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A Night in the Thai Police Station
That was a truly horrifying experience. Thai jails is not the place where you want to end up. Thai law enforcement may be lenient most of the time, but when they do enforce it against you, you're in trouble -
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Counterfeit Tyres
Up until now, I've sourced my bike tyres in the UK and brought them with me when I visit - I found decent tyres were cheaper in the UK than from stockists in Thailand. However, I'm likely to need 4 or 5 sets of tyres this year so had a look around and jeez, some brands are less than half the UK price on sites like Lazada etc. However, are they real of counterfeit? In other circumstances it should be a 'no brainer' - tyres are normally your only contact with the road and a bad choice might give you a different type of 'contact' with it - slam dunk right? Possibly but......... in the UK (and Europe I believe) bikers get totally ripped off by just about everyone connected with the motorbike trade on just about anything we want to buy. Far from being the 'poor' young man's transport it used to be, biking is very much part of the 'leisure industry' now and many bikers are in their 50's and 60's. with cash to spend. Bikes are our 'toys', can sometimes costs as much as cars and the manufacturers and parts stockists know it so they push us to the limits. Have the crazy prices we pay just become the norm? So much so that much cheaper prices just ring alarm bells? Quick example, a couple of years ago I needed a lockset for my bike and due to potential language difficulties, I decided to source one at home in the UK. That was until a Kawasaki dealer in the UK quoted me over £400 (17500 baht). No way, its not a complicated lockset - no chips or ECU codes, just 2 lock barrels and an ignition switch. A member here took a look at the Kawasaki online parts catalogue and suggested I persevere with my potential language problems as the exact same parts in Thailand, from a Kawasaki dealer were £140. Since then I've bought many other genuine parts for both bikes and cars in Thailand and saved literally 0000's. I got a genuine Honda (car) brake master cylinder for less than half the UK trade price. People have suggested only buying from reputable bike shops and main dealers but does that guarantee no fakes? 2 years ago I bought some Amber Leaf tobacco from Doha Duty free that turned out to be fake - confirmed by a spelling mistake on the packaging, the makers JTI in London and me coughing my guts up. There have been several cases of major High Street stores in the UK unkowingly selling counterfeit products in the news recently. Retailers often don't buy directly from manufacturers - they buy from wholesalers and distributors so they may be just as succeptible to fakes as the end user is. So, are these tyres on Lazada and other similar websites genuine or not? Has anyone actually bought some and tried them? -
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A Night in the Thai Police Station
Yes, you did: you drove under the influece, while thankfully not hitting anybody with your car. And yes, as everybody had the same floor, you were treated fairly. I really do not know about what you are complaining. "Deprived of the ability to sleep"... what are you, a child? Would you have preferred being deported at your own cost? Boy oh boy, do I have to tell you a story about how IDC in Bangkok looks on the inside. -
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BREAKING NEWS Seven Dead as Runaway Bus Slams into Trucks and Bursts into Flames
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A Night in the Thai Police Station
No. In Russian prisons, there are beds. The conditions in a Thai prison can be loosely compared to the conditions in which Russian prisons place inmates who violate the rules within the prison itself.- 1
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Updates and events in the War in Ukraine 2025
VPN ? or maybe there is an interface to import Douyin content into Tiktok ? technical solutions abound, without changing the fact that one cannot login to Tiktok and view/share content from China, except using a VPN. the use of a VPN makes this a moot point, it's not even relevant that these platforms have the same owner.
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