Riding A Bicycle in Shanghai

上海で自転車を乗る

Automobile traffic in Shanghai is not pleasant.

In addition, much of the city is a building site.

The air is fetid and sand-filled.

On top of that are people, people, people everywhere.

Riding a bike is not for the faint of heart.

Mainly it is middle-aged guys on three-wheelers making a delivery.

These guys are fearless, and we in Kyoto offer them our deepest respect.

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Cycling Shanghai

上海で自転車を乗る

Riding a bike in Shanghai requires a big pair of cojones.

The traffic is awful, building sites are everywhere - think fences and piles of dirt and building materials in the street - population density is intense.

And, as far as we could tell, there are no bike lanes.

Yet many persist.

Mainly it is middle-aged guys lugging something around town on the back of their all purpose bikes.

Compared to what we put up with in Kyoto, Shanghai is a different level of chaos - and we salute the brave, the few, the semi-mad cyclists of Shanghai.

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