Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Its epic. Will be here a year total, option to extend to 3 years. Got some UK stuff to deal with at some point so can't be out here long term, but will be hard to go back. Place is just so much more social, people are happier, economy functions, food is great, drink is great, weather gets too hot for half the year, but you get used to being up at like 5am, then do an AC cafe snooze around middle of day like everyone else.

Bikes here are great, but none of the good ones are ever for sale. Most used car/bike dealers are epic level scammers, very hard to find decent bikes, cost isn't the issue, scammers charge same for junk as real sellers for decent bikes. Been trynig to find a decent super cub or dream 100 for months and keep getting on the receiving end of a scam or just shady junk over and over again. This is even with VN friends who can navigate their way around assholes and time wasters. Average joe here buys a bike new, and then rides to death, or in event of bike still working (old cup and dream) passes down the family. Normal people do not sell a bike that works hence why the market is so shady, your only ever buying crash damaged/rebuilt/chinese aliexpress chocolate engine rebuild specials/stolen/or just trashed bikes on the used markets. Its a different culture in terms of transportation.

Though private domestic cars are starting to become a massive problem. HCM is already chocked with car traffic, and GOV has spent 20 years demolishing ever more of the city to build more car infrastructure. Hanoi is going that way too, people buy cars, roads don't move, gov has to be seen to do something, so compo purchases the next swath of housing, flattens it and builds express way sized roads. Guess what, traffic still terrible.

There are a LOT of western dirt bike guys. Maybe buy a WR250 or KLX250 and go play in the dirt. But risk of injury higher, a bust wrist or collar bone etc = spring time is wasted.