Longtooth

Why not go a belt drive a la Harley, Kawasaki and Indian/Victory

It can't be that hard to do and it's proven low tech....nology.

Absolutely!!! Loved the belt drive on my Harleys. 900 cc Kawa Vulcan comes with it, I think.

The BIG HEPA filter stand-alone-unit from Amway is very expensive, but it gets even the smoke. I love mine. Just leave it on at whatever speed you like, in a closed up apartment. At a minimum, to just sleep with it for 8 hours in a closed bedroom is quite helpful. It will also help with airborne cat dander, which is not so great for human lungs. Smell the inner filter cartridge (which is HUGE) after a day or two, and you will definitely smell the smoke that is trapped there. When you step outside from inside, the smell of smoke outside compared to the clean air inside will shock you!

"Where would anyone find a house worth less than Bt1 million these days?"

I think the author of this little plum ought to get out of his / her ivory tower one day and take a better look at the great city known by Thais as Krungthep.......etc.

There are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of "houses" (homes) worth less than B1 million.

One cannot travel by train from Hua Lampong without seeing mile after mile of shacks and run down houses alongside the tracks.

Just about every klong has waterside structures that are used as dwelling places by poor people. Of course some klong properties are quite "des-res" and attractive, but the majority are shacks with tin roofs clustered side by side for miles.

Because of its unplanned growth there are huge communities of slum dwellers all over the city. These people may not be financially well off, but they all have a sense of community, something often lacking in the hi-so moobaans that cost millions to enter.

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The greatest sadness about such as you have described is that the majority, as you rightly pointed out, have a sense of community; and yet it seems after this week's announcement, certainly in and around BKK, the holders are being targeted into moving. A recent article stated that government help would be available to rehouse such, mainly families - yet nothing was explained about exactly how or where.

In addition, nothing has been mentioned pertaining to such that this new tax would be retrospective for all properties previously purchased, or only new properties - or am I wrong? To implement retrospective tax laws is very, very dangerous ground, and could have millions in upheaval and anger. I jointly own my own home with my wife within a mortgage agreement, for which of course there was no tax, and there is no way after what I invested to secure the mortgage will I ever pay any additional tax. I'd sooner sell the <deleted>er to a Thai, and let them pay the tax. My mortgage payments are 3 times the amount of a very large condo, and there is no way I would accept retrospective changes to my signed agreements.

In essence, is this intended to be a new law, or applicable to previously obtained property throughout the land?

You don't own a property asset, you don't pay taxes on it. You have two choices: rent or buy in your own country.

Not quite that simple. Our mortgage is in joint names through Siam Bank, and it's legitimate. There is no way my wife (Thai obv) would also pay additional tax on a retrospective agreement. I'm also sure there are multi-millions of Thais who would argue the same. So you're suggesting that they would propose my wife rent, if she objected to a new retrospective tax? The country would be in uproar - believe me. Yet it doesn't seem that anybody is able to answer my operative words - retrospective tax??

I'll give it a whirl. It's a new tax. If taxes exist, they came into being as "new" at some time in history. The tax would not be linked to a sales agreement or bank loan agreement, but on "real assessed value", as in "real estate". The proceeds would not alter any financial agreements, but would go directly to the "state". I would imagine the tax would be universal, regardless of the age of the dwelling, and "real property appraisers" would be hired, nation wide at a local level, to assess the value of each and every dwelling in the nation. There would be created a "National Assessor's Office", with district offices and thousands of trained appraisers out there measuring houses and looking at local values based on recent sales figures to determine real market value. Easy peasy.

Currently CBR500R, hopefully by the end of the month I'll get my Ducati Scrambler. After that I'll need something comfortable that can take some luggage too for touring. An inline-4 or 3 with more than 650cc but not much more than 200kg. Oh and not outrageous price because of import. Narrows the list down to pretty much nothing

MT09 Tracer, a rumored 800 Honda... maybe a Triumph. Yamaha and Triumph get minus points because of dealer network so my hopes are with Honda. Will be tough but I have time.

Yammy 700?

You can tell a lot about a country by its toilets. Best toilets I've ever seen? Japan.

The public restrooms in Bergan, Norway, 30 years ago, were perfectly clean. It was amazing to me. No tiny messages written in the tile grout between the tiles at the urinals. 5555! Also no litter anywhere and everyone's front yard was manicured. Beautiful place. Back to the subject. Despite there being many Chinese vehicles (most of them super expensive models), I found their driving habits to be quite acceptable. I don't know how much of their money they will actually part with while down here. It looks to be mostly organized tours of a "train" of autos.

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like the idea of a 6 long leg robot zapping the weeds from above with a lazer. should cost far less than $100000

Exactly! This could be a good solution for the HUGE star-thistle problem in "Cali". Super deep roots. Very bad for cattle or anything else except as a "flower" for bees to make honey with, which is why they were introduced by bee keepers into California many, many years ago. Now they're rampant and out of control. Computers could recognize the species and ZAP it as the weeder slowly but steadily covers the farm area. Great! Solar powered would be the icing on the cake.

Amway concentrated laundry detergent.

I use Amway powder in my TOP LOADER. They say to use a TINY amount. NO foaming, but you can see the very dirty water immediately. Took off most of an indelible marker writing on a sheet that normal detergents didn't touch. Also my young daughter does not get itchy spots on her back and arms like she did with the regular detergents. OK for front loaders, I just checked the box. SA-8 Concentrated Laundry Detergent. Very, very slight, but GOOD smell. Haven't bothered to do the math on cost per load, but it has my vote. I'm not a dealer or employee, by the way.

I was told that drinking and on a pedal bicycle is not a crime. I am not 100% sure of this information, and leave bike riding to professionals only!!! However, if you have a mountain bike with a good lock and promise not to exceed 10 kph, this might be a good solution.

In "Cali" it's a crime. Don't know about here. Hazard to vehicles on a public road? Dunno.

I wonder to myself, in what way would a synthetic oil be different in the "car" version, and the "motorcycle" version. In my unenlightened state, I'm just using "car" synthetic. No catastrophe yet. Use multi-vis of your pleasure, I think. "Mobil 1" has a good name for itself. Synthetics don't break down with time and heat as much as "chemically thickened" normal engine oil because the oil molecule is actually made longer with heat, pressure, a catalyst, some hydrogen, etc. in a "reformer" at the refinery. Should be "lovely-glovely".

My hope is that the Thai would discover un-Thainess.

Can the "Gordian Knot" be un-Thaid?

Well now, what about designing one very wide and very "flat", like a Stingray. They're quite stealthy. You can be wading knee deep and step on one. Maybe you could even design it to bury itself in the mud while it lays in wait for illicit shrimp poachers. You have to think "out of the box". Water thruster intakes on the top to exhaust manuevering thrusters. I LIKE it! Where to find a four foot long poison barb for the tail?

I am not sure if I would be happy riding a cut and shut.

It would be interesting to see what the green book looks like and I even wonder how it would get through the DLT test.

A cut and shut normally applies to a car and dramatically weakens the vehicle unless done properly, if done properly like with a stretch limo. This has a decent tube over the joints and with an amount of triangulation involved, would seem more than adequate.

The book, I don't know, but will try to find out, it did have a plate though??

It was just out of curiousity I asked. Perhaps a Honda Bros 400 V twin engine would fit? I also ride a Honda CB 400 Four which is a transverse 4 cylinder but I don't think the Phantom could take that. Red lined at 12,500 rpm and I chickened out at 160kph and went back to a comfortable 120kph where I felt happy.

V-twin would be major frame mods. I have heard you can do engine swaps legally. Green book would be OK with the legality hoops jumped through. Again, I "heard".

Drum breaks are self adjustable, if they resemble the car drums at all, that's it.

With a self adjusting system, you need enough play/slack to engage the ratcheting "clicker". Too much pedal play for a bike. It takes about 8 seconds to turn a wingnut. My killer Norton 750 Commando "S", from about 1971, would do 127 mph, never had a brake problem, and had drum front and rear. The front was one of those two-cam linked by a rod affairs. Lovely. I miss my Norton!

There is a cool vacuum powered home elevator that is made. Clear plastic tube, safe, no excavation for pump pit, inexpensive. I think I can't post the link. Google "vacuum home elevator"?

It seems to be a common trait here in Thailand, which I stopped immediately at my place of work, and had to explain data protection. Think it is an unknown concept. Very poor practice, but also proves that a lot of the paperwork submitted is pointless.

I think to myself, maybe they scan it into their computer in the off hours, Then the paper becomes extraneous. Giving them the benefit of the doubt. Or even simply looked at as a single pile of daily papers by the supervisor at the end of the day. Once checked, the pile becomes "recycle". Any actions taken are already a "done deal". ??

Okay, let me get this straight:

He is removing the musty smell emanating from rotten rice through ozone treatment - a bit like the water or air purification process using ozone ions.

However, if I understand it right, the procedure does NOT roll back the rotting process.

All it does is eliminate the smell so the rotting rice can be sold at a higher price.

Isn't that called cheating?

OK, I'm going to play the protagonist. Maybe it does stop the rotting process. If it does kill the spores and bacterium, maybe it is actually a viable solution. I had my truck "ozoned" for the rotten milk smell from my kids spilling their milk in the back seat without my knowing it. Yes, he had to air out the truck afterwards to clear the ozone, and yes the smell HAS NOT RETURNED from two months ago. In my puny mind that means the bacterium (probably NOT the "good kind in yogurt") was "killed". ????

Boss Hogg. Big, but not super. New Yama 900 triple. Super, but not SO big.

when my wife spotted the bulge in my trousers she was attracted instantly.

Same as my wife then. Fat wallet in trousers.

You couldn't make it up.

Only if you were writing the script for a cartoon. In a novel the reader could not suspend disbelief. The reader would just say to themselves, "Yeah, right" and set the book down for good. The reason would be that you would "see where this is going." Well, do you? Ebola in Bangkok. Where can you buy 400 miles of concertina wire in a hurry?

I wouldn't just assume it was charcoal particles. I have a 120 meter deep (yes) well with NO FILTRATION WHATEVER ON IT, and I got a temporary stream of black stuff coming out of the bathroom shower valve when I was replacing a water heater and decided to blow the pipe full steam to see what came out without going through the restriction of the water heater. It did not smell bad, though. Some kind of black mold that can grow without air? Piping is all plastic, so it's not rust. Some kind of black stuff actually fine enough to be pulled up with the water? Dunno. I had my water tested by a certified testing company and all tests for various things were super-good. ????????

Here's another angle..............................

Guy was working at property near the old woman's house. He seen the empty property and thought to himself, "might be something in there worth stealing."

Goes to the house and has a look around. Finds skeleton of lady and panics. What BS reason can I give for being on the property, he thinks.

Ah! the old ghost told me BS.

And so he makes this crap up and more worryingly......... The BIB believe him

That's it exactly! I believe "the ghost told me" is a way of saying something without putting blame on a living person. The police "believe" in ghosts because they need to cover for anonymous tip-offs.

How long before it will be mandatory to teach Chinese in Thai schools?

You asked the question. I'm going to say about 4 years. China is on it's way to being the #1 world economic powerhouse. Too bad it will be at the expense of the environment and the other countries of the world.

I would say don't bother. Buy a good lock and chain and you're 1/3 equal to class 1. How much damage can you do to others with a Brio? It may not even be available for the age of your bike. And, I feel, the price is not worth the benefits. My 2 baht's worth.