looking for help!

[PHall1]

Hi everyone!

I am an English backpacker/budding travel writer, and on my latest trip I am looking to buy a motorbike in Vietnam and cycle all the way to Chengdu.

Does anyone know if I can get a Vietnamese bike over the border, and would I be able to sell it in China if that is the case?

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks.

Pete

[humanbeing]

Why not divide it to different bike in each country ie. buy the common local bike & sell it when u ends in each leg.
Vietnamese & SE asian country loves the bike styled as in Honda cub (horizontal/semi-auto).
U are illegal w/o chinese d/l, but nothing ventured, nothing gained
Naked bike are everywhere once u're China. Just buy the model that had front disc (ofen = pushrod machine jammed in Suzi body )
Better buy "new", some used bike in China had very high-milage (8 yr - 300+k km "taxi" @ Liuzhou http://www.motoyes.net/BBS/thread-349880-1-1.html | 3 yr 330k Honda http://www.motorfans.com.cn/bbs/view...authorid=73022 ) !!!

[slabo]

Why not divide it to different bike in each country ie. buy the common local bike & sell it when u ends in each leg.
Vietnamese & SE asian country loves the bike styled as in Honda cub (horizontal/semi-auto).
U are illegal w/o chinese d/l, but nothing ventured, nothing gained
Naked bike are everywhere once u're China. Just buy the model that had front disc (ofen = pushrod machine jammed in Suzi body )
Better buy "new", some used bike in China had very high-milage (8 yr - 300+k km "taxi" @ Liuzhou http://www.motoyes.net/BBS/thread-349880-1-1.html | 3 yr 330k Honda http://www.motorfans.com.cn/bbs/view...authorid=73022 ) !!!

+1 to that. I think that's the best you can do. I was in Vietnam, I was told I could rent a motorcycle and give it back in another city.

Crossing from Vietnam to China is possible, some say, with a tour guide and a lot of $$ .. Much cheaper to buy a bike once you cross the border as HB is saying..