Fishenough

What percentage of threads start with good intentions on Thai Visa end up as a pissing match; is it all that are concerning a business or an item for sale.

Wjmark, D-Tracker. Great mileage, hops the highest curbs and can do 130 plus I hear.

Oh, trust me Banana leaf (Ian) has pictures.

this is an excellent idea. too often the main chiang mai forum is completely littered with food threads. there is far more to life in chiang mai than just eating.

Okay then... sex and eating.

Oh, and a little fishing to break up the regular pattern.

Ah gee, Ian some of us are married; therefore it's just food, fishing and motorcycling.

I agree it's a good idea, won't feel silly asking things like 'can you buy tasty honey in Chiang Mai' to the boar of all these non food obsessed members. Or posting pictures of deep frying a duck at home in a home made fryer. We eat out plenty and cook many different items, sometimes even though we think we have the source's sourced, TIT rears it's head and the suflay or yorkshire pudding falls flat.........

learn some teach some

My advice, bring more Canadian's; our great attitude isn't represented often enough in the Chiang Mai area.

I do know a couple of Torontonians whom Golf alot, I can pass details over when you arrive.

Canadians are more laid back, never encountering any negatives during their time in amazing Thailand, so therefore never feel the need to share strong opinions on web boards.

Cheers from a fellow Wetcoaster

Maybe he has geared his spending power on a crashhemet, to the worth of its contents !

One born every day, I suppose!

Hey, at least he's ahead of 90% of the riders in Thailand by actually wearing a helmet! Bet it works better than the unbuckled beanie helmet, most commonly seen on the BIB. And the better quality Real helmets seem pretty darn close to being real helmets, so good product for your money mxyz250newbie.

After having an Arai cut off a rental scooter in Bangkok a year ago, like many people use a Thai helmet for in town shopping (Spent that much on a helmet once before, yeah when I was like 13 30 years ago).

Just look at all the bike's from the recent Chiang Mai bike week, many near million baht Harley's with Index helmets resting on bars and mirrors. Spending less than 1 percent the total cost of your bike on safety gear......guess money needs to be better spent on bike bling and bike babes.

I just did a taste test of both kinds of pizza with my Thai staff. I must admit, they were both luke-warm by the time I tried them, but normally I prefer pizza when it is not so hot.

My staff did not like either kind; They all prefer Pizza Hut and Pizza Company.

I prefer the Duke's pie, but I also enjoyed the Pizza and Pasta pizza. They are quite different. Pizza and Pasta is very much like Paradise Pizza, bready, but not as heavy.

The Duke's has a very thin, but tasty crust and it is not hard like a cracker like the Italian ones.

I much prefered the Duke's pepperoni and sausage to the other pepperoni and sausage , but maybe some people would not agree with me.

I do think that both places are worth checking out, but, IMHO, reports that this pizza is much better than the Duke's are exaggerated.

A fan of The Duke's but was disappointed greatly by my last pizza there; but if UG says so, I'll to give it another crack.

ugh, Pizza Hut and Pizza Company are so off what our families palates like for Pizza. Recent family visiting tried Pizza Company with us and weird was the word they used to describe there pizza - and they have commonly eaten the variety of pizza I make, we are talking not a week went by with out one from this list (or variation) being made.

- with yeast and quick bread crusts, baking powdered dough crusts with both butter and cheddar cut in with the flour, made over a fire in a dutch oven, cream cheesed pita pizza's, salsa and feta topped wonders (a family favorite), a chili and wiener pizza on a whole wheat double baked crust (hearty; best after a long day fishing or hunting, eaten shore side), spinach and ricotta with extra spicy sauce topped with venison sausage (or fresh crab, but that's a bit rich for some), and my clam pizza is kinda famous in it's own right.................................

Yep, there is good pizza in Chiang Mai now. The sauce was great, wow didn't know that anybody else actually used oregano in town - try the spicey sauce. Four gents happily made two 16 inch pizzas disappear today.

Great pizza followed up with chasing giant snakehead on Mae Kuang reservoir made for a very good day indeed.

Find it yourself, the directions are good enough.

So excited, thick crust, real cheese......... Lunch today for sure. Was dissapionted with my Duke's pizza last month, but I am a fan of everything else I've had there.

I just want; a thick yeast risen crust, cooked both crispy and soft, covered with genorous wholesome, non sweet, real tomata sauce (enough to burn the unaware eaters mouth as punishment for biting in too soon outta of the oven), spicey high quality cold cuts with no pressed meats, and topped with far to much high quality Mozza that melts just sooo nice, not a drop of oil from the nice kinda imported cheese - that's only four items and I can make one at home, but sudden pizza urges have to be met and Chiang Mai needs a good pizza place!!

If I can sneak away from work I'll provide a report - which I don't mind doing if it's goood/great.

Cheers from droolling (too hungry to spell)

No I cant state facts, like newspaper articles or the like, but having lived here for six years now and talking to friends etc and hearing of instances that have happened I have built up an educated opinion of this unfortunate state of affairs.

Obviously there is always a case that is the opposite to the norm but for instance....between Chaweng and Lamai on the island of Samui there is a cliff road with some really bad bends. Many accidents occur there. I had a friend who was returning from a night out and he came across a Thai motorcyclist laying flat out after crashing his bike. He stopped to help as this is very dark and no buildings anywhere near. When some more Thai people turned up and eventually the police, he got blamed for the crash. What could he do with no witnesses, they took him for a few thousand that night and he only wanted to help.

Maybe the people are different inland but on a tourist island where most Thai people have gone purposely to live off the ferang money you simply cant trust anyone.

Your good intentions are ignored when they think of those banknotes, and if you still want to be good samaritan then so be it mate but you have been warned.

HL

Bad situation to come across, I'll be honest because if I found myself in that same situation as your friend where location and being alone would tell my brain not to stop though my gut would tell me differently. Always follow your brain.

And your location.

It is an established fact that in this country if a farang stops at a roadside accident then he will be deemed responsible for causing it even if he were nowhere near at the time. In the UK if I saw someone needing help I wouldnt think twice about stopping, but here in Thailand no way, and believe me it is truly hard to drive on by but the Thai's have brought it on themselves by their false claims.

Could you post information concerning these facts? Is this an example of; set ups, bad timing and a bad person, or select reported incidents in the busier areas of Pattaya, Bangkok, etc?

Having stopped at two motorcycle accidents, and hearing a recent story from a friends assistance to a car/truck accident near Fang, never for a second thought any chance of false claims could occur from these events. Just many thank you's returned. Each was a case of a recent accident, accident cause fairly apparent, it had already happened, and with deciding that assistance may be needed and parking a safe distance away.

Common sense and not an emotional response should be your deciding factor on providing assistance; and that includes where you are are and what could happen. But if the facts say otherwise.

Edit - 18 years ago, on a bicycle tour, in India stopped to help an elder lady repair a bike tube. Local 'helpers' stopped to make sure that I paid for her tire, got away only paying $2 us, but was told I had to buy the lady a new wheel. Was crazy at first, five young large Canadians and 2 small local man making sure we felt threaten to pay, but many more people stopped and some got quite loud. One of about twenty reasons why I'll never return to India.

Did you book your spots at Tuskers? They do sell out. One of the best Turkey with fixing meals I've had here was at the Bake and bit, the one across the corner from Pan Tip plaza at the south of the night brazzer street.

Someone might correct me, is that location across the street from the good italian restaurant actually a Bake and Bit?

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...

That's funny, but it's just that in America everything looks smaller. Look closer.........

Don't forget to pick up a Thai license for motorcycles, easy and fun to do - the how to is posted at the beginning of the Thai Motor forum group.

I agree that stereotypes don't fit the careless individuals. There are all over the world.

Just yesterday a senior farang on a scooter, a couple of bungee cords holding down two backpacks and what look like a year old cartridge on a 10 year old paint/fiber glassing mask, pulls into the far left at the corner of Pantip plaza; and proceeds to drive straight through the horde of bikes in the left lane, mostly with signals on, and luckily escaping many near misses. Including myself, though at the moment the thought of knocking out his front wheel, with my bike, would have taught him a valuable lesson. The roads are starting to fill with visitors, and you certainly have to worry about the numbers that drive with terrible habits, whatever they may be. That is worry about them but not including those moments when their stupidity and careless in there attempts to run into you and several others scooters - puts you in harms way.

Some else coined the pharse 'think Thai or die' with regards to riding a motorbike in Thailand.

What London Thai says is great, but be careful with the cheapest bike available at Teasco Lotus. We had only arrived a couple of days and bought our son one, and it quickly started to break; shifting and braking were terrible from the onset.

If you bike is your regular commuting and exploring means, you might want to spend a bit more than the teasco lotus brands. Try LA bikes at the north east inside corner of the moat, 6000 to 9500 can get you a higher quality bike then the department stores. They are negotiable on price and if you ask can throw in extras like water bottle holder and maybe a helmet. Also there one of the more affordable places for a handlebar mirror, LED lights, patch kit and pump (don’t buy the real cheap ones they won’t work even once) and other no name brand items. I’m a bit sensitive on this point; my wife spent 300B on her scooter helmet and 2000B on her bicycle helmet at one of the brand name, smaller stores.

Stay alert, keep a care watch for dogs, and try not to do any sudden serving – scooters can ride and pass very close to you as a cyclist.

A better quality bike will allow you to quickly remove your front wheel and lock it to the back well and frame.

I have a 16 inch framed cheap Teasco mountain bike you could have for free, but one look/test ride you would not want it. We have tried giving it away to kids in the Moi Ban and no one wants it.

Cheers and welcome fellow CM cyclist.

In some cases, but many would describe it as a different kind of love. Easier, and cheaper , to let go of your children as they go about their own lives.

Even in long term, so called "happy" marriages I notice men are often closer to their children than their wives.

Yes in my happy marriage of over twenty years I'm equally close to both my wife and son; though during the tough times of menopause have to admit that I prefer my son's company. But I have seen many cases that fit that description to a T, and would have to say it's common within my own extended family.

Ian, why are you contemplating marriage and love well fishing in the Caribbean?

I like the sound of it. It reminds me of the old laissez-fair 'passport-in-the-envelope' visa runs that used to be the done thing down that way.

Hopefully the system won't tighten it's belt or make it any difficult.

What would it be like if you brought in a bike from the malay border but actually lived in Chiang Mai?

Would you be able to 'visa run' the bike from a nearby Burmese land border or would you have to trail-blaze all the way back to Malaysia every 6 months or so?

That is the reason for the odd Cambodia plate on some nice BMW's, one Harley for certain, and some sexy newer KTM's around Chiang Mai. A couple of owners of those bikes purchased them in Singapore.

I the top of the page you'll find Motorbike-Directory-Project and you'll find a Google map link. Easy.

Another great idea, and works far better than the forums included search feature is typing motorcycle gear site:http://www.thaivisa.com/forum into Google.

Look at the airbox, haven't much ER6n experience (2 300+400km days and a couple of short rides) but in the fun zone thought that what ever kind of plastic can serves as an air box has bad vibes. Have seen an old Honda tourer with sound deading material glued and wrapped tightly around the air filter box.

Every dirt bike I've owned has always gotten louder after messing with just the airbox alone, makes sense that it would work the other way. Just one piece of your puzzle that might help.

Maybe ride a harley for a month or two and do some cochlea damage.......

No camping in Thailand, that's funny. Camping season in the national parks starts now with end of the rainy season is picking up. Yes vehicle camping, RV's etc, are not common at all but there are people out there who have a successfully camo camped. Meaning they used a pickup with a large aluminum topper that looked like the very common cargo trucks, added some simple beds and easily found fans with solar panels. Said owners still took up accommodation in the 150 to 200 baht guesthouses often, but if during their slow paced exploring found themselves on a mountain top or deep in a park they didn't hesitate to sleep in the truck.

Taken by a friend this November 11th near Pai;

http://www.dnp.go.th/index_eng.asp English version, works well combined with http://www.mapguidethailand.com/home/map.php?l=th

One of the Queen's projects near Doi Inthanon, taken on the 12th of this month

This Hobbit house does cost 900 baht per person, but with all meals included.

Stationary/book store a little south of the Loh Kroy Road turn off, from the moat. Store is not easily seen as it is back behind the parking lot, but well stock with stationary, maps and books. Far more stock than BigC, Makro, or Tesco; we don't bother shopping anywhere else to avoid the 'gee hope they carry a...'.

Mmmm, peanut butter and chips sprinkled with choc chips - haven't eaten it, but have caught the kids doing so.

I still haven't been able to find that dam_n bat cave somewhere around wang nam kieo.

Hello, cave database for Thailand is the source for Thai cave info. You should have no problem finding your bat cave!

I would suggest not running until your core muscles are strenghtened, not just your frontal stomach muscles – abs. Every day, the best time being upon waking, do sit ups, crunches, and leg lifts. The web is full of exerises for your core muscles. Doing at least a minimum of two weeks worth every day maybe a month till you notice stronger stomach muscles, and that would be a great time to start taking some long brisk walks.

Running with loose stomach muscles will cause stretching, seen it and you don’t want that.

Bring your ZX-10 to HKS racing (1/4 mile track with christmas tree start lights) and watch your arse get handed to you by a thai teenager on a moped.

Hate to change the topic, but if teenagers on moded scooters are pulling 150 mph, sub 10 second quarter miles (stock liter bike numbers) - I gotta see that!