well i am sure there are ways around that. I once had a bike with a side car tht wasn't street legal anywhere in the country. Didn't stop me from having / driving it though.
It was a cheap bike though so it is probably a very different story. Do you have a lot of bikes?
My BF has 3 bikes. I dont know why he wants more haha. One big bike and one trail bike and one very old scooter. I said he should sell them all and buy a car! The problem in Phuket is police checkpoints are everywhere - I went through 3 already today.
Oh i remember those checkpoints. I thought it was funny that a lot of people would keep their helmet in the basket on the front of their motorbikes and not wear them, they would just put them on when they could see the checkpoint then as soon as they were through it they would take it straight back off.