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Originally Posted by cotambear
DO NOT leave your passport. Offer them a photocopy of your passport, and if they dont accept it, walk way (though most will accept it). Your passport is proof of your status in Thailand. If you got into trouble with the police where would you want your passport to be - in your hotel room, or in the hands of a bike rental firm?
Also this gives you some protection from a scammer trying to claim damage to a bike and witholding passport until payment.
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exactly cotambear , i agree,
but on my last 2 trips i took a photo copy of my p/p and tryed to hire a big bike(not a moped) from the beach road mob
they wern,t interested , they all wanted my p/p or no deal, so i walked instead ,
i saw 2 bad accidents during mylast2 trips, so ive now decided walking is the safer option anyway!