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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