Thread: Going to end in blood and tears...

Then you should buy him a helmet?

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Then you should buy him a helmet?

If his dad can afford a bike he can afford a helmet. He just chose not to.

Buying one is one way to make yourself unwelcome.

All "hotheaded" boys should have a small motorbike for letting off steam.

Off road and with gloves, boots and......helmet.

Originally Posted by prawnograph

Off to a great start, no mirrors, no helmet, no brains.

Sniffing the gasoline next

Originally Posted by helge

All "hotheaded" boys should have a small motorbike for letting off steam.

Off road and with gloves, boots and......helmet.

Yeah. He's a good father. He got most of it right

Originally Posted by prawnograph

Teachers and school friends at the funeral, a brief moment of sorrow and woe, but makes no difference, still see them minus helmets etc leaving school straight on to a highway racing and dodging other vehicles.

State schools all have teachers at the gates in the morning, mainly being picky about clothing or hairstyles. It really wouldn't be too difficult to impose some control over motorcycle riders without helmets.
In my experience of secondary schools with 3,000 plus students they seem to lose 5 or 6 boys (mostly boys) in motorcycle accidents every year. I remember one young student, maybe M2 or M3, his parents bought him a new bike as he lived several miles out of town. On his first day with it he rode straight into the back of a parked rice harvesting machine. He and his passenger died instantly. Very sad.
Then there are the walking wounded. There is almost always at least one student on crutches or arms plastered having survived a crash.

I believe there is a solution called the police but f course pulling over an 11 year old with 20 baht sweet money and no licence means going after the parents and that is just too much trouble for 150 Baht

Originally Posted by Shutree

State schools all have teachers at the gates in the morning, mainly being picky about clothing or hairstyles. It really wouldn't be too difficult to impose some control over motorcycle riders without helmets.

As that double fatality occurred after school Friday, classmates, friends, teachers were at the temple over the weekend, posing for mourning photos on Facebook etc, but Monday - business as usual.

Due to the school's location on town fringe, 200m to open highway, morning and afternoon there are two police on traffic control as incoming vehicles (sometimes) slow from highway speeds.

It's a nightmare taking her to school, getting overtaken on both sides in the rush through town, worse leaving as that's official race-time.

Police wave through hundreds of kids on motorbikes, most minus helmets, often three on a bike, I'd say very few have a licence - daughter says just one other in her class.

It would be a simple combined effort between teachers and police with a captive audience of almost 1000 ... but that's too hard.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

I believe there is a solution called the police but f course pulling over an 11 year old with 20 baht sweet money and no licence means going after the parents and that is just too much trouble for 150 Baht

Utterly futile.
A few years back I was cycling, clipped by the mudguard on a sidecar, just enough to send me off-road into long grass, no injury.

This was on Sukhumvit through Tung Benja - road widens to eight lanes. I gave chase and caught them - driver probably about 10 years old, little girl maybe 3-4 yr old in the sidecar

It had no registration plate, pointless trying to report. All this on the busiest road in the region.

But they are poor.

This reminds me of the story of the Honda ATC. Anyone who grew up in North America anywhere just a bit out ot town either owned one or knew someone who did. So many ppl were getting hurt that they made them illegal. But quads took over after that and still hurt an awful lot of ppl. My older brother wiped out on one and he was blind for a couple nights. His eyes were full of sand so they had to blindfold him for awhile

Originally Posted by Fondles

Meh, my oldies bought me my first bike when I was 8 (xmas pressie)

It was an RM80.

It actually tossed me dad off on xmas day.

Sounds like the ultimate modification.

Originally Posted by Fondles

It actually tossed me dad off on xmas day and he dislocated his his shoulder.

I think your translator got some of that wrong

Originally Posted by Fondles

Dad traded it on a new RM125 for me.

Way cheaper in spareparts, wasn't it ?