Motorcycle accessories from Thailand are not simply accessories that happen to be sold in Thailand. A large share of them are made here, alongside the plants that build Japanese-brand machines for this market, and that changes both what you can buy and how it behaves once it is in a box.
What Thailand builds rather than imports
Thailand is a manufacturing base for the Japanese marques, not merely a market for them. Around those plants sits a supporting trade in bolt-on goods, working mostly in moulded plastics, in steel and aluminium fabrication, and in polycarbonate for screens. Bodywork, fenders and panels, carriers and racks, guards, mirrors, screens and small electrical fittings are all made in the country.
What no shop tells you is that the shelf carries both kinds of goods side by side. A Thai retailer’s stock is part local manufacture and part import, and the label rarely says which. When we quote we say where an item comes from, because for a buyer abroad that is half the decision.
We have run a shop in Ladprao, Bangkok since 2002, and the wider range is indexed on our parts pages. The company itself is described on the about page.
Thai-market goods are a category of their own
The machines built in this country have their own supply chain behind them. Fittings and accessories for a Wave125, a Sonic, a CBR150R, a CBR250R or a Zoomer are held here, in Thai warehouses, and were never routed through Japan at all. Anyone shopping for those models on a Japanese site is looking in the wrong country.
The contrast is worth understanding before you order. Items that genuinely originate in Japan are covered on our parts from Japan page, which carries the brand directory for that side of the business.
It also changes what an item costs to replace. A panel or a guard for a Thai-built machine is an ordinary stock line here and an oddity almost everywhere else. That gap is the reason owners abroad write to a Bangkok shop at all.
Accessories we make ourselves
We manufacture a small number of items in Thailand under our own name, for two of the machines in the 4Mini class. Nobody else on this subject makes anything; they resell. The detail sits on the Monkey page and the Dax page rather than being repeated here.
Sorting motorcycle accessories from Thailand by shape, not by weight
This is the column no competitor publishes. Accessories are the bulky, light end of a motorcycle catalogue, and bulk rather than mass is what decides how an order is packed and priced. The table sorts the categories by that, not by what they do on the machine.
| Type of goods | Where it usually originates | Bulk against weight | What that decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genuine Thai-market service parts | Thai plants of the Japanese marques | Mostly small and dense | The straightforward case; postal despatch normally suits it |
| Bodywork and panels | Thailand | Bulky and light | Box size rather than mass drives the carriage |
| Carriers, racks, guards and bars | Thailand | Dense but awkwardly shaped | Shape decides the carton, and often the method |
| Screens and covers | Thailand | Bulky and light | As bodywork, with more packing around it |
| Lighting and small electrical fittings | Thailand and imported | Small and dense | The easiest thing to send, and easy to add to an order |
| Items made under our own name | Our own manufacture in Thailand | Mixed | Travels with the rest of the consignment |
| Complete motorcycles | Thailand | Container work | Twenty or forty foot, minimum one container |
How the despatch methods themselves compare is a separate subject, and we have written it once rather than three times. See our comparison of postal services and the courier alternative.
One box, or one container
Two quite different customers read a page like this one. The first wants a screen, a carrier and a set of guards sent to an address abroad, and that is an ordinary parcel enquiry answered by email. The second is buying to sell, and wants machines rather than fittings.
We handle both, which is unusual. Container work runs through our motorcycle export service, moves in twenty or forty foot containers, and has a minimum of one container. If that is your side of it, start at the container enquiry form. Shops abroad that already carry our work are listed on the dealers page.
What leaving Thailand actually involves
Every retail competitor stops at the words “worldwide shipping”. The step they leave out is the export itself, which is a documented process rather than a courtesy. Goods are described and valued on a declaration, and that description is what your own authorities read at the other end.
The rules are published. The Customs Department of Thailand maintains an English site covering restricted and prohibited articles, tariff classification and the customs legislation itself. We work inside that framework every week and prepare the paperwork as part of the order.
Packing is part of that work rather than an afterthought. A moulded panel and a steel carrier need different protection, and a carton that fails in transit costs more than the carriage saved by making it smaller. We pack on the premises, which is the practical benefit of ordering from a shop rather than a warehouse.
What we cannot do is predict your own import duty or tax. Rates differ by country and by commodity, they change, and only your national customs authority can tell you what applies. Ask them before a large order rather than after it.
Frequently asked questions
Is everything you send actually made in Thailand?
No, and we would not claim it. A Thai supply chain carries local manufacture alongside imported goods, and some categories are almost entirely one or the other. Tell us what you are after and we will say where the item we are quoting on comes from.
Can I combine accessories with ordinary service parts?
Yes, and it is usually the sensible thing to do. Carriage has a fixed element, so one carton holding several items generally beats several cartons holding one. Send the whole list at once and we will treat it as a single consignment.
Why is there no catalogue to browse?
Because we answer specific questions rather than maintain a shop window. Availability in a trade like this moves, and a page of listings would be wrong within a month. An email exchange with a real shop is a different service from a search box, not a worse one.
Asking for a quotation
Tell us the machine and its frame number, the items you want with quantities, and the destination country and postcode. Prices are given in Thai Baht on a CIF basis, which is the goods plus carriage to you, so the destination belongs in the first message. Photographs help whenever the item is easier to point at than to name.
Send it through the accessories quote form. Payment terms and the returns position are set out in full on the how to order page, and the contact page carries our hours and telephone number.