Comments on: The Motorbike Diaries – vol. 11

By: Ba

Ba — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:39:04 +0000

Probably 9 out of 10 Vietnamese in SG will say that they would prefer to drive the motorbike without wearing helmets. They think the helmet law is stupid because the weather is so hot and humid. How ignorant is that?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:57:29 +0000

DTran – great, valid points! You are right – they aren’t wearing helmets for safety, if the law was gone tomorrow I think only the foreigners would be wearing helmets! Also true about the traffic police and money…what a crazy place we live in!

By: DTran

DTran — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:22:29 +0000

People put on helmets because they’re afraid of paying fine
if getting caught, not because of safety. This explains why parents wear helmets, and not kids.
I don’t give much credits to the goverment since more law give traffic police more reasons to get money from the people.

By: Motorbike helmets

Motorbike helmets — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:32:38 +0000

As you see, the kids has no helmet for most of them and this is not good if something happen. Good thing is there’s so many bikes around if you get hit, at least not car.

By: Jon Hoff

Jon Hoff — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:44:50 +0000

Hey there!
I’ve written quite a few posts on helmets over the years including this one on safety BEFORE the law came in : http://itsthefinalword.blogspot.com/2006/11/are-you-hard-headed.html
And I blogged on the day the law came in as well, so strange to suddenly see everyone with helmets on!
http://itsthefinalword.blogspot.com/2007/12/helmets-everywhere.html

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:16:04 +0000

Hi Sherry,
It’s always fascinated me that parents don’t put helmets on their kids. I know my parents used to go nuts about keeping my sisters and I safe- my Dad actually gave up riding his motorbike when my oldest sister was born as he wanted to be around himself! Hell, we used to HAVE to wear a HAT to protect us from the SUN!!! Asia is like a different planet!
Take care- and keep on riding!

By: Dave and Deb

Dave and Deb — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:47:54 +0000

Isn’t that the truth. I saw a few fatal accidents during my 1 month in Vietnam. Probably would have had a better outcome if they wore a helmet. When we went on a motocycle tour in Hue, I insisted on having a helmet. They looked at me like I was nuts! Thanks for another great post. Deb

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:43:19 +0000

Haha!! Some of those new laws are too funny! Helmets must be kind of pricey, right? So getting a helmet for a small child (in theory it would be fitted properly) would be expensive since you would need to upgrade to a larger size every couple of years….