Fishenough

I don't think there is such a thing as a good second hand motocross bike most off them here have had years and years of abuse IMO be better of buying 2nd hand klx and stripping off all the unnecessary bits not needed I believe you can take out all the electrics and fit kickstart if you want to gp that far it's either that or cheap Chinese bikes and then your back to reliability problems

Been here over 20 years. Life's great especially the quality of life. I would advise not to sit around though. Do something ANYTHING that makes you happy and keeps you busy and off the streets out of the bars. It's a sliding slope if you have nothing to do. Think of a small kind of business that you could do with friends back in Canada or whatever. It's not so much the money but a reason to get up in the morning and have something to work on. Then there's all sorts of other projects from HIV to orphans and poor hill tribes. Make your life worthwhile and add something to the community. As in every country in the world there are nice people and back stabbers. If you buy property or invest get proper legal advice. There are many more ways to do it than to put everything in a GF/BF s name. The much asked question in this matter is: "But don't you trust me?". Turn it around and say "But don't you trust ME"?

Counter steering. I already had a ER-6n and in order to get the thing around turns you have to counter steer, but like many new riders I didn't know I was doing that.

Somebody told me a little trick: If you want to go around a left turn, push the left side of the handle bar forward just a bit. Until the bike drops into the curve and basically goes around all on its own. Same for the right.

There's many other things I've learned since then - shifting weight helps a lot, still working on keeping a very light hold on the handlebars, and staying on the gas in high speed turns which helps stability

But counter steering was by far the most significant. Tons of stuff about it all over the internet if you like to know more.

Looking ahead ... yeah well I already knew that from driving cars only go as fast as you can stop. An experienced rider I know crashed his BMW 1200GS into a toyota pickup truck that was parked in the middle of the road behind a small hill. He was complaining to no end - his bike was wrecked and he had sustained some injuries. He was lucky to be alive. But really, unfortunately, it was all his fault. Sure nobody should stop in the middle of the road with bad visibility. But as a rider, it's your responsibility to not go faster than you can stop. There might be a crashed vehicle there, a tree, a cow, a child - whatever.

Pond Life, on 2012-02-05 17:27:41, said:

gangsta.... yo G hear me out cuz... mah bra feel yo bike for only one yo, aint got no room for female, ya feel me?
aint go cruzing gangasta stylez dawg,

yo today i wuz cuzzin with me er6n yo at 80-100km G, ya keep the rhythm with them cars but yo seriously really scrarey when u turning or going through the traffic yo,... also braking aint hard brah, i ya use engine brakin, but yo i cant pack them takeaway foods bruh... seriously problem brah, G.
im out, peace bro

My daughter is coming to visit in a few months and i am making a list of what she might bring me.
But i feel compelled to do due diligence.
SO.... i have been to all the usual places, but still cannot locate the following items:

1) an 86" long shower curtain
2) a tortilla press (would a roti maker substitute?)
3) replacement heads for a Oral B Triumph electric toothbrush

has anyone come across these items somewhere in CM?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. My daughter does not fancy carrying a 10 pound tortilla hand press of cast iron with her.

OK I understand that you need a license and all for a motorcycle trailer, but if you just want to be able to haul you motorcycle in your truck do you need anything special.  something like this http://motorcycletrailer.com/rampage/

I've noticed that quite a few posters open topics in the Chiang Mai forum that obviously belong elsewhere because they are not relevant to Chiang Mai. I can well understand that people become familiar with their co-posters and develop a sense of commaraderie but if you haven't had a peek at General Topics I think you should. Why? I hear you say.

Because .... there are even more nutters on that particular forum than there are here. Honestly, I'm not joking!!

That forum is brilliant. There are people writing in about blatantly obvious Scams and asking for advice (the whole village fell for it, it appears), guys talking about the Estranged Wife, who should quite obviously by now have become a Strangled Wife (almost an anagram) , How Do You Deal With Lonely Nights (  ) , Foodcourt Giving Out The Wrong Change (another of those 'my friend' stories about an obviously brain-dead clown) and Thai Mother-In-Law Buying a Room (will she be scammed - hopefully YES).

I can't recommend this forum enough. If you want an insight into  how or why so many Farangs come unstuck in Thailand, a quick look at page one of this forum on any given day will answer it all. No need to ever look at page two - there are always enough examples in the top 10 posts. This could be used for a thesis for aspiring Social Studies students out there. It is like a cross between an Agony Aunts page and a Lonely Hearts Club, held at an Ugly Bugs Ball , no doubt.

The other amazing fact about this forum is ..... most of the posters appear to be over the age of 15.