I hadn’t even noticed the absence of Ofo shared bikes on the street. Once upon a time there were many companies littering the streets with shared bikes. The pavements were littered with multi-coloured QR-coded metal and it was sometimes hard to navigate your way around, and much more difficult to find a parking space for… Read More »
I was trying to make my way slowly and carefully from central Shanghai to Yangpu district on my bike when I found myself at the International Cruise Terminal metro station. There, I saw a really interesting derelict building and took a detour to cycle around it to see if I could get in for a… Read More »
I decided to spend my Sunday afternoon by taking a ride down to the river and take a ferry over to Pudong and cycle along the river on the far side. However, I got to The Cool Docks, where I planned to have a coffee and get the ferry, to find The Cool Docks closed… Read More »
We know there’s a war between the shared bicycle schemes in Shanghai. I have counted 8 companies but apparently there are many more. The pavements and roads have become choked with (predominantly) the yellow Ofo and the original orange Mobike. However, recently I have noticed that people have been going around damaging them, removing wheels,… Read More »
First there were the orange Mobike then I started seeing the green ones, then the big yellow ones and soon afterwards, on Donghu Lu I saw some blue ones. What is happening here? It’s like the United nations of bicycle rental in Shanghai. I mean how many do we need here? I went to what… Read More »
I eventually got around to registering myself on the Mobike app so that I could whizz along the streets like the other cool dudes on my orange wheels. I had to take a photo of my passport and then a selfie of me holding same passport and then pay a deposit using Wechat and then… Read More »