Ms. Phan Thi Tuyet Mai bought her Honda Lead 110cc bike back in 2012 and has used it since then to go to work, take the children to and from school, and to go shopping.
Mr. Tran The Bao is a delivery man. One can see this from the huge bags behind his back. He uses his motorbike for his delivery service job and sometimes, but not very often, to go out with friends and family.
Mr. Hoang Ngoc Hoa is one of the many examples of Vietnamese street workers. He has all of his machines and tools and materials he needs for his work as a locksmith on his bike. He then drives and stops along the streets when he finds his customers.
For five years Mr. Nguyen Tuong An has been the proud owner of a beautiful Kawasaki W650. He uses his bike for daily transportation, sometimes to go on a trip with a group of friends who have the same interest in motorbikes, or to different provinces like Ha Giang and others.
Mr. Le Cong Dinh is a former editor from an automobile magazine in Hanoi. He was redesigning his Ural motorbike to a lighter and more vinduro style machine. He usually rides to get away from the busy city and to connect with nature. He loves motorcycles and wants to show what motorcycle culture and history means to a younger generation of riders. For that reason he established a motorcycle club called Conxeart, where one can learn how to maintain and repair bikes and also connect with other people for trips outside the city.
Mr. Emanuele „Arca“ Toppino is an Italian designer living with his wife in Hanoi. In his free time he likes to ride his motorcycle. It is a time for traveling, designing, discovering, and for change. By redesigning motorcycles he wants to express his ideas and it’s also the way that makes him happy. You can see him in the photo with an almost finished chopper style Honda Cub.
Mr. Nguyen Quang Khue was born in 1941 and was a captain in the Vietnamese military. He was also the first guy in Vietnam to have Czech bike Jawa 350cc with a sidecar in Northern Vietnam. To ride a motorbike for him means to be alone, just to fly and follow the wind. In the picture you can see him with his Honda FTR 250cc and a sidecar that he made himself.
Mr. Tran Quang Vinh got his passion for cars, motorbikes and bicycles from his father – a mechanic who used to work in France. He likes the design and shape of different bikes. Now he owns more than one hundred cars, motorcycles and bikes and has a plan to open a museum himself as his legacy.
Mr. Nguyen Van Tan always loved Harley Davidson motorcycles and all the style that is connected to these bikes. To get dressed as proper road rider. He rides his Harley Davidson Softail 1600cc with his friends, with the Hanoi Chapter Group. In his day to day life he is a businessman, but one could never guess that from the incredible outfit he wears on the road!