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Old 17-05-2008, 10:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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How many scooters in Thailand?
Thailand has a population of 60,000,000 and change.
I wonder how many motor scooter are out there? 100 million?
"The land of 100 million scooters" that has a catchy ring to it, no?
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Old 17-05-2008, 10:08 AM   #2 (permalink)
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a bit like Lanna the land of a million rice fields
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Old 17-05-2008, 10:37 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Not to be picky but I see mainly motorcycles. Motorscooters are deadly vechiles that have only front brakes and horrible stearing. I know because two years ago, I had to hit the brakes on a scooter and the scooter went to the left and I went forward, breaking my right arm and tearing some ligiments. It took 10 months to get over that spill. There are very few things that I will say I will never do but riding a motorscooter is one of them.
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Old 17-05-2008, 10:48 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Personally I think anything under 400cc is a scooter.

The 100 and 125 jobs that are so popular are putt-putts.

The 200 and 250 "choppers" are nothing mre than putt-putts that wish they were motorcycles.
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Old 17-05-2008, 11:20 AM   #5 (permalink)
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On April 18 there was a column in Bangkok Post:

Although close to saturation point, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the total domestic motorcycle market which sold about 1.7 million units last year.

Kawasaki brand weighed in at about 0.4% on sales of over 7,000 units. And about eight out of every 10 motorcycles sold here are Hondas.

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Old 17-05-2008, 11:26 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Far as I am concerned, all stepthru are scooters, and there are a lot if em, some so fucking old that I don't think you can even discern the Mfg. lots of old 2 strokes and used for everything.
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Old 17-05-2008, 01:41 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Scooters are either Vespas or Lammys.
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Far as I am concerned, all stepthru are scooters
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Old 17-05-2008, 01:51 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Some call 'em pushbikes, some call 'em bicycles. To-ma-to, to-mah-to.

Scooter, moto, motorbike, bike, chopper, putt-putt, moped

To me -- if it's small enough to pick up with your hands, it's not a motorcycle.
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Bugger all compared to Vietnam.
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Well your wrong mate.
I said "As far as I am concerned" now if that is different from your ideas then you are wrong as far as I am concerned..
IMHO
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Bugger all compared to Vietnam.
After spending a month in Vietnam, you forget that cars exsist in SE Asia; upon return to Bangkok you remember how many fcuking cars on the road there actually is here
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I'd never seen a step through before coming to LOS. I think I'm with the line of thought that less than 400cc is not a motorcycle, in my neck of the woods we called these mopeds. Only my dirt bikes were 250's, I miss my Shadow Aero (1100cc)


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Mopeds have to have pedals that can actually turn the wheel without the motor switched on.

I call my Honda Wave 125 and Honda 70, chicken-mashers.
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the step through style is so that ladies may maintain their modesty
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Yea, I like their modesty when a mini shirted univ student is putting off to lunch or somewhere down the road beside my car..
Everytime she gets a gap between her knees you can hear a shrill whistle sound, kind of like the sound of wind blowing across the neck of an empty beer bottle.
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Mopeds have to have pedals that can actually turn the wheel without the motor switched on.

I call my Honda Wave 125 and Honda 70, chicken-mashers.
Similar to where I come from

Honda C/50/70/90 usually field bikes are called chicken chasers

There are a lot of sub 400cc's that are in no way scooters/mopeds .RD 350 for one.RG 250 Gamma etc.
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Not to be picky but I see mainly motorcycles. Motorscooters are deadly vechiles that have only front brakes and horrible stearing. I know because two years ago, I had to hit the brakes on a scooter and the scooter went to the left and I went forward, breaking my right arm and tearing some ligiments. It took 10 months to get over that spill. There are very few things that I will say I will never do but riding a motorscooter is one of them.
Bullshit they all have rear brakes and steer fine just sounds like you need some riding lessons. I take the FILs 110 wave out when I am pissed and jump it over rice paddie bunding and it still is in one peace and rides just fine on square wheels
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Ive seen many a tourist come over here,rent a Honda Wave or similar and have absolutely now experience in riding a motorbike.Usually they come to a junction/situation whack the front brake like its a bicycle and on dusty/sandy roads come a cropper,quite funny sometimes can see it coming a mile off.
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I'll admit that it was my first ride of a scooter in 20 years, as compared to a motorcycle but if you can find the second set of brakes on this motorscooter (my friend still has it after her husband got drunk and drove it at nite, hitting a pothole and flying over the handlebars but no broken bones), I'll give you 1,000,000 baht!
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