Indeed, the older my motorbike gets, the more diligent I become about taking Stavros to be checked over. But, although I can’t claim to have personally nursed my motorbike to this milestone, I have paid for Stavros to be maintained as regularly as possible at Yamaha garages throughout Vietnam.
I confess to having very limited mechanical knowledge of bikes: I’m more passionate about motorbik ing than I am motor bikes. Stavros has been a worthy companion and a veritable workhorse: I am astonished by Stavros’ achievements. What’s more, to the best of my recollection of riding 200,000km over 13 years in Vietnam, we’ve never had to turn back. Together, we had visited all of Vietnam’s 63 provinces and municipalities. Over the last 13 years, Stavros and I have been everywhere together: all of the 250 or so travel guides, motorbike routes, food and drink guides, and accommodation reviews on this website have been produced on the back of Stavros’ efforts to get me there and take me back again. My motorbike, Stavros, is a 2007 model Yamaha Nouvo 115cc automatic. Synchronously, almost as if the events had been scripted, the odometer ticked over to 200,000km. INTRODUCTION | CONTENTS | RELATED POSTSĪ week ago, in late May 2020, my motorbike (known affectionately to me as ‘Stavros’) turned 13 years old.
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