What should I know before learning to drive a motorbike in Bangkok?

Motorcycle riding in Thailand is not for the faint hearted, and learning to ride here 🥴 make sure you set up your go fund me page in advance

Get a car instead. Motor bikes are for people that wish to die soon, believe that they are 30 years younger than they are, or like to inhale dust & fumes and sweat

For God's sake don't ask anyone in Thailand.

I am in Pattaya, I live in a fairly quiet neiborhood.

Great place to learn...

Are you suicidal?

Good luck with that..

Make sure your medical insurance coverage is up to date and very comprehensive

Stick to public transport mate, much safer, cheaper or @ least use the Thai motor bike taxis...... The traffic & roads are very different compared to bk home...

If you want to be safe, don't ride a motorcycle in Bangkok. Do it in some quiet provincial town.

A scooter/motorbike is as basic as a bicycle. ...But there still a lor of lessons you will have to learn on your own... and in bkk traffic, those lessons could = a hospital trip.

Go google Honda driving school.

Just start riding a bicycle... if you start balancing it then you can easily learn motorbiking as well...

In Chaing Mai, Honda Safety park is excellent, and I am confident they have similar in Bangkok. You will thank me, highly recommended

If you have never ride before, do not ride in TH. This is not a place to learn riding

Don't bothrr

Good luck with your suicide attempt

Honda driving school do it correctly

Search for a driving school in the area you live in. They'll teach you the basics, get you through the written test (multiple choice) and give you a paper to take to the DLT to get a physical card

Good idea, do you have INSURANCE

Rule 1. Don't die.

Take good death insurance

Just start it n ride

Go to the honda riding school. Doubt any of the trolls here a gonna help you.

As a motorbike rider for the last 50 years , I would say go and learn in a country that has much less traffic on the roads .

You need at least 6 eyes to ride here and all of them looking in a separate direction and different distances.

Also Being able to read the metal box drivers minds is a must

If you do decide to go ahead with learning to ride. Be VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY Careful or you will end up very seriously injured or dead.

Only last week an idiot metal box driver pulled out of the exit of the condo complex where I live and wiped out a motorbike rider and smashed their leg into the bike and very seriously crushed it 😭

Best try a Google search to find a company that will put you through the basics and your motorcycle licence. Also depends where you are in Bangkok as there are quite a few around.

Because if you have never ridden a motorbike before nor even passed a motorbike test in your home country. Best not try riding one in Thailand. Apart from invalidating any health/medical insurance. Surmising you have one. It is quite a dangerous hobby to take up.

But having said that it is a nice thing to do.

But get tuition and a licence

Use front breakers as possible and when you do, don’t slam it on

Get a third of away around the bend and then put some power into it

Going downhill, sit back a bit

Going uphill, you gotta keep the wheel on the ground. Doesn’t matter if you back is spinning a little.

Just practice and don’t be too radical to be surprised how far you will get

 if you’ve got a sore rear end at the end of the ride you’re not using your legs enough

Good luck mate