Honda Monkey - a Bargian

[bkmbkk]

GF bought a new Honda Monkey for 115.500 Baht at a Phuket dealership.

Not sure if I should laugh or cry.

 

[canthai55]

115,000 Baht - CRY

[bkmbkk]

Just realized my dog is showing his asx over the front fender - I"m sure of his opinion.

[jenny2017]

$ 3,620 is a real bargain and I'd cry all night long.

 

   Perhaps with a Honda Wave 125 cc for free, it would have been a bargain. 

 

But the good thing about it is that you can also use it as a lawnmower. 

 

 

 

    

 

Edited May 26, 2018 by jenny2017
Currency sucks

[jackdd]

Obviously Thai pricing, the official price is 99000THB ?

But the price (99k) doesn't surprise too much, it's based on the MSX which costs about 70000THB.

When i showed it to my GF for the first time she also wanted one, my guess back then was 80-90k, but it seems that Honda wants it to be a bit more exclusive than that ?

[naboo]

Looking at your drive, I'm not sure another bike was necessary.

[bkmbkk]

1 hour ago, naboo said:

Looking at your drive, I'm not sure another bike was necessary.

Maybe not necessary, but I rarely drive a beaten up piece when having more. of them.

My friends sometimes jokes though - when do you open a rental shop and so on ?

Most of them have driven 500 -2000 Km.

Pic does not show all our bikes - to be fair to my friends.

 

[VocalNeal]

21 hours ago, bkmbkk said:

GF bought a new Honda Monkey for 115.500 Baht at a Phuket dealership.

For her husband? Or is he her uncle?

[bkmbkk]

6 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

For her husband? Or is he her uncle?

What's your point ?

The bike is for herself !

[cornishcarlos]

She must earn a decent wage, to be able to waste 115k on that ?

[eisfeld]

21 hours ago, naboo said:

Looking at your drive, I'm not sure another bike was necessary.

The formula for determining how many bikes one needs is as follows: If you own N bikes, you need N+1 bikes.

 

PS: At 115k THB definitely cry. I love the style of the Monkey but at that price it's just ridicolous.

Edited May 28, 2018 by eisfeld

[bkmbkk]

9 minutes ago, eisfeld said:

The forumla for determining how many bikes one needs is as follows: If you own N bikes, you need N+1 bikes.

 

PS: At 115k THB definitely cry. I love the style of the Monkey but at that price it's just ridicolous.

Agree to your post - especially N+1.

She told me yesterday that there are only a certain number of these bikes for sale here (5000 pcs).

The staff of the dealer told her the owner has taken the other bike there where for sale off the sales room floor, to keep for himself.

[Lacessit]

The OP's girlfriend is 4 feet 6 inches and weighs 40 kg, right?

[VocalNeal]

^ or is a Shriner.

 

 

10 hours ago, bkmbkk said:

What's your point ?

 

What was the point of your OP. 

 

Edited May 28, 2018 by VocalNeal

[cornishcarlos]

32 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

^ or is a Shriner.

 

 

 

What was the point of your OP. 

 

 

To brag... 

[VocalNeal]

[bkmbkk]

1 hour ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

To brag... 

Wherein lies the bragging ?

[cornishcarlos]

3 hours ago, bkmbkk said:

Wherein lies the bragging ?

 

Oh I don't know ? Maybe the photo of the 347 bikes ?

[eisfeld]

2 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Oh I don't know ? Maybe the photo of the 347 bikes ?

Or he just took a picture in his garage where the Monkey and the other bikes happened to be. Not sure what's there as a show-off. I mean, it's all scooters. Even if you sum them up, they'll be worth less than a pickup... The BMW in there probably costs close to ten times the amount of all the bikes combined!

 

Sounds more like someone's jealous ?

 

Anyways, I'd love to ride a Monkey for a minute, must be hilarious! OP, did you try it yet?

[Fruit Trader]

5 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

 

 

Your have a white Rolls Royce backdrop, I think that takes the high ground. Got to love the well placed selfies.

[Kinnock]

The Honda Monkey looks fun - but I've got my eye on the new Supercub 125 that was announced at the same time.  A quality, small retro for 89,000.  With the single seat it looks like a mini-bobber.

[Fruit Trader]

15 minutes ago, eisfeld said:

Or he just took a picture in his garage where the Monkey and the other bikes happened to be. Not sure what's there as a show-off. I mean, it's all scooters. Even if you sum them up, they'll be worth less than a pickup... The BMW in there probably costs close to ten times the amount of all the bikes combined!

 

Sounds more like someone's jealous ?

Who really knows in this fantasy world of Ex Special OP billionaires. I think most with a real chunk of iron keep it off public forums.

[Lacessit]

6 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

To brag... 

IMHO bragging about conspicuous consumption of an impractical fashion item is......well, this is a polite forum.

I prefer to brag about the money I've saved on something practical - like a secondhand golf club.

[Issanman]

For those who have not yet seen the new Monkey Bike in person;

 

The new bike is much larger than the tiny original.

They're about the same size as the MSX.

[bkmbkk]

3 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Oh I don't know ? Maybe the photo of the 347 bikes ?

This is a motorcycle forum and pictures of bikes + price talk is a part of it if I'm not mistaken.

You see it as bragging ?

If I buy a big bike and post a pic here than I will be bragging ?

I haven't posted any pics of my dirt bike yet - that would properly be way too much for you ?

Why do you look at post in a motorcycle forum ?

[catman20]

On 5/26/2018 at 9:58 PM, canthai55 said:

115,000 Baht - CRY

if you paid for it cry if she paid for it with your money cry more

[bandito]

11 hours ago, bkmbkk said:

This is a motorcycle forum and pictures of bikes + price talk is a part of it if I'm not mistaken.

You see it as bragging ?

If I buy a big bike and post a pic here than I will be bragging ?

I haven't posted any pics of my dirt bike yet - that would properly be way too much for you ?

Why do you look at post in a motorcycle forum ?

 

I too see it as bragging.

A single picture of that contraption should have been enough.

You saw an oppurtunity to show off your BMW and all your motorcycles.

Look at my possesions, this is called bragging.

We are not looking especially at a motorcycle forum as we get the TVF newsletter in the mail.

Paying Baht 115,000- for that thing is also bragging.

[The Deerhunter]

20 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

^ or is a Shriner.

 

 

 

What was the point of your OP. 

 

I wonder. Did the OP's  wife get the free red hat and vest too?

[zaZa9]

On 5/27/2018 at 3:29 PM, bkmbkk said:

Maybe not necessary, but I rarely drive a beaten up piece when having more. of them.

My friends sometimes jokes though - when do you open a rental shop and so on ?

Most of them have driven 500 -2000 Km.

Pic does not show all our bikes - to be fair to my friends.

 

"having more "  and ,  " Pic does not show ALL of our bikes "... 

Couple this with a pic of a  bike that the op openly asserts  is expensive , and  then places it to photograph  in front of his car and lots of other bikes  ( but then states thats not ALL he owns in vehicles  ) ... go figure .

Edited May 29, 2018 by zaZa9

[Formaleins]

You might not need to cry, some of those Monkey bikes are very rare and very collectable, you need to check it out as I do not know that much about them - Get the frame and engine numbers and do a search, you might be surprised.