Bicycles and tricylces haul all kinds of things: furniture, collected material for recycling, loads of market produce, as well as getting people from a to b. There are bike lanes on many streets and mobile bike repair stops to repair flat tires, etc, on many busy corners. Herds of bikes cross major intersections en masse. I appreciate the range of riders and the ingenuity of the people who load their bikes up.I’m thinking about making a small picture book that would archive the range of bicycles and their uses in Beijing.
Garry (Kennedy, my partner), arrived on Saturday from Halifax, Canada, and he’ll be here for the residency until the end of October, too. We were thinking of getting our hands on a couple of bikes, but we’re having second thoughts, even though we’ve rented bikes in Berlin for three years in a row. The traffic, including bike traffic, is thicker here and crossing at the six-lane intersections is daunting.
