wjmark

OK - here is one.

My local feedery is great. All the locals acknowledge it as very special. My GF says best bbq pork ever. Clean, fresh, and not greasy or too sweet. I think it is called Pen Sen, but there is no English sign.

Easy to find (if my directions are clear!)...

If you are going north on Neimenheman, you cross Huay Keow, it becomes SuperHighway.

About 100 meters up SuperHighway on the left is a small road that veers left (not a sharp left, just a veer).

30 meters up this road on the right is the open-air (but covered) restaurant. It is actually nestled between the small road and Superhighway (can even park on SuperHighway if you want).

Open about 7am , and close around 2:00pm - when they run out of food. 6-8 dishes every day - always changing.

Cheap (20-40baht) fantastic food - changes every day. Sometimes they have a Northern version of Gang Som - not as spicy or sour as the Southern version. A little tomato-flavoured - almost like a bouillabaisse.

Always a different nam-prik - I like the minced pork and tomato one.

Always one or two different coconut curries.

Great bbq (deep-fried) pork.

When they have the hearts of palm, I always have a double order.

Deep-fried, hard-boiled eggs in sweet sauce with crispy onions (this they have almost every day).

Usually some type of Tom Jood (clear mild soup)

on and on and on...

And of course they do take out.

Kao Soi too, two versions - one with pork blood (I like), and one with chicken (I like it too)

The ORIGINAL modest proposal was that the rich people fatten up the children of the poor people and eat them for supper.

Would that be appropriate in Chiang Mai where I see a lot of poor people?

As I had never heard of that modest proposal before, isn't my modest proposal 'original' as well (albeit not as shocking)?

Hi again.

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First - Mixed said " I don't think extra power is necessarily dangerous".

Well sure - that's why I want more! But this isn't simple 'extra power'. This is full on instant 45 hp when you are cruising at 10,000 rpm. Bang - 45hp right up to 18k. 18,000rpm 18,000rpm

It is a racing machine. It was so fast that Japan limited it to 40hp two years later. This extra power IS dangerous!

If you are just cruising around at 6,000rpm then it is just a small bike running on 4 little 60cc cylinders. It is smooth, but gutless. To use power to get out of a situation on this bike you have to drop a gear (probably two), and then be up in the 'howling range'.

What I am saying is that it is not just 'extra' power, but howling power.

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Second - Dave, I wish I both knew you and knew bikes better, but I can say this:

It all felt right - power, handling. It felt very straight too - I am usually sensitive to imbalances. I got on it, rode around and it was easy and fun - no huge transition for me from my 150. Aggressive seating position. Easy enough clutch (which I like).

And for sure it is a monster bike. full on. I gave it a good tryout (on a few empty stretches of highway)

Technically, I don't know if anything is 'being hidden' or was just abused, but it all felt right.

I thrash my CBR150 (12k all the time), and when I hit 16k on the 250, there was no fear there. What can I say? Also - no smoke. No leaks. No bad smells...

Does have 50k on it and that is a lot. The fairing is a little dinted on side, and there are some scuff marks on the side engine covers.

The bike idles at 2k, and has a slight waver on idle - up and down a little bit. It was immediately smooth on take off.

Dave - it is a tough call for you. I would have bought the bike, but as I wrote my friend in Canada last night:

So I didn't buy it because it seemed suspect in any way - I just don't have the skill set for what this bike absolutely fuc_king demands! 300lb... 45hp... 18,000rpm

Take the fairing and fat tires away, and it weighs the same as my CBR150 (which is now proudly 166cc and boasts about 23hp!!!).

As has been said before - "up to you!"

I have owned some bikes in the past, but nothing particularly sporty.

I currently own a slightly beefed up CBR150 which I love. So when I saw the price drop on the CBR250 on Thaivisa Bikes-For-Sale, I was curious.

Yesterday I went down and met the owner, Dan. Nice guy (Canadian!).

I wasn't planning on taking it for a test drive - I just wanted to see how it felt sitting on it. But Dan was very accommodating and let me take it for a good spin.

Firstly, it is a 4 cylinder and has that beautiful smoothness of a 4-cyl bike. Second it redlines at 18,000 rpm (pretty fast!). Thirdly, it is only about 25 kilos heavier than my 150, and has double the horsepower - 45hp to be precise.

The bike seems in good shape and is certainly straight and true. I'm no mechanic, but it seemed to be everything it should be. Bike has 50k on it, and Wikipedia says they are good for 100k.

So what did I think?

Lovely bike. More extreme riding position than my 150 - almost lying down on the tank. Seat is very low - fantastic for shorties like me. The fatter tires are great - can really hug the road. The sound above about 9,000rpm is amazing, and that is also where the power band really takes off. I felt quite comfortable on it, but being a full-on sports bike, one has to ride it rather aggressively.

I zipped around the city a bit, and it is pretty good in traffic (handlebars are about 2 inches wider than my 150). On the highway it was a dream - light and very fast.

120k/hr felt real, as opposed to the 10% error on my 150's speedo.

150k/hr was too easy to hit!

So, nice bike, good condition, light, small, fast, insured with plate - why didn't I buy it?

Basically it scared me!

I ride my 150 like an asshol_e - pounding it all the time - right up to redline and sometimes beyond.

And the 150 takes me around the city easily and on the highway at 120-130 no problem.

The CBR250 doesn't really open up until you hit 100k/hr, and then you just keep going.

I am not a good enough rider to be howling around Thailand at 140-150 all the time, and the bike really wants that!

So why am I writing this?

The bike seems like a hel_l of a great deal (check with a mechanic first), and I am sure that there are better riders than me around who could appreciate 45 hp more than me.

So, I guess I am just saying if you are looking for a super fast bike for a good price, check it out. Dan leaves in a couple of weeks.

DISCLAIMER - I don't know Dan. I am not involved in the sale. I am getting no commission. I am just a nice guy passing on some interesting information!

This belongs in the food sub-forum!!!

But while it is still here - there is a little place on Niemenheman soi 15 called "So You" (honest!)

About 200 meters from NH on the left - the sign is very hard to see.

Very good and extremely fresh dimsum - made from scratch to order. Nice and cheap too.

Very good....

I forgot to mention that the shrimp dishes (har gow, shrimp spring rolls, etc.) are packed full of shrimp - not the usual Thai style of having most of the dumpling made with pork...

And they make a very nice hot sauce to go with their dim sum...

This belongs in the food sub-forum!!!

But while it is still here - there is a little place on Niemenheman soi 15 called "So You" (honest!)

About 200 meters from NH on the left - the sign is very hard to see.

Very good and extremely fresh dimsum - made from scratch to order. Nice and cheap too.

Very good....

By the way wjmark are all your books sorted on their shelves in the correct order and are your kitchen shelves sorted in order of item size or colour

Actually, I am a mess - inside and out! And that goes for my kitchen too...

And for the earlier comment, yup - I know it is Sex and Drugs and RnR, but I did spell Ian Drury's name wrong!

As Bryan Ferry said, "Food is the drug!"

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edit - here are the lyrics to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (note that I have highlighted the important bits..

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Is all my brain and body need

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Are very good indeed

Keep your silly ways or throw them out the window

The wisdom of your ways, I've been there and I know

Lots of other ways, what a jolly bad show

If all you ever do is business you don't like

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Is very good indeed

Every bit of clothing ought to make you pretty

You can cut the clothing, grey is such a pity

I should wear the clothing of Mr. Walter Mitty

See my tailor, he's called Simon, I know it's going to fit

Here's a little piece of advice

You're quite welcome it is free

Don't do nothing that is cut price

You know what that'll make you be

They will try their tricky device

Trap you with the ordinary

Get your teeth into a small slice

The cake of liberty

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Sex, drugs, rock, roll

Sex, drugs, rock, roll

One of the things that makes Chiang Mai so special is the huge variety and quality of the restaurants and the great overall food scene here. And the massive numbers of foodies who are interested in all that.

(If you thought I was going to say the "huge variety and quality of the ThaiVisa members" please jump to the topic on the quality of ThaiVisa members - it seems to be really popular: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Chiang-Mai-Forum-t322016.html).

Anyways, my concern is food, and finding the best of it, eating the best of it, learning about it, not get ripped off eating it, and talking about it (I even have certain erotic fantasies about food. (What is that old Ian Dury song - "Sex and Food and Rock n Roll"? ).

People often comment to me that the Chiang Mai forum seems obsessed with food. I proudly agree. Food food and nothing but food!

Once upon a time there was a special 'pinned' topic on food in Chiang Mai - it died an ignoble death. People didn't see it. People didn't think of it, and people didn't use it. I liked the idea of a special topic on food - I even posted there a few times - , but the thread didn't work...

SO:

Simple idea - easy to instigate - minimal maintenance - and would help organize and make sensible the mess that is "the food topics ".

(I'll shout) HOW ABOUT AN ACTUAL CHIANGMAI FOOD SUB-FORUM UNDER THE MAIN CHIANGMAI FORUM.

Make it clearly visible on the regular Chiangmai forum, so it is readily and easily accessible.

We could post topics on restaurants, shopping for food, bad restaurants, restaurants with free water.

We could be pleasant, erudite, thuggish, personal, mean.

No reason to change who we are.

BUT... It seems like a great idea to me.

Price drop: 50,000 baht

someone pick up this bike for a steal of a price. will not find such a clean 250rr at this price.

please contact me 0857191278 dan

Hi,

I am from Canada too (Winnipeg).

I talked to my mechanic at Race Shop, and he said "too old" 35,000ok.

Now it sounds like it is in good shape, and that counts for something.

But I am on a limited salary here, and that also counts for something!

I would love to come take a look at it (and do not expect a test drive!)

No promises, but maybe we can come to some arrangement.

I do have cash, but am not ready for a 50k outlay.

So, I would like to come and see it (mornings, afternoons or evenings can be fitted it), and see it it is even comfortable for me (I have a CBR150 right now, but would like another 25 hp, but I don't know if the 250 would even fit me...

Please give me a call

Mark 081 402 3885 - anytime

Popped in last night after a Mae Sa valley bike ride.

Had his last three slices - I couldn't wait to order, and they looked too good.

They were!

Also, Steven makes his slices with a thin crust - he calls it 'credit-card' thin, but it is thicker than that. Crispy, but still thick enough to have a chewy breadiness to it.

Glad he had the slices, because otherwise I would have ordered another large (again) and eaten it all (again).

My birthday is coming up, and it is going to be a good weekend - Pizza, Curry, and Dim Sum. And all at my favourite places: PizzanPasta, New Delhi, and Yangzi Jiang.

I am so happy!

Oh yeah, and my girlfriend is coming to town...

So the conclusion is 'A New York Pizza can be recognised by....................................................

It taste better than any pizza you ever had.

This is, of course, the correct answer.

Actually, a great one tastes better than anything you ever had.

So the conclusion is 'A New York Pizza can be recognised by....................................................

It taste better than any pizza you ever had.

This is, of course, the correct answer.

Went there for a pizza lunch today.

AND

Firstly, if you are on the Hang Dong road coming from Chiangmai, turn right on the highway just past the BigC (which is on the left), and the restaurant is a few hundred meters up on the left (I hope these are not confusing directions).

Secondly, it is named "Pizza N Pasta"

Thirdly, their medium pizzas are 16 inchers for 300 baht+ (that is just about double the size of a 12" pizza)

Fourthly, they use expensive imported flour and cheese, and their tomato sauce is thick and well seasoned...

Finally, I gotta say this is a real and delicious North-American style pizza. Not just a cracker with some red colour on it (Italian pizzas are good, but you gotta eat about 10 of them). This is the real thing! It is the first crust I have had in Thailand that has that deep bready taste.

My opinion? Better than Dukes. Better than Mad Dogs. Better than Irish Pub. Better than Paradise Pizza. Better than Pizza KohLanta. (I still haven't tried Guitarman). Better than the all the Italian 'zas (although a slightly unfair comparison). Way fuc_king better than the chains such as Pizza Shit, and 1112 The Shitza Company.

And as a postscript - Steven seems like a hel_l of a nice guy, and if you treat him right he might give you the password to his online video feed - watch him make pizza!

pps - his "pork tenderloin" tastes almost like a finely smoked ham - pretty fine. Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty fine indeed...

Body kit makes a CBR150 look like a liter bike? I don't think so.

If anything it now looks smaller than an original CBR150.

To me, that silly body makes those original tyres look bigger than they really are.

It is all just a matter of perception and camera angle. Smoke and mirrors, some might say.

I have seen photos of little 50cc choppers that make them look like they are Harleys...

If you really want to work on a bike, why don't you just just restore a big bike instead of trying to make a 150 look like a 1000?

c'mon

ps - I wish I could find an exhaust like that for my 150...

Mate - you don't have to be a motorbike anorak to see that its not an actual 150!

nice job op

And mate -you don't have to be a humour anorak to see I am joking!

Body kit makes a CBR150 look like a liter bike? I don't think so.

If anything it now looks smaller than an original CBR150.

To me, that silly body makes those original tyres look bigger than they really are.

It is all just a matter of perception and camera angle. Smoke and mirrors, some might say.

I have seen photos of little 50cc choppers that make them look like they are Harleys...

If you really want to work on a bike, why don't you just just restore a big bike instead of trying to make a 150 look like a 1000?

c'mon

ps - I wish I could find an exhaust like that for my 150...

Hi Guy's I have had my Boxer RS for 3 months now and I love it .

Mister Keeperofthereef

So which is faster - CBR or Boxer? (Just asking)

While not exactly what you are looking for, I've bought a number of cast iron pans over the years here, the one's you'll see people using to make pad thai, often. These pans come in several sizes (I have a few 14 inch pans) and they have a lip at the edge that is about 2 cms in height. The weight and heft would be equivalent to a cast iron pan - probably heavier.

Crank up your gas and get one of these babies blazing hot before pan searing a steak - can't be beat!

I have found them in warrorot market. I don't know the name of the store, but if you were heading down chiang moi road towards the market, you'd keep going basically to the river. As you get close to the river road (where you'd have to turn right) walk 20 meters to your left and you'll see a store selling pots, pans, glassware, etc. That's where i've found them. Surely they are sold in other stores as well, of course. I haven't bought one for years (these last a lifetime) but I remember them being a couple-few hundred baht a piece.

I have a couple of those pans. I believe the Thais call them roti pans... And that is a pretty cool shop you mention - that is where I got mine.

They are useful. but the pan is indeed very shallow - lots of splatter, and not able to shallow-fry.

I just brought a full size cast-iron pan from Canada this past summer.

...not sure if 10hp more would make too much difference.

Adding 10hp to a 10hp bike will make it quite a little screamer.

Adding 4-5hp to my 17hp CBR150 makes a very big difference, Doubling the Wave? Watch out! Also don't try to corner too hard - no gas tank to stabilize your legs...

Use synthetic oil (and maybe an oil cooler) to keep the engine cooler. If it overheats with those bored-out super thin cylinder walls, then... meltdown.

Glad you have a disk brake in front!

Sorry I missed the opening, but made it there today.

Really great! Lots of talent evident, and I really do like the venue. It is not stuffy like some fancy gallery, but it is secluded enough that you can really spend the time needed to absorb it all.

Lot of fun material this year - I really liked the swimming pig's nose (I have a bit of a 'thing' for pigs...)

Later, Mark

You'll wear that little thing out in no time.

Absolutely untrue.

My Wave 125 has 45000km and is going great.

A few years ago I did the Chiangmai/Mae Sai visa run two months in a row on my Wave. 520km in one day.

On one of those runs I made it back in 3 hours and 20 minutes (260km). Cruised all day with the throttle wide open. Generally doing 115-120, and hitting 130km/hr downhill.

No problem.

Get some nice big tyres, and put in synthetic oil!

It was great last year. I too wish that I had got some photos into the show - next year maybe!

It's a really nice venue you have there - perfect for this sort of thing...

see ya there,

M

I'd take a decent SR400 for 12,000 if anyone has on in the Chiangmai area.

Actually, I'd take any decent big bike for 12k.

LMK!!!

Cheers, Mark

5 thousand sounds like a way lot of money.

I just bored out my CBR150 to 160, and piston, rings, boring the sleeve, gaskets, and labour was less than 2500 baht. Don't know the exact amount, but with a 450 baht iradium sparkplug, 1.5liters synthetic oil (500bt), and a brand new kehin carb (1600bt), the total bill was only 4800 baht...

I have always been told by every mechanic that it is not good to bore out Waves (I wanted to do my Wave too), as they become unreliable. Can overheat too easily etc.

Wasn't Mad Max filmed using a camera ow down on the forks? Gave it that incredible sense of speed...