Jump to content

Roger Of Chai Prakan

Member
  • Posts

    12
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

Roger Of Chai Prakan's Achievements

Rookie Member

Rookie Member (2/14)

  • Dedicated Rare
  • 10 Posts
  • First Post
  • 5 Reactions Given
  • Week One Done

Recent Badges

7

Reputation

  1. Just one experience and perspective ... Having cycled up early this year - with a bit of walking too - going up is slow and hard, but no risk to other traffic. Not a lot of traffic anyway. On the way up, I passed 3 sets of road surfacing works, where the top surface had been skimmed off. No problem on the way up but it would have been suicidal for a bike on the way down, with no chance to keep safe control on loose scree on those inclines and bends. The other aspect is brake types. I have rim brakes and descended the first few Kms to the first café (as they were all closed at the top). The danger with continuous braking on rim brakes is serious overheating which can cause inner tubes to burst. At the coffee stop I almost burnt my fingers checking the rims and then decided a Sawng Theow was the safer option down. My next bike will have disc brakes to avoid that problem! But this decision by the park chief is a nanny state overreaction, restricting the untrammelled enjoyment of the Thai countryside. How many accidents have there been on the descent, and were the road works a factor? Let's have some facts Mr Park Chief. And support vehicles for all cyclists is completely unnecessary and adding to pollution. Who will bother to ride there again with those rules? Parks should be free and open to all.
  2. I second the commenters so far, that Mor Chana is a complete waste of time. I tested positive on Day 5 on Jan 5th. Posted the result and my status was RED: High Risk! Did my banged up stint for 5 days then allowed to do 5 days at home, so by then Jan 15th. It still shows red today 23rd Feb!! Haha. And anyway, it doesn't work "up north" (CNX) for scanning into shops etc, there is another app for here. Conclusion: don't bother with it.
  3. In my humble opinion - and experience - a day 5 test is of more use than Day 1. As Thailand Ryan says, arrivals pitch up here having had a PCR test up to 72 hours before departure, and may well pick up the virus on the journey here (airports, flights etc) but will not be positive on the day 1 PCR test. I was aware of a very mild sore throat on day 3 which alerted me to the possibility of having picked Covid up, tested negative with an Antigen test on that day and then positive on day 5 (both my own Antigen and the hospital day 5 PCR). I was diagnosed as having Omicron, in a rural area that apparently has been the only case in the area, which suggests mine is not a local infection. As you say, the more testing the better.
  4. Yes, please do specify what make and model you have. Because, if by any chance, you mean the ex-service Japanese Postal Service bikes that are to be seen around (I have two!), they are more problematical, especially the inner tubes which are "very old style".
×
×
  • Create New...