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roger101

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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. 

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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?????

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