Walking down the street in Vietnam today visitors can not easily find a scooterist as previous years. With a high using density of motorcycle (80%), roads are getting smaller and chock-a-block with bikes. If you used to see the traffic-jam with a long row of cars in developed countries, you will find the same traffic problem but with bikes in Vietnam. Time after time, motorbikes are imported more and more and vietnamese tends to wish to own a modern bike more than to have a historic one for daily using. Most of vespa are in Ho Chi Minh city and all of the famous quality restoration shop are located here, over 20 shops big and small. Of course there are others scattered in nearby provinces and countryside area  but you can not find them as easily as in Ho Chi Minh. Specially you will find that it is more difficult to buy vespa in Da Nang or Hai Phong province (two provinces in the North) because they are holding them for a historic purpose as in showrooms for foreign visitors or for tourism purpose.

To an old statistic, fifty nine thousands scooters had been exported to Vietnam by Piaggio Corp, Italy. It included all model from lambrettas, VBBs, VBCs, VLBs, GS, ACMA, 50cc, 125cc, 150cc, 175cc, 200c,…. Vietnam have never produced these bikes and will never. So the question is where these bikes are now?. They have gone abroad as same as the way they came to this country. Many foreigners have come to Vietnam and take most of them, the higher level was happenning in recent years. Many with different purposes: someone who came to find a business with vespa actively, some visited Vietnam and found these bikes by chance, some got married with Vietnamese and started business with the help of forever friends….but not all of them are  mechanics, they even do not know much about vespa and how it works as well.

Many vespas coming out from Vietnam are in poor condition and this causes many bad reputation. Why? Let me tell you some facts that can make you clear partly: First most of the case took vespa directly from along the streets in Vietnam for a cheap price at around 800$ or bought through sellers who also bought from this place and resold for money. It is very dangerous because all these bikes were only fixed partly and more important they were for domestics demand, means Vietnamese who do not have a lot of money to buy, that’s why it has such a cheap price to target the buyers. Vietnamese are willing to buy these bikes for riding because it is cheap and when there is a problem, they can return to have a free service/fixing. It is very different for the international bikes which need the best quality, reliable and last long forever. If you take such along the street bike accidently, it is really terrible because problems are ofcourse and you have to pay a lot of money for fixing or your mechanics even can not fix the problem for you because they do not understand the work.

Secondly, after assembling from a new restoring process these bikes were not checked on the road enough as it should be. You know, when restoring all parts are stripped down every piece, cleaned and reassembled, no any skill mechanics can guarantee that the restored bike will run perfectly without any adjustment after assembling. Why adjust? New parts need to stay in bed with the new position and the more checking on the road, you will find out problems and have necessary adjustments the more it brings the endurance, it is true that the more you ride the vespa the more it performs better because new parts are happy with  new positions now. Restoring bike for exporting need completing with all new parts and time to ride checking

So what we have to do if we want to buy a vespa? Find a reliable source or go to buy with a professional who understand about vespa an engine, not all restoration shopss in Vietnam are bad but you need to know who they are and it is really a WARNING that should never buy vespa along the street or never bought through someone who took from these and resold. When you have to come to buy from shops in Vietnam, tell them that you want the USA or European STANDARDS, not Vietnamese or chinese standards.

With over 40 years experience in restoring vespa, we have exported hundreds to many countries and in recent 10 years our fully restored bikes are for international exporting only, we have not restored for domestics user any more because of our prestige. We test bikes on the road carefully before shipping to solve any problems involved because the bike is newly restored and need adjustments, it builds our reputation chiefly and our vespa is not for days or months using but it lasts for years after years. We use all parts imported from England, Italy, India so long lasting quality is ofcourse. With the source of bikes is reducing time to time, powderscooter is storaging nearly two hundreds projects that can meet your demand.