I"m wondering if anyone has ever bought a tuk tuk for their own use. It would be handy for bringing back the shopping, or if you had friends over. Are there special requirements for licensing, or any special rules of the road for these?

I was going to get one for a bit of fun and use it instead of a motorbike. The problem is that there not worth the money for what they are, I went to several companies and was quoted between 190,000 to 250,000 baht

I was going to get one for a bit of fun and use it instead of a motorbike. The problem is that there not worth the money for what they are, I went to several companies and was quoted between 190,000 to 250,000 baht

That's not too bad ..... the new one I looked at had a water-cooled 650cc twin and shaft drive. Four speed with reverse, 23 BHP, but only drum brakes. Main probelm would be that it can't fit through traffic any better than a car, but a 1000 kg load capacity beats any bike.

I saw a family of 4 all overweight farang yesterday on/in one of them scooters with an iron sidecar with a roof on, it looked like the flinstones, as for the tuk tuk i think they are hard to register, i know in pattaya it is, .

I also think they dont represent good value is all, if you cant fit throught traffic as you can with your bike then you may as well get a used Volvo for the same 250,000 price tag.

theres a guy in samui thats got one leg ,he's got one

Read in the BKK Post Motoring Section that legally you are not allowed to have a Tuk_tuk for private use. That is why you dio not see them as such.

One of the Thai Tuk_tuk ,manufacturers is pushing for a change in this law, hence the article.

 Was talking to a local guy the other day and he reckons a new samlor is 30,000B. Not quite a tuk-tuk but the Isaan version. 125 ish single cylinder aircooled engine and chain drive. Never heard of a 650cc shaft driven tuk-tuk as mentioned above and 23BHP can't be correct.

I would have thought you need a special licence to drive one and be a Thai national to obtain it. Anyway if you could drive one i think the fun would wear off when the local tuk tuk drivers think your nicking thier fares and you come back from shopping and find it parked the other way up, or your sitting in traffic and a genuine tuk tuk arrives at 80 kph expecting you to do a tuk tuk manoeuvre like drive up the pavement and smack into you when it does'nt happen !

Was talking to a local guy the other day and he reckons a new samlor is 30,000B. Not quite a tuk-tuk but the Isaan version. 125 ish single cylinder aircooled engine and chain drive. Never heard of a 650cc shaft driven tuk-tuk as mentioned above and 23BHP can't be correct.

That's what it says in the brochure. For some odd reason there's a stack of colour brochures for tuk-tuks and the long wheelbase versions as well as the delivery van version .... in my local coffee shop??

Was talking to a local guy the other day and he reckons a new samlor is 30,000B. Not quite a tuk-tuk but the Isaan version. 125 ish single cylinder aircooled engine and chain drive. Never heard of a 650cc shaft driven tuk-tuk as mentioned above and 23BHP can't be correct.

Perhaps its a butchered Ural Cosack? they had reverse too,

Cheers Lickey..

In Pattaya you see the occasional fat old farang driving a golf cart around on the streets.

theres a guy in samui thats got one leg ,he's got one

There is a joke there somewhere ?

In Pattaya you see the occasional fat old farang driving a golf cart around on the streets.

Hey thats my 80 year old uncle george, hes lost, please can you direct him back to the golf course !

http://www.thailandtuktuk.net/660cc-kit-for-350cc.htm Watercooled version.