Big hauls by bike

[KnottedYet]

There are plenty of bike-hauled loads that do not require Photoshop to impress. Take a look at Xtracycle http://www.xtracycle.com/ or any other legitimate site for examples.

[pll]

I've seen loads on bike and motorbikes in Vietnam and Cambodia that are similar, but not quite as extreme as the examples linked by shootingstar. I am too lazy to reach for my old laptop for some pictures, but I have the following from Siem Reap (not at all out of the ordinary -- somewhere I have another photo with 2-3 pigs, but from the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City):

Or this modest load on a bike, from Ho Chi Minh City:

Edited to add: In more rural settings, you spot the overloaded bikes, but I have never seen something as extreme as the tricycles shown in the link above. I recall a book published about that, though.

[radacrider]

Do a search of "move by bike". This past summer I saw a group go through my neighborhood. I waved to them as they rode by. Really impressive.

[pll]

Found the book -- all motorcycles in Vietnam, though: "Bikes of Burden", by Hans Kemp. Some samples through a slide show from ABC News. It's amazing to see.

[shootingstar]

Thx for the link pll. Somehow the thought of motorcycling with lots of dead animals near by..um..yea. But real.

[pll]

Thx for the link pll. Somehow the thought of motorcycling with lots of dead animals near by..um..yea. But real.

I think it's even worse that the animals are alive! Pigs, dogs, chicken, fish (lots of tiny plastic bags with water and gold fish).

Here you go: gold fish for sale... another Ho Chi Minh shot from the window of a moving bus.