I do believe wrote:Gritman - I said it earlier; your skill riding a bike is inferior to the average Vietnamese but is of no consequence anyway. I also have been riding motorcycles since I was a teenager but in my case I'm only 68. It took me about a year or so to figure out "how it works" here. I used to think exactly as you do but now I understand why they do what they do. Of course we will have a percentage of idiots as we do in the West and here we have hazards (like pushcarts and old women) that we don't have. Put your ego on hold and realize that most teenage girls know how to drive in Saigon better than you; open your mind to learning. A child can operate a crane with 10 minutes of instruction but does that child know how to read a load chart or have the ability to figure out the weight of a load? It takes learning over and above the mechanics of operation. I suspect you are a better motorcyclist than when you were 16. Figuring out how to safely drive in Saigon will make you one of the best in the world - if you want to be.........
Wow...just read back through the thread there....not sure what Old IDB has been smoking....but if driving like you have a death wish is a sign of a talented driver then I've been going about it all wrong these past 4 years....you take any one of these "Expert" Vietnamese drivers, put them on a road in any civilised country and see how long it is before they are beaten to death with their own rubber sandals by a mob of angry drivers.