100 arrested, 85 modified bikes seized in police crackdown

[Box fighter]

3 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Crush the Bikes...all of them, and keep crushing them until they learn that this will happen to every Bike seized.

 

Truth is nobody with any power has any balls for a PROPER CRACKDOWN, one that would bring the problem to an end !

Agree with you trainman it’s absolutely annoying 

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, carken said:

I totally agree that these "loud" motorbikes of the teenagers is really annoying ... I get angry and upset every time our teenage son and his friends come to our house with their "loud" bikes .... they also work on them in our front yard ... <deleted>!!! ... however I bite my tounge and never say a word ... I can remember when I was a teenager (I'm now 80 yrs old) and we lowered our cars, put "moon disk" hubcaps on them and new exhaust mufflers/pipes that made them "growl" and were also very loud ... the louder the better as we cruised around with our radios turned up as loud as they would go (was considered very "cool" back then) and punching on the accelarator to hear the very loud "growl" of the so called mufflers .... when you are a teenager "loud" means you are a big deal and very, very cool ... especially when you are shootin' off the line at the local drag strip

 

 

 

Again yes it's extremely irritating but try to remember when you were a teenager and cruisin' around ... loud is good ... loud is cool ... loud is YEAAAAAAH BABY

 

 

 

I'm now 80 years old and quiet is yeaaaaah baby

 

 

You're 80 years old and have a teenage son. I salute you, sir.

[NoshowJones]

2 hours ago, Tony M said:

Noise in Jomtien is reaching unacceptable levels, along Beach Road and 2nd Road, as you say.  We also suffer from pool parties, and villa - renters from Bangkok having karaoke parties.  I have started a Facebook page, in the hope of getting support to take to City Hall.

City hall are not likely to be interested unless pockets are being lined.

[maddox41]

The cheap aftermarket exhausts that cost around 2000 b are noisy and as for performance gain very little indeed 

I'm 50 and have 3 bikes all with sports exhausts real ones. 

And they do give your a performance gain if you know what your doing but are they loud no as you can baffle them with a db killer but  most Thais take them out  to fit on there Honda waves or the Honda Msx 

 the  police pull me  over all the time to take photos of my bikes!  

 I dont race on the roads as I don't like  Pissing of the general public with exhaust noise  but my bikes are modified 

 

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, yosib157 said:

Every Isaan town and beyond is the same. What happened about the Government plans maybe 16 years ago to remove all these old 2-stroke bikes off the road?

I especially hope the Buriram Police read this and act accordingly after those youths died there a few days ago.

Every evening hundreds scream out of the Rajapat University on these modified machines and race past the Football Stadium down the 2445. If I've seen em 100 times why haven't the police and done something to stop it?

Because there is no money in it for them.

[connda]

Build a drag strip and they will come.  Drag strips provide the physical and safety infrastructure while providing an outlet for teens to blow off steam, and a revenue stream if the strip is a state run enterprise.  Or they can continue the charade that is no more effective than the 'war on drugs' but in this case it's the 'war on motorcycle racing', and it creates a criminal class out of otherwise good kids.   Both 'wars' are unwinnable using the Machiavellian 'throw them all in jail' mentality.

Edited May 12, 2018 by connda

[Classic Ray]

Instead of just banning them, I wish someone would set up small circuits away from populated areas but near Bangkok and other large cities where the kids could meet to race as much as they liked.

 

Have it marshaled and scrutineered, maybe by their parents (ha) so they wear helmets and protective clothing, nothing too fancy, just enough to keep them alive.

 

Crack down hard on street racing to force them into the circuits. Could even give riding and maintenance lessons and help them get proper licences.

 

Good business opportunity as these kids have money to burn and I am sure would pay 100 baht to avoid hassle from the police.

 

Taking their bikes is no disincentive as there are thousands of unregistered or stolen bikes they can pick up cheaply.

[PEE TEE]

Hoping the crackdown comes to Samui will more arrests than Bangkok 

[thhMan]

Yep... its illegal to modify mufflers
It will only get dealt with when that law is enforced....
But they first have to start on the basics... and thats where they are clueless

[Henrik Andersen]

3 hours ago, Tony M said:

Noise in Jomtien is reaching unacceptable levels, along Beach Road and 2nd Road, as you say.  We also suffer from pool parties, and villa - renters from Bangkok having karaoke parties.  I have started a Facebook page, in the hope of getting support to take to City Hall.

What is the name of fb you can send me that in my inbox please 

[Jorgendk]

"Surachet said 74 of those arrested were under 18 years old. "

NO Driving licens........

[fullcave]

Modified Honda waves with exhaust baffle removed and bicycle tires are all the rage here. Gets the girls to look every time.  

[HLover]

2 minutes ago, fullcave said:

Modified Honda waves with exhaust baffle removed and bicycle tires are all the rage here. Gets the girls to look every time.  

Yes, the thin and borderline useless tyres mimic the drivers trouser package.

[toofarnorth]

3 hours ago, carken said:

I totally agree that these "loud" motorbikes of the teenagers is really annoying ... I get angry and upset every time our teenage son and his friends come to our house with their "loud" bikes .... they also work on them in our front yard ... <deleted>!!! ... however I bite my tounge and never say a word ... I can remember when I was a teenager (I'm now 80 yrs old) and we lowered our cars, put "moon disk" hubcaps on them and new exhaust mufflers/pipes that made them "growl" and were also very loud ... the louder the better as we cruised around with our radios turned up as loud as they would go (was considered very "cool" back then) and punching on the accelarator to hear the very loud "growl" of the so called mufflers .... when you are a teenager "loud" means you are a big deal and very, very cool ... especially when you are shootin' off the line at the local drag strip

 

 

 

Again yes it's extremely irritating but try to remember when you were a teenager and cruisin' around ... loud is good ... loud is cool ... loud is YEAAAAAAH BABY

 

 

 

I'm now 80 years old and quiet is yeaaaaah baby

 

My brother ( 73 ) had a BSA Gold Star in the mid 60s . Made a wonderful sound with its radical cams and 11-1 compression. He says if one passed him now ' hanging would be too good for the rider '. My Norton was tame compared .

[chingmai331]

Is my LOUD bike annoying you yet?  That is exactly why my bike is LOUD.

[kingstonkid]

There is actually an easy way to solve this.  Set aside an area like an old runway or such and leave it open for drag racing on bikes or cars.  Have it regulated as to the condition of bikes and cars with stipulations.  That was how they resolved it back in the good old days. 

[Formaleins]

The problem here is that the cops are totally incompetent in distinguishing modifications. I totally agree with pulling those bikes with the modified loud exhausts, not an issue for me. The problem I have is the fools that are doing this (The BIB) were recently featured on a Thai TV show for teenagers on Channel 3 or 7. They brought in two highway cops that normally seize bikes and arrest these kids and they asked them to point out all of the modifications on a Honda 500 that they deemed reasonable to seize the bike as being modified.

 

The cops did a fantastic job, they were even able to identify problems with the passenger rear pegs being only metal and having no rubber covers, along with modified exhaust and a shedfull of other mods like headlights, flashers etc. that they claimed made the bike illegal.

 

Great you might think, they really are on the ball - Well, not quite, the bike was actually BOG STANDARD OFF THE HONDA PRODUCTION LINE!

 

Clueless imbeciles as usual, clueless fools in everything that they do.

[The Teacher]

Don't tell me the Police have finally started to listen to the public. OMG

[lvr181]

4 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Crush the Bikes...all of them, and keep crushing them until they learn that this will happen to every Bike seized.

 

Truth is nobody with any power has any balls for a PROPER CRACKDOWN, one that would bring the problem to an end !

  And make them all watch while the bikes are being crushed and put the video/pics on social media for all the other idiots to see!

[fakename]

In a country where anyone can ride around with blue or red lights, or even a street side shop, with flashing blue and red lights, there is not much hope for law enforcement! 

Oh, and as far as a drag strip for kids, who is going to pay for the insurance? Who is going to inspect the bikes, to make sure they are safe? No one!

[lvr181]

1 minute ago, fakename said:

In a country where anyone can ride around with blue or red lights, or even a street side shop, with flashing blue and red lights, there is not much hope for law enforcement! 

Oh, and as far as a drag strip for kids, who is going to pay for the insurance? Who is going to inspect the bikes, to make sure they are safe? No one!

Why insurance? Why safe? Orderly way of thinning out the gene pool.    

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Deputy police chief Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpal

 

Last article (the kiddie porn website arrests), he was deputy commander of the Tourist Police. This article, they don't mention the Tourist Police at all.

 

And course, arresting Thai teeny bopper motorcyclists has absolutely nothing to do with the Tourist Police.

 

The man is everywhere. His promotional capacity and jurisdiction know no limits. And I'm NOT joking!!!  

[overherebc]

28 minutes ago, Formaleins said:

The problem here is that the cops are totally incompetent in distinguishing modifications. I totally agree with pulling those bikes with the modified loud exhausts, not an issue for me. The problem I have is the fools that are doing this (The BIB) were recently featured on a Thai TV show for teenagers on Channel 3 or 7. They brought in two highway cops that normally seize bikes and arrest these kids and they asked them to point out all of the modifications on a Honda 500 that they deemed reasonable to seize the bike as being modified.

 

The cops did a fantastic job, they were even able to identify problems with the passenger rear pegs being only metal and having no rubber covers, along with modified exhaust and a shedfull of other mods like headlights, flashers etc. that they claimed made the bike illegal.

 

Great you might think, they really are on the ball - Well, not quite, the bike was actually BOG STANDARD OFF THE HONDA PRODUCTION LINE!

 

Clueless imbeciles as usual, clueless fools in everything that they do.

I've seen reports on here of 'fines' being issued for cars with twin exhausts coming out the back of cars.

[lvr181]

3 minutes ago, overherebc said:

I've seen reports on here of 'fines' being issued for cars with twin exhausts coming out the back of cars.

"Smart thinking" flows down from the top? 

 

(BTW - money goes the other way) 

[mommysboy]

I'm right behind Big Jerk on this one.

[Chongalulu]

The loudness of the exhaust is in inverse proportion to the IQ of the vehicle owner,which is why you see/hear so many in Thailand. Even haulage vehicles or farm tuk tuks which can have no performance pretensions have stupidly large tailpipes simply welded onto the end of the exhaust system. The puny motorbikes of 110/125cc simply have the baffles removed invariably making a 'wet fart' noise with no performance enhancement. They’re moronic simpletons.

[jazztech]

Come on no one have a FSIE  you are all getting to old and grumpy 

[bizboi]

As an owner of two big bikes (and a scooter), this is quite a coincidence that it should come up today. Really strange that this comes up today - would be great to find the laws concerning bike modifications. I agree with posters that are concerned about idiots removing baffles they are true inconsiderate clowns - does anyone know what are the laws in Thailand about proper bike modifications for instance converting a bike into a cafe racer or a chopper. I am just about to order a full kit to convert my kawasaki ninja into a cafe racer that is produced in UK - do there have to be notifications anywhere if the colour, frame number and engine number remain the same? and before you ask YES it will have a PROPER exhaust system complete with baffles.

[thailand49]

One can quote the law all they want,  start at A and go down to Z here none of it is being enforced enforcement is 24/7 365 days a year.  Crackdown now then back to normal until someone gets a hair up their butts again. 

I fully understand because like everyone we were all young and I hope when I get to be 80, my son or grand kids are home and their friends come to visit don't and I know they won't because they know I'll open a can of whip ass on them even at 80!  There is a thing that is taught called respect and consideration that isn't asking too much?

[tropo]

6 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

We are so tried of noisy motorbikes here in jomtien every night racing on beach and 2 road 

Big fine to all of them please 

Is it fair when some of the noisiest bikes on the road, namely Harleys, are allowed to roam free, legally? I'd like to see them impounded first as they are much worse noise pollutants IMO. A guy used to start one up in the condo building next door and they'd be an incredibly loud rumbling noise through the whole house. People who ride these types of bikes are nothing more than attention seekers.

Edited May 12, 2018 by tropo