Thais Use Motorbikes and Scooters as Trucks

Thais Use Motorbikes and Scooters as Trucks

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 [...]

Highway Code? Who care about it, maaaan! You’re in Thailand!

Highway Code? Who care about it, maaaan! You’re in Thailand!

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 [...]

Tough Thai Dude

Tough Thai Dude

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 [...]

5 Main Classes of Motorbikes in Thailand

5 Main Classes of Motorbikes in Thailand

As I said before, Thai laws regulating capacity of motorbike engines allow no more than 250 cc. As a result, Thai moto-market evolutions in a different way than European. In this post I’ll tell about the most popular bike groups.
Usual Mopeds
Usually they come with half-automatic or manual transmission, kick starter and for a cheap price [...]

First Post

First Post

Welcome to the Motosai blog! Motosai in Thai means “motorcycle”. In Thai – because I live in Thailand, have two Thai motorcycles and like an unique Thai moto-scene. It’s interesting for several reasons: Thai laws limits motorcycle engine power to 250 cc, that’s why we have here tens of models of small, friendly and beautifull [...]