After the press conference this morning just for a sudden Chris and Lothar decided to go on a bike ride, while Chris the days before had refused to mingle with the local traffic. But then it happened. Madness caught the guys and they disappeared with their bikes. Fritz and myself jumped into the car with our local driver, armed with a sheet of paper having the Chinese words slow (man) and fast (kwai) written on it. Our intention was to shoot the madness, we succeeded. The video clip (coming soon) will show cyclists from another planet.
What we experienced on this ride was incredible. The 3 guys were almost enmeshed by cars, trucks, tuc-tucs, other bicycles, dogs, pedestrians moving with the most different velocities you can imagine, let’s say between walking speed and 150km/h…
For Chinese just normal insanity. It is amazing how they know the dance of the street. Since I am here I only saw one accident with a scooter, nothing serious. But for us and the guys it was stress pure. I think Chris asked himself several times on this ride whether he was mad to take this risk.