Bicycle in the Hutongs, Beijing China

Posted by Aidan Hammond (Seoul, South Korea) on 24 September 2007 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

Beijing as always been famous in the eyes of travellers for its fleets of bicycles. My trip there about about a month ago exposed me to them. The number of bikes, and electric motorcycles, made the streets much quieter than I expected. There was less noise in the back streets than one would hear in other cities such as Seoul, Hanoi, or Ho Chi Minh.
Walking through one hutong area I cam across this bicycle leaning against a wall. The black square is covering up some phrase painted on the wall. Along the alleyway there were numerous such squares, some with letter strokes peeking out behind them.

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