Arranged by the Viking Travel & Media Company, the 8-day tour departed from HCMC on Saturday morning.
Four bikers quit the tour so as to transfer the ill-fated biker home while others decided to continue the journey.
Nguyen Tien Thao, the 37-year-old owner of a motorcycle repair shop on Duong Ba Trac Street in District 8 and one of the city’s leading motorcycle mechanics especially for Yamaha sport motorcycles, crashed into a 15-seat van while riding his 600cc Yamaha R6 at a speed of 180 kilometers per hour, said the source.
Most of the other bikers are pressing on with the journey to Phnom Penh where their Cambodian partners were waiting for them.
Talking to the Daily before the departure, Tran Xuan Hung, director of the Viking Travel and Media Company, said this tour was attended by 33 bikers who are members of “garage.ttvn”, a forum on the well-known website of Trai Tim Viet Nam Online (TTVNOL- http://ttvnol.com).
This 3,000-kilometer-long journey is designed to go through Phnom Penh and Sihanouk Ville in Cambodia; Trad, Pattaya, Kanchanaburi, Bangkok, Koh Chang Island in Thailand.
The tour will take in many tourist attractions, especially the famous bridge on Kwai River.