I’ve been taking shots of the massive variety of small, mostly two-wheeled, vehicles we have seen all over China. Since scooters are banned in Guangzhou (where we are right now), I figured that my photo journal is mostly complete. Below are a number of my favorite finds throughout Beijing, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and a couple from today in Guangzhou. Click to enlarge. Enjoy.

Gotta start em young!

Many of the scooters we saw had these handlebar sheaths like huge gloves…

There were dozens like the one above – they all seemed to be used as garbage containers…

These massive trike dump trucks were all over the place… so strange!

You just had to stand in awe of the parents or caretakers driving around the dense traffic with one, two, even three toddlers balanced on their scooters – real skill there.

I have no idea what’s going on with the image above… We’re pretty sure those were not real babies in the back…

Snoopy scooter in downtown Zhengzhou…

It took me so long to get halfway decent shots of the little kids on scooters that I also drew a few sketches in case I never got a picture! Here they are:

PS: anyone who thinks Italy has the corner on dangerous levels of scooter action, I dare them to spend a week in Zhengzhou.