Saw a barang woman zcootering around town in the week. Neither she nor her 5 year old barang daughter had helmets. Silly cow. If she had a crash the kid may get lucky and survive but what's a little kid gonna do as mummy lies there unconscious or worse? I get the whole freedom stuff - and may be if you are puttering down a lane on your country estate you'd have a minuscule chance of being in an accident but in PP you can be fairly sure that sooner or later you have a good chance of being hit by someone. Or at least making a tit of yourself by dropping the bike when you Fuck up.
There is an outfit on st 63 that sells AGV helmets and Givi top boxes.
Stroppy Frog used to sell Shark at the Bike Shop.
Tony carries helmets from time to time at Two Wheels Only.
Some Khmer outfits are flogging proper lids now.
Why The Hell Most Barangs Don't Wear Helmets?
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I don't think the law should be able to enforce an adult to wear a helmet if they don't want to. Her child doesn't have that choice. I don't have any kids yet but I just can't imagine hoping on a scooter with my child, in Phnom Penh, and not putting a helmet on him/her. How fucking stupid.Just Robbed wrote:Saw a barang woman zcootering around town in the week. Neither she nor her 5 year old barang daughter had helmets. Silly cow. If she had a crash the kid may get lucky and survive but what's a little kid gonna do as mummy lies there unconscious or worse? I get the whole freedom stuff - and may be if you are puttering down a lane on your country estate you'd have a minuscule chance of being in an accident but in PP you can be fairly sure that sooner or later you have a good chance of being hit by someone. Or at least making a tit of yourself by dropping the bike when you Fuck up.
There is an outfit on st 63 that sells AGV helmets and Givi top boxes.
Stroppy Frog used to sell Shark at the Bike Shop.
Tony carries helmets from time to time at Two Wheels Only.
Some Khmer outfits are flogging proper lids now.
I saw a early 20 something white girl zipping around fast through Toul Tom Pong yesterday, earphones in, looking down, texting on her iPhone. No Helmet.
Wan't to slap that phone out of her hands. I restrained myself. Good DM.
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You are exaggerating.C-Mon wrote:Why most barangs won't wear helmets?
Most barangs I know - wear helmets, and not the cheap ones for $50. I weighed my helmet options and decided that $250 spent on a proper helmet was a good investment in my Life.
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Everyone needs a good open-face helmet with visor for the city. Some protection is better than none.
My opinion and my opinion only, those full face helmets block your hearing and peripheral vision. Like *most* American cars, good for traveling very fast in a straight line (only).
If you want to weave a bit (i.e., you are fairly agile - a Muay Thai guy, athlete, veteran) then an open face with visor works fine. The visor can also act as a "Get Smart" cone of silence when you wedge a Nokia brick phone inside the helmet, right next to your ear. Then you close the visor and the other end can hear you much better now. Hands-fee, too, if a bit of added distraction.
The traffic is SO SLOW now it's almost as safe as Bangkok traffic (i.e., low-speed collisions only). Of course, DO NOT drive drunk in the rain at night. At least not too fast. You take your chances then.
But man, safety goes up when speed goes down. Slothness saves lives. All I can say, it's REALLY slow in PP now! But weekends and rainy days are exceptions.
Strangely, I *like* riding in the rain, not as many locals on the road then, they make it easier by vacating the roads. Also, lunch times on national highways seem to be a clear window of opportunity to avoid large trucks. Odd, but true.
I find the traffic SOO slow nowadays, I can sip on my drink and nibble on my salty fruit snacks at stops, etc. On a 1-handed scooter I text and chat all the time, and it's only the uptight, newly-arrived Westerner who thinks we're on the Autobahn here. Nah, it's just St. 19 or St. 294 and we're not going ANYWHERE.
That said, I only cut off people I will only briefly see again. I make sure I speed off and clear the lane for him. In the reverse, I don't mind it so much if someone cuts me off, but vacates immediately. It's the jerk who cuts me off then JUST SITS THERE and allows me a way to devise some retribution.
I don't smack cars (any more) if they come too close. Instead, when they are stopped I now ride up as close as possible to them and possibly brush them with my plastic mirror/ears. Fair enough.
I *ALWAYS* cut of tuk tuk drivers whenever I can, sometime just for fun. Strangely, they don't usually react. That said, I know they are poor and have weak brakes, so I give the occasional passenger-carrying tuk tuk the right of way. And now I *expect* the occasional tuk tuk to arbitrarily cut me off, but I've cut off so many of them, I'm still ahead. No worries or aggravations.
How do you drive in PP and elsewhere nowadays?
My opinion and my opinion only, those full face helmets block your hearing and peripheral vision. Like *most* American cars, good for traveling very fast in a straight line (only).
If you want to weave a bit (i.e., you are fairly agile - a Muay Thai guy, athlete, veteran) then an open face with visor works fine. The visor can also act as a "Get Smart" cone of silence when you wedge a Nokia brick phone inside the helmet, right next to your ear. Then you close the visor and the other end can hear you much better now. Hands-fee, too, if a bit of added distraction.
The traffic is SO SLOW now it's almost as safe as Bangkok traffic (i.e., low-speed collisions only). Of course, DO NOT drive drunk in the rain at night. At least not too fast. You take your chances then.
But man, safety goes up when speed goes down. Slothness saves lives. All I can say, it's REALLY slow in PP now! But weekends and rainy days are exceptions.
Strangely, I *like* riding in the rain, not as many locals on the road then, they make it easier by vacating the roads. Also, lunch times on national highways seem to be a clear window of opportunity to avoid large trucks. Odd, but true.
I find the traffic SOO slow nowadays, I can sip on my drink and nibble on my salty fruit snacks at stops, etc. On a 1-handed scooter I text and chat all the time, and it's only the uptight, newly-arrived Westerner who thinks we're on the Autobahn here. Nah, it's just St. 19 or St. 294 and we're not going ANYWHERE.
That said, I only cut off people I will only briefly see again. I make sure I speed off and clear the lane for him. In the reverse, I don't mind it so much if someone cuts me off, but vacates immediately. It's the jerk who cuts me off then JUST SITS THERE and allows me a way to devise some retribution.
I don't smack cars (any more) if they come too close. Instead, when they are stopped I now ride up as close as possible to them and possibly brush them with my plastic mirror/ears. Fair enough.
I *ALWAYS* cut of tuk tuk drivers whenever I can, sometime just for fun. Strangely, they don't usually react. That said, I know they are poor and have weak brakes, so I give the occasional passenger-carrying tuk tuk the right of way. And now I *expect* the occasional tuk tuk to arbitrarily cut me off, but I've cut off so many of them, I'm still ahead. No worries or aggravations.
How do you drive in PP and elsewhere nowadays?
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Every time I see a trio of cute schoolgirls in white uniforms carefully picking their way through a open air market with dark water and sewage strewn everywhere, I marvel when they don't gag like a fully-grown semi-tough Aussie bloke who can't stomach open air markets. It boggles the mind.
I also laugh when a small boy or girl rides a scooter past a fully-helmeted foreigner who can't kick start his off-road monster into action. Sometimes it's a small family of 4 or 5 that rides by an "off-road hero" up a muddy hill and they all laugh and cheer when dad or uncle makes it to the top, hair flying and legs akimbo on their red, budget scooter. Funny.
I also laugh when a small boy or girl rides a scooter past a fully-helmeted foreigner who can't kick start his off-road monster into action. Sometimes it's a small family of 4 or 5 that rides by an "off-road hero" up a muddy hill and they all laugh and cheer when dad or uncle makes it to the top, hair flying and legs akimbo on their red, budget scooter. Funny.
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Just go with the flow, traffic here is much better than back in the West once you get used to it.
No excessive yielding and all that bull.
No excessive yielding and all that bull.
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My Army officer buddy rode all over Vietnam FOR A YEAR, returned to California then got laid up with a leg injury after riding his Aprilia over there. Go figure.
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