Ms. Que Banh

Mom & I watched an episode of #DeadliestRoads last night. The episode was the Green Gold in #Vietnam episode. We both laughed when we saw the man loading & transporting a lot of weaved fishing traps, on his #bicycle. It reminded us of one of Mom's younger brothers, my 3rd Uncle, on matriarch side. He transported fishing traps that my Aunties made in the village & would pedal all day, mostly on rough rural paths, to get them to nearest town market to sell. He would be gone a week, staying in town until traps were sold, before bicycling back to the village.

I made a gif of screenshots of how the fish traps are packed on his bicycle & him on the bicycle during the journey.

#AsianMastodon #MadSkills #BicyclePower #Vietnamese #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #FishTraps #SuperOldSchoolStyle #CyclePower #CreativePacking #Transportation #determination

Mar 16 at 1:20pmWeb
Show threadSini TuuliaMar 16
@PhoenixSerenity Oh wow. I mean, they're probably fairly light because they look to be woven and empty, but what a silhouette
Show threadMs. Que BanhMar 16
@sinituulia They're light, individually. Not as light when you're packing 200 of them & trying to keep everything balanced while bicycling for hours through not the best roads. I'd totally fail, trying to do it 🤣
Show threadNigelMar 16
@PhoenixSerenity amazing images!
Show threadMs. Que BanhMar 16
@nigelharpur If he can do this on an old, rusty, bicycle, he'd likely be unstoppable if he had a fancy cargo bicycle! He'd be even more super human, if he had a cargo e-bike!
Show threadNigelMar 16

@PhoenixSerenity
Definitely!!

I saw a few similar, but not quite equaling, sights in the Philippines on my visits.

Family of 7, plus driver, all on one 'Tricycle' (a 125cc motorbike with covered sidecar).

Man with large herd of goats heading for town in the (very!) slow lane of the dual carriageway.

Men up 40ft wobbly ladders in the middle of the highway (with no central reservation) doing maintenance on the no doubt 'live' power lines. They pulled a pose, grinning and waving! Eek!!