Top 5 Reasons why People Crash Scooters in Pai (and Thailand in general)
-Inexperienced people rent scooters
and don’t take a lesson.
- The bikes are unfamiliar from what people
may be used to. A lot of bikes are not in great condition due to the number of crashes. Mine had a number of zip ties holding pieces of it together. A couple in my hostel had one that was incredibly out of alignment and wouldn't go straight.
-People don't know where they are going direction-wise. Think about
when you drive a car to place you have never been before and multiply it by a
scooter
-There are many, many distractions. Beautiful scenery,
colorful signs, people weaving in and out of traffic, sand and the
aforementioned trying to figure out where you are going.
-People get overconfident while and some drive drunk.
Some these may seem silly but they are all entirely true.
Ride carefully and take a lesson if they are available and if you don’t know what
you are doing. You might think you would
never rent a scooter in a foreign land, that’s what I thought, but some places
it is the only way to get around.
