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Cuong's Motorbike Adventure MINSK FACTORY
Motorbike Links A very cool history of the beast. From Stone Age to "Iron Age" An italian Minsk fan compiled an authoritative history of the Minsk from Stone Age through the 30s and 50s to modern Iron Age. From Raidminsk: Specifications and pictures of all kinds of Russian (Sowjet) motorbikes. Commercial but very interesting!!! International Motorcycle Adventurers A page full of links to pages of adventure motorbike freaks driving all around the world. www.cossackownersclub.co.uk British Russian friends. British Minsk drivers get support there. Schelzig was in Vietnam in 1996 and cruising on one of the beasts Lots of links to Russian bike pages Ural America Anybody wants to buy a Minsk in the US? There is a new version for sale. The Czech Jawas and Cz are still worth a club The Chinese Chang Jiang is a roots bike from China. Looks like the Russian Ural or pre-World War 2 BMWs |
Links Minsk Motorbike Links http://www.pbase.com/mkelpie/minsk Lots of good shots of Minsks in action around Vietnam. Great story about driving around Hanoi on a Minsk. www.rectravel.com/din/mototours.htm Lots of good links to driving in South East Asia www.mcasta.ru/eng/mainhome2.htm Technical specifications and pictures on hundreds of Russian motorbikes Minsk Fan Club (in Russian) Excellent Fan site (in Russian) www.minskmoto.net/ssilki/ssilki.htm Links to Russian bike clubs (in Russian) http://www.imc.narod.ru/bikernews.html All the latest news concerning Russian bikers http://www.cossackownersclub.co.uk Excellent club site with all kinds of info on most old Russian bikes Extensive and excellent information about former Soviet cars and motorcylcles Vietnam Links Check out Hans Kemp's latest photograph book showing the vital role played by 2-wheeled transport in the Vietnamese economy. A sample copy can be seen at "Highway4", 5 Hang Tre St., or check out www.bikes-of-burden.com for more info or to make an order. The WWW Virtual Libary of the Australian University Probably one of the best compilation of resources about Vietnam. Some cool stuff for travellers Everything about Ha Noi (stories, pictures, maps). Lots of galleries and infos International Centre of Photography An exhibition of photographs of the Vietnam War, as seen through the lens of North Vietnamese photographers. Photo & Film Links The Travels of Luong Quang Thang Really nice pictures of some Hmong, Lolos, Bana and more. Excellent pictures, sounds and stories. Nice pictures of Hanoi Stories Links by Andrew & Chantal (in German) Discovering a different Vietnam Paul Alexander writing for AP about Sa Pa. With a cool picture of a Minsk. The Club will soon provide detailed sketch maps of the Northern mountains. Until then some links to cool maps on the net. Vietnam Maps Misc Probably one of the best compilation of resources about Vietnam. The guy maintaining the page is called Vern Weitzel and is somewhere in Australia. Lots of US war maps, mostly south 1:50.000 maps of South Viet Nam (US war time) The Southern Part of the North 1 Continues from above. Muong Lat to close to Vinh. The South Satellite photos The area around Uong Bi and Ha Long Bay Including the amazing Ha Long bay with the thousands of islets The pix shows the area around and north of Kontum You can see Vinh in the right bottom corner. You also see the Ca and Con rivers coming down from Laos. |
