Saleng

[roger101]

I want to buy a Saleng. I already have a motorbike so I just want to buy the add-on. Anybody know locally where I can buy one. Mityon Service on Pattaya Klang used to sell them but they came with a new motorbike attached at (if my memory's right) about 76,000 Baht and the sales part of the business has been gone for sometime anyway.

I don't  want a big one just big enough for me, my wife and granddaughter when she visits (with a roof).. As I get older my sense of balance has got worse and 3 people on a bike is not really an option anymore.

 

[soi3eddie]

If you want to own/ride/drive a saleng then you must remove your brain first and lose all road sense. At least that seems to be a requirement from observations of salengs on the roads. IMO salengs are in top 3 of hazardous road users in Thailand and best avoided.

 

[roger101]

The problem is not the Saleng it's the idiot driving it. A well maintained Saleng has got to be safer than me wobbling on 2 wheels.

[Guderian]

4 hours ago, roger101 said:

The problem is not the Saleng it's the idiot driving it. A well maintained Saleng has got to be safer than me wobbling on 2 wheels.

 

Ask your friendly neighbourhood motorbike taxi drivers, they'll know.

 

I bought my saleng 13 years ago, made to my specs (the saleng wide enough to accommodate a case of beer) by a small shop in Nakluea, but I doubt that they're still there. There was also a place on one of the side sois on South Pattaya Road, but I can't remember which one and he was twice the price. Only a privileged few farangs own these wonderfully practical (illegally modified, lol) vehicles, so you really need Thai local knowledge, which is where the motorbike taxi guys will come in handy. 

[jacko45k]

Seem to recall seeing them being made and sold at a shop on the Railway Line Bypass Rd. Heading South, just before Soi Siam Country Club Road... (Soi Pornprapanamit).

 

[Wongkitlo]

I am in Rong Po on the way to Laem Chabang. Our local motorbike had one for sale last month.. I'll check if still there. 

[vogie]

Have you had a look on Lazada, they seem to be reasonably priced to me, I put in sidecar to find them.

 

[jacko45k]

On 3/24/2021 at 5:16 AM, jacko45k said:

Seem to recall seeing them being made and sold at a shop on the Railway Line Bypass Rd. Heading South, just before Soi Siam Country Club Road... (Soi Pornprapanamit).

 

Opps, my apologies.... all those buildings there have been demolished. I ride past there several  times a week and didn't take that fact in!

There is a small tent there now?????

[thoengthaied]

On Sukhumvit in Jomtien....just about 100 metres north of the intersection with Jomtien 2nd. Road. Photos taken this morning. 

[silicastorm]

@thoengthaied ... Is that near Chaiyapruek and Sukhumvit?

 

[thoengthaied]

7 hours ago, silicastorm said:

@thoengthaied ... Is that near Chaiyapruek and Sukhumvit?

 

Yes. South of Chaiyaphreuk and almost next to the Post Office on Suk.