Originally Posted by
Ron Damon
The best places for you to go shopping are Bangkok and $ingapore. But they -- indeed most of the region -- are both hot and humid, and you've stated that you hate and can't stand humid heat. You will be miserable. Caveat emptor.
Warning heard. Yeah when I go looking for info on a bike not seen here, sellers in Singapore often show up. But I think I would not enjoy a visit there as (my perception is) it's so mega urban, and extremely high standard of living and costly on everything, so bike prices there may not be cheap, and equatorial climate in the extreme.
Thailand is more likely, Bankok and then venturing afield. Just recently I was reading about Vietnam and it said there were two distinctly different rainy seasons, whether north or south of a line between two cities in the south.
A friend of mine typically vacations a month in SEA in January/February, he's low paid but that is his main job benefit, the time off, and business takes him to the region for two weeks before, so airfare mostly covered; I don't know where he went this year, but he's invited me to come in the past, perhaps we can trip together in the future. He's not a biker, but credit card touring, we might be able to share time and places.