T_Dog

There are so many insects here! The photos below are of a caterpillar similar to the one on your bike. It had a tail, outriggers, more outriggers, fuzz, fur, white spots, red spots, green spots, antenna, sub-antenna, and 4 hump-back bumps! It was around for three days on our lotus and fish tank, and it completely ate 5 large leaves while leaving little black turds in its wake. The thing was an eating machine and we were waiting to see what kind of butterfly would emerge. One afternoon my wife saw a bird land on the edge of the tank and have it as a meal. Guess we will never know what it would have been, besides dinner that is.....

Heading out of town across Narawat bridge, there are two hw stores on the left just before Bumrungrad Road. They have always had everything I needed or could get it. Hope that helps.

I like that concept on absoluteastronomy.com.......especially since I have a useless hand dug well near the house and can feel the much cooler air down in the hole. water table is only 2 mt deep w/o heavy rains.....so can see that I would have to raise the cool air intake above the highest water levels. Piping [cool air intake] could be pvc, or cement??

Jaideeguy, There might be some adaptations of this concept, like just using fans rather than a solar chimney to pull the air through. That way you get rid of the cost of running the compressor at least.

To answer your question on material, I think I would use PVC to ensure no cracks or leaks develop, and to make mold cleaning easier. I would run several tubes 4" or larger. Things to consider:

-Design in a low spot where you can plumb in a condensate holding tank that you could pump dry occasionally. (Each tube would have to have the lowest spot drain to this tank.) You could even put in a float switch on the pump so it turns on automatically.

-If you can't go deep enough for a condensate holding tank, run a drain tube up from the lowest point of each air tube. The condensate could collect in the air tube until you pump it out.

-Run nylon rope through each tube so you can pull a "mold cleaning pig" through occasionally.

-Design an above ground air intake filter house that keeps insects and animals out.

-Use enough parallel air tubes that ensure the air flow is quite slow to allow heat transfer to occur. (Another words, air moving fast wouldn't get cooled very much.)

If you have the land, trying out this concept would not be very expensive. Here is an article another gracious ThaiVisa member sent me. Keep me informed if you go down this road!

earth_tubes.pdf

Here is a concept that someone in Thailand should try out. It relies on the ground a meter or more deep being much cooler than the living environment. The sun heats the air in the chimney which rises, and that creates a vacuum in the house which pulls in the earth-cooled air. This was used by the Greeks and there is a lot of info on the internet (even ThaiVisa), although very little actual performance data. Would be worth a try I think. Mold and condensation in the tubes would have to be dealt with, but you can find articles on that as well.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Solar_chimney

Search on this as well as Earth Tubes and there is a lot to chew on......

back on-topic - why is nobody up for a ride doi suthep on their beloved CBRs?

I'm available anytime, almost. . .

jbeck

I might be up for it. The hesitancy is probably because everyone has their own riding style. Some like to hit it hard/take a lot of risks and some like to smell the roses. As for me, there is too much traffic on Doi Suthep after about 8 AM. I ride my mountain bike up there at least once a week (Check out YouTube of a ride from last year

We Americans are metrically challenged at times, but 107 celsius?

No comment on the metrically challenged (thought it was mentally challenged at first read)

107 C = 224 F

Either way it's <deleted> hot.

I used to hate it back in the college days when the beer would boil in the sauna.

Eastbound from the airport, no petrol after the superhighway, on 1317 past San Kamphaeng. Is there a Saint Camping?

Coming from Mae On toward CM on 1317, just past the road to Lanna Airport there is a station on the left. I've had to fill up there with a bone dry tank coming out of Mae Kampong mountains.

T Dog, the only petrol station I can find on 1317 east of San Camping is maybe 15 km from my house. I could take spur 1317 into Sank. if I was empty.

I suspect that petrol out in the boondocks is thin on the ground. MHSon road has a hand-cranked pump, like in West Texas, 1930.

Caeser says.... Head toward Mae On from your place. Just before the road to Lanna Airport, you will see a station on the right side set back from the road about a 100 meters. It's a real one with underground tanks. I don't think that is more than 6-8 km from your place. Friendly service too.

Eastbound from the airport, no petrol after the superhighway, on 1317 past San Kamphaeng. Is there a Saint Camping?

Coming from Mae On toward CM on 1317, just past the road to Lanna Airport there is a station on the left. I've had to fill up there with a bone dry tank coming out of Mae Kampong mountains.

So no saunas in town?

Old Medicine Hospital on Wualai Road has them. Haven't been inside but friends say they are clean. Google it and you

can find more info.

I'm not responding to the OP "Why not buy a proper motorbike", but to the flurry of responses.

As a cbr150 forum I think the original post, and posts like it, should simply be ignored.

The OP was not useful, was an unsolicited, untrue, opinionated, load of you-know-what without any merit, proof at all.

What an id***t. Sorry, but it's true.

Let's ignore these!

thanks.

Great idea jbeck. That post/response string and the one last year from the "I hope I never see the day" guy really didn't do any good for anyone, especially the OP. When newbies come on here and ask questions, it is great to help them get started and on the right path. It is easy to keep it positive when you ignore the idiots. I'm in.....

My heritage is from the UP of Michigan and my mother made the best pasties anywhere. But I guess that's a prejudiced view. Her pasties were as big as a large dinner plate and had plenty of potato, beef (not ground beef) and onion and rutabaga(a turnip) When she was a young girl she made them for the copper miners in the family and boarding house to take in the lunch pail down the mine. They would stay warm until lunch time.

I really miss those tasty pasties and talking about them makes the mouth water. I have had Yorkies and just not the same.

LongBall.... I was born in Ontonagon. Right now we are negotiating on a new rental home that has an oven up here in CM. My mouth is watering about having the first pasty fest in the new kitchen! Nothing like them.....

Hey my family all were born in Calumet. Most worked for C & H mining back in their hayday. Mom made pasties for all the workmen in the house to take down the mines for lunch.

I was the only one in our family not born there as the family left during the depression years to make it in Milwaukee. But I was in Calumet most summers all my young life.

Check this site out:

Pasties

Wow, small world! Calumet is the center of Copper Country pasties. The guy that put our first TV in had a shop up there, ham radio operator, cross country skier.... Trying to remember the name. I went to "Tech" so I spent a bit of time in Calumet. Here's a couple of videos on pasties.

So you can find pasties in the UK, in Pattaya, in the Copper Country, and in places in the west where there are mines like Butte Montana and Kellogg Idaho.

cgit... Good topic, and it really boils down to just doing the right thing. Don't know about improving any image but a couple times a year, my wife will have a restaurant cook up 4 or so dishes in bulk that we throw in the car and haul to an old folks home (rather rare in Thailand) or to a training home for the handicapped. The people really appreciate it, and it is always an enjoyable, as well as humbling time.

Luke... Good advice to you on this thread from the locals up there....

Also, if you like coffee shops, check out Coffee In Love just a wee bit out of town. The view from there is quite nice and the shop and bathrooms are unique. It's on the way back toward Chiang Mai. Quality of the drinks can be inconsistent but it still makes for a nice stop when in Pai.

Are American pasties better than British ones?

Had a Cornish pasty in a pub in London once and it was fantastic. The bartender said it was his own recipe though, so who knows if it was a genuine British pasty. I love the Copper Country pasties.... hard to improve on them. I think the calorie count is in the thousands with about 50 grams of fat though.... not the healthiest food unless you need a lot of energy to move rock.

My heritage is from the UP of Michigan and my mother made the best pasties anywhere. But I guess that's a prejudiced view. Her pasties were as big as a large dinner plate and had plenty of potato, beef (not ground beef) and onion and rutabaga(a turnip) When she was a young girl she made them for the copper miners in the family and boarding house to take in the lunch pail down the mine. They would stay warm until lunch time.

I really miss those tasty pasties and talking about them makes the mouth water. I have had Yorkies and just not the same.

LongBall.... I was born in Ontonagon. Right now we are negotiating on a new rental home that has an oven up here in CM. My mouth is watering about having the first pasty fest in the new kitchen! Nothing like them.....

Big pastry envelope, filled with cooked veg and the occasional bit of meat

Legend has it that the were taken down the Cornish tin mines by the Conish miners - complete meal - meat and veg at one end - dessert at the other.

Gawd knows how they tasted in the middle.

Legend is right! Then Cornish migrated to the USA and especially the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where their mining skills were needed. They started sharing their lunch pasties with the locals, many of which were Finns. These Copper Country Finns took off with the recipe and today you can find numerous little pasty stalls where you can drive up and buy a pasties.

Here's a link to a recipe I posted last week on another thread:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Home-Pie-Nee...57#entry2947457

Jeez

Why not buy a proper motorbike. For 60k you could get a used cb400, the engines last forever and you can get parts everywhere. Not exactly fast but a hel_l of a lot better than your barbie moped! If you want a proper sports bikes you can pick up a 2-3 yr old GSXR1000 thats a proper bike and you can get that for around 250,0000 with a green book.

Otherwise just drive a Honda Dream like everyone else - its a lot more comfortable - a CB150 is nothing special - just a pretend motorbike all the kids ride like lunatics. Dont forget it has NOT got proper tyres and you can NOT hang of it unless you get proper racing tyres (which only last for around 3000 kms)

Those replica racing bikes are very dangerous because people think they are proper bikes but they are NOT.

CrossBones..... I think you'll find that the majority of use here in this CBR-150 Forum have owned multiple motorcycles of the type you are recommending. Some guys even have real racing experience and still spend time on the track. As for me, I've spent a lot of time on 600-750 cc bikes and the CBR-150 handles as good as any of them. It certainly doesn't have the same throttle snatch, but for Thailand and my advancing years that is a good thing. In the hills, I can still take my partners on 600 cc bikes if I have a bit of downhill because I can go deeper into the turns.

The 400 cc bikes you can buy in Thailand are pretty marginal. I've driven several and they all had handling differences and great differences in brake performance. To find a good one with papers is quite rare, although they are out there. It is a much heavier handling bike than the CBR-150 and most people that ride a -150 would not transition to a CB400. I don't think there is a bike out there where you get as much fun for the baht as a CBR-150. Mine was 35,000 baht and it has done the MHS loop several times. So CrossBones, you are wrong; The CBR-150 is very special to us that own them.

Your best solution is to go to Amorn or Central and buy a one-to-one 230 VAC Isolation Transformer. Plug all your computer components into the isolated winding AND THEN connect your computer gear to an earth ground. The isolation transformer will also protect your gear to a degree from common-mode transients that travel down the mains from switching somewhere or from lightning strikes. I've experienced this irritating problem occuring in several countries with customers of past companies I worked for and this was the only solution that was effective. Good luck!

If the .wav file uploads, here it is. Takes 3 seconds to start as I don't have a audio editor and I was trying to time the start to catch the start of the loop.

When I heard that I wanted to order a cheeseburger with fries...... Is that really what it sounds like?

Great looking dog! They sure are fun. Here's the latest addition to our family:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BmIif9NtDw

For those who have trouble sleeping lest they get bitten, my ex- fiancée told me a story about her sister getting 'bitten' by a spider. It wasn't painful but the hard lump that developed a few days after was always sort of itchy and eventually developed a little head, almost like a boil. Anyway, about a week later, sis was in the bath and the lump erupted with all these teensie weensie spiders coming out.

Sorry, I don't have a picture.

Apparently, this story is as old as the hills & is an urban legend...for obvious reasons.

http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spid...s/skineggs.html

Not spiders but there are some flys who are a bit like above.

Spent a few years in sunny West Africa..Nigeria,Sierra Leone,Liberia,Ghana,Senegal..et othres and we had some little buggers that would lay their eggs on stuff like wet washing....soggy underware...socks ..etc.and when they came into contact with human skin would burrow under to "incubate"

Because they still rely on air the easiest way to bring them out was smear the inflamation with petrolium/vaseline jelly (standard issue) and usually you can then just pull them out .

Sometimes it was however neccessary to administer a local injection and use a scapel or sharp knife but best remedy was to make sure that the "Amah-Housegirl....or.....live in...... plugged in and knew how to use the Iron that you bought in Woolworths....lots of heat on the skimpies....and .... .fry those eggs...

Rin... A friend of mine visiting Africa had that happen to him. If I remember right, it was called a Bot Fly. They found the larvae squirming under his skin so they laid a piece of raw prime beef on it. It came out into the beef after several hours. Quite the cure!

Looking for a list of guesthouses bungalows on white sand beach koh chang

any help appreciated.

Regards

NB

Don't have a whole list, but we stayed at Apple Guest House last time we were there. Pretty basic room with A/C, hotwater, and TV. My better half negotiated a pretty good rate since we stayed there a week. Very central, and the manager there got us discounts on every thing we wanted to do. Very helpful guy and he made the stay enjoyable. Highlight was the 4 island snorkel tour for 500 baht.

If you browse the last several pages of this thread you'll find Michelin and Pirelli, with locations in Chiang Mai

I get kind of lost in it all. I saw one of your posts mentioning Michelins on Mahidol Rd, but I couldn't find any other mention of it. What shop sells them?

Thanks

Morien. That shop is on the road between the moat and the Airport Mall, aka Mahidol Road. Look for bikes on a row of shop houses and ask to talk to Pipat. He is the owner of Chiang Mai Biker Shop. This place is rather easy to miss so as soon as you leave the moat, stay in the left lane and go slow. He can get the tires for you and get them installed by a tire shop he knows. He also found some "extra" things to do to my bike so be wary of that. Not sure my front wheel needed new bearings and the old ones weren't provided.

If you browse the last several pages of this thread you'll find Michelin and Pirelli, with locations in Chiang Mai

PeaceBlondie, did you ever find the Big Bike Shop on the way to the airport? Wondering how you made out and what sizes you might have gotten.

I worry that ANY aftermarket pipe is going to attract the attention of the police regardless of what anyone selling them to you says. It's not like they are going to do an emissions test or measure the noise levels, they'll just take a look at it and realise it's not the original and, more than likely, has the words racing written on it. I was talking to a guy at work today that seemed to think any changes from stock legally need to be recorded in your green book.

I have been looking at maybe getting a new downpipe put on the stock silencer. Faddybike quoted me 3200 Baht for this and said it would be done in 3 weeks as they are made to order.

I think wjmark put on a stainless steel oversize downpipe so maybe he can comment on the noise increase and performance difference, IF my memory serves me right. I need to do this soon as well as my stock downtube is pretty corroded.