[ireleda]

No I don't think so, my wife has a daughter and she had a new bicycle and she didn't ride it, I asked why and she said the tires were flat, so I took it and had new tires and tubes put on and bought a hand pump, she let it set til those tires were flat, after about a year she gave it away.
But when she was old enough for a drivers license we bought her a Honda wave and she rode it for 2 weeks and wrecked it 2 times, we sold it and she was back to standing in front of the house til a friend would come by on their Hondas and she would catch a ride.

As for the sidewalks, as long as it is acceptable for people to backhand a few baht to the local cop and set their nasty food cart up on the sidewalks and set up a string of tables, chairs and umbrellas and open a true "Sidewalk cafe" and force pedestrians to walk in the street and compete with cars for space then it will continue to be a ride or die country as far as towns are concerned.