canucklhead wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:44 am Cambodia is no place to learn how to ride a bike.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:43 pm

explorer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 6:56 pm Start with a bicycle, and get familiar with the mad drivers here at a low speed, before even considering a motorbike.

That's not bad advice. I learned how to ride a manual motorbike when I was about 15, on open ground with no traffic. I tried instructing a couple of friends in how to ride in the intervening period and they both crashed in seconds. The traffic here is very unpredictable, so I've always been reluctant to ride one here. The very odd time I've taken an automatic down the road in the evening when it's not busy. Otherwise I just cycle, probably 10-15 km every week day for about a decade, mostly early mornings and late afternoon when it's not too hot. I've never had an accident involving another vehicle, just fucked up a couple of times driving through giant puddles that hid large drain holes. And one time when I drank too much with some soldiers near my house. I only had to go about 100 meters but fell on my ass about 10 times. They took the piss about that for months after.