. I believe Hailwood took a praticaly standard DB34 and won a race after being challenged that part of his success was due to his fathers influence and money and being supplied with the very best bikes of the day. Yes two great riders and the most challenging and dangerous race track in the world full stop. 

21 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

I thought the Rocket Goldie was the dog's testicals.  My Bro. wasn't satisfied with the 5 gal. alloy tank it had other bits .  The compression was raised to 11-1 , only ran on 5 star petrol. A slipper piston , lightened and polished flywheel , ......................pity he missed a gear , said it went to 11,000 rpm just before the conrod appeared through the bottom of the crankcase .  Can't remember how it all ended up but then the middle '60s was an odd time. Oh my Norton was loaded up for the IoM TT races in '67.  Agostini's chain broke , what a sound from that machine , my chain didn't IoM no prob. Sorry , just remembering being 20 years old.

Agreeed it was and mine had the 11.1 compression also and a bigger carb.. Which made kick starting it a problem. The mistake of advancing it to much risked breaking your leg. I learnt the best way to start the thing was to jump start it! It was in complete racing trim coloured blood red and fitted with a peel mountain mile fairing. Has far has I could tell the only homage to it being road legal was the lights it had! I did ride it to its limit on just one occasion and it scared the hell out of me. I dont think I ever touched 11000 rpm though! I heard the person that bought it wiped it and himself out on the motorway. I was there also in the IOM in 67 when Agostini and Hailwood were wheel to wheel with each other. The sound of that Honda and MV Augusto screaming past can never be forgotten. Like you say what a shame Agostinis chain broke. Hailwood after the race tried to console Agostini. What a true gentleman Hailwood was and how tragic he lost his life in the way he did. I often wonder how he would go on against the modern day riders whith their phenomaly fast bikes. I was also there on his comeback in 78 when he astounded everbody by winning. Dont apoligise I was 21 and would not have missed that time for the world.

Have just been to Nong Khai to do my 90 days. Several people hanging about outside. Not a soul in the office completely devoid of people!. The lady officer outside playing with her phone said wait one hour so it looks like they are all

having some sort of meeting. Fortunately I live near so I will go tomorrow.

4 hours ago, Allen Lewis said:

I'm an American expat and get a modest pension from the UK for the few years I worked there, but most of my non-US Social Security income is from France, where I worked some 22 years.  Until this year I just took the "Certificate de Vie" form to the French Embassy every couple of years and they stamped and signed it without any fuss.  But since Covid 19 they have discontinued this service and most other consular services.  Their website suggests I try the police, immigration service, town hall etc.   None of these wanted anything to do with it.  A total cover-your-ass attitude. Don't know, don't understand, not our job, blah blah blah.   Immigration was particularly snotty, telling me flat out it's not their responsibiity to certify whether I am alive or dead.  Go to your own country's embassy.  I never thought of asking Bangkok Bank, where my wife and I have been customers for 15 years. I finally asked a kind and understanding doctor at Vibhavadi Hospital who I have been seeing for  years and she took care of it.  So that's my solution for what it's worth

Yes I also got mine done at the local private hospital so that seems a solution to anybody having a problem getting the form witnessed. 

For what its worth I live near Nong Khai immigration and have never seen has many cars parked outside on the road. I counted at least 30  so it appears all immigration offices are very busy