A STUPIDLY EPIC RIDE 50CC. ALL OF VIETNAM.
Vietnam is a long country.
A 50cc scooter is a small machine.
You already see where this is going.
NO ROUTE. NO SUPPORT. NO GOOD REASON.
Just a start, a finish,
and all the shit in between.
ARE YOU DUMB ENOUGH?
THE DUMBEST RACE IN ASIA.
A point-to-point race across Vietnam. Start to finish — or the reverse. No fixed route. No support vehicle. No guided itinerary. Just a start, a check point, and an end.
You get assigned a 50cc semi-automatic scooter for the full duration. You give it a name. You keep it alive. Your ride.
Every edition alternates direction. Every rider picks their own chaos.
BY THE NUMBERS
THE SPECS.
1 rider per vehicle.
No exceptions.
Semi-automatic.
No license required.
Arrival window at
finish city.
Halfway. The rest is your
problem.
Your path. Your
decisions.
Guaranteed.
No refunds.
YOUR MACHINE
SMALL. STUBBORN. SEMI-AUTO.
It is not a motorcycle. It is not a moped. It is a semi-automatic 50cc machine with the energy of an old dog that refuses to die. You will hate it by day three. It will become your best adulthood memory by day five.
No clutch. No complicated gear system. No unnecessary drama. Just throttle, forward motion, luck, and whatever mechanical dignity you manage to preserve along the way.
The machine is assigned at registration with the name you gave it already on. You give it a name. That name is sacred. Nobody can take it from you. Not even the machine itself, when it inevitably breaks down in the most inconvenient location possible. It goes on the race number, on official materials, and into every story you tell afterwards.
THE FORMAT
FROM ZERO TO CHAOS.
The structure is simple. Everything else is not.
MEET & GREET
Two nights before the start. Beers. Everyone meets for the first time. You study each other’s faces trying to figure out who’s going to break down first. Beers. Bad predictions. First bad ideas born.
MECHANICAL BRIEF + TEST RIDE
You learn what can go wrong on your machine. The list is longer than expected. Then you take it out for the first time. Just enough to know what you signed up for.
RACE BRIEFING
Locations and must-sees. Rules. Tracker instructions.Tips and tricks. The part of the evening where everyone nods seriously and retains roughly 30% of the information given.
LAUNCH PARTY
Fireworks. Beers. Questionable energy. Speeches nobody finishes. Naive optimism. More beers. The kind of send-off that makes the next morning feel earned and slightly punishing. Exactly right.
RACE
A proper starting grid. A Checkered flag. Let's go! Your route. Your pace. GPS tracker active on every machine. WhatsApp group as the live feed of the collective disaster. No guides. No itinerary. No hand-holding. Just two weeks of adventure ahead.
FINISH LINE + PARTY
Check in whenever you make it in the given time window . Final party. Awards ceremony for the categories that actually matter. Stories exaggerated within the first 10 minutes of reunion. Most of them are probably lies. Beers. The overwhelming feeling of having accomplished something amazing.
Know where everyone is.
Every rider gets a GPS tracker for the full race. Your position plus all 29 others, live on a map, at all times. Because knowing that someone else is also lost on a mountain road at 2am is, paradoxically, deeply comforting.
Real-time position
Your location and all 29 others. Live. All the time.
Ride statistics
Distance, speed, average speed, stops. Evidence of your bad decisions.
Direct social share
Share your route directly. Your followers will be confused. That is the point.
No podium. Just merits.
There is no first place. There are only the categories that reward what actually matters during 16 days on a 50cc machine.
Best breakdown
Best breakdown
Dumbest detour
Dumbest detour
Best photo
Best photo
Best video
Best video
Most distance
Most distance
Lowest average speed
Lowest average speed
Best appearance
Best appearance
Best punk solution
Best punk solution
Worst situation survived
Worst situation survived
Reckless merits
Reckless merits
IN. AND NOT IN.
Included
- 50cc semi-automatic scooter assigned for the full race
- GPS tracking device returned at the finish
- Pre-race meet and greet at the start
- Mechanical briefing and test ride
- Race number and participant kit
- WhatsApp group with all participants
- Emergency contact line
- Final party and awards ceremony at the finish
Not included
- Flights and transfers
- Accommodation along the route
- Fuel
- Mechanical repairs
- Personal insurance
- Any form of guide or in-route support
30 spots. That's it.
Once they're gone, they're gone. No late entries. No exceptions. No Plan B.
Waiting List
Secure your place in the queue. Deposit is deducted from your final fee when you confirm.
Reserve a spotEarly Bird
Limited window. Once it closes, the price goes up. No exceptions — and yes, we will close it.
I'm in — Early BirdStandard
Full price. Still worth it. Still the dumbest thing you'll do this year.
Standard registrationOpen the mess.
Six blocks. All the extra stuff people ask before they decide to do something stupid.
Editions
Editions
Two directions. Same bad idea. Pick your poison. One goes Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. The other flips it. Everything else stays gloriously stupid.
Closes 15 August 2026 — standard is €1.290
North to south. Long road. Multiple climates. More mountains early. Chaos later.
Secure your spotCloses 31 December 2026 — standard is €1.290
Same mess, opposite direction. South to north. Different mood. Same tiny engine.
Join the waiting listFree route.
There is a start, a checkpoint, and a finish. Everything else is your call.
No passengers.
No exceptions. You, your bag and your problems.
No support.
You're on your own, baby pony.
No assholes allowed.
Respect the country you're struggling in and the other participants.
The Race
The Race
No route. No support. No hand-holding. Start. Ride. Finish. That is the structure. The shit in the middle is all yours.
Get a first taste of Vietnam before the start.
Meet the other 29. Plan a strategy. Make friends for life. This event goes way beyond a crazy ride from point A to B.
Everyone leaves together.
The group starts from Hanoi at the same time. After that, no support, no pace car, no one telling you which way to go. Just point south and deal with it.
One mandatory checkpoint.
You get 14 to 16 days and one mandatory checkpoint. Miss it and you are out of the official results. Still welcome at the finish party.
Roll in however you can.
You arrive in Ho Chi Minh City, check in, compare damage, return the tracker, and head into the finish party where the stories get louder and less accurate.
The bare minimum.
Meet & greet, mechanical briefing, a ridiculous machine yours for two weeks, race briefing, pre-race party, race kit, WhatsApp group, emergency contact, GPS tracker, finish party, awards ceremony.
No rescue fantasy.
No support vehicle. No rescue crew. No external support team following you. Friends on the road are fine. Personal mechanics shadowing you are not contemplated.
You know where everyone is.
Every rider carries a tracker for the full race. You see all 30 riders live, your own route stats, and you can share directly to social. The tracker comes back at the finish. Lose it and you will be publicly punished.
None of them about speed.
Doesn't matter how slow you are, this is about living the dream.
One rider per machine.
No passengers. No exceptions. The machine is yours alone.
Mind the schedule.
Even though the route is totally free, it's important to respect the minimal schedule provided. Fuck up start, checkpoint or finish timings and you're out of the official results.
Your scooter is your problem.
You're responsible for your scooter for the whole duration of the event. Repairs are on you. Break it or lose it and you won't get your deposit back.
Don't be dick.
You're in a beautiful country, packed with awesome people. Respect is sacred.
The Beasts
The Beasts
50cc. Semi-automatic. No clutch. Four gears on your left foot. The same setup millions of Vietnamese ride every day. Completely inadequate for what you are about to do with it.
Asthmatic but committed.
Single-cylinder 50cc, air cooled, semi-automatic transmission, 4 gears, two wheels, one rider, surprisingly decent fuel range, enough top speed to get into trouble.
All of Vietnam, somehow.
Coast roads, mountain passes, dirt tracks, flooded sections, market alleys. It handles more than it looks like it should. Slowly. But still.
None required.
No licence. No problem. You just need to be 18 or older. That is the full list of requirements.
Some time to figure it out.
Before the race, you get some time with the machine. Ride it. Break it. Fix it. Learn the gears, the brake, and what problems might sound like.
Every machine gets a name.
You choose it. It goes on your race plate, live GPS map, race kit and official records. Deadline: 45 days before the start. Miss it and the name gets chosen for you. Badly.
Go wild. Reversible only.
Flags, accessories, decorations, live animals. Make it look wrong. Just make sure what you add can be removed later.
It breaks. You fix it.
Local mechanics, roadside solutions, zip ties, ugly improvisation. All valid. The machine is assigned to you for the whole race. Not borrowed. Not shared. Yours.
€500 at risk.
Before the race you willhave to pay a €500 deposit. Abandon the machine and you lose the vehicle deposit. Damage not repaired or irreversible modifications can also come out of it. Bring it back in the same general shape, just sadder.
Why Vietnam
Why Vietnam
Because it's long. Because it's wild. Because it hits you in the face with something new every 50 kilometres and does not apologise for it. There are easier countries. This is not about easy.
Vietnam is 100 countries in one.
Karst peaks, dense jungle, terraced rice fields, coastal passes above the South China Sea, red soil roads through coffee country, crater lakes, the Mekong Delta, then Ho Chi Minh City and its endless scooters.
Water, mountains, chaos.
The Hai Van Pass splits weather in half. The old Ho Chi Minh Trail runs through the mountains along the Laos border. Vietnam is as much water as land and the roads follow both.
Never boring. Rarely balanced.
You will get rained on, baked, blown sideways and possibly flooded. Sometimes in the same week. There is no good season for the whole country.
Your feed is already jealous.
Mountains, jungle, rice fields, coast, cities, night markets, misty mornings, breakdown moments and roads that look fake. Every day gives you something worth shooting.
What You'll Need
What You'll Need
Not much. Less than you think. Certainly less than you are already packing in your head right now.
Passport. Keep it short.
You need a valid passport. Depending on your nationality, you may also need a visa. No licence. No special permits.
Mandatory.
You must have personal health insurance that covers vehicle use. Tell your insurer this is an independent ride.
Be prepared.
Hot coast. Cold altitude. Bring light clothes, a windproof layer, a waterproof layer, and one warm layer.
Helmet mandatory.
The helmet is mandatory in Vietnam and is provided with the scooter. Everything else depends on you and how much you value your skin.
Ask Us
Ask Us
Most answers are below. If yours is not, there is a form at the bottom.
Waiting list first.
You put your name down, get contacted, then pay the deposit to lock the spot. No deposit, no seat.
45 days is the line.
Cancel more than 45 days before the start and you get the money back minus the deposit. Inside 45 days, no refund.
No licence. Age 18+.
The real non-negotiables are age, passport, and insurance that actually covers what you are doing.
If it breaks, you deal with it.
That means local mechanics, roadside improvisation, and getting the machine to the finish line.
You don't need a plan. You need a bad idea and enough guts to follow through.
No guides. No hand-holding. Just you, something too small, and a road that goes way too far.
Welcome to No Plan Club. Pure dumb adventures.
