Well we are all packed and fully fuelled for a another day of taxis, airports and planes. We just hope they accept our quality box creation/ packing style.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Scooter Videos
Below is a short selection of the best videos of our scooter trip around Hanoi. It is our attempt to show you just how exciting the traffic flow is. Some are short and some are shorter.
Bikes all packed ready for the flight home
The end of any trip always invovles a lot of packing and I hope Carol has done it all properly.
Our two bikes are in the cardborard boxes / envelopes in the corner that we hope the airline will accept.
Hanoi Easy Rider
Well we finally got some fine weather and so off to the scooter hire we went and got ourselves a little Honda. Check out our day. We filled it up and it cost $3.50. We then headed off to the Long Bien bridge a dual train/cycle bridge. Next it was the one of the many local towns around Hanoi. There are stacks and then back to town over the next bridge. Then off to a sector where we hadn't been before through the maze of one way streets that is Hanoi.
Now there are no tourist maps that show the traffic flow so it has been a facinating challenge trying to navigate not knowing if it is a one way street.
All was going well till I knowingly felt the rear starting to drift. I am so glad it was not the front as that may have had worse consequences. So we did stop and a kind man got out his pump and so pump I did but to no avail. He pointed us to a section of town but before we had a chance to push the scooter another man came to assit us so he pushed the scotter to his repair stand. It consisted of foot pump, a small stool, a small tin box of tools and a bowl almost full of water. No he couldn't help either as we had tubeless tyres. At this point Carol noticed we were opposite the Australian Embassy. Surely they had a pair of pliers and some fencing wire for us.
So now I pranked the Scooter Hire company and they rang back. Yes the man on the street would lead us for 40 000 VND to a repair shop. He then started to push the scooter off across the 4 lane road. I followed as Carol took some happy snaps of the Enbassy. I looked back and couldn't see my love so I ran back to the corner and collected Carol. We ended up at a proper motorcycle trye repair shop and after some phone calls and moreViettel phone credit the job was done. While all this was going on Carol had ordered a lovely lunch from a totally Vietnamese restaurant, no english menu.
Now there are no tourist maps that show the traffic flow so it has been a facinating challenge trying to navigate not knowing if it is a one way street.
All was going well till I knowingly felt the rear starting to drift. I am so glad it was not the front as that may have had worse consequences. So we did stop and a kind man got out his pump and so pump I did but to no avail. He pointed us to a section of town but before we had a chance to push the scooter another man came to assit us so he pushed the scotter to his repair stand. It consisted of foot pump, a small stool, a small tin box of tools and a bowl almost full of water. No he couldn't help either as we had tubeless tyres. At this point Carol noticed we were opposite the Australian Embassy. Surely they had a pair of pliers and some fencing wire for us.
So now I pranked the Scooter Hire company and they rang back. Yes the man on the street would lead us for 40 000 VND to a repair shop. He then started to push the scooter off across the 4 lane road. I followed as Carol took some happy snaps of the Enbassy. I looked back and couldn't see my love so I ran back to the corner and collected Carol. We ended up at a proper motorcycle trye repair shop and after some phone calls and moreViettel phone credit the job was done. While all this was going on Carol had ordered a lovely lunch from a totally Vietnamese restaurant, no english menu.
Our lovely automatic scooter
50cc Automatic scooter $10 a day
Honda 250 XR $50 a day
On the table minus rear wheel.
The valve stem seal was screwed.
A workshop with a mirror ?
6 lifts is a big operation.
The tyre shop with client waiting lounge on the footpath.
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