Views from Inside the Hot Pot

Tricycles are used to move flowers around the city, which always makes for an awesome sight.

Many of the bike lanes in China, like this one, are completely separate from car traffic, although sometimes cars use them when traffic is really bad, or to get around stopping at a red light.

Many vendors use tricycles to both move and display their wares.

This woman is selling fresh pineapple from her tricycle.

The evening rush hour gets quite hectic, with bicycles, tricycles, e-bikes, scooters all crowding into bike lanes and occasionally taking over one or two lanes of traffic.

This bicycle comes with a built in umbrella. These are quite common in China.

A tricycle cart, used to transport flowers, with a guest

Another tricycle flower cart.

This women sells raspberries and blackberries from the back of her bike

A man moves a bed and dresser on the back of his tricycle. Notice the scooter rider behind him helping him out

This man is transporting cauliflower and quite large radishes.

This man is transporting garbage out of Qing Yang Daoist Temple.

There are places to park your bike like this one all over Chengdu. It costs between 2 and 5 mao, which is a couple of cents.

This is bike parking in Beijing

A meeting of fruit sellers

This gentleman is transporting cacti via bike. He’s actually driving an e-bike, or electric bike. E-bikes can be peddled, or switched to an electric motor. They need to be charged when not being used.

This is an albino child in the back of a tricycle wagon.

Some, but not all, of these tricycles have motors, which can be switched on at the drivers discretion.

This one definitely has the motor option.

This e-bike has an attached parasol. Many bikes and e-bikes here have these umbrellas to help keep riders a little cooler. They also keep riders drier when it rains.

People ride on the backs of bikes like this all over town.