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Thanks for the welcome and i will be sure to check out the BM bars.
Yes, lots of changes since 85. I can still recall hiring an XR 250 trail bike (that's pretty much all that was available due to the lack of sealed roads on the Island) in Patong and riding down to Kata along a badly corrugated dirt road. At Kata, from memory, there was only one or two buildings and the snorkling was magic. There were huge bright blue starfish the size of a coffee table and lobsters just crawling around the ledges. From there to Rawai, the road was probably worse and bandits use to hold you up at night and steal your valuables. Even the road from Patong to Phuket Town was considered a no go zone at night due to banditry but we did the journey a couple of times with no problems so it might just have been all hype, but we were with locals so that might have been why we had no trouble.
Many, many changes of which i won't say are good, but, not necessarily all bad either.......just different.
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