RE: Tips to handing the police with a motorbike in Thailand

While this is a bit dirty, you can simply alter an intl license sample from the internet and have it printed and it would be accepted here. I've had people show their student ID from a university and it was fine. The officers aren't Interpol, they probably can't read it anyway. I wouldn't normally advise people about how to break the law but this thing isn't about laws, it is about collecting tea-money from people who aren't doing anything wrong. If the cops really were concerned about keeping unlicencsed people off the roads the motorbike shops wouldn't be allowed to rent you the bike without these qualifications... yet they can and nothing is done to stop this.