Howdy,
There should be some questions and which will help you to chose the right bike for the trip:
- You would be there for 2months or more, so it's quite a long time. Where will you ride? Along Vietnam or just around Hanoi? Will you ride offroad?
- How tall and how weight are you? How much luggage you have to bring along the ride? You ride with a pillion?
- Are you a good mechanic? I meant do you know to fix the bike with some simple issues?
- What is your budget for the bike if you chose to buy?
Agreed with feejer, Scooter touring along Vietnam is not a good idea, unless you are good mech and you have all the tools with you. And more, scooter is not kind of the bike which you can ride continuously 100-200km/day.
* So at first, should not be a scooter (automatic transmission bike), it could be a manual bike or an auto-clutch bike (damn, I don't know how to call that bike).
* Then for the brand - Definitely not a China made one. Believe me, you will spoil your trip with it. There are lots of common bike which people like to have it for their daily commute and living. We have Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha are three big names here. And now you can have all of them are made in Vietnam with good quality.
I have attached here with three webpages where showing listed price and product information for your reference.
* Other than many Countries, such as US, motorcycle repair is very common things here in Vietnam, you can find the motorcycle repair shops almost everywhere. And the important part is price, bloody cheap.
- Price list of three brands in Vietnam (in Vietnam Dong)
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http://www.honda.com.vn/vn/xe-may/bang-gia-xe/
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http://www.suzuki.com.vn/vi-VN/bang-gia-xe/102-mi.aspx
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http://www.yamaha-motor.com.vn/san-pham-36-cate.html
To be noted that the differences in prices are not meaning quality of the bike. It’s more on the bike STYLE and some add-on functions or farkles.
Sometimes the price on the market may higher or lower than the manufacture listing, but not much.
And the price of the Brand new one could be much higher than the one has been onroad for hundreds km.
I ‘ve never had experiences with rental in Vietnam, so I have no comment on that. However, I believe they know what they are doing for their business.
Just ask, I will answer whatever within my knowledge.