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You Wanted Motorbike Stunt – get it! 1st Bangkok Motorbike Festival

samlowry — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:24:32 +0000

In blog statistics I noticed you’re coming here by queries about motorcycle stunting: “kst stunt”, “moto stunt”, etc. And you are right, one of the most popular motorcycles in Thailand is Kawasaki KSR and one of its main purposes is stunt. Because it’s small (means cheap and easy for tricks learning) but powerful and have accessible tuning parts. A very good formula for stunt, isn’t it?

So, in Bangkok, Central Plaza, first Bangkok Motorbike Festival has just finished. Here I post photos of epap – one of ksrthailand.com moderators. Several photos – stunting on bigbikes.

From KSRThailand

Tags: Bangkok, Kawasaki, KSR, stunt

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Kawasaki on 2009 BKK motorshow

samlowry — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:00:53 +0000

For me, as a big fan of Kawasaki KSR, it was upsetting to see a very stingy Kawasaki showroom. Only 3 tuned motocycles, the rest was a pure demonstration of the standart models line. All 3 motocycles were done by guys from Ueno Shop, and, can I tell you – it’s quite proffesional and beautiful tuning. BTW, their KSR hit KSR of the month list on the official Kawasaki website.

KSR

Ninja 250R

D-Tracker

Tags: Kawasaki, KSR, Ninja, В-Tracker

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Honda: Let’s Have Fun!

samlowry — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:01:02 +0000

Here you will find about 70 photos from Honda section on 30th Bangkok Motorshow. For motorcycles lovers it was the best part of exhibition. I can wish to other companies to be creative, colorful and cool as same as Honda.

Honda Scooters Mechanics from the Inside

Variator of Honda scooters:

Famous Honda’s liquid cooling system:

Monkey Gang Together

Cult triplet of Honda minis: Ape, Monkey and Gorilla:

Masks

Honda makes very beautiful masks (for me it looks like emblem or shield) from tuning parts for various scooters:

Club Shop

Well Tuned Supersport

Crazy Tunings of Scooters and Scooter Mods

Other bikes

Honda Sim

Tags: Bangkok, Honda, mini, minis, scooters, tuning

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Yamaha: Yes! We are Different!

samlowry — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:34:50 +0000

Today is Yamaha day. As I said before, they presented many beautiful tuned scooters at the Motor Show. Also they must to present 2 concepts, but everybody saw them only on a big sceen and on their website. So, a few words about that concepts.

NaaS1

On a website it’s said:

The dynamic motion suspension with variable dimensions allows this product to maintain the best of both sides – sporty handling without sacrificing comfort. The aerodynamic form presents an image of practicality and high quality. In SPORT mode, the wheel base is shortened, and the silhouette of the whole motorcycle including the tank morphs into a super-sport style design. In CRUISE mode,the silhouette of the motorcycle takes on more horizontal lines, resulting in a relaxed riding position that prevents fatigue.

Sounds fantastic, but we can see only this careless picture:

It’s easy to write good sounding words, but very hard to realize it.

Ei

On a website it’s said:

All about the curves. Look at this model from any direction,and you will see that it is about looking round and pretty. Smart city riding and easy weaving but expressing your practical side, too. Close the cover to protects your partner from dust and scratches.

At home, the character of styling turns into art.

Firstly, I thought it has a rain mode, but nope – it can transform only to a parking mode. How it can help me praticaly – I don’t know:

Exposition

But if we skip question about concepts, I can say: Yamaha had a very nice designed booth. Usable, colorful, funny:

These are photos of all mods and tuned scooters:

Black Fino

X1R – Street Transformer

Off-road Monster Fino

Wall-E Fino

X-Speed Samurai Style Mio

Racing Repsol Style Scooter

Red with Carbon Nuovo Elegance

Tags: Elegance, Fino, Nuovo, scooters, tuning, X1R, Yamaha

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Faces of Bangkok Motor Show (yep, 50+ pics of kawaii girls inside)

samlowry — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:21:40 +0000

As I promised, I continue my reportage from 30th BKK International Motor Show. Here I post only photos of people from the show. On most photos are girls – show performers. As I noticed, most of amateur photographers and some of pros took only girls’ shots. And yes, it’s worth it. Asian models look cute, sometimes – like dolls or anime characters, they take funny poses, posing for everybody, they are very friendly. Ok-ok, I stop talking and let you enjoy photos!

Tags: Bangkok, girls, models, motor show, people

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I’d visited the 30th Bangkok International Motor Show!

samlowry — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:48:06 +0000

Several days ago I looked for a picture of Yamaha Mio Amore for a logo of Motosai.com. I had open yamaha-motor.co.th and noticed a big banner of 30th Bangkok International Motor Show. Googled for details in English – gotcha, I still can visit it! So, I visited and enjoyed it. In next several posts I’ll descibe my impressions of the motorshow. Here I’ll tell you about main trends which I noticed on the show.

Electromania everywhere

The theme of the 30th Motor Show is “Green life on Wheels”. As said on the motor show website:

Hence, the innovation of vehicle development should concern on not only new technology but also energy saving and environment.

One, an usual way to follow green way – to use electric power. So, like famous Tesla Motors, many cars and motorcycles manufacturers try to present electric cars and bikes to the market. But today, when industry just make first timid steps, their vehicles look pathetic: they cost more then traditional vehicles and have worse parameters. For example, Gemcar presented many kinds of electric cars, they even presented Gravitix – an electric inflatable boat for family fun. That boat cost about $1,000, but it’s just kind of an air bed with an electric motor! It can accelerate up to 8.5 km/h only! It’s just a toy! If I need to choose some toy vehicle, I’ll better buy one Dedo and one Chop Chop, both for price of a stupid motored air bed! And each of bikes have speed up to 30-35 km/h. It’s amazing in compare to a boring 8.5 km/h of air bed.

Gravitix – XXI century air bed:

Several electric cars exposed by Gemcars – slow and expensive:

Ozoe electric scooter:

Dedo electric mini-scooter:

Chop chop electric mini-chopper:

Dedo and cho chop at the exposition:

Situation with hybrids is better: as you can know, there are many hybrids on our roads today, some of them were produced on factories, some are usual cars modified by enthusiasts. But hybrids still are not that popular in Thailand. At Bangkok Motor Show hybrids was exhibited apart of usual cars, on raised platforms, like something amazing, visitors could only remotedly take pictures of that cars.

Honda Insight – “Pls, don’t touch!”:

Some Toyota hybrid concept:

For me more interesting and amazing was company “K’s hydro-energy” which offered a kit for transofrmation of an usual car or motorbike to a gasoline-hydrogen hybrid. The kit for motorcycles looks like 1 liter chrome jar which connects to battery by wire and to engine by pipe. You just need to fill a jar with water, and it begins to produce hydrogen bubbles and enrich gasoline by that bubbles. Gotcha – you save 40% of gasoline using usual water ! Kit for motorbikes cost about 5,000 ฿ (about $140) and suit up to 600 cc bikes.

K’s hydrogen generators set for trucks:

Photos of Honda Wave 125 cc with an installed hydrogen generator:

Cars are boring

When I came to show, I made big mistake: I started visitation with cars, when I planed to visit show especially to look at bikes and then write report on this blog. I spent several hours, whole battery of my camera and big amount of my energy and attention for that stupid cars. And, as a lover of everything unusual and bright, now I can surely say: “Cars are boring!!!” On the exposition companies just put stock models with usual shapes and sad grayscale colors. There were no tuned cars, or I didn’t noticed their modes tuning. It wasn’t bright, colorful and fun. Even girls looked similarly boring in their strict clothing and makeup. After that, coming to a motorcycle section was like breath of fresh air…

Cars’ section:

Versus motorcycles section – completely defferent attitude:

Honda really has fun!

It was really sad for me, as to a fan of Kawasaki KSR, that their exposition was poor: just stock bikes which we can see in every Kawasaki showroom and only 3 (!) bikes tuned by Ueno shop: one KSR, one D-Tracker (their big motard) and one Ninja (their supersport bike). With a strong KSR community and big number of beautiful tuned bikes Kawasaki could invite more enthusasists to show.

Kawasaki exhibition – same picture you can see in every Kawasaki showroom:

Performers weren’t cool enough:

Also, I don’t know why, Suzuki always takes 3rd place after Honda and Yamaha. The company has very good bikes, comparable to Honda and Yamaha, but – Suzuki always eats dust. At the exhibition they had show simplier than H & Y, not so interesting tuned bikes.

6 tuned Suzuki bikes – nothing special:

And, of course, Yamaha took 2nd place Honda – 1st. They had brilliant decorations, shows, big number of amazingly tuned bikes, interesting shops of club clothing and parts for tuning, great and nice dressed performers.

Yamaha presented absolutely strange bikes’ custom modifications:

Honda – always bright:

Always has fresh ideas for a show:

Tags: Bangkok, cars, Honda, hybrids, hydrogen, Kawasaki, KSR, mini, motor show, Suzuki, Yamaha