Heading out of town I was pretty keen to find one of these blokes (they are in most towns). Didn't really have any brakes, and when I had gone to pump one of the tyres up in Hanoi, it had a different valve system, and I completely deflated the tyre.
He replaced the back disc brake set up all these bikes have, put on new front pads, replaced the tubes so they'd work with my pump, straightened one of the cranks and secured my wayward front basket. All for 100 000 dong- that's good bang for your dong. He worked fast and fluidly.
We also bought 4 ockee straps to tie our packs onto the back racks- much kinder on your butt than our last effort on bikes we're we carried 85 litre packs on our backs.
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