Elephant is the most popular animal in Thailand. It’s a symbol, friend and vehicle for Thais. During Thai holidays village people come to cities with elephants and drive them by streets blessing houses and earn some money. 2 days ago I noticed a funny thing: two elephant owners decided to follow official regulations for vehicles [...]

By this article I start “Stupid Tunings” series about stupid, senseless and funny modifications of Thai vehicles by Thai people. Let’s speak about number plates again. Do you agree: ugly “ears” of wide number plate, overhanging by sides of a rear mud guard, aren’t something perfect. If something looks unbeautiful (“mai suai”) – Thais apply [...]

Number plates in Thailand is a special subject. Yesterday, when I was moving off supermarket parking, I suddenly noticed a strange number of one old Jaguar. It was the number 2! Of course, it isn’t the true second number given in Chiang Mai. Actually, it’s the number กพ 2 (ko pho 2), what means it’s [...]

Everybody likes tuk-tuks! Who can argue with that? In all countries the first thing we discover is a public transport. Most likely, we will use tuk-tuks, because they are the cheapest and most exotic way to get somewhere inside a city (some tuk-tuks offer trips even outside cities, for example, you can easily hire Cambodian [...]

Don’t want to converse with friendly Thai policemans too often? Don’t want to pay fines? Want to have a green light everywhere? You need to know only 3 rules of Thai unofficial highway code. Rules applicable for foreigners only, because for Thai people 3 rules are too much to remember and follow – too much [...]

As motorcycle is the most popular vehicle in Thailand, Thais use it for everything: for transportation of the whole family, including dogs and children; for sitting and eating; as a portable kitchen and a beverage shop. And, of course, they use it for carrying big luggages and freights. As Davidfl, member of GT-Rider.com and author [...]

Several days ago I discovered blog with a great conception. Dale Konstanz, the author of the blog, uses Bangkok taxis and takes pictures of inside decorations, fantastic in their craziness, every single day. Because a car is a house on wheels, taxi drivers have unlimited possibilities to decorate their vehicles. Of course, the first thing [...]

Most of motorcycle stylings and tunings look very standard, because people just put some pictures or textures onto a bike body, change some small parts («Hey, dude, this is my new anodized fuel tank’s cap for $20, it’s nice, isn’t it?»). But motorcycles look too casual, still. Somebody does serious styling rarely. And if somebody [...]

My friend Chris doesn’t like my blog. “You write about motorbikes, I like bicycles,” he said. Ok, I have to write something about bicycles! There are crazy-odd-weird bicycles in Thailand too. For example, look at this mutant, mixed penny-farthing bike from 1880s and chopper from the end 20 century. I met this bike and [...]

Thais have King and Buddhism, and officially they are symbols of Thailand. But, anybody, who been in Thailand, agrees the real symbol is small, noisy vehicle riding in smelling clouds of exhaust pollutions. That vehicles produced locally by small producers. That’s why vehicles look so home-made. In most of modifications producers use parts of factory [...]