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It's an odd thing here. I ride a motorbike and have a a few occasions stopped to let someone cross. One time I stopped to let a pregnant woman cross on the zebra turning onto Ratchada pisek road opposite Major cineplex on Prahonyoutin road. 2 girls managed to fall off their motorbike and some Thai bloke came running up and BLAMED ME! I just told him to sod off in English. Girls were ok so I went. It's bloody dangerous stopping at all for someone to cross.

10 years ago I used to enjoy my 7/11 pub crawl. Been T Total since 08 and I do miss the chats. Beer was on tap in the form of cans and bottles. Why the need for draft beer? 

I have TVMucho and its the best system IMHO and no I don't work for them. At 48 Euros for the year its excellent value. Loads of channels. 100% satisfied. 

On 4/30/2017 at 10:56 AM, klauskunkel said:

Yes, urging will do it.

Oh and can the BIB just enforce laws. No, of course they can't. TIT

Solid white line. Foreign rider 100% at fault. Full stop. Sad thing is that he'll have to chuck the readies around. Law won't take its normal course, not here it won't and I speak from personal experience. 

Don't worry the powers that be will put a new pavement down next year on a subsiding from day one sand base. It will cost 5000,000 (got to pay for the little ones schooling, don't you know) Then another one in 2019 'cause the little one starts uni in the UK that year, and you all know how pricey UK universities are ..

Having lived here a good few years, in the past 2-3 years standards have dropped. I ride a motorcycle on a regular basis and the law breaking has increased. I NEVER see police stopping us as they used to. I just don't see Police on the streets. The old adage "Give them an inch and they'll take a mile" applies here. It will never change here.  

Of course they have been a waste of time and money. Tax payers money. I cross the road most evenings between the Train park and JJ Park. Motorcycle taxis come flying down the cycle lane. If Thais can find a way to break a law and abuse something, they will. I then attempt to cycle back up the cycle lane with Thais on motorbikes flying down the cycle lane at over 60kph. Also you have to ride on the right of the lane which nearly causes head on accidents. What a balls up!

We were at MBK yesterday and was told to buy a snide t shirt today as there was going to be a raid today! Everybody knows when and where the big nobs are going to do the next sting , even at MBK.


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Crazy lot here. Not to realise how dangerous it was to do is beyond me.
RIP. Family given 825 baht. Bit of an insult

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Someone I know was knocked over by some cyclists at the Train park a couple of years ago.
We asked to see the CCTV and of course there was a ' problem' and we weren't able to see it.

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Kind of a heartless thing to say about someone who was just killed in a traffic accident that she did not cause. How exactly do you learn anything when the event being discussed kills you? Rest In Peace.

Social equality. Thailand? Not in my life time.

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3rd world thinking. Pathetic illogical decision

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Enforce laws. Get corruption down. Remove the expression " mai pen rai" from the Thai language to help with the eradication of the first two above.

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Jet wash in the toilet. After 20 odd years, not much.
The negative bugger that I've become.

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Only a matter of when not if

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555. Speed limits Thailand? A contradiction in terms.

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Yet another sad report.

Another road kill by yet another idiot. Sorry but these people have little or no sense of public highways.

Last week my gf asked me to visit her brother at the Ramathibodi Hospital, against my better judgement we took a van and the exact same route, Navanakorn to Victory Monument.
It's been six months since I've been in one of those vans and I can tell you nothing has changed, no seat belts and a feeling of complete vulnerability as the van hurtled down the highway.
Today we are visiting her brother again and yes I drove this time, and never complained about the traffic or finding a parking place !!
Van ? Never, ever again !!
 

Riding a motorcycle in Thailand for the better part of the last 30 years from big choppers to a  scooters, my biggest fear was not be hit from behind by a careless and distracted drivers, which are plenty of them around, other than that, I ride with a mindset of a racing driver, watching and calculating what other road users all around me are doing and to preempt a disaster.... Once I was hit head on while waiting in a red lights  by a out of control pickup and broke my left wrist bone, other than that,  so far so good... 

I ride here. Thais don't learn to ride they just graduate from bicycles to Hondas with no training and then continue to refine their sh%# riding skills.

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Caveat Emptor

Thais always over inflate tyres here
I was parking the other day and saw the CANVAS coming through the front tyre of a Honda Wave.
I check my bike pressures every other day.
We all know why the truck tyre blew, the cure rather than prevention attitude here.

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Thaiexpattv but it'd still down today. Anybody find out what's happening as of now?

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I agree that it looks disgusting. There's one at my condo and as I own a CBR 300 I had a good look at the Bobber thing. No redeeming features. Looks like it was designed by a blind man with no arms
Absolutely and utterly horrible.

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