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Old November 4th 05, 12:08 PM
Roger Zoul
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Mark Hickey wrote:
: "Roger Zoul" wrote:
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:Paul Hobson wrote:
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:: 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.

Hopefully they're fixies!


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Old November 4th 05, 02:25 PM
Mark Hickey
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"Roger Zoul" wrote:

Mark Hickey wrote:


: 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.

Hopefully they're fixies!


I'll bet a lot of 'em were (but because of frozen freewheels only).

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Old November 4th 05, 03:24 PM
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Mark Hickey wrote:
"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".


Definitely.

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).


Despite having lived in China for more than three years I can't come up
with a reason for stealing the manhole covers. Selling them for scrap
metal perhaps?

Finally some civic-minded citizen stuck a TREE in the thing (keep in
mind it's still in the middle of the road).


ahh yes, when I lived in Shijiazhuang, they decided at one point to
widen the roads. However, they didn't want to cut down the trees that
lined the roads. Instead they built little decorative planters around
the trees and left them there. Now 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.


But still they ride their single speed bikes calling out "wei wei wei"
to get the slower moving traffic to move out of their way and hope that
it does before they have to try to stop because the brakes don't work.

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.


Only half?

-M

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Old November 4th 05, 05:37 PM
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