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You actually hired a professional photographer to take this? Love that helmet... who makes that?

homie wrote:You actually hired a professional photographer to take this? Love that helmet... who makes that?

It's just some lads I ride with who are up on the moor's roads snapping all the bikes.

Helmet was a bargain

http://www.ghostbikes.com/6405-shox-bul ... elmet.html

Unavailable stateside, for a modular that's incredible good price. Only comparable to the WOW helmets which aren't modular here. I still reach for one of the two 39.00 WOW helmets I own over the more expensive modular. Lighter, better visibility and disposable if I drop one or it gets snatched in a parking lot. But they do fit under the PCX seat, just too lazy sometimes to put it away.

It's a great live action picture. The riding foot position, a stock seat, gloves, leather and helmet. I like it! Sets a good example for a safe ride. Check the front tire pressure, don't quit look normal unless you are braking.

I was braking when the shot was taken, is a car park just forward to my left of the shot.

I LIKE IT!
Challenging everyone to take an action drive by picture or video like this. It won't be easy, but it might be FUN!

Get a tele fast lens with a DSLR, add knowledge in composition and photography, and you'll get that. Cool shot.

no, not a drive by shot...



Rode 60kms off Bangkok to get my Thai Driving license. (I was temporarily driving with my home country's DL)

Nice setup! link us to your Honda decal on the lower panel when you get a chance. Did you know you can get a Honda PCX prestige badge to put where the wings are?

Would you like to know more?

alx123 wrote:........ (I was temporarily driving with my home country's DL)

I got a Thai motorcycle license by showing them an international permit from the US that indicated I was permitted to operate a motorcycle. I had never operated one prior to moving to Thailand and probably should not have been issued the Thai motorcycle license. I guess it goes to prove that it never hurts to ask.

Another strange twist to the plot is that I have learned that because I am a resident of Thailand and not the US, I can operate my motorcycle back there using my Thai license. I have a US learners endorsement for New York, but it is limited to always having an licensed "escort" within a quarter of a mile. I don't know many other riders in the US, so that is a real challenge. On my next trip back I am going to try to take the safety course and get a fully endorsed NY motorcycle license.

Oh No! Get outta them bushes! We don't want hairline Scratches on the "Precious!"
I noticed the star add-on myself, looks good there


@ kramnala, glad to hear it! The MS course is a must have and fun to boot! With Your experience, it will be a breeze. Will you use a scooter? Yours or theirs? Or will you be shifting?

homie wrote:Nice setup! link us to your Honda decal on the lower panel when you get a chance. Did you know you can get a Honda PCX prestige badge to put where the wings are?

Would you like to know more?

here's the link, they're very cheap from Thailand. Wish they are little bigger though...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141808565726?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

And yes, I know about the honda prestige badge. I just want to put something else since most of the PCX here have it.

kramnala58 wrote:

alx123 wrote:........ (I was temporarily driving with my home country's DL)

I got a Thai motorcycle license by showing them an international permit from the US that indicated I was permitted to operate a motorcycle. I had never operated one prior to moving to Thailand and probably should not have been issued the Thai motorcycle license. I guess it goes to prove that it never hurts to ask.

Another strange twist to the plot is that I have learned that because I am a resident of Thailand and not the US, I can operate my motorcycle back there using my Thai license. I have a US learners endorsement for New York, but it is limited to always having an licensed "escort" within a quarter of a mile. I don't know many other riders in the US, so that is a real challenge. On my next trip back I am going to try to take the safety course and get a fully endorsed NY motorcycle license.

I don't have an international license. They could actually convert my country's DL to Thai DL, but they need tons of certification (from my country's transpo office and embassy, foreign affairs, etc) that I decided it is much easier to get a Thai DL from scratch in stead.

alx123 wrote:

kramnala58 wrote:

alx123 wrote:........ (I was temporarily driving with my home country's DL)

I got a Thai motorcycle license by showing them an international permit from the US that indicated I was permitted to operate a motorcycle. I had never operated one prior to moving to Thailand and probably should not have been issued the Thai motorcycle license. I guess it goes to prove that it never hurts to ask.

Another strange twist to the plot is that I have learned that because I am a resident of Thailand and not the US, I can operate my motorcycle back there using my Thai license. I have a US learners endorsement for New York, but it is limited to always having an licensed "escort" within a quarter of a mile. I don't know many other riders in the US, so that is a real challenge. On my next trip back I am going to try to take the safety course and get a fully endorsed NY motorcycle license.

I don't have an international license. They could actually convert my country's DL to Thai DL, but they need tons of certification (from my country's transpo office and embassy, foreign affairs, etc) that I decided it is much easier to get a Thai DL from scratch in stead.

For my car license I was able to show my US license and they accepted it along with my passport visa and work permit. But because I did not have a motorcycle endorsement, I couldn't get a Thai motorcycle license. When I was getting an international permit from AAA in the us, the clerk asked if I wanted it endorsed to ride a motorcycle, so I said, "sure" and she did. The international permit is not a license, but must accompany a valid license. It should not have been accepted here in Thailand for me to get a Thai motorcycle license, but I guess I asked on the right day, because the accepted it and issued by license with the standard eye testing.

@kramnala

Lucky you.

I sat for a day of seminar (mostly in Thai) and watched a 3-hour video (with English sub). Also did a 50 item exam, color blindness test and an actual riding and driving test.

Drive by footage is harder to do than you'd think slower, closer next time with maximum frames per second maybe. Hey listen to the aftermath sound of the PCX... never heard that before. Sounds like a jet engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUWesV0RiXI

alx123 wrote:@kramnala
Lucky you.
I sat for a day of seminar (mostly in Thai) and watched a 3-hour video (with English sub). Also did a 50 item exam, color blindness test and an actual riding and driving test.

I was glad I didn't have to go through that, and it was one of the reasons why I got the international permit. I have been pulled over twice in a car here, but never on the bike. Of the two times I was pulled over, one of them I deserved (illegal U-turn) and the other time I did not (he said I made an improper lane change in downtown Bangkok ). Both times I showed them my international permit and they looked at it like it was from Mars. He let me go for the improper lane change, and I paid the 100 baht on-the-spot "fine" for the other one.

homie wrote:Drive by footage is harder to do than you'd think slower, closer next time with maximum frames per second maybe. Hey listen to the aftermath sound of the PCX... never heard that before. Sounds like a jet engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUWesV0RiXI

Nice video. Maybe put it beside the road with a tripod next time for a closer take.

@kramnala

The usual "mai kao jai" didn't work? LOL

I heard they just increased the fines recently, we should be more careful round here.

A great day last Sunday marked by the sad crash that happened only hours later on the same road. Thankfully all parties involved while suffering life changing injuries should make a full recovery in due time.

We got it the first time.

NO I haven't got it at all! I need someone to take my picture without stealing my camera... video cant work, tried that.