Rent a scooter

Hi Marjorie,

Your topic has been moved to the Ho Chi Minh City anglophone forum.

Regards,

Priscilla 

I have a scooter available, I use it before now I want to let for rent, if u care u can contact me: viber xxx or email xxx. It is good to drive. Iwill send the pict if u contact me
It will have good price
Thao

Try Tigit Motorbikes Hcmc...Google it for the contact details
Hired 2 bikes at different times for total of 2 months
Good bikes,not expensive...the owner Jon,and his wife are very helpful
Have bought a bike myself otherwise would be hiring a bike off him now

Don't know why your post was moved to anglophone (an explanation would have been helpful), but I hope you can still read my response.

In the short term, sure, rent a bike. In the long term, which you seem to be after, I would suggest buying one through this forum, or anphuneighbours of phumyhungneighbours in Saigon. Given the usual rental fees, you can buy an OK second-hand bike/scooter for eight to 12 months of what it costs to rent one. Of course you'll have to sell it again when you leave, but you'll get some money back and be well ahead.

You will, of course, have to sort out your own maintenance -- which costs very little if you get on friendly terms with your bike shop down the road -- and renew your useless insurance card every year (again, a laughable amount from the women/girls by the side of the road).

Just my 2k dong worth...

robvan wrote:

Don't know why your post was moved to anglophone (an explanation would have been helpful), but I hope you can still read my response.

Because she wrote it in English???

So there's a Vietnamese section as well, and I can only read the Anglophone one? That would explain it, thanks.

I rented a couple times from Chi's Cafe, it was 1.200.000 per month for an automatic Yamaha. It's current value was $250 because that was my deposit.

However, regarding robvan's suggestion to buy instead, I thought that one of the benefits of a temporary residence card was being able to register a motorbike. Before I had the TRC, my vietnamese girlfriend had to fill out the purchase papers and register at the police station. Might be some risk of buying without registering, of course I suppose that is what the backpackers do on their Saigon-Hanoi runs. Those hooligans, breaking the law.   

Yeah, this registration thing has me worried. Until not so long ago, it used to be the case that so long as you had the blue registration card on your person, you owned the bike -- regardless of whose original name was on it five changes of ownership ago. I gather the police are cracking down on that now.

Does anyone have further information on this, and what to do about it? I've been told by some that putting the card in your name is hellishly difficult and involves byzantine hurdles (nothing new there); but I've also heard you can do it easily at a (the?) vehicle registration office with a simple form. I don't have a Vietnamese partner so I can't do it that way, but I do have three bikes in my possession (if not name) and would appreciate advice.

Meanwhile, if you're renting, the blue card will still be in some else's name, which might cost 200k when the yellow cops stop you. I assume that also applies if it's in your Vietnamese partner's name.

If there are black cops involved, and/or you see a truck to cart confiscated bikes away, frantically adjust your rear-view mirror as you approach them and hope you get past ;-)

robvan wrote:

So there's a Vietnamese section as well, and I can only read the Anglophone one? That would explain it, thanks.

You can read any section you want to.  It's just that you must post in the language of the section.  There is a Francophone Vietnam forum and I expect the OP posted there if she was in the habit of reading there.  Mistakenly using your L2 when you should use your L1 is a sign of a truly multi-lingual person.