Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

The stock model looks nice, only a couple of grand, Asian markets only.

Check out the modded inova 110...I do have a soft spot for the modded ones.

Loads of these in Thailand, starting to see them appear in Vietnam as the CT125 is still not officially sold through Honda HEAD dealer network, only importers which means (regardless of what they say when you buy it = ZERO WARRANTY and parts are through importers only, so your paying UK price for any part that isn't already on a Vietnamese Honda model already). Super cub is now finally on the official dealer sales portal, but they are quite pricey compared to other bikes, around £3k, so a tad more than an SH160i with ABS.

Yamaha are about to steal the market in them as the super cub equivalent and the PG-1 are now freely available and priced around 48 million VND which is about £1850, something like that. Just starting to see them arrive at dealers the last few weeks but some folk already got them and been modifying and adding all the accessories in the world to them.

Out in SE asia the CT125 or PG1 are pretty much IDEAL do all the things bikes. No traffic is that fast, 100kmh is basically impossible or stupid to ride that fast here. MC of all sizes are banned from the toll motorways (the only place with constant concrete barriers to keep poppers (folk who just do not look and ride perpendicularly directly in-front of you, regardless of your speed or size of vehicle), so anywhere you ride, you must be prepared for someone to just pop out directly in-front of you at all times. Been here nearly 3 months and already seen a few serious casualties and unfortunately 2 instant fatalities due to this behavior.

Back on topic, some bike thats low to the ground, upright, super comfy armchair like seat (because doing 300 km in a day is a 12 riding hour + task), got suspension, easily to modify, good on fuel (if its slow it might as well be efficient right?) and you can easily attach a bunch of luggage to without dropping £600 at the kriega shop. And good off road, or where the good tarmac road that you've been enjoying at 80 kmh for hours suddenly has holes into the centre of the earth (this is a UK thing too).

Seen reports of super cub and CT125 in the USA selling for near double msrp, and their msrp is higher than it is here by a good chunk despite the (current) still requirement to import almost individually and pay all the extra taxes and fee's (vs Honda HEAD import program from other ASEAN nations which basically waves all of that*).

I.E SH 125, 150, 160 are made in Vietnam so are cheapest in the world, but they only gain a few hundred USD being transferred and sold in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and through legit Honda dealers so full warranty and parts support. And vice versa. UK used to be part of something like ASEAN, I think it was called the EU? Distant memory now....