Do you wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle in Thailand?

[MalcolmB]

3 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Ah, yes, "most" of the halfwits gullible enough to waste their time indulging in your puerile little troll poll. Truly, a masterstroke of intellectual achievement - if your audience is a forum full of village idiots.

 

The combination of sheer idiocy and arrogance it takes to believe that the drivel-spewers who bothered to respond to your pathetic excuse for a poll somehow represent a meaningful cross-section of Western or foreign society in Thailand is hilarious, as is the idea that you are now quoting the results as some form of valid fact.

 

The poll itself a glaring testament to the gaping chasm in your logic-forming abilities only surpassed by the comical idiocy of your comments referring to said poll.

 

 

 

 

And I thank you for your 46 posts on that thread.

more than double anyone else.

Appreciate it.

It also surprised me that 28%, or about 1 in 4, claimed not to drink drive. Where I drink everyone does, no one catches a taxi. 
I suppose a forum like this would attract the teetotalers that I would never meet out in the real world as they don’t socialise much which I think probably explains the higher than expected number.

[PJ71]

16 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

My Son will never get given a bike, never go on the back of mine

yeah, good luck with that in this country, not a chance.

 

Like the way you never tried a cigarette behind the bike sheds ( possibly not coz you sound like a stiff ).

[PJ71]

6 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

And I thank you for your 46 posts on that thread.

more than double anyone else.

Appreciate it.

It also surprised me that 28%, or about 1 in 4, claimed not to drink drive. Where I drink everyone does, no one catches a taxi. 
I suppose a forum like this would attract the teetotalers that I would never meet out in the real world as they don’t socialise much which I think probably explains the higher than expected number.

Yeah, he might breach 46 posts on this thread too, looks like the toys are out the pram.......again - lol

[MalcolmB]

2 hours ago, PJ71 said:

Yeah, he might breach 46 posts on this thread too, looks like the toys are out the pram.......again - lol

Thailand can reduce some to ranting raving dribblers if they have grown up in a soft nanny state environment in front of screens with a lack of strong male leadership. 
Living in Thailand is best to go with the flow, on the roads and in life.

[gomangosteen]

Helmet - always have, always will.

 

Follow a local emergency responder on Facebook her day is mostly just a succession of motorcycle accidents, commonly head injuries minus a helmet of course.

 

Yesterday afternoon I was cycling home there'd been a motorscooter accident a few minutes before, dry, straight road, separate 2.5m motorcycle lane; rider had gone off into the long grass head-on into a concrete lighting pole. Later I'm passed by an ambulance - according to Facebook rider is 'critical'. My guess, texting or talking on her phone.

 

But my best story of the week, Sunday we were coming home from the beach, ahead a saw a motorbike weaving across the lane, got closer and realised he was trying to do a wheelstand. No helmet of course, male, 20s. I slowed and stayed well back, to my delight he got it up near vertical, lost balance and went into a roadside deep ditch of long grass. Gave him a toot and wave ....no interest in helping retrieve the bike. 

[transam]

14 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Like most of us on this forum according to a recent poll.

 

Not all of us want to spend all day looking out fake French doors at a fake lake in Outer Issan counting down the final ticks and tocks of the old clock.

No credible answer then.........

[pookett]

Helmet 100%, a decent open face one. I need my head intact!

Guilty of not wearing any other real bike riding protection gear on my scoot.

Big-bike trips I will don my full face lid, proper jacket, gloves and boots, trousers have some knee pads.

[Purdey]

Rode a 500cc motorbike around Europe 40 years ago and did a year of courier work to save money, I had a Suzuki 125 in Thailand for a few years - went as far as Aranyaprathet one time. The thing I would point out to people not wearing a helmet is that you can be the best rider in the world but when you get shunted in the back, you will fall off. And when you fall off, the injury that you will suffer most frequently from is the skid marks on your head from sliding along the road. Those marks can be deep and can take your ear off.

It's just not worth not wearing a helmet.

[BusyB]

I used to risk it occasionally but now I send Bolt riders away if they haven't got a helmet for me. I always stipulate 'need a helmet'. So far they've always accepted that.

 

Just won't do it now. Even the soi taxi riders usually have a spare helmet.

[cr600john]

On 12/7/2024 at 4:46 AM, MalcolmB said:

It seems every week we have a fellow Brit in the news here and back at home doing a GOFUNDME because of having a motorcycle accident in Thailand.

And of course most anccidents are not reported at all. 
Often the injuries in many cases would have been less severe if they were wearing a helmet.

 

Do you wear a helmet, or do you just go with the flow and When in Rome?

What is the LAW in your country?  If you LAND on your HEAD in your Country or Thailand without a HELMET the BRAIN DAMAGE IS THE SAME,

 

[Foexie]

if you not wear you a really big d0mb@ss

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

On 12/6/2024 at 8:46 PM, MalcolmB said:

It seems every week we have a fellow Brit in the news here and back at home doing a GOFUNDME because of having a motorcycle accident in Thailand.

And of course most anccidents are not reported at all. 
Often the injuries in many cases would have been less severe if they were wearing a helmet.

 

Do you wear a helmet, or do you just go with the flow and When in Rome?

Your poll is lacking.  You aren't capturing the aseannow members who wear a helmet and are still double masking against covid while riding.

[Kinnock]

On 12/7/2024 at 4:21 PM, rattlesnake said:

 

Regarding the jacket, do you choose a particular material to make it bearable with the heat? Even a zip-up sweater makes me feel very uncomfortable. Maybe it's just a case of getting used to it…

Light colored ventilated mesh jacket with back and elbow pads from Paddock at Huai Kwang, Bangkok .... not expensive, but probably only good for low speed tumbles,  but the reflective finish helps keep me cool .... ish.

[grubman]

I do a lot of riding in Thailand, I only ride with full gear, I have a Shoei helmet which are not cheap, riding jack and pant with armor in the elbow, knees, back and riding boots.  

 

I ride a 1000cc touring bike, i only ride it on long trips, and when i arrive at my destination i park the bike at my nights accommodation and if i go out i will either walk or take a taxi. I never take the bike out for small rides

On the occasion that i have stayed in Chiang Mai i will ride my bike but i still wear my entire gear when i ride to visit some friend in different areas of CM

Where i live i live in Khon Kaen i don't own a scooter and if i want to some where around town i will drive my car, 

 

When i am out touring i am very aware of other vehicles on the road and anticipate that some drive will do any crazy things, so far in 15 years of riding i have only come off my bike once, which was my own fault and i damaged my bike enough that i could not ride it and luckily i did not get injured, but my helmet took a huge hit to the side and i have never used that helmet again. 

 

so for my it full gear or i don't ride