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Press Release
Getting Ready for Phuket Bike Week and Mmotorcycle Exhibition 2008, Promoting Travel During Songkran (Thai New Year) Water Festival.

Ride Thailand, Phukets Big Bikers and Jungceylon Shopping Destination organized a mini Promotion Day for the International Event Phuket Bike Week and Motorcycle Exhibition on the 1st of February 2008, in Jungceylons – The Point Arena. With The hopes of Pulling in more Tourists and Bikers to the Pearl of the Andaman (Phuket Island) with an estimated 50,000 people, and generating over 100 million Thai Baht worth of business.
Phuket Bike Week and Motorcycle Exhibition 2008’s organizers include Ride Thailand, Phuket Government Division, Patong Municipal, Tourism Authority of Thailand, Phuket Riders Club, Phuket Big Bike Association, Heroes End, Kamala Riders, Free Wheels, Born To Be Wild, Demi God, Jungceylon Shopping Destination, Superstars within the Thailand’s Biker Family working together to organize this annual Big Bike Festival During 9-14 April 2008.

The objective is to hold a meeting and celebration for Brothers and Sisters from Around the World, Promoting Phuket Tourist Industry, safe Riding, and Boost Phuket Local Businesses as well as providing charity for Underprivileged Schools in Phuket.

Phukets Motorcycle Exhibition and Show will be the Largest and most Grand in Asia.

10-12 April 2008 Motorcycle Exhibition 2008
(10.00-23.00hrs) Jungceylon- Patong Phuket Island

11-12 April 2008 Biker Weekend Party.
(6pm-24:00) Patong Football Field.

12 April 2008 Island Bike Cruise
(14:00-16:00)

12 April 2008 Phuket Bike Week Grand Dinner 2008
(17.00-22.00hrs) Thainnan Restaurant- Phuket Town,

13 April 2008 Songkran Festival
(All Day) Bikers Park Up, Beach front outside Graceland Hotel.

Phuket Bike Week and Motorcycle Exhibition 2008 is being supported by Media Around the World, Television, Radio, Newspapers, MC Magazines, and Airlines within Thailand. The Event will be Welcoming over 30,000 bikers from over 350 Clubs over Thailand, and over 20,000 bikers from Around the World, a whopping estimated Total 50,000 people, to experience what Thailand’s Motor Sports is all about.

For More Information;
sumon@ridethailand.com, alissa@ridethailand.com, www.phuketbikeweek.com
Tel: +66(0)76352

To tax and insure your motorcycle you will need the green book in your name or your wife’s or partners name. Tax is a cost of 100BHT for one year for all motorcycles. Motorcycle insurance depending on the size (cc) starts at about 350BHT for a small bike and up to 1000BHT for a big bike, this is only at a transport department’s office this is a government insurance policy not a private policy. Private policy’s will probably charge you more for the same thing. Insurance in Thailand will not be the same as in your home country so make sure you get the full details before paying for your policy.

To apply for a motorcycle licence you will need a None-B visa or a None-O.
The government automobile registry office Chatuchak opposite Chatuchak market is the place where you get your motorcycle registered and is also the place where you do your motorcycle test. The test it self is very easy first of all you have to do a coordination test that is very basic, then you have to hire a motorcycle the cost is 50BHT or you could use your own motorbike.Then you make your way to a small track,it looks a bit like a go-cart track it’s very basic. Then you ride around the track one time only, stopping at the junction remembering to look left and right indicating, it’s so easy. When you pass your test or if you pass your test you will then pay a price of 50BHT for your motorcycle licence, it will last you one year. After the year expirers you then have to go back to the same office and apply for a five year motorcycle license the cost is around 250BHT.
The licence has 50 points, like any other county if you commit an offence on your motorcycle points will be deducted, but that is up to the police man or police station you are dealing with. My advice is do not try to make your self look bad, take your ticket pay and move on. The reason you have probable been stopped is because you were on the right hand side of the road that only allows three wheeled automobiles and above rather than the inside lane. The police will stop you if you go over or under a bridge that does not allow motorcycle access.

If a motorcycle does not have it’s green book and plate(documentation) that is because it has been shipped in from a different country, it does not mean that it has been stolen. The motorcycle should have an invoice with it so you can get the correct documents.If it does not have the invoice don’t buy it. Prices for documentation start from around 40,000BHT for 400cc motorcycles and up to 85,000BHT for a 1600cc motorcycle.Prices go on make model and size(cc). Motorcycle made in Japan are cheaper than motorcycles made in America or Europe.If your bike is a Harley it will cost 85,000BHT and the same goes for BMW,but if you have a Yamaha R1 that comes from Japan it would cost less about 70,000BHT. These are just Bangkok prices not Thailand prices.We can get them cheaper and road legal . If you want to find out more contact me at onyourbike@asiabikes.

Asia bikes are an agent in Thailand that provides you with information about motorcycle for sale. We work on a commission basis from the sale of a bike.If a motorcycle is over 100,000Bht then the commission is 5,000Bht if the motorcycle is under 100,000Bht then the commission is 2,000Bht. We get commission from our shops not the customer once a motorcycle has been sold. Asia bikes has been set up for the lack of information in Thailand for foreigners. We hope to develop this site in the future for foreigner to make it better and easier for you when going to buy a motorcycle.
I myself have lived in Thailand for a long time and have met so many people that have purchased a motorcycle and paid over the odds, way over the odds.
Asia bikes is not out to rip people off.We work on a small commission so we can develop this site in the future, and make it Thailand’s number one provider of motorcycles and information.
Like all dealers Asia bike shop owners are open for price discussion.

Silpakorn University, Nakhon-Pathom 73000, Thailand.

A large prospective study was undertaken this year at Sillpakorn university. Researchers conducted on-scene, an in-depth investigation and reconstruction of 969 collisions involving 1082 motorcycle riders. Accidents were randomly sampled and included all levels of injury severity. Alcohol proved to be the most outstanding cause factor, with 393 drinking riders in crashes. Alcohol accidents were distinctly different from non-alcohol crashes. Alcohol accidents were more frequent on weekends and particularly at night, usually when the rider was on there way home. Drinking riders were more likely to lose control of the motorcycle, usually by running off the road. They were more likely to be in a single vehicle accident, to violate traffic control signals, and to be in non-intersection collisions. Males were far more likely to drink and ride than females. Drinking riders were far more likely to be inattentive to the driving task just before they crashed, and to be the primary or sole cause of the accident. One-fourth of all riders did not go to the hospital, and another 42% needed only treatment in the emergency room. Drinking riders were more likely to be hospitalized and far more likely to be killed. The higher hospitalization and fatality rates of drinking riders resulted from the kinds of accidents in which they were involved, not from the minimal differences in speeds and helmet use. Problems with balance and coordination were about equally rare among drinking and non-drinking riders. Inattention was a far greater contributing factor.

I have been stopped many times by police in Thailand because i was riding on the wrong side of the road.what is usually a one hundred baht fine for a Thai person the police tried to charge me four hundred baht.when they realized i spoke Thai they decided to change it back to one hundred baht. so be warned don’t drive on the right hand side of the road or over bridges that have signs with motorcycles on them, or under bridges with motorcycles signs on them because there maybe an unexpected surprise for you at the other end.