TrikesylChina

[keister]

I am spending a couple weeks here in China for work. Thought I would give you guys an idea of what the 3-wheelers look like over here.
All of the pictures in the following couple posts are common everyday sights. I took almost all of these in a very short time, while standing on a couple street corners in front of my hotel.
Being a 6-foot tall white guy, I do tend to draw a lot of stares and pointing from children.
Huangdao is like street legal trikefest 24/7. Hope you enjoy it.

[keister]

Most of these are 110 Lifans. These are everwhere and haul everything. Yesterday, I saw one hauling a living room set (couch, love seat, chair and coffee table - stacked!)

[keister]

This is what I need for my Big Red - a roof!

[keister]

Trucks, cars, vans, scooters, bicycles..... it makes no difference.
If you are Chinese, you gotta be on 3
Nice way to haul your baby through heavy traffic, too.

[keister]

Motorcycles afford many 3-up riding opportunities. They love going 3-up on 90 and 110cc bikes.
Women wear skirts and always ride sidesaddle on the back of motorcycles and bikes.
Whole families (dad, mom, kid) ride 3-up on cycles - didn't get a picture of that today though. There will be more to come as the week goes on.

[keister]

I just love signs like this one in my hotel.
No shampoo in the shower, just "wash hair milk."
For breakfast "roast bread and fried bowel" (toast and sausage).:rolleyes:

Here is the view from out of my hotel room. Makes devil's backbone look like a bunny hill. Haven't seen anyone try it yet, though.

[keister]

One last question.
Anyone want to guess the purpose of this thing beside my bed?

[Louis Mielke]

Its for hanging suite jackets on and stuff. ties rack. wallet/wrist watch

[WaimakRydah]

Trucks, cars, vans, scooters, bicycles..... it makes no difference.
If you are Chinese, you gotta be on 3
Nice way to haul your baby through heavy traffic, too.

Most people over there would think your insane going around taking photos of everything you see that has 3 wheels :lol:

I wonder how stable that little 3 wheeler truck is.

[keister]

Its for hanging suite jackets on and stuff. ties rack. wallet/wrist watch

I thought maybe it was a bathrobe hanger, towel rack, ashtray combo unit.

[keister]

I wonder how stable that little 3 wheeler truck is.

Me too. I don't see them lean when they go around turns.

[kxt250r]

China has the biggest sand dunes in the world,
its 3wheel heaven if you know where to go .....(try Mongolia direction)

[keister]

China has the biggest sand dunes in the world,
its 3wheel heaven if you know where to go .....(try Mongolia direction)

They DO have dunes in Mongolia called "the steppe." No wheelers though, only goats and sheep.

I just had dinner at an "American" place. The owner, an American, pulled up on a Shadow 750 replica.... by far the biggest bike in the city. He had to import it from Beijing - many hours away.

[WaimakRydah]

Is there any street legal ATCs?

[keister]

I have not seen an ATC, but everything (apparently including tractors and home made jalopies) is street legal here.

[300rman]

I have not seen an ATC, but everything (apparently including tractors and home made jalopies) is street legal here.

its because there smart and know they get more tax dollars by letting people put anything on the road.

[sgp56]

Any system that seeks punishment of an individual for "wrongs" committed against noone but the law itself is not interested in peace or equality, but in being able to control and manipulate it's citizens.

This has nothing to do with the thread, but thats the truest thing i heard in awhile.

[WaimakRydah]

I have not seen an ATC, but everything (apparently including tractors and home made jalopies) is street legal here.

You can legally drive a tractor on the road here but they're usually only seen in country areas and everyone gets pissed off because they only travel at like 20 KM/H

[toocheaptosmoke]

You can legally drive a tractor on the road here but they're usually only seen in country areas and everyone gets pissed off because they only travel at like 20 KM/H

Heck, a lot of the schools in my area have a "drive your tractor to school" day, talk about redneck. :lol:

Cool pics btw. shens

[The Goat]

i thought you could drive any tractor on the road?

that's how it works down here.

[keister]

i thought you could drive any tractor on the road?

that's how it works down here.

Sure, but you wouldn't pull out onto Highway 110 in Baton Rouge with this would you?
I took this one this AM on the way to work.

[WaimakRydah]

have u seen any road legal quads?

[Kintore]

Willy peepers thats awesome bud! Too bad your not going to see me this weekend!

I got Bud light and potato salad :)

[endless]

Here's a manufacturer of those 3 wheelers if you keen to jump on one ha.

Alibaba (http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11915124/Motor_Tricycle_Three_Wheeler_Auto_Rickshaw.html)

[atctim]

Willy Peepers - forget the sleep - come hang out - drink - eat potato salad with a real live Canadian - and ride trikes. You can sleep the jet lag off later in the week and call off sick!

[keister]

I am on the road 11 out of 13 weeks this summer. I need to spend this weekend at home or my dog will forget who I am and bite me when I return.

[keister]

Here we have:
A guy hauling 2 TVs on a bicycle.
A sweet dumper bed trike
How NOT to haul cylinders for your cutting rig (tie downs optional)
And more 3-up street riding

I am glad to be back in the US of A!

[Jonpin]

wow lots of laughs on this thread thats awsome

[keister]

Want some more laughs.
Gotta give points for originality.
This isn't some farmer's garage, this is at my multi-national, half-billion dollar a year company.

[WIkid500]

Want some more laughs.
Gotta give points for originality.
This isn't some farmer's garage, this is at my multi-national, half-billion dollar a year company.

Ingenuity at its finest right there! Maybe since the Chinese copy everything else we make so well they could copy the hammer? Really it's a simple tool that works well. lol hahah

[threewheelin-feelin]

i see no suv's full size pick ups or any sports cars on the roads there...have you seen any?

[keister]

i see no suv's full size pick ups or any sports cars on the roads there...have you seen any?

There are a few. I saw a Cherokee Sport and a 4-Runner this morning (they have different names here).

Buick seems to be the status symbol car here (like Cadillac in the US). Here is the van our company owns to get us around. I think the Chinese division of Buick missed the point on the badge though (3.0V6LT). :wondering

Is it a 3 valve 6 liter engine? Surely they meant 3.0 liter V6, but hey, who will ever notice, right???

[keister]

Very few individuals own cars, and the ones that do have no idea how to drive them. We grew up riding in cars with our parents, they didn't. Now, half a billion people are all learning to drive at the same time, on crowded streets. I see wrecks (fatal type crashes, not fender benders, literally daily).

Here is the parking lot at work. Even the higher paid employees like engineers and managers take the bus. If they don't walk or take a bus, they park in one of these two places.

[tanks350x]

That's one hell of a parking garage on the right :lol:

[homebrew13]

BTW the thing next to the hotel bed is it for placing your shoes on?
I've always wondered how the chinese can sell some things on ebay and make a profit. I just paid 4.28 for an anti-bark collar with free shipping. where the profit in that?

[bonkers_200s]

I've always wanted to move to China only because you don't get laughed at for doing 30 on a moped with no helmet and flip flops.