I use an Int'l Permit which is $45 (Rp450K) per annum.
Be careful with this. I doubt the Indo cops know it, but they're technically not valid if you become a permanent resident.
I use an Int'l Permit which is $45 (Rp450K) per annum.
I was being flippant. Of course I know the difference. I presume that you do, too....Why not lower it to 10 or 12? What's the difference?...
That's true. However, there are also kids with a tree or asphalt ingrained in their heads (the "lucky" ones who died). Others might be riding around in a wheelchair, if their families can afford one....someone who has grown up here has this culture already ingrained in them...
The ones I personally know of were killed many years ago (late 1990s, when traffic was much lighter than these days). I don't remember all the details now, but I'll give you one example:...expat's kids who've been killed over the years...
Maybe they should have thought about that before buying a motorbike in the first place, (usually on credit and often at exorbitant interest rates). If they can afford that they should be able to afford the rego fees....Their DL - well, Rp350K is a lot to a local and they probably have trouble putting thaat (sic) together at the time...
Oh..and why doesn't old Uncle Komang bathe very often? Can't afford water, or there isn't enough of it?
Just curious.:lemo:
We had a friend from USA visiting and he seriously wondered why Bali people wear, as he described, 'Tupperware' on their head.....when driving motor-bikes.
I fell off my HONDA Vario September 2015 at about 25 kms/hr.
I was wearing an Aussie standard open-face helmet.
I still recall the tinny sound the helmet conveyed from the left side while I slid along the new asphalt.
JEEZ I can even hold onto a Vario ojek with my belly full of Bintang....:icon_e_biggrin:
The tinny sound is very reminiscent of landing a taildragger on the mains and then bleeding the attitude with FWD stick and then more FWD stick. Eventually the tail wheel comes down and there's that noise. It sounded like that. You almost can't hear it on an unsealed surface.
We used to try and call it accurately when the Dakota was landing. (I have never landed one though)
Alright. Well, that was a waste of time.I was being flippant. Of course I know the difference. I presume that you do, too.
Heh. Good one.. . . there are also kids with a tree or asphalt ingrained in their heads . . .
Thanks for the story. We're not hooked into the expat scene here so I have no idea how common it is.. . . she died on the spot.
I suppose that's the crux of it from my point of view. I haven't heard of a single person dying from a motorbike accident. In the 4-5 years I've been on the road in Bali I've personally only seen 2 minor accidents, never been in any myself and neither has my Balinese wife in the decade-or-so that she's being riding around.I also know of quite a few Balinese kids who've been killed riding motorbikes . . .
Guess you've been lucky then. I've seen more than I care to recall, sometimes right in front of me....I suppose that's the crux of it from my point of view. I haven't heard of a single person dying from a motorbike accident. In the 4-5 years I've been on the road in Bali I've personally only seen 2 minor accidents...
Guess you've been lucky then. I've seen more than I care to recall, sometimes right in front of me.
Many "accidents" here aren't really accidents but the results of stupid road behaviour, ignorance, lack of police enforcement, "it won't happen to me mentality", impatience, little understanding of or care for "road etiquette"...
Define "accident"? OK - How about anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause.
So, you once saw an old guy in Australia wiped out on a pedestrian crossing by a young maniac driver (whom you were racing until you slowed down).
Maybe the old guy had poor vision, bad hearing and blind faith (no pun) thinking the crossing should be safe.
I know that there are crazy drivers all over the world and bad stuff happens (sometimes). Around these parts, bad stuff happens on roads every day of the week.
That's a difference, wouldn't you agree?
I fail to see the exact relevance of your comment to what some of us have been writing about.
"Police bashing"? Paying police properly to do their job properly in the first place would be a major leap forward.
In case you also want a definition for "cause", try this one: "A justification for something existing or happening".
Now give me your justification for the ongoing carnage on our roads.