Just got back from a brief trip to Chiang Mai. Ash and I looked at bikes at Honda, Kawasaki, and Yamaha. I won't say what I'm getting yet but I will show the $210 helmet I bought. It was on sale, down from somewhere between $300-$400. This is what you call a real helmet, not the $18 POS someone pinched off my bike.
Just to brag, as of yet I've driven a sport bike, a chopper, a dirtbike, a mini-dirtbike, and a zillion scooters. The owner of a bar in town custom makes choppers that can only be described as awesome, grimy, death machines. He said I could come by his house sometime and drive his.