🛺 Phnom Penh Family Trip 🛵 New Moto For Srey-Yuu 👧
We recently returned from a trip to Phnom Penh in our tuk-tuk to purchase a new (to us) motorbike for Srey-Yuu and do a few other things.
🛵 Arigato Cambodia 🏍️
I guess Arigato is an appropriate name for a shop selling secondhand JDM (Japanese Domestic market) motorcycles, and after stumbling upon their FB page, we contacted them and they offered some pretty reasonable prices. There are very few Honda motorbike choices in Cambodia available new at the official dealerships, I assume because the secondhand JDM import motorbikes are very affordable and there are so many more models to choose from than can be found in the Honda dealerships.
🕵️♂️ An Elusive CrossCub 50 🛵
This trip was for Srey-Yuu, and although we had already decided a modern 50cc fuel-injected SuperCub would be a great bike, there are very few available in Cambodia because most folks opt for the bigger 110cc version of these motos. The salesperson initially said they had no 50cc FI bikes, but then a young mechanic overheard me and showed me the handful of modern 50s they had. I began nerding out on the motorbikes, eventually noticing a 50cc version of the offroad CrossCub, the only I am aware of in Cambodia.
I'd love to have an offroad CrossCub 110 and the only CrossCub 50 for Srey-Yuu, but we don't have that kind of money and Srey-Yuu doesn't like the offroad styles anyway. She didn't want to test drive anything herself in Phnom Penh traffic, understandably, so I talked over a few different bikes with the mechanic. I think he appreciated my fellow motorbike nerdiness, so he quietly nudged me in the direction of the 50 he felt was most mechanically sound.
👨💼 The New Owner Of A 2013 SuperCub 🤝
They gave us a free helmet and even switched everything over to black plastic because that's Srey'Yuu's favorite color, and in the end the grand total was $890 with a license plate and ownership card issued in my wife's name. Srey-Yuu is still too young to legally own a motorbike in her name here, and also too young to legally ride, but it's the norm for kids to ride motorcycles in the countryside from the age of 8, even younger in many cases. The motorbike was paid for by her my mother and stepfather who wanted to do this as a Christmas gift for Srey-Yuu, and also because she has put in the efforts on Hive and in school.
There were a few other destinations and another still left to spend in the capital, so we decided to get a bite to eat and head over to a bookstore to entertain Monkey-B for awhile. We decided to have a license plate and ownership card organized for us by the shop too, so we decided to leave the moto at the shop and return when the ownership card and plate were ready. The provincial governments are hopeless, so it's best not to try and deal with any authorities ever under any circumstances. If bureaucracy is mandatory, it's best to deal with Phnom Penh authorities because they are more competent.
Well, that's all for now folks, stay tuned for the rest of this trip......
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This was the shocking truth, for me. My first attempt to ride motorcycle was at age 20. Life is so much different for me haha
I grew up in the countryside in the USA, and I am lucky my parents put me on a 50cc quadbike at just 2 years old. There was a rope on the back of it for training, and in the case I got too will my parents could just reel me in like a fish, haha. Trail-riding was a big part of my childhood, so in a way I am recreating some of these childhood memories by taking our SuperCubs offroad together here in Cambodia. "Same-same but different" as the Cambodians like to say.
Woah.. I will get shouted if I go near the motorcycle.. I couldn't afford the repair cost if I break the bike.. that's what my parent told me xD.. I even learn how to drive and control car's streering in arcade driving game... which I secretly go play at the town after school, long long time ago haha...
Congratulations @Srey-Yuu for your new bike. Take care in driving Baby.
I am so excited for her, and her motorbike can get up to 180 km/l when driving 30 to 35 km/h, absolutely incredible. My old SuperCub 90 needs nearly a liter just to get over the mountain to the market about 30 km away.
That is so cool. Just let her very careful in driving.
Way to go, @srey-yuu for working hard and earning your own motorbike! The work you did in school and on Hive will benefit you later in life, so it's a "WIN-WIN" situation! I like your t-shirt about Khmer girls, too! 😁
You must be killin' it out here!
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Haha, nice eyes, we all have special shirts that I bring back from the United States each trip. Monkey-B has one of a kitty riding a shark while eating pizza and shooting lazers in outer space, I think it's awesome but she hates it and never wears it.
I do hope Srey-Yuu seizes the opportunity to learn how to ride, it's fundamental in being able to live an independent life here in Cambodia. Without motorbike skills in the countryside, one has to live a very isolated life and/or rely on others for transport. I she can get a visa and get to USA within the next 4 months, she'll turn 15 over there and be eligible to ride 50cc in Indiana, so we could continue the learning over there.
oh, that's hilarious! Maybe she's afraid if she wears that one, it will give Chairwoman Meow some dangerous ideas! 😂
Congratulations! What a great achievement so far ♥️ May you achieve more in the future ♥️ Ne careful in driving.
It's so important here to learn how to ride for an independent lifestyle, I am happy for her to take his repsonsibility.
I agree that in the countryside, even at 8 years old can drive freely or younger than that because we lived in a country side. My brother was free to drive on his motorbike without license at the age of younger than 8. That’s why, I love rural life because life in the city seems so complicated.
Same here, most kids ride before it's legal. I grew up in the countryside of the USA, and when I was young all the kids have 50cc mopeds before it was legal, but my parents never let me get one because they were afraid I would get hurt or get in trouble with the police.
will the bike be transported back in the Tuk Tuk or will it be driven back?
So far I am the only that is confident to drive on highways, so yeah, we put the family and bike in the back of the tuk-tuk to drive home, minus the backseat is the only way.
Highways are chaotic over there as well. I suppose that shouldn't be very shocking to me :)