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How do you actually grow garlic?

I have some land which is idle at the moment.

You give the seed water, sun and love:rolleyes:

OK I did ask for that.

What I wanted to know is where would I get the seeds from and is it a bush, shrub, tree etc.

I bought some yesterday at the market for 20 baht per "kit".

If the guy can sell it for that and still make a profit how does the grower make a profit?

Must have been the Phantom Knights forum.

I vaguely remember it now.

The cost is not too high compared with peace of mind I think.

How do you actually grow garlic?

I have some land which is idle at the moment.

Yep, replace this little fecker regularly every 25k kms (unless they now have a more reliable device, I would do it every 15,000 kms) otherwise the shit hits the fan and the pistons hit the valves, and that is the start of all your troubles and expenses.

I have been through that, and it is somewhere you do not want to go. The garage will refuse to replace the whole engine and it has to be rebuilt bit by bit, so you are relying on the local Somchai to get it right. As a result of various Somchais' expertise I had a series of engine failures leaving me motionless in many places.

I sold the bike.

But I must admit I had some fun during the 60,000 kms it gave me.

Thanks for that info.

I MUST do it soon as I have just passed the 20,000 km mark.

Apart from not being a rocket ship in the year I have had it, it has given very few problems.

Indicator bulbs, a battery but it was the original and nearly 5 years old and for some odd reason the main fuse blew at night (when else would it blow) but the engine kept running and I was only 1 km from home.

I have grown into a love/hate relationship with it and threaten to sell it every couple of months but it is still here.

I had a lot of stares and comments that I couldn't quite hear years ago when I was walking down Sukhumvit road in BKK near Washington Square with my friends daughter.

I was about 50 and she was 4 I think, and I was holding her hand and speaking English and she was chattering away in Thai.

I know the people were farangs but I have no idea if it was a woman or man talking about us.

I just assumed that they were pig ignorant as they had no possible idea of the relationship between the two of us.

Now she is grown up and has a daughter of her own who also calls me Dada and is just coming up for 3 years old.

I get similar looks now and again when I am out with my 6 year old son and to be honest my tongue hurts as I am tempted to ask them very loudly if THEY have a problem and embarrass them.

Funnily enough Thais don't seem to say anything.

I just found this on Google but I have no idea if it is the number you called.

NEW NUMBER AND ADDRESS FOR THE EGYPTIAN EMBASSY Comment this post

The Egyptian embassy has been relocated to Ekamai I only have the Phone number right now Tel: 027269831, 027269832, 027269833 Fax 027269834

I hope that this is of some help.

Thanks for the info and taking the time to "google" it. I guess I could have done that myself but didn't think of it. Their old address was on Soi 21.

My pleasure.

I was curious as well.

I worked in Egypt years ago for about a month and it was a fairly nice place then, first Cairo then Alexandria.

I just found this on Google but I have no idea if it is the number you called.

NEW NUMBER AND ADDRESS FOR THE EGYPTIAN EMBASSY Comment this post

The Egyptian embassy has been relocated to Ekamai I only have the Phone number right now Tel: 027269831, 027269832, 027269833 Fax 027269834

I hope that this is of some help.

The cam chain tensioner problem is well known by Honda dealers, probably you need to visit the main Honda dealer in your area.

Thanks Richard

I will go into the main dealers in Khampaeng Phet sometime next week.

My bike has done a little short of 20,000 km so far and runs very well.

Shssh!, there's 3 of us in this Moo with a combined total of 74 years service between us. Two light blues and one brown, we don't swing the Tilly lamp too much over beer and pensions can be a touchy subject.

Do not mention boys service!

I did my time in the Royal Air Force from January 1960 until May 1984 including 29 months as a boy entrant as I did not become 18 until 1962.

I thoroughly enjoyed it until the last several years when the annual exercises got to be a bit silly.

I am glad I did it but I don't think it is the same now for the reason that when I was in a lot of people in the government had also done their time and got their knees brown and had an idea of what it was all about.

Nowadays the British military are called on to do too much without adequate support backup.

Your signature: "Of course we can fix it. We are retired engineers"

Why don't you replace it yourself?

Ride On!

Tony

Because engineers come in many shapes and sizes.

I have never worked on a motorcycle and the last time I stripped and rebuilt a car engine was in the early 80's when I was about 40 or so.

However if you want me to build a mobile telephone network across a country that is in my skill set.

I have read in a couple of places that I cannot find at the moment that the cam chain tensioner on the Honda Phantom TA 200 sometimes fails around 25,000 km.

Has anyone had this happen to them?

Also has anyone had the tensioner replaced, if so where was it done and what was the cost roughly.

I live right out in the country and while my local Honda dealer and the guys there are very good if they have the parts (Mai mee usually)I am not sure if I would be happy to let them loose on my bike to do that.

Cheers

I went up to the Fish Cafe in the Emporium this afternoon and had the (imported Cod) fish and chips with garlic bread and an iced tea.

For one person the price was high but the quality was good.

I usually eat the fish and chips at the Bus Stop on Soi Nana and for me I still think that they are better value and more tasty but each to his own.

Should you be unfortunate enough to be at an A&W do NOT order their fish and chip meal even at 71 baht as it is tasteless and unappealing.

What he forgot to mention is that I left the gas station in Mae Sot on the way back to Tak a couple of minutes before him and sat waiting nearly 5 minutes at the top of a hill before he turned up.

I was happy that he was leading though as I missed most of the potholes and the reason that I didn't keep up on the straights is that the warp factor 3 mode has been disabled.

To be honest I enjoyed the run and when I got up the next morning I realised that I had slept all night and my back didn't ache at all.

And our well preserved member leaves out the fact there were more Burmese honeys than you could shake you fun stick at and I kinda got held up enjoying the scenery in Mae Sot(and raises the question as to why he zipped on out of there).

I got too tired of beating them off my chopper is why.

We actually went down the 1175 from Tak to Mae Ramat (me on the Ninja 250); I've been dying to try that route. It was a really good ride with a maximum elevation of 964m (yes, I kept the GPS set to the page that displayed the elevation!). Would be an awesome road for someone who wanted to get their feet wet in mountain riding EXCEPT for the fact that a good 40 or so km of if is in poor repair. Plenty of curves and nice elevation changes that aren't as strenuous as the Mae Sot <-> Umphang run (which will cause your testes to drop if they hadn't already).

Actually the Phantom did a good job for olde tymer Bill, much less shifting than I did. The thought did cross my mind if he was getting annoyed with my frequent shifting (the Ninjette is particular about the power band it wants to be in on those types of roads), but then I remembered that I was leading and picking the lines to avoid the pot holes and he owed me for that, because otherwise I'd have been right on his rear pushing him! I was a bit annoyed that he couldn't keep up on the straights though; but once again we were in a ride together and I just had to suck it up....

What he forgot to mention is that I left the gas station in Mae Sot on the way back to Tak a couple of minutes before him and sat waiting nearly 5 minutes at the top of a hill before he turned up.

I was happy that he was leading though as I missed most of the potholes and the reason that I didn't keep up on the straights is that the warp factor 3 mode has been disabled.

To be honest I enjoyed the run and when I got up the next morning I realised that I had slept all night and my back didn't ache at all.

I am getting the urge again and I am going to look at a Yamaha Virago 400 this week and IF I buy it (and I have my wife's permission) I will be putting my Phantom up for sale next week at a reasonable price.

I went for a ride yesterday with my mate Dave Boo, me on my Phantom and he on is Kawasaki something or other.

We left my place at Klong Lan, up to Khampaeng Phet, up the route 1 to somewhere north of Tak then cut across country to Mae Ramat, down to Mae Sot, back to Tak and then back home. :D

470km and it was a good day out apart from being caught in the heavy rain twice.

He generously went slower for me.

Upgrading for performance wise I'll likely just go to the nearest scrapyard and have some power drill fun just like on the intake.

I had a Phantom for 65,000 kms. Performance and Phantom simply do not belong together......

Had a lot of fun with ti though, but also more than a few mechanical problems due to the timing chain.

How and where did you get the timing chain fixed?

I went for a ride with my mate, me on my Phantom and he on is Kawasaki somethingor other.

We left my place at Klong Lan, up to Khampaeng Phet, up the route 1 to somewhere north of Tak then cut across country to Mae Ramat, down to Mae Sot, back to Tak and then back home.

470km and it was a good day out apart from being caught in the heavy rain twice.

He generously went slower for me.

10 of the best years of my life! Should have done it 20 years ago providing I met up with my beautiful TW at the time.

Only sad thing are idiots on this site posting nondescript crap - DUH! YEA!

BDenner... ah sez ah likes what you says!

Me too.

When I leave here for ever it will be up the chimney in a cloud of smoke with very loud firecrackers going off.

Patience, announcments just made to cut decifiet, lest not forget, election was only a few weeks ago. Sterling will rise to mid 50s soon and 60 at year end...

...then 70 end of 2011 and 95 end of 2012

Can you please tell me what you smoke and drink to get these wonderful dreams?

I want some tooooooooooooooo.

The new Home Secretary, the Hon Theresa May had it spot on. "it is a privilege to come to the UK"

For me personally it is a privilege to leave the UK with its nanny state and unelected people in local and national governments telling me how I should live my life, what I can or cannot do and when.

I caught something on the BBC website in the last couple of days that some local governments want to fine residents if they throw out too much trash instead of fining manufacturers who over package the items they sell.

It is bad enough so my friends in the UK tell me having to pay council tax and now this on top?

Maybe it will change under the new government.

I just tried to look at myself on my post in this thread and it says I am not permitted to.

Maybe tomorrow will be easier

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Seems like a weird day today

There are a couple of ways to get to your messenger inbox:

- If you have unread messages a link will appear in the black bar just under the menu, that says: "Messenger (x new)" - click that link and you will come to your messenger inbox.

- Click the number in the black square just to the right of your name (also in the black bar just under the menu), it will bring out a popup that shows your latests notifications, if any of those notifications are about PMs there are links there as well.

- And finally the easiest way that is always available: Click the down arrow just to the right of your name in the black bar under the menu. This will bring up a popup that has a link to your messenger.

I did that this morning and it showed my my PMs.

Unfortunately they were from 2004 and 2005 and not the ones I needed from last week.

There was a message saying that within the next 24 to 48 hours the PM service should be back to normal.

Why aren't the latest PMs loaded first?

I can't find my messages or my assistant any more and also the view posts for today, yesterday and before seems to have disappeared.

I really don't want to wade through 1300 odd pages to look for daily posts.

So far I am not impressed with the new look but it may change with use.

It also looks as though the smileys have run away as well.

If you ever find a decent one please let me know as I would like to upgrade mine.

The Phantom price new was about 88,000 baht and when I asked the Honda dealers they quoted me 9,500 baht as the best price.

I keep threatening about getting rid of mine and then my wife, son and friends all say no.

We all love it as it is a good looking bike (I agree with that), it's comfortable (and it fits my fat ass), it slogs on all day and it is really an OK bike.

What they actually don't do, other than my son who is 5 (with his own helmet), is they actually don't ride the dam_n thing so they have no idea what it is like.

To be honest I like it a lot too but I really really want something bigger that goes faster, looks more sexy, makes more noise and has more bells and whistles

than my Phantom.

And then I think again that it really isn't THAT bad and I am too lazy to change it.

So I will keep it until the next urge hits me and go through it all again.

I am sort of looking for a Steed or something a bit bigger/better than my Phantom but if I was offered a Steed for 55,000 baht with a green book I would be looking for the big rat that I could smell.

With respect to all you bikers that know more than me (about 85 or 90%) I wouldn't touch it with a 10 metre pole.

Personally, I'd still be interested if I wanted a Steed. If you are happy with the bike, I would just make a deal to go with the seller to ministry to transfer the name. If they have no problem with it, THEN you pay the seller. If its good enough for the gov't, its good enough for me.

Mostly Steeds WITH a green book go for 100,000 + baht so if someone is selling one cheaply then I would suspect that there are major problems in the offing.

Also for something like that I would go with the seller to the land transport department anyway before I pay because if there IS a problem it will not be my problem.