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Originally Posted by Perota

Please post the map, roads where I can really enjoy a big, fast bike.

The 100km section of highway 12 through Nam Nao national park between Lomsak and Chum Phae for starters. Wide and windy with hills and magnificent scenery, road surface perfect.
I was on a Honda Blackbird, would that be big and fast enough for you?

Originally Posted by Spin

The 100km section of highway 12 through Nam Nao national park between Lomsak and Chum Phae for starters. Wide and windy with hills and magnificent scenery, road surface perfect.

I already posted a map and everyfing.

^ My bad, I missed it first time round. Anyways, these armchair bikers take a lot of convincing so it wont hurt to repeat the facts a few times

Should be kinda careful on some of that road as last time I was thru there a dump truck load of crushed rock had missed a gear or something and his brakes would not hold him from going backwards down the hill for a ways and he had flipped onto his righr side with the open top of the cargo bed downhill and gravel plugging up more than half ot the roadway along with his truck nose out in the middle of the road.
Plus that, his bike is in China and he will have to haul it to Lom Sak.

Originally Posted by Spin

The 100km section of highway 12 through Nam Nao national park between Lomsak and Chum Phae for starters. Wide and windy with hills and magnificent scenery, road surface perfect.

This is a fairly ok route. Not challenging really. And it is over fairly quickly. Pick a time when it's dry. These roads are slippery when damp. Makes it interesting when getting your knee down.

Worst thing is Thai do not know how to mix Hot Batch or lay it and all pavement, new or old has the same traction equivalent as Black Ice in North Dakota in January.
But of coarse it is better to go down on than asphalt with enough coarse crush in it to afford goo traction for tires.
Very minimal road rash really if you do not go off the black top onto the gravel shoulder.

So it is also a reason not to wear leather as it is so hot and Pandy would call you a BIKEY..

Originally Posted by blackgang

Very minimal road rash really if you do not go off the black top onto the gravel shoulder. So it is also a reason not to wear leather as it is so hot and Pandy would call you a BIKEY..

Last crash I had, wore leather jacket & trousers. Sliding along the tarmac wore holes right through the jacket, trouser, gloves, grinded away the plastics on the boots, grinded half the front of the helmet. Only the thing that was left intact was the back protector. Once stopped sliding, hopped to my feet. No sign of road rash what so ever.
This happened at approx 80kmh.
Would have been a completely different story had I worn jeans & textile jacket.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

And it is over fairly quickly

Never had that problem myself, try reciting "dead dogs, flat cats"

last one I had was pobly close to 80, maybe not sure, but was fast enough on the slick pavement that when the bike run in front of me I dropped mine, which is my habit instead of going front wheel into what ever it is..I was wearing T shirt, Khaki pants and deck shoes. holes worn in T and pants leg.
I went down and my scoot was sliding merrily along and I, on my left side was laying on the road, sliding along after the machine and wondering just how much longer this was going to take to stop.
It finally did, I had deep rash on my left shoulde rback and top and front, deep wear just below my left elbpw, hide worn off back of my left hand,, hit on my left hip and rash,,beep rash outside on lower left knee.

Would have been bad if the pavenent was rough enough to have made me roll, or the bike to flip, but was sort of like sliding on ice,, I am glad,, but if the pavement would have had a texture then my tires would have held the road and I would not have went down and could have missed the bike with the 3 [at][at][at][at] on it that made the Uey in front of me.
No infection and a sore hip for a week,, but I am to old for that shit anymore anyway. and I know better than to think a Thai is going to do the LOGICAL thing, I live with one FFS.

I had more physical damage from that one than from hitting a Chrysler station head on, wearing a full suit of Langlitz Leathers, then all that took a hit was my face was torn almost off by the grill of the car.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

This is a fairly ok route. Not challenging really. And it is over fairly quickly. Pick a time when it's dry. These roads are slippery when damp. Makes it interesting when getting your knee down.

How would you know? I have it on good authority that your just a dreamer.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Originally Posted by Travelmate

This is a fairly ok route. Not challenging really. And it is over fairly quickly. Pick a time when it's dry. These roads are slippery when damp. Makes it interesting when getting your knee down.

How would you know? I have it on good authority that your just a dreamer.

Originally Posted by Rigger

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Quote: Originally Posted by Perota Quote: Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog Quote: Originally Posted by Perota If they give me one their bike, I wouldn't say no. Nor would I. But I would sell it to some moron who thinks they're cool, and then buy a good bike. What is a good bike for you ? Roads in Thailand are not so good for big bikes, you're not even allowed on the highways. And sorry, but I can't call those little scooters people drive here a bike. The roads in Thailand have some of the best riding routes in the world and bikes are allowed on the highways (not the tollways). I can only assume that you're talking about Bangkok, not Thailand?

I guess some Thailand experts never get out of Bangkok

I hear that a lot Rigger; the cry normally comes loudest from either teachers or farang stuck in gridlock city