When one comes to Thailand, he quickly notices a system of symbols on Thai trucks, pickups and motorcycles. Usualy it’s stickers, because a sticker is a modern, cheap and quick way to put some information on a vehicle. It’s an Asian way also, because of well developed production. Sometimes, it’s authentic old style paintings and [...]

If you suddenly drop your bike or unfortunately get into an accident, your bike’s beautiful body gets ugly scratches. What Western owner will do? He will come to repair shop, pay money, order new plastic parts. Another, maybe, more expensive way is to change a color of parts.
But what will Thai, or another Asian guy [...]

Thai craftsmans like to make toys and souvenirs from various trash: wires, cog wheels, coca-cola jars, corks from beer bottles. I found photos of a guy, whose hobby is modelling of motorcycles miniatures from parts of old empty lighters. It’s definitely a great idea, because a lighter provides many different parts good to construct something [...]

I found a very helpful and well-made website about life in Thailand – Freebeerforyorky. For us, motorcyclists, more interesting part is “Driving in Rural Thailand”. Yorky, the author of named after website, allowed me to republish typical manoeuvers, which Thai drivers use everyday. For Western drivers, who can lose driving license after 1 mistake, some [...]

Some Thais are completely uneducated. While the whole world fights against nazism ideology, Thais produce and sell t-shirts and stickers with nazi symbol (swastika). This week I found photos of Yamaha Fino styling called “Nazi Fino”. Of course, an owner completely doesn’t understand what he does. He doesn’t realize that nazists considered all Thais as [...]

One of Thai geeks became bored to burn time staying in Bangkok traffic dumps and looking onto traffic lights. He installed Windows-powered PC to front of his Yamaha Fino. As you can see, he decided to use Thermaltake touchscreen (no room for keyboard/mouse). Also he has small audiosystem, a lot of usb slots and, voila, [...]

I’ve written about Honda Chaly before, but I posted photos of beautifully tuned bikes. Some members of СhalyThailand.com shared photos of restoration process itself. As you can see, guys started from a completely dead bike, a real pile of scrap metal, and changed almost everything. I can’t call it “tuning” or “styling” – it’s a [...]

Usually Thais highly respect a digit nine as a lucky number. They pick lottery tickets with as many nines in a ticket number as possible to increase a chance of winning. They buy car and motorcycle number plates with lucky digits from special sellers for higher price. But this case is special – some tough [...]

Unfortunately, most tunings of motorbikes are very common, because people use limited set factory produced parts. Fisrt 3-5 tuned motorcycles amaze you, next 10 glade you, then you become bored and don’t react to any new tunings.
Luckily, there are enthusiasts of tuning and styling who care about individualism of their motorcycles. I found a nice [...]

Hot news: Thailand makes step to the world motorcycle market with new generation of motorcycles. Group of Thai researchers has just finished test drive of motorcycles. «It will be bomb: it’s green, it saves fuel and money, it’s light and speedy, it suits for all ages», the head of researchers group said. «Our fashion design [...]