GoPro video: Pattaya to Bangsare on a Serpico 150

[jing jing]

https://youtu.be/YwQKgySYwQKgySwBaM

 

For your viewing pleasure, a longish (20 mins+) video of my usual commute from the cesspit.

 

I expect at least a few comments from the resident schoolmarms and traffic cops regarding violations of the vehicle code, however in my own defense I will say that I've been riding motorcycles since age 12, street licensed since 14, and all over Thailand since 2004.  Back in California my trusty steed is a Ducati 900SS; this ain't my first rodeo.

[HLover]

.????

[jackdd]

9 minutes ago, jing jing said:

I expect at least a few comments from the resident schoolmarms and traffic cops regarding violations of the vehicle code, however in my own defense I will say that I've been riding motorcycles since age 12, street licensed since 14, and all over Thailand since 2004.  Back in California my trusty steed is a Ducati 900SS; this ain't my first rodeo.

How many years of riding experience are required until it can be considered safe to break traffic rules?

[HLover]

1 minute ago, jackdd said:

How many years of riding experience are required until it can be considered safe to break traffic rules?

Just count from 2014 until the current year and you will magically get your answer.

Your welcome.

[jing jing]

5 minutes ago, jackdd said:

How many years of riding experience are required until it can be considered safe to break traffic rules?

Please see the comment immediately above yours.

[ICELANDMAN]

I pay you a 20 M life insurance if you give me the unique benefit

 

[jing jing]

6 minutes ago, ICELANDMAN said:

I pay you a 20 M life insurance if you give me the unique benefit

 

Do you ride?  Tell you what - I'll do the same for you and we'll see who gets paid first.

[Denim]

I've done this trip by car. I'll dig out the video and post it for your viewing pleasure and comparison.

[HLover]

17 minutes ago, ICELANDMAN said:

I pay you a 20 M life insurance if you give me the unique benefit

 

Lie

[jing jing]

This just popped up on my YouTube feed:

https://youtu.be/GJPaYqLGJPaYqLdvOU

Compared to the Thai blokes I'm actually a very cautious rider.

[PatOngo]

Come on! Where's the challenge? I want to see you do it blindfolded with one hand tied behind your back! ????

 

 

[HLover]

1 minute ago, jing jing said:

This just popped up on my YouTube feed:

https://youtu.be/GJPaYqLGJPaYqLdvOU

Compared to the Thai blokes I'm actually a very cautious rider.

Yea, the OP needs to add infantile music to make his video viral.

[vogie]

In all fairness, I only ride a scooter but I have never been beaten at the Bangsare traffic lights by the local postie with his bags full of mail. ????????????

[CharlieH]

Not criticizing, each to their own etc, but I am amazed  you lasted more than 45 secs, and after 2 minutes I couldn't watch anymore and was almost wishing /waiting for you not to get wiped out ! 

 

Guess I've got too old and sensible ! 5555

[HLover]

3 hours ago, CharlieH said:

 I couldn't watch anymore and was almost wishing /waiting for you not to get wiped out ! 

 

 

Nice old chap you must be.

[OneMoreFarang]

7 minutes ago, HLover said:

Nice old chap you must be.

I don't know about nice but certainly old.

[Rimmer]

 At 16:35 you drove past the turn off to my little cabin on the hill why you didn't stop by and say hi

[jing jing]

5 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I don't know about nice but certainly old.

Old, maybe.  I prefer to think of myself as experienced ????

[papa al]

Thanks for the post sir.

Seems pretty normal.

papa likes watching at 2x playback speed.

Can post a few good photos of the bike?

[neeray]

All I could think of while watching this toooooo long of a video is what the duck would happen if somebody suddenly opened a vehicle door while Mr Dare Devil Show Off Crazy Farang was illegally racing between vehicles like he owned the road (and his host country).

As my former gf, who taught me how to ride (drive) in Thailand once said, "now you ride like Thai".

That's quite adequate for me. I never want to ride like crazy farang. I value life too much for that.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

8 minutes ago, jing jing said:

Old, maybe.  I prefer to think of myself as experienced ????

I have to admit I tried to reconcile that hand with "your" picture...

[OneMoreFarang]

5 minutes ago, neeray said:

All I could think of while watching this toooooo long of a video is what the duck would happen if somebody suddenly opened a vehicle door while Mr Dare Devil Show Off Crazy Farang was illegally racing between vehicles like he owned the road (and his host country).

As my former gf, who taught me how to ride (drive) in Thailand once said, "now you ride like Thai".

That's quite adequate for me. I never want to ride like crazy farang. I value life too much for that.

I only watched some of the video. But in general it seems what people see in videos is often very different to what riders see when they ride the bike. It depends on the lens and other factors.

 

Some time ago I played computer games with bike or car simulation in which the user could chose different camera positions. It made a huge difference how a player perceives distances, speed, etc.

[Chazar]

1 hour ago, jing jing said:

This just popped up on my YouTube feed:

https://youtu.be/GJPaYqLGJPaYqLdvOU

Compared to the Thai blokes I'm actually a very cautious rider.

i  just love  the  gentle  gear  changing and  love  of  machinery! that  an  the  windscreen  wiper  rev  counter. never  mind  scrape  whats  left  off the  floor  later.....not  much  in  the  way  of  brains  to  scrape  up  though.

Must  be  a  tough  job  for  the  police  to  track  them  down......guess sleeping  more  important.

[CharlieH]

44 minutes ago, HLover said:

Nice old chap you must be.

Not really, just got no time for wreckless iresponsibility ! 

[neeray]

• 23 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I only watched some of the video. But in general it seems what people see in videos is often very different to what riders see when they ride the bike. It depends on the lens and other factors.

 

Some time ago I played computer games with bike or car simulation in which the user could chose different camera positions. It made a huge difference how a player perceives distances, speed, etc.

With a background in professional photography and videography, I took that into consideration before I commented.

Decades ago, I showed my family a super 8 movie of our water skiing day. Parents were horrified. Obviously they couldn't comprehend that the optics made the event look about 10 times more risqué than it really was.

 

Still, I saw, IMO, too many chances taken here. Common the world over is a vehicle pulling out into traffic and being surprised by the unexpected; another vehicle coming at them at double the expected speed. I see it everyday. I am conditioned to it; many drivers are not.

Interesting: There is a thread and survey, just started now, about the road carnage in Thailand. And now I see another one just reported on by "rooster". So timely !

 

This "daredevil" video makes me wonder how many Thais will be inspired by it when they watch it on YouTube.

[canthai55]

I watched until you passed the baht bus, on the inside, and did not yield to the pedestrian walking on the road with the umbrella.

For someone with years of experience riding, you did not learn much courtesy.

 

[jing jing]

6 minutes ago, canthai55 said:

I watched until you passed the baht bus, on the inside, and did not yield to the pedestrian walking on the road with the umbrella.

For someone with years of experience riding, you did not learn much courtesy.

 

Yielding to pedestrians in Thailand will get you run over from behind.

 

1 hour ago, papa al said:

Thanks for the post sir.

Seems pretty normal.

papa likes watching at 2x playback speed.

Can post a few good photos of the bike?

Thank you, happy to oblige.

[canthai55]

16 minutes ago, jing jing said:

Yielding to pedestrians in Thailand will get you run over from behind.

Manure

[jing jing]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I have to admit I tried to reconcile that hand with "your" picture...

At first I reckoned you were referring to the previous chap who wished me dead, while appreciating my unconscious habit of keeping a finger poised over the front brake lever.  Now it seems you were actually hand-stalking me. 

 

Weird, but not surprising around these parts.  

 

 

[KhunBENQ]

2 hours ago, jing jing said:

This just popped up on my YouTube feed:

https://youtu.be/GJPaYqLGJPaYqLdvOU

The GPS insert(?) shows a meager 150 kph while the speedometer shows 180+

Which is wrong?

 

It won't be easy to find but I have seen a couple of final videos of this type throughout the years.

Some cry, some crashing sounds and final darkness.

Remember a foreigner at 210 kph shouting angrily because some truck turned into the road some 300m ahead. Crazy.