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As some of you know my latest couple of trips for work have taken me the Ho Chi Minh City ,formally Saigon, in Vietnam.
The place is a Honda executives dream with over 6 million scooters registered as of Jan 2014 (the last time they counted) in the city. I was told that another 500 per day have been registered since and there are at least as many unregistered scooters as registered ones.
With no need to take a driving test, as small payment to a government official is all that is needed to “pass” your test and seemingly no rules of the road (or pavement) applying to scooters the drive to work is like some sort of video game. Here are a few of my photos from the trips.
Why bother hiring a van to get your new Fridge Freezer home?
BOC delivery service or a nitrous bottle?
I didn’t get my phone out in time but one night a bloke passed us on a Honda Cub 50 carrying a 5ft crocodile!
It definitely isn’t a Gold Wing and it’s too small to be a Silver Wing so it must be a Bronze Wing?
If you really have something heavy that needs hauling then this is what you need – an articulated moped!
My favourite bike of the whole trip
I gave the local “light salad” van a wide berth
Took this photo so Radar could tell us what it was?
I am pretty sure the mystery bike is a Minsk, an old soviet two stroke thing. I don’t think they were sold in the UK
I am pretty sure the mystery bike is a Minsk, an old soviet two stroke thing. I don’t think they were sold in the UK
Yup, it’s a Minsk: looks like the 125cc. Vietnam are the major export market for these…
Well mystery solved…didn’t take too long. We are a sad bunch
Noticed that helmet wearing seems pretty much universal which is at least one nod to safety. The pictures really convey the spirit of the place well
I thought that you would come up with the answer.
The helmets are pretty much worn by everyone but lets just say they are not up to the ACU gold standard.
Completely missed this post, great pics. Think you were right to miss the ‘light salad’, what the hell is that stuff?
This is a brilliant thread. Kat has since been off roading over in Vietnam…on a Vespa…hopefully he will post some words/pics on that!
Here some more photos from my latest Trip.
(I did go off-roading on a Vespa Px150 whilst I was there – I’ll put it up as another topic when I get some time.)Cool Bike – note the 4 shocks for extra load capacity
Not sure what to say about this one!!!!
Another cool bike
Reckon he could have got a punnet of strawberries on there as well if he tried
moped ute
Dynorod Vietnamese style
Completely missed this post, great pics. Think you were right to miss the ‘light salad’, what the hell is that stuff?
Some kind of fishy crap. Freshly mangled – you can see the mangling device in the bottom of the photo. Before you ask it smells worse then it looked.
The one with the big pane of glass…. :o
Looks like perspex to me, but still mad; unless it’s a lorry windscreen of course. The pressure must have been intense over about 10mph, whatever the material….. ???
The one with the big pane of glass…. :o
Looks like perspex to me, but still mad: the pressure must have been intense over about 10mph….. ???
No definitely glass – a Lorry windscreen
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