Driving rental bikes in Chiang Mai

[lordofmisrule]

What is the situation with driving rental bikes in Chiang Mai? Can you bribe the police if they stop you? I din't have a valid license, obviously that does not matter in Cam but here in Chiang Mai?

[phuketrichard]

Bribe?
u will pay fines for no license, no registration ,no helmet etc when ur stopped
range from 300-500 baht

[Gator]

It used to be the cops were out only a couple times a month, stopping people and checking for proper international drivers licenses and wearing helmets. Now they're out 3-4 days a week in the Old City/Nimmaen area.

[phuketrichard]

so what? carry ur license,wear a helmet and u wont need pay a fine

[Gator]

so what? carry ur license,wear a helmet and u wont need pay a fine

Indeed, PR. I was just saying that the police are out all the time here now, so if you don't have said license you, for sure, will get stopped and fined. Quite possibly multiple times in a single week.

[Jamie_Lambo]

so what? carry ur license,wear a helmet and u wont need pay a fine

yep, as you would do in any civilized country its not hard to get an IDP and wear a helmet, dont give them an excuse
i was up Chiang Mai in December driving my mates Kawasaki around for a week, saw lots of Coppers around the old town but never got pulled over apart from only once,
my Sino passenger wasnt wearing a helmet, the fine was 400baht which i paid and she got given a ticket to which if we got pulled again she could just show that,
nothing unreasonable unlike the Sihanoukvillains lol

[Jamie_Lambo]

What is the situation with driving rental bikes in Chiang Mai? Can you bribe the police if they stop you? I din't have a valid license, obviously that does not matter in Cam but here in Chiang Mai?

its not a bribe its a fine
no helmet 400 baht
no license 4-500 baht, cant remember if its gone up or not, used to be 400b

[lordofmisrule]

Thanks guys, helped a lot, I went for it anyway even though no IDP with me, helmet etc was fine, did get stopped but just once, thanks again but now back t driving in Phnom Penh where I know the score.