Vietnam Motorcycle, Motorbike Tours On HONDA Bikes, South-East Asia

Motorcycle, motorbike rentals, Hanoi Vietnam

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Check out the following before you move on:

Tours With Places Still Available (Join a group and save some bucks) Blinking update for motorcycle voyage in Vietnam

How Satisfied Our Customers Feel! (They said it all, really important when you decide who to ride with)

Articles & Guide Books Featuring Offroad Vietnam Motorcycle Tours (Another reliable source to learn about us)

Adventure Travel Articles (Collected on the Internet and many are written by our customers)

Things Self-Guided Tour Customers Need to Know (If you plan to rent our bikes, riding on your own)

Things Guided Tour Customers Need to Know After Bookings Confirmed (For full package clients only)

Offroad Vietnam Website Homepage in French

Offroad Vietnam Website Homepage in German

To help French and German speaking customers better understand what we offer, we have a translation version of this homepage into French and German (please click on the icon/s on the right). You can either continue browsing in English version or choose the online translation tool under the menu on the left (please scroll).

Vietnam Sample Motorcycling & Motorbiking Itineraries:

northwest ride (10 days)

northeast ride (7 days)

north-centre ride (5 days)

ha giang scenic ride (10 days)

big north ride (16 days)

ho chi minh trail ride (9, 11, 13 days)

coastal and dalat motorcycling (5 days)

mekong delta motorcycling (7 days)

women motorcycle tours (?? days)

day ride (1 day)

custom ride (?? days)

If you want to know more about our complete tour line, please select one from our tour library.

Viet Nam motorcycle, Vietnam motorbike adventure notes

Viet Nam motorcycle, Vietnam motorbike adventure notes

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Offroad Vietnam^® Adventure Travel offers many types of guided on and off road journeys on motorbikes, bikes and 4x4

vehicles and anything that can go off road, off the beaten track or off the tourist trail. We are not offering extreme off-roading holidays and Offroad Vietnam^® is simply our trade name. Most of our rides are private and customised (some tours are strictly private while many are open for other riders to tag along), we don't have scheduled trips. Tour library features more than 150 itineraries and our route map is very useful for you in deciding where to ride in Vietnam.

The most popular adventures customers book with us are guided on and off-road motorcycle rides, therefore this is the first page of our website. We are the first and only company in North Vietnam offering voyages exclusively on Japanese HONDA motorcycles (no Suzuki, no Yamaha and no Kawasaki), and we haven't used Russian two-stroke MINSK since May of 2007 as we had received so many complaints about bike reliability (in fact, they are rattletraps). To be specific, Minsks provide 10 hp (Minsk 125) while our Hondas provide from 13 hp (XL125), 13.8 hp (GL160) to 28 hp (XR250 Baja) and 30 hp (GB250) and even a Honda Wave 100 gives you ~9 hp. Too bad with a 125cc 2-stroke engine! Please check out how they are different here. We own these bikes and don't use rental bikes from any company. Every bike has a metal tank so tank bags are ok. Below are bikes we use on guided tours (1-4) or unguided rentals (1-3).

We rent enduro bikes, motorcycles and riding gear to independent (self guided) riders on daily basis. Due to limited bike availabilities and high taxes, these bikes are between six to thirteen years old and we've been trying to keep them in good working conditions. We provide 90% fully guided tours and only 10% rentals (unguided trips) so we are likely booked out quite early before. All rentals must be reserved and paid before you pick up the bike(s). We have not offered one-way rentals yet because we have only one office in Hanoi. Many clients asked if we could deliver or collect bike(s) in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City - HCMC) and rode the same route like "Top Gear Vietnam Special" show and we are sorry to say "NO". All rentals start and end in Hanoi.

Moped scooters and fully automatic scooters are only available for expats working in Hanoi on monthly basis (rates advertised are monthly and with limited mileage of 1,500km or less). These scooters are in very new conditions (usually less than 30,000km odo and most importantly no crap bikes), good for riding in the cities only, not suitable for long distance touring. They are between brand-new to three years old. These latest available models help minimize maintenance and maximize the pleasure of riding.

We specialize in Vietnam, especially the Northern part of the country. Vietnam has attracted keen interests from world riders after the BBC's "Top Gear Vietnam Special" show on UK television on December 28^th 2008. However, we don't ride the same route as we focus more on mountain roads and short-cuts and are lucky enough to have better bikes. To provide our customers with more extensions and flexibility, we cooperate with partners across the country and in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and China who use big road/trail bikes and/or classic Vespa scooters.

Vietnam motorcycle, Vietnam motorbike travel payment notice

Vietnam motorcycle, Vietnam motorbike travel payment notice

We keep our group sizes very small and we do need special logistics for this type of adventure. We are not offering easy-riders or motorcycle-taxi-driver rides, we do target serious riders only. Our prices reflect the quality of service and high standards that our customers expect. If you care about prices, we are not the cheapest but if you care about price/value balance then we are definitely the best (see more at review pages). As a way to say "thank you", we won't ask deposit for returning and regular customers and you definitely get a discount on your next tour(s). Deposit is required for first time customers only and if you want to check out how trustworthy we are, contact these references, a very reliable source you can rely on.

Item to bring

Some of our customers wanted to know what they need to bring for a motorcycle ride in Vietnam, we have updated a list of things you need on a typical ride here and you can decide for yourself what you actually need.

Vietnam motor cycle, Vietnam motor bike adventures

Vietnam motor cycle, Vietnam motor bike adventures

We are 100% Vietnamese owned and run tour operator and we believe in putting the money back into the Vietnamese community by helping them to develop through some projects. For more details on why choosing us from a handful of motorcycle tour operators, click here. We are located behind a busy main street in the Old Quarter of Hanoi and you can print our office map which makes it much easier to find us.

Vietnam motorcycle, Vietnam motorbike holidays site-map

Vietnam motorcycle, Vietnam motorbike holidays site-map

If you want to explore our whole site faster and easier, take a look at the sitemap. We believe you will find most of the answers to your questions right online (FAQs).

Vietnam motorcycle tour insurance

Purchasing an insurance policy can take a long time and is a real headache. BaoViet - Vietnam National Insurance Company - is selling BaoViet Medicare Travel Plan from mid-2008 and we can help you to buy their package here. If you want to buy insurance from a foreign company, here are some handy links:
- For a competitive motorcycle insurance quote in the UK try out Carole Nash for you insurance needs.
- Compare UK bike insurance.
- Bennetts Motorbike Insurance.

holiday insurance

annual travel insurance

backpackers travel insurance

Vietnam motorcycle, Vietnam motorbike tours visa warning

!!! Be advised. One very important thing: we would recommend that you check on your countries visa requirements and if required apply for a visa in your country of residence before your arrival in Vietnam. You may however be able to get it at Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh airport, but not possible if you arrive by land. The customs will show you a travel agent at the airport who then "sells" you a visa for 135.00 USD (One hundred thirty five United States Dollars). You need 4 passport photos or you can have them for two USD. The whole process takes 45 minutes. Since January 2008, we have been providing visa approval letter service (20.00 USD/person for the letter) and all you have to do are send us some information, wait to receive the letter (usually after three working days), then show the letter and get the stamp on arrival at one of Vietnam's three international airports in Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City (25.00 USD/person for the stamp).

Related links:

- photo gallery
- customer comments
- reference
- late availability
- vietnam information

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We also own Motorbike Vietnam and Hidden Vietnam websites. We have been trying to create some useful resources for our visitors.