Thread: Bikes - Farang Idiots - Crash Helmets

It all depends if you don't know how to drive defensively at all times and aggressively at junctions,
Farangs when they see 6 Thais on a bike, think it's stupid, cruel and uncalled for. But has anyone ever seen these involved in a crash? no, because they don't exceed 30 mph,

Everything is wrong on the Thai roads, from how easy it is for them to pass there test, to Mai pen rai about them driving the wrong way up the hard shoulder or anywhere for that matter, signals should be ignored too.

If you are a green farrang and new to a moped, the results are catastrophic, and that's without adding a couple of beers

farang seem to leave their brains behind when they come here and this goes for driving cars too but putting a child at risk is the tops for idiocy

Originally Posted by Iceburg Slim

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by kmart

Lots of numptie farang blokes riding around sans helmets where I live now.

You just get used to the local morons and their Darwinian riding habits, and then a fresh batch of foreign Lemmings show up..

I'm going to weld some railroad iron around my truck and see how many I can wipe out.

sometimes i wonder why farangs like you even come to Thailand..

It seems like you belong in a western nanny state

"Yeah, cos Thailand is like....so out there mannnn"

The final frontier for the hardcore it is not. Maybe for gimps like you.

If you are all wussed up by your nanny state then there is things you probably dont even notice

I think helmets should be worn at all times!

Good thread this.
In cambodia I wear a helmet about the half the time in town.
But it is a $5 bali bought german afrika corp job-completely useless.
On the open road i wear a slightly better $12 helmet but I always wear shoes and gloves and a cravat.
How are those fatality figures?
Over 300 dead in seven days of the holiday.
In australia its maybe thirty.
And i always ride with the kid on the front,not the back-much safer.

Originally Posted by afarang

This is not a nanny state ,agreed ,it is a Death state , I live in a small town , near Cambodia .We have at least , as a minimum, one motorcycle death a week, Why? no helmets or underage , no helmet, no license.Dead.!!!!

Helmets dont do fuck all for your body. Most bike deaths are from internal bleeding.

And by the way... you live in a nanny state

Originally Posted by Unlucky Ralph

The main reason helmet laws are enforced in the real world is because it costs a shit load of money to rehabilitate a person with head injuries so that means us tax payers foot the bill.

In Thailand where the family must look after the injured person and they must pay for the treatment the government don't really give a fuk and just pay lip practice to enforcing the helmet law.

Anyway, if fuk ups like Socal recon a head injury is top fun then just keep riding without a helmet and consider it a nanny state law.
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saving life and property in the city of perth.

thats bullshit

Its a money grab

Originally Posted by Unlucky Ralph

Everything is wrong on the Thai roads,

Everything is right about Thai roads. The flow of traffic is fast and efficient.

You are all wussed up from pussy footing around in a western nanny state for too long

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

I think helmets should be worn at all times!

Originally Posted by luangtom

By the way, for those that ride without their approved helmets, it just cleanses the gene-pool.

Unfortunately many of them spawn before they ride.

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

I think helmets should be worn at all times!

Mines got more girth than that, much more. But i understand your frustration.

Originally Posted by keekwai

Originally Posted by Happy Dave

I used to often see helmet checks at the Maenam police station, but have'nt seen one since september, although i know there have one or two.

They usually happen mid month when the new lottery tickets come out (The BiB love the lottery) ... or just after the end of the month when everyone is cashed up.

OK ! Any time now then .

most of the thin plastic helmets people wear in thailand are in-effective. just having a plastic shell on your head does not make you "safe" or even necessarily "safer". situational awareness, driving for the conditions and paying attention will go a lot further towards keeping you out of the accident that the helmet probably won't help you with. but if it's your turn to crash, it's your turn. up to you. if you want to wear a helmet, do so. if other people don't, they aren't necessarily idiots. while you are cruising down the road self-righteously wearing your helmet and stewing your brain over people you don't see who aren't helmeted, you aren't convincing them of anything. cool your heart maybe...

Originally Posted by cambtek

I always wear shoes and gloves and a cravat

No cape?

FFS I continue to be amazed by the number of people who think that , a helmet less accident only affects one person .

Originally Posted by keekwai

Originally Posted by thaikarl

most of the thin plastic helmets people wear in thailand are in-effective..

Originally Posted by thaikarl

situational awareness, driving for the conditions and paying attention will go a lot further towards keeping you out of the accident that the helmet probably won't help you with.

Which is a problem for Thais and pissed up tourists.

Most Thais are well aware of their situation. If they wernt , they couldnt drive so fast without getting in lots of accidents. Fuck the statistics, they dont mean anything because there is waaay more motorcycles in Thailand.

Most western people are just too bad at driving to handle the speed of Thai roads so thats why they bitch about it.

^When I think of the word helmet, your name pops up too bud

Originally Posted by socal

Most western people are just too bad at driving to handle the speed of Thai roads so thats why they bitch about it.

No mate. "Speed of Thai roads"? You're kidding me. Most riders/drivers around are dragging their arses.

What Western people aren't used to is the carelessness, disregard of road rules and general stupidity of Thai drivers/riders. They need to drive much more defensively than in the West ... be paranoid ... and don't trust anyone.

"Have a green light?" "Safe to drive/ride through them?" Not as far as I'm concerned. Not after getting side slammed on my bike by a Thai fuckwit going through a red light in the early days of my riding here.

I have two helmets I use now. A Real open face model for popping to the shop etc.. and a new Shark Evoline 2 for proper rides and any time I might be driving fast. Why would you not wear a helmet at all, I don't understand, do you want to die?

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Originally Posted by socal

Most western people are just too bad at driving to handle the speed of Thai roads so thats why they bitch about it.

No mate. "Speed of Thai roads"? You're kidding me. Most riders/drivers around are dragging their arses.

Now that is pure bullshit. Have you ever been to Thailand ?

What Western people aren't used to is the carelessness, disregard of road rules and general stupidity of Thai drivers/riders. They need to drive much more defensively than in the West ... be paranoid ... and don't trust anyone.

No mate, western people are just used to white knuckling around with a big Mac in one hand and an iphone in the other. They cant handle the pace.

Originally Posted by madjbs

Why would you not wear a helmet at all, I don't understand, do you want to die?

No, some people just don't plan on crashing.

Why get on a motorcycle at all ? do you want to die ?

Originally Posted by socal

Now that is pure bullshit. Have you ever been to Thailand ?

Can you read?

Originally Posted by socal

No mate, western people are just used to white knuckling around with a big Mac in one hand and an iphone in the other. They cant handle the pace.

I wasn't referring exclusively to Americans.

Apart from the occasional young Thai hoon ... they do drag their arses. 30-40 k's most of the time. I usually do about 60kph on suburban streets ... which is the norm in Oz.

Don't be a drama queen.