Don't Mess With The Moscoot

What the Volkswagen Beetle was to Germany after the second world war is the moscout to Asia. Namely it mobilizes the masses. But if you think its only good for transporting a person or two at a time, you don't even begin to do them justice. Moscouts literally transport every thing - as in we see them regulary defy the laws of physics. (And for that matter the legal riding age as it is nothing to see what looks like an eight year old kid whizz by with his five year old sister on back. But that tends to be strictly scooters as opposed to the moscoot so it must be safe....)

Even after 2 months of riding through south east Asia, every day we find ourself amazed by another example of what the moscouts are capable of.

Here is a litle (incomplete) list of what we have seen so far:

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What The Honda Wave Can Handle Or Laos Off-Road Adventure Time

As we are about to spend some time riding Northern Laos I have written a couple of posts to be autoposted over the next couple of days. That means the blog does not go dead for a week at a time as it tends to do (it can be hard to find wi fi in the jungle). This also means I will not be emailing people back or moderating comments, so just because a post goes up does not mean I am ignoring you – I wrote all of it tonight while I still have access to the internet.

Instead I leave you with this series of photos of some awesome off-roading we did in the mountains of Southern Laos not that far from the border with Vietnam. None of it roads I would have been able to do with Betty (the BMW F 650 I sold in Mongolia for those new to the blog) and all of it thanks to the Golden Triangle Riders map of the region.  When they say a path is a motorcycle path to be ridden only in the dry season, please believe them!

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Honda Wave - Our Moscouter for Asia

As you might know we rearranged our plans and bought two bikes in Malaysia.

We have ridden now almost 3.000 kms on them, time for a review.

The Honda Wave falls into a special category of bikes. They look like a mixture of a motorbike and a scooter. The back is more motorcyclish whereas the front resembles a scooter. Sherrie therefore named them moscouts. Unfortunately they have neither the cuteness of a scooter nor the coolness of a real motorbike. But that said they are all over Asia, apparently the moscouts look is tailored for the Asian eye and not for those Farangs (stupid Westerners with big noses who have no idea what a bike is supposed to look like).

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