1 hour ago, Mutt Daeng said:

Overtake in the 16.05 at Dundalk

My bad thats for today

Cheers,put down thirty bob each way.

4 hours ago, teacherclaire said:

 I have no idea if you've realized the number of dogs that are currently almost everywhere. On each road, Soi, at places where you'd not think that dogs are. It's the time of the year when dogs are in heat, so please be careful. 

I've found that on lesser traveled, now somewhat deserted sois where many businesses have closed the dog population has greatly expanded. Never seen so many.

Though they're not as common as dogs, countryside people (and city folk) ambling on the road after dark are an even greater threat.  

 

So it's a good idea not to overdrive your headlights, and not overtake when you can't see beyond your reaction plus braking distance.

 

If you think hitting a dog will ruin your night...

 

Hitting a local can ruin your life.

 

run them over.

I agree the dogs are a real problem, must be record highs now, in Pratumnak in packs. I saw a dead one in the road the other day out of town, had been sleeping in the road and had been run over, looked like a black bag in the road. 

 

The main risk is one running out and having no time to react

4 hours ago, mike787 said:

run them over.

 

That's like Russian Roulette. No thanks. 

4 hours ago, mike787 said:

run them over.

Obviously you do not ride

8 hours ago, teacherclaire said:

Who would ride behind a car doing 30 km/h for a few km with a big bike?

 

dark

dimly lit

 

who you ask ? 

 

common sense would. 

 

you say you know about this in thailand etc etc. 

 

errrrrrm

6 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Be sure to donate to the Soi Dog Foundation! 

Or use the money to buy a 4x4 with bull bars.

I avoid driving at night, too dangerous. Apart from soi dogs that seem to be more active at that time, there are also more drunks and yaa baa users on the road.

14 minutes ago, polpott said:

Or use the money to buy a 4x4 with bull bars.

I could almost make you an honorary Australian with that post. A Brit who knows what a bull bar is, who would have thought?

8 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Sounds like you live in a world of perfect theory.

More like he's living in a world of lobotomised dog lovers with absent social skills. 

8 hours ago, evadgib said:

Buffalos are a serious problem too. They're like hitting a brick wall & in most cases just get up and run off!

(Not me but I know a few people that have found this out the hard way lol)

I'd suggest if someone can't see a buffalo on the road, they need driving glasses.

8 hours ago, teacherclaire said:

 

This post's point is that dogs are in heat, and you can see plenty of them from other areas almost everywhere.

Ride safe, that's all I wanted to say after I almost crashed. 

 

 

A friend of mine who had only  left my place about five  minutes was taken  to hospital with broken ribs, punctured lung, multiple  abrasions, after a dog ran from behind a parked  vehicle directly under his front wheel. Not at speed, no sign of or reason to expect a dog to run out, no time at all to avoid.

14 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I could almost make you an honorary Australian with that post. A Brit who knows what a bull bar is, who would have thought?

Always known as bull bars in the UK........until they were banned.

1 minute ago, polpott said:

Always known as bull bars in the UK........until they were banned.

That's a bit nanny state, isn't it? An essential for outback Australia.

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

That's a bit nanny state, isn't it? An essential for outback Australia.

A car with bull bars is far more likely to kill a child in a pedestrian accident than a car without. A mate of mine wrote his works van off when he hit a cow. I did substantial damage to my car when I hit a horse. Common in the UK.

10 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

But seen in Indonesia. Goats are worse than dog's.

But at least they end up in curries

44 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

A friend of mine who had only  left my place about five  minutes was taken  to hospital with broken ribs, punctured lung, multiple  abrasions, after a dog ran from behind a parked  vehicle directly under his front wheel. Not at speed, no sign of or reason to expect a dog to run out, no time at all to avoid.

 

Yes myself broken thumb abrasions .. knew a Dutch chap years ago badly broken shoulder .. witnessed several locals sprawled on the road shopping spilled everywhere with dead dogs or  howling broken dogs   .. then there are the drunks chickens cats snakes piglets goats rats buffalos  cows stupid children half blind grannies just to mention a few to watch out for

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 minutes ago, tonray said:

But at least they end up in curries

So do the dogs in Sakon Nakon. Or they used to before Cha-cha's lot banned the dog wagon. Now I think they must have secret supplies.

 

 

Nine dogs in this pack. Just waiting for a chance to get me.

This morning on Sukhumvit a dog in the middle, lucky I saw it from 50 yards and slowed to a stop, cars go straight through but on a motorbike you just can't as they seem to be like a magnet to bikes

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I avoid driving at night, too dangerous. Apart from soi dogs that seem to be more active at that time, there are also more drunks and yaa baa users on the road.

Yes, 90% of accidents are night time, I also see drunk car drivers early morning after a skin full of drink

51 minutes ago, polpott said:

A car with bull bars is far more likely to kill a child in a pedestrian accident than a car without. A mate of mine wrote his works van off when he hit a cow. I did substantial damage to my car when I hit a horse. Common in the UK.

I would not have thought it makes any difference to anyone being hit by a car whether it has a bullbar or not, unless we are talking slow speeds and crumple zones. Statistics sometimes stampede bureaucrats.

If you are hit by a car doing 60 km/hr, I don't think it matters a damn.

2 hours ago, polpott said:

Or use the money to buy a 4x4 with bull bars.

No good having a dog and barking yourself.

1 hour ago, polpott said:

A car with bull bars is far more likely to kill a child in a pedestrian accident than a car without. A mate of mine wrote his works van off when he hit a cow. I did substantial damage to my car when I hit a horse. Common in the UK.

And how did the vet despatch them?

1 hour ago, Dumbastheycome said:

A friend of mine who had only  left my place about five  minutes was taken  to hospital with broken ribs, punctured lung, multiple  abrasions, after a dog ran from behind a parked  vehicle directly under his front wheel. Not at speed, no sign of or reason to expect a dog to run out, no time at all to avoid.

Was he driving a car or on his skateboard?

32 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I would not have thought it makes any difference to anyone being hit by a car whether it has a bullbar or not, unless we are talking slow speeds and crumple zones. Statistics sometimes stampede bureaucrats.

If you are hit by a car doing 60 km/hr, I don't think it matters a damn.

 

I've seen an accident between Ubon and Sisaket where a bigger god ran into a Honda Accord, or similar. Imagine that a bike would have been on the road at this time. 

 

You can't just ride over a big dog as some people here suggest. There's the front fender that might knock you off. 

 

The car was so damaged that the whole front needed replacement.

 

And  I had my experience how bad an accident with 30 km/h can be when one crash bar hits your leg  after a brake malfunction with 250 kg plus your weight and breaks it four times.

 

An artificial knee joint will always remind me of that. It's not funny at all when your leg points at a different direction when you try to get up.

 

If I'd post the later infected leg, some members might lose their breakfast. 

 

 

46 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes, 90% of accidents are night time, I also see drunk car drivers early morning after a skin full of drink

Most don't have a problem with alcohol. Only without. 

56 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

So do the dogs in Sakon Nakon. Or they used to before Cha-cha's lot banned the dog wagon. Now I think they must have secret supplies.

 

 

Nine dogs in this pack. Just waiting for a chance to get me.

Carry a stick with you and hit a few. They'll not forget that and leave you alone next time.

 

24 minutes ago, teacherclaire said:

Carry a stick with you and hit a few. They'll not forget that and leave you alone next time.

 

Good, sound advice there clair.

 

My eleven year old daughter is not allowed out after six on her own. If she has to go to the corner shop, about 80 metres away, I go with her, and carry a sturdy club. It only takes one larie dog to set the others off. There is a pack of ten or so in our short soi.

 

There was never this problem when we had the weekly dog wagon.