Speedometers, who needs them! I’m a canon rider and the North of Vietnam is full of endless valley passes and beautiful windy roads cut roads into the sleeping Limestone giants.
As you get closer to SaPa they get even steeper and more fun to ride. Taking tight corners, whizzing out of them, learning into them, knees out, I was in heaven. Windy, twisty gentle inclines, sharp curves though these little roadside villages. Bridges over rock filled steams, banana leaf roofed shacks selling bunches of garlics, bamboo shoots or simply used for respites from the blazing sun. Tiny wooden swing bridges crossing trickling streams, stilt houses and mini village compounds along tiered paddy fields. Children wavering to you as you zoom at by in cruise mode. My bike was bouncing like a child’s bouncy walker bobbing up, down, up, down up down up down. It´s suspension completely shot, it´s shitty brakes barely working forcing me to continuously downshift. I was floating on a little boat over my sea of potholes, craters, dust piles, badly filled in potholes. Softly being lulled into a happy mode of acceptance to it. I have no idea at what speed I was going but simply did not care. We stumbled across the most perfect road and I mean perfect! Theres a magic stretch of road from Mau Chau to Son La that is simply fantastic!! I´m keeping the exact place a little secret as i plan one day to return and ride it over and over again. Yes it was that nice!
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