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    cool kids and their motorbikes, new trend !?!

    By pachangamac042, Created on: 28/11/2008, Last updated on: 12/02/2009

    » There is a brand new trend in the village I stay up here near Chaiyaphum. Young people strip their motorbikes of everything “you don’t really need” like; lights, protections, exhaust pipes, silencers, mirrors and so on and then go on the streets an “do the monkey” on their bikes, specially...

    • Sean Moran commented : Certainly does defy logic in the context of multitasking operations at those sorts of decibels, but motivation itself is compromised by the removal of a tuned length extractor (US Eng. header) from a high-compression engine as well ?!? It's meant to be built at a certain length and radius so that a sine wave between the exhaust valve and the end of the pipe actually assists the rate of pollution and resultant global-warming as the valve opens over each cycle. It's not going to make the bike any quicker to remove the exhaust unless it's blocked up with buffalo turds or something. Logic and Chaiyaphum might be a bit of a chin scratcher though. Lonely Planet 2004 if I remember, mentioned that most Thai mattayom students couldn't pin the Chaiyaphum tail on the elephant's head. I used to use it on classroom know-it-alls all the time and three times out of four they won't get it until you draw the regions and add in Petchabun. Only driven through once and had lunch on the way back the next day. Very peaceful sort of place by the look of it. Have you heard any new hit songs on the radio about someone riding around on a motorbike with no muffler installed? Maybe it's the latest Lydia song behind the craze?

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