After what? Two months? I now believe I know almost the entire story of the events leading up to, and immediately following my impressive motorcycle accident. I still do not know what actualy caused the accident, the police insinuated that somebody walked out in front of me, but the police report simply states that “an accident happened”. I do know the combination of a broken collar bone, two broken ribs, and a broken cheek bone, along with the cuts and bruises hurt like a bitch. So without further ado let me tell what I do know with the aid of pictures…

So, lets start with what I was doing just before the accident. I was in a guesthouse/bar named Ban Luk Kha on Soi Chaiyapruak in Jomtien. I had been drinking a few of these it seems:

I then received a call from a young lady I was kind of involved with for a while, at around 2am, asking me to go and pick here up from Soi 6 just off Jomtien Beach Road, so then I got on this bike:

I then drove down to the beach road, turned right and rode at a steady pace towards Soi 6 to pick up this young lady:

Now this is where it goes blank, I never made it to Soi 6, the next thing I remember was waking up in this place:

This is Pattaya Memorial Hospital, where I stayed for almost 2 days, and was presented with a hospital bill for17,500 Baht when I left, thank god I came around enough to discharge myself before they bankrupt me!

So I left the hospital looking like this:

I then checked myself into a really grotty hotel room, and stayed there for about the next 10 days, eating handfuls of this stuff:

And that’s it, as much as I know, I guess I will never discover just what caused the accident, although I am certain it could not have been my fault. The reasoning for this is simple, nobody came knocking at my hotel door asking for compensation for their broken body/car/motorcycle/dog, and in Thailand nobody would miss the slimmest chance to make some money out of the misfortune of another.

Tags: Broken Bones, CBR 150, Jomtien, Pattaya Memorial Hospital, Tramadol

Myself and Nuth got to chatting today, we were looking through my Thailand guide book from a couple of years ago and it was apparent that she hasn’t seen an awful lot of her home country.

I thought about this a little bit and realised I haven’t seen as much as I would have liked too either. So and idea started to form. On the way back from lunch we popped into the local metalworkers and asked how much it would cost to have one of the sidecars they build for scooters made, they are a metal frame and are used to carry cargo or people. I decided the price was good so ordered one. So we are going to take the scooter, with the big add on side frame, and myself, Nuth and little Leon will go on a 6 week tour of Thailand.

I have to say, I’m rather excited!

After 4 weeks of constantly calling them to hurry them along Honda finally fixed my CBR! Well almost, this is Thailand, you didn’t expect it to be perfect did you? They replaced the fairing, headlights and windshield. But they forgot to order a decal set for it. So my poor bike is naked! Actually it looks quite cool in pure black without the graphics.

This really is good news though, I have to make a visa run to Ranong next week and I can now go on the bike! Hop on the ferry over to Surat Thani and then about a 4 hour cruise over to the Mynamar (Burma) border. I’ll stay overnight there and the wander across the border and back the next morning.

I have made a concession to safety though, I bought myself a crash helmet, I was damn lucky with that last accident.

I called them up this morning and told them the CBR they sold me less than 2 months ago needed some slight repairs. Well ok maybe a little more than slight, it looks like a complete replacement fairing, new forks and some light fittings replaced.

Let’s see how much they come up with for a price, the whole bike cost 70k Baht new, they can’t charge more than about 5k Baht to replace some pieces of plastic.

I bet they do though.