Thread: Bikes - Farang Idiots - Crash Helmets

^ And I forgot how many very big insects I had to remove from the helmet visor. This kind of thing in one eye should suffice to lose the control of the bike and have a taste of how abrasive is a road.

And I don't know if it's like here where you live, but here near Chiang Mai in this season there are a lot of small grapes of very small insects flying everywhere. If you ride the bike without helmet and visor you can barely open your eyes. I always thought eyes are very useful for riding.

Originally Posted by Carrabow

As I get older I am starting to wear more gear. I wear 2 kidney belts one on my torso and then over top of that the one on my chest plates. My next purchases will be a neck brace, knee supports and some wrist supports.

I need a way to stop my thumbs from dislocating.

Any ideas will be welcome

Ideas? Trade the bike in for an electric wheelchair?

Originally Posted by Wallalai

I don't mean that it will save my life if I hit a wall at 100 km

I usually try to avoid riding into walls at 100kph ... and go around them.

You should always wear a helmet , it is breaking the law if you don't .

Same same UK .

They make my head sweat and spoil my hair , but rules are rules so I obey .

Originally Posted by clueless

it is breaking the law if you don't

Originally Posted by clueless

Same same UK

It is most certainly not the same as the UK in that respect

Have to confess I like the opportunity to escape the Australian nanny state and I often take the helmet off if I am pootling along a deserted back road in the country. But I am not going any faster than I would if I was on a pushbike and I am only putting myself at (minimal) risk so don't see that there is much drama.

Riding around the mooban to do a bit of local shopping, we never wear helmets. Get out onto the main roads and the helmets go on.

How so many people can care so much about what others do or don't do when they ride their bikes around is more than a little amazing to me. Then I think about the pudgy half-men that so many farang ex-pats are and I think:

What a load of old grannies!

Originally Posted by mao say dung

pudgy half-men

You've just alienated 70% of the forum.

42,000+ kms on the airblade from new.
drive all ova inc the bkk.
Neva wear a lid if I can , I even sometimes ave a beer!!!
know ur limits n capabilities.

buried 4 good friends in a year once and they were all wearing a lid!!!
reckon I've got a good idea of the hurt and pain.
also got family.
to call me an idiot,???
comes not from a real biker
maybe a born again rider who knows it all!!

^

You're an idiot- also 'bikers' don't brag about their kilometers on an Air Blade.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

^

You're an idiot- also 'bikers' don't brag about their kilometers on an Air Blade.

I wonder how much rake we could fab on a Air-Blade

^25,000 ON my HD Flstni, + 9000 on my 3rd zxr10.. sorry I didn't want to big myself up at 1st
I came here as many do not to be governed by the old

Originally Posted by adzt1

^25,000 ON my HD Flstni, + 9000 on my 3rd zxr10.. sorry I didn't want to big myself up at 1st
I came here as many do not to be governed by the old

Don't sweat it. Why so many ZXR10's? Or just some bad luck with the other drivers around you?

didn't take care of the 1st , let the oil go shy(bent crank),
2nd was getting old n I had a few "Hairy scarys " green colour
u know what they say 3rd time lucky

Oh sorry- I didn't realize you rode a Flinstone.

My calling you an idiot was directed at the fact you pointed out that your dead friends were wearing helmets as if that negated the value of wearing a helmet- it's true it's not a guarantee of surviving a crash, but it's undeniably beneficial.

I've got well over 200,000km on many bikes over many years- I know the value of good equipment first-hand (as do many others on this forum)- I've seen too many serious injuries and deaths that were needless- for a family man to not at least take basic precautions when engaging in a potentially dangerous activity is idiocy.

no I meant that not all on bikes were idiots!
id never ride a big bike here as we all know what shit roads Thai has, plus I've no skins or lid

my mum loves the fact I'm slowing down hence the hd
just don't judge all by appearance I say .

stay on the right side of the line! , or is it the left ova here?

I mean that you can wear all the gear and still have no idear ,
also my friends died because they drove like idiots,
yes a lid can help but defensive driving techniques/knowledge are a big bonus.

p.s I'm proud of 42k no road rash in Thai, might even frame it and mount in the porch!

gotta admit though I only drive a 4x4 vigo now!!!

must be getting to that stage in life , u know safety 1st n posting on TD !!!

Originally Posted by Unlucky Ralph

Originally Posted by socal

This is me btw, so u know how to ride.

I don't know if you have noticed Socal, but at 1.28 on that last video, the farang in the hat clearly calls you by your real name "DICK HEAD"

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Holding that video up as 'good' riding is complete idiocy, though- you can be the best rider in the world (and you're not) and you still won't be able to predict (or react to) a quick move by a car/truck/whatever- sooner or later you will get nailed (probably by someone pulling out from the left side of the street).

Worse still, what if some little kid walks out from behind one of those parked cars your accelerating past ?

Cock

Yeah I know. Who is the dickhead though ? I was only speeding, he was darting across the. road illegally and stupidly. That is not a good road to do that on. I'm sure I wasn't the only one he thought was a Dick but I was a white man so I was an easy Target.

[QUOTE=Happy Dave;2007120]

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by kmart

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

Western nanny states do a great job of protecting naive knobs like you from the realities of life outside them. Spend a bit more time in Asia or other places as other than a sex-tourist and the odds will catch up to you.

Been in Asia long enough to have seen a lot of accidents, and even friends badly injured in motorcycle accidents. Drove past a bad smash on my way to work in Rayong on Monday. Couple of Thai students wiped off a motorbike, no helmets, brains over 2 lanes. Darwin in Motion. Ho hum.

Western nanny states do a good job of teaching people how not to drive so when they actually have to drive in Asia, they cant handle it

This is how they deliver pizza in Thailand.. This is me btw, so u know how to ride.



FUCK ! if my dog saw me getting on the back of you, the bastard would bite me.
That was a shocking display of just plain hoping that no one decided to change direction. It was all a game of chance, no skill whatsoever. Just luck !

That is not true. I have my eyes and ears peeled to the road, every move calculated. It's called defensive driving. When you are going faster then the flow of traffic, you spend very little time in anyone's way. That's the theory

Originally Posted by socal

Yeah I know. Who is the dickhead though ?

Is that a trick question?

Fair enough, and I did see the zebra crossing(which means fuk all in Thailand anyway though) a short distance before him, but what would you do if a kid did run out from behind a parked car ?

Your life bud, you will have to live with it

Originally Posted by Unlucky Ralph

Fair enough, and I did see the zebra crossing(which means fuk all in Thailand anyway though) a short distance before him, but what would you do if a kid did run out from behind a parked car ?

Your life bud, you will have to live with it

Possibly in a Thai prison.

I was a tearaway in my 20's, in cars, not on bikes though, but I never had the inclination to show the whole world what a twat I was

Saying that, they never had You Tube back then

You live and learn. I never listened to my dad, My adult son don't listen to me. I even tried to tell him-
a fool learns by his own mistakes, a wise man learns from the fool's.
That was passed to me by my dad, boring cnut, and - "I might not always be right, but I'm never wrong"- I still don't get that one(Army Barmy)

But hey, what fun would life be, if you couldn't learn from your own mistakes ?
You will grow up one day Socal,
I just hope you don't regret not listening. Tell you what would be great, your son putting those vids on You Tube, and you trying to show him the right path.

Be Lucky,

there is a thing as hell on earth.





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