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I have my samsung s5 on my bike attached by a ram mount X grip.. let me say this is a piece of crap.. next solution is im going to cut out the x part and glue a cheap hard plastic phone case to it. So I can slot my phone in and out.

Not sure if ill get the car gps because the phone does a pretty good job importing routes i make in Basecamp.

Locus App on android coupled with OSM street maps and downloaded google maps is pretty good. Google maps (downloaded) is far superior to OSM Maps for bangkok

Sorry, but the whole of thailand motorcycling community doesnt have this information yet except for some Ducati execs..

I guess this was a TV news scoop then

Cheers,, might try that. Ive been playing around with making routes at home and then loading them onto my phone and following them. Kinda fun.

Im also thinking of going down the route of a budget 2nd hand garmin gps from ebay and installing it on my bike.. The prices of motorcycle GPS's are too damn high!

Ive been using locus for a while now with google maps downloaded for BKK in pretty good detail.

Has anyone been able to draw routes rather than using the calculated routes determined by the program?

I was driving a truck in Australia looking down at a car to my left doing this.. as I was watching the wheel hopping, I witnessed the front end collapse and car skid out of control...

Personally I wouldnt be driving the car hopping at all and take it to at least a wheel/ tyre shop if not mechanic

How would you describe the capabilities of the scrambler for BKK traffic?

Its on my radar as potential next bike. but i'm not sure my mustache growing abilities meet requirements.

this thread should be called "old fogies come band together against technology we don't understand!"

install a ball valve between the outlet in the wall and the hose..

Then you can regulate pressure. High pressure for cleaning the bathroom and low pressure for attending to personal hygiene.

Also handy if you have a hand piece failure to shut off the water at the wall.

Price drop on the remaining stock of 796's?

The Thai guys discussing it on fb think it will be around the hypermotard price due to being assembled in Thailand.

haha if you get the tank question wrong youve been living under a rock.. better to pick "driving a car with broken taillights instead"

Thai driving licence questions here. Not all, but enough.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/732938-take-the-new-thai-driving-test-online/

This helped me also..

http://thailaws.com/law/t_laws/tlaw0140_5.pdf.

You dont need to remember fine amounts.. Remember where you can and cant do U turns and headlights on in fog etc, parking distances from train tracks etc..

Understand the stupid cartoon drawings before you go..

Triumph looks good price wise but not enough dealers for me to feel comfortable. Might pop into RCA shop when I get back though for a snoop around

I have a feeling the TV bike section will become like the thai language section... All the good posters eventually leave....and pop up in other forums that are more specific. or even FB groups because forums are a bit old hat these days.

I went to that one at central world with full intentions of buying heaps of discounted clothing etc..

Cut to reality i took one look at all the people digging around in the stalls and drove to paddock and bought there instead.

Here's training wheels

currently on a cb300 and im going to try to stick with it till the end of the year, next step up is gonna be a middle weight. 600 - 800cc, 70 - 90 hp. Too many choices.

Maybe something else will be released in the meantime as well????

Just read pages 1 - 59 in one slow night at work to find that LL2 hadnt yet fitted an exhaust to his CBR650F

Talk about anti climax..

excellent post, This is what makes forums interesting! we need more posts like this.

Been thinking about buying one, you guys who have a CB300, are you happy, ecstatic, disappointed or bored?

I think I would find it difficult to buy one.

If going for that sort of bike I would just buy a used CBR250 for 60 odd thousand. The used market has completely bottomed out on them.

The 300 is after all only 286cc and the same as the 250 in almost every other way.

If deciding to spend 135k or whatever they go for new, I would probably spend that on a nearly new Ninja 300 instead.

The CB has a more upright riding position than the CBR making it a slightly different bike and more comfortable for me, but I do get your point about price. There is a handlebar conversion kit I believe, will this change the riding position sufficiently?

Not to many raving about the CB so far, after only 3 hours of ownership it doesn't count and "happy for now" doesn't seem like a sign of ecxtacy (bloody spell check).

Also, I have ridden a CBR250 and it didn't exactly blow my mind, so I understand why people sell them.

In my case "Happy for now" refers to my current situation, wants and needs. yours may differ.

Its a great bike for BKK. couldnt be happier. Faster than the scooters and nearly as nimble through traffic.. Believe me, the bulk of my riding is peak hr traffic jams.

But coming from a background of "big things" i.e Road Trains and V8 cars in my previous life back in the Australia im using it as training wheels, for however long it takes, till i'm in the right frame of mind to get something bigger. Having said that, it does such a damn good job of what I ask of it around BKK i might just keep it as well.

Happy.. For now

Anybody can recommend a really quiet helmet?

I have a Shark Speed R for a year, it's a great helmet, very comfortable after break-in. The break-in took many months.

Now I want something that can isolate the sound more. I usually wear ear-plugs with this helmet, my pipe is quite loud.