rain today

Rainy day today so I wimped out and took a cab to work. The great Chinese rain cape does a good job but in heavy downpours all the rain collects in the sheet that stretches over the handlebars. This results in cycling with a small pond in your lap - so not very conducive to filming.
The guys crossing the road with a tricycle are carrying bamboo scaffold poles. Not as popular here as they are in HongKong, bamboo is used only on low rise projects in Shanghai. Whole blocks will disappear behind it and a week or two later it is removed to reveal either repainted houses or an empty plot of land.

The Crash Test Dummy Vlog
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Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• shanghai
• China
• cycling
• bicycle

[gwhoosh]

How cute! Everyone's wearing colorful ponchos :) I'm just surprised nobody crashed!

[thecrashtestdummy]

Cycling in China often feels like one continuous, slow motion crash. This is all part of my commute to work which I have just started vlogging.

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Still tweaking the video settings on my Mac so I hope quality will improve soon.

[somnambulancy]

lol

[Surrey12]

thats a lot of gold farmers

[convinceable]

Awesome! Makes me miss riding my bike in Beijing.

[weer1]

i hate to ride in rainy day. but it is not the worst one. cycling in snowy day is horrible. but cycling help keep air clean. if everyone drive, .......  nobody can live in the city.