TIC (This is China)

[ZMC888]

This is the reason why I haven't bothered getting legal in China in the two years I've been riding here. A lot of bullshit red-tape that I don't have time or patience for. Chinese laws are really "suggestions" more or less anyway. I DID get my bike confiscated with no option to get it back last year after being involved in an accident with a car near downtown Guangzhou, where motorcycles are banned completely. The cop did say that had I been completely legal, the driver of the car would have been responsible for paying my hospital bills which resulted in my broken leg afterwards. Actually if I hadn't been a foreigner, more or less, the driver would have had to pay anyway as larger vehicles are generally considered at fault regardless of the reality of the situation. I'm not encouraging anyone to copy my example by any means, but my experiences have proven to me it's a waste of time (for me). Enjoy your beer ...

Hmm yeah, but hit an ebike, bicycle or pedestrian and then you're the bigger vehicle so then you pay. That's why you need the insurance. Plenty of instances of insurance being very useful or essential on these boards. Trust me, if you hit a pedestrian even if they run out in front of you with zero avoidance opportunity, chances are people will try to turn you into a human ATM.

Though, I agree the red tape sucks.

[NZBrakelathes]

A mate was an ATM to the tune of 24000¥

[bikerdoc]

Ferrari + Lambo crash BJ.jpg

Online speculation mounted in China as police detained the "unemployed" drivers of a Lamborghini and Ferrari that crashed in Beijing as the seventh stunt-filled Fast and Furious movie opened.

Pictures of the mangled wreckage of a lime-green Lamborghini, a damaged red Ferrari and other high-performance cars in a tunnel in the Chinese capital emerged online following Saturday's crash, which police said left one person injured.

A 20-year-old surnamed Yu from Changchun in the northeastern province of Jilin drove the Ferrari, while a man surnamed Tang, aged 21, from Beijing, was in the Lamborghini, police said, adding that both were jobless.

"Socialism is so good that it allows unemployed people to drive supercars," one posting said on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, mocking the country's authoritarian system of Communist rule.

"What are their names? Who are their fathers?" another netizen asked.

A high-speed Ferrari crash in the capital in March 2012 killed the son of Ling Jihua, a close ally of then-president Hu Jintao. Two women passengers, one of them naked, were both injured.
The incident added to public perceptions in China of corrupt and high-living officials, and Ling has since been investigated for graft and dismissed from his post.

The latest crash happened at about 10pm, police said, during heavy rain. It occurred two hours before Furious 7 broke the record for midnight screenings on its launch in China, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
"Were they in a hurry to watch Fast and Furious 7?" one netizen said.

Earlier reports said at least one of the luxury vehicles' drivers was a student, and that residents had complained about cars racing in the tunnel, which is near Beijing's emblematic Bird's Nest stadium.

Beijing police earlier drew derision online for referring to the cars involved as green and red "small passenger-carrying vehicles" in a statement released on Sunday.

"These sure are valuable vehicles," said one posting.

But Monday's police statement identified the makes of both the Lamborghini, which sells for around US$800,000 in China, and the Ferrari, which can cost around US$500,000.

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TIC... LFZ

[ZMC888]

Method for success:

1. Learn to drive.
2. Buy super-car.

[Lao Jia Hou]

Tankers Illegally Dumping Sewage for Years in Clean Water Supply



Tankers containing sewage water from the landfill in Liulitun, a neighborhood in Beijing's Haidian district, have been illegally discharging their contents into wells for clean-water pipelines during the past several years, sina.com.cn reported on Tuesday.


The illegal dumping came to light when one of the tankers was impounded by Haidian urban management officials on April 8 as it was en route to Xi'erqi, a neighborhood in the district about 10 kilometers away from the landfill.


Workers at the landfill, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said they dump about 200 tons of sewage water via tanker trucks on a nightly basis. The dumping saves garbage facility about 2.8 million yuan, or $451,000 U.S., per year.


The sewage tankers, which travel under the guise that they are sprinkler trucks, depart the landfill after 10 p.m. in order to minimize suspicion of their activites. They dump smelly sewage water through a black tube into the wells for clean-water pipelines in Xi'erqi neighborhood.

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Re: Street Racers

The most recent reports are from the mother of the 21 year old Lambo driver. According to mommy, her son bought the $800,000 (US) Lambo with his own money. He apparently made money playing billiards and then used his winnings to invest in the stock market.

Sure, ok, this sounds entirely believable.

Linkie (with dash cam video, showing that the Lambo was actually "racing" in reverse)

[Zorge]

Is this traffic jam or Chris Rea shoots video for "Road to Hell" part 3?

[moilami]

Wow, would had been easy though to through with a bike.

[moilami]

So I bought a new motorbike in Huizhou last week (even got it plated).... and stripping it down for modification I found a serious "only in China" feature :)

Okay so the bike is "Guo III" with all the fancy emission control crap.... let's take a look at that system for a second:

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Everything looks legit, it has that S.A.I crap all hooked up.. evaporation control system... lots of hoses and little tubes, boxes and such....

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Since I'm going to replace the engine with a 250 anyway, I decided to strip out the crap and have a play with the engine... so when removing the first hose I was rather surprised :)

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I literally facepalmed... then checked out the rest, yes... just empty outer casings, nothing inside....

Score one for the 5RMB savings they made on the manufacture of this bike hehe... and score one for people like me who don't like all that extra environment saving crap either. Score nil for common sense and Guo III inspectors :)

Buhahaha, that is actually a genuine solution :D

[Zorge]

Wow, would had been easy though to through with a bike.

Sorry, no line filtering in China.

[Zorge]

Ouch!