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POSH accessories for Thai bikes

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Chrome detail on a custom motorcycle

POSH accessories reach us as a different shape of order from almost everything else we handle, because nothing has broken. There is no worn part to photograph, no fault to describe and nothing on a parts diagram to point at.

POSH accessories arrive as an order with no failure in it

The maker’s own site, which is in Japanese, describes the company as a motorcycle custom parts manufacturer and groups its products as handlebars, brake-related parts, engine parts, mufflers, turn signals, LED turn signals, LED taillights and maintenance products. We state nothing else about the company, because its home page gives nothing else.

The brand publishes under more than one name, so send the name exactly as it was printed where you saw it rather than tidying it up for us.

Our directory of Japanese motorcycle parts brands does not carry this one, although our archived Japan parts page filed it among major brands in Japan. The directory keeps to a narrower recorded list, and this page is the entry it never got.

The handlebar and screen of a motorcycle
A handlebar and screen, from stock photography. Nothing in the picture is a product named on this page.

What actually constrains a dress-up order

Every other page here is built around replacement: a frame number, a type code, a photograph of the thing that failed. None of that applies when the only fault with the bike is that you have seen a better-looking one.

What you want to change Why it is not a replacement order What actually constrains it What we need from you
The look of the cockpit Nothing is worn out, so there is no old part to match What your hands, cables and switches are already attached to Photographs of the bars as they sit now, from above and from the side
Mirrors Chosen on appearance, not on a failure The mount you already have, and what the last change left behind A close photograph of the mount, and the machine
Indicators or lighting An addition rather than a repair What is fitted now, and the rules where you ride, which are yours to establish The machine, and a photograph of what is there now
Grips, levers and small cockpit items The cheapest items, and the ones most often ordered blind Diameter and reach, which a photograph rarely settles The machine, plus what is already on it
A whole look copied from a photograph There is no part in the picture, only a result How much of that bike is already different from yours The photograph, the machine, and what you have changed so far
Something you saw and cannot name No number, no fiche, no failure Whether it can be identified at all from what you have The image, where it came from, and the machine it is going on

The right-hand column asks for a photograph in almost every row and never for a part number. That is the clearest measure of how far this sits from the rest of our work.

The photograph runs the other way

Our page on identifying motorcycle parts from photographs assumes you are holding the part and want it named. Here the direction of travel is reversed: the picture is of somebody else’s finished machine, and the item in it is the thing you do not have.

Round mirrors on a scooter
Round mirrors on a scooter, from stock photography. Not an item we list, and not a machine we are describing.

That is a harder brief and an entirely normal one. What helps is a picture large enough to crop, taken from an angle where the item is not half hidden, and a sentence saying which part of it you mean. A screenshot of a screenshot rarely survives.

Say what else in that picture you are copying, too. If the bars, the mirrors and the lighting are all different from yours, the item you pointed at may be sitting on top of three earlier changes.

Then tell us where you found it. A magazine feature, a builder’s page and a marketplace listing carry different amounts of information, and a caption sometimes holds a name the photograph does not.

A handlebar grip and its controls
A grip and its controls in close-up. Generic photography, standing for the kind of item these enquiries are about.

A Japanese accessory on a Thailand-built machine

Our archived page for this brand carried three text links and nothing else: one to a dress-up section, one to a Thai motorcycles section, and an email address. That is the whole editorial content of it, and the clearest statement in the archive of what this shop thought the brand was for.

What it proves is narrow. The shop listed this Japanese brand beside its Thai machine pages in the early 2000s, and named not one product, which is why nothing product-specific appears on this page.

The crossing is the interesting part. A dress-up item made in Japan going onto a machine built in Thailand is an ordinary request here and an awkward one almost everywhere else, because it needs somebody buying on both sides. Our page on motorcycle accessories from Thailand covers what Thailand itself builds; this is the traffic running the other way.

Anodised bolts in several colours
Anodised bolts in several colours. Stock photography, not a photograph of anything we stock.

What we are, and what we are not

We are an independent shop in Ladprao, Bangkok, trading since 2002, buying in Thailand and in Japan and packing on site. We hold no appointment from this maker or from any other, we speak for nobody, and we claim no territory.

That is worth saying plainly, because businesses holding territorial appointments for this brand are easy to find, and a reader is entitled to know which kind of shop they are writing to.

It also means we will not rank this maker against another, and we test nothing. Our Takegawa parts page sets out the reasoning at length.

Questions we are asked before ordering an accessory

I have a picture and no part number. Is that enough to start?

Yes. Send the picture at the largest size you have, say which item in it you mean, and name the machine it is going on. Tell us where it came from as well, because a page title sometimes carries a name the image does not.

A lever and grip beaded with water
A lever and grip beaded with water, from stock photography. No maker or machine is identifiable in it.

Do you hold an appointment from this maker?

No. We are an independent shop that buys in Japan and Thailand and quotes by email. If an item would have to come from Japan we will say so, and if it can be got in Thailand we will say that instead.

Will it fit my bike?

We check against the supply source rather than publish a chart. Our 4Mini parts page explains why we issue no interchange tables, and a dress-up item makes that stricter rather than looser, because there is no manufacturer’s diagram behind it. Send the machine and photographs of whatever the item has to bolt to.

Can you look for something for a Thai-market machine?

Ask, and name the machine. If it is a Wave125, a Sonic 125 or something else built here, say so, and once we have checked we will tell you which side of the trade an item would come from.

A motorcycle parts shopfront
A parts shopfront, from stock photography. Not our shop, and not a display of anything described here.

Sending us a picture and a machine

Send the picture first, or the item name if you have one, and say what you want changed. Where a name was printed somewhere, copy it exactly as it appeared.

Then the machine and its frame number, with a photograph of the area the item is going onto as it sits today. That second photograph does more work than any description, because a dress-up part lands on top of whatever was changed before it.

Add the destination country and the quantity. Prices from here are quoted in Thai Baht, CIF, so the shipping sits inside the figure. The accessories quotation form is where to start, and we reply by email with what we find.