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A bad fall
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awful
never ride into standing water! this is obviously a drain grate or pothole. also, looks like he was riding one handed to hold his silly umbrella.. wle. |
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wle wrote:
awful never ride into standing water! this is obviously a drain grate or pothole. also, looks like he was riding one handed to hold his silly umbrella.. Bonus points for hanging onto the umbrella all the way down. -- Dave T. Remove "slu" to reply |
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Umbrellas make terrible parachutes.
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ThreeLeggedDog wrote:
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Dave Tegart writes:
awful Never ride into standing water! This is obviously a drain grate or pothole. Also, looks like he was riding one handed to hold his silly umbrella.. Bonus points for hanging onto the umbrella all the way down. His fork got bent just the same. I find more interesting that the photographer had the presence of mind to take the second shot after taking the picture of a bicyclist with an umbrella in the first place. Jobst Brandt |
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Paul Hobson wrote:
: I remember reading about this photo a while back. It was taken to : demonstrate to the local gov't (in China) that the roads needed some : serious work. With that in mind, the photographer went out to the : location where he new there was a huge pothole that collected water : during big storm events. He sat there and waited for a cyclist (a : delivery worker in this case, IIRC) to ride into the trap that he : knew existed. For this, the photographer was heavily criticized. Amazing..... |
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"Roger Zoul" wrote:
Paul Hobson wrote: : I remember reading about this photo a while back. It was taken to : demonstrate to the local gov't (in China) that the roads needed some : serious work. With that in mind, the photographer went out to the : location where he new there was a huge pothole that collected water : during big storm events. He sat there and waited for a cyclist (a : delivery worker in this case, IIRC) to ride into the trap that he : knew existed. For this, the photographer was heavily criticized. Amazing..... I'll say... the bike roads (not "lanes", not "paths", though they are in a true sense MUPs because they're used by horse carts, taxis, cars, tractors and busses at times) in China can be "very exciting". One of the problems they had in Bejing when I lived there was people stealing the manhole covers. I remember one near where I lived that was open for months, on a VERY dark road (well, at night anyway). Finally some civic-minded citizen stuck a TREE in the thing (keep in mind it's still in the middle of the road). Other "interesting things" that you'd see included concrete blocks that would stay in the middle of the bike road for weeks, open trenches, and pavement conditions that would challenge most MTBs. And this in a country where almost none of the bikes use lights at night, and I swear half of 'em don't have working brakes. Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $795 ti frame |
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