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In Malawi, like in many other developing
countries, the bicycle is king for
transportation and cargo carrying.
The bikes we saw were primarily chinese
or indian manufactured. They looked
like the old 3speeds once widely
available in the states. On the back of
nearly every one was a sturdy steel
rack, many of the racks were customized
for load carrying. In 4 weeks in
Malawi, I only saw one bike without a
rack. He was probably riding it to the
shop to have a rack put on it.
Regular people used bike taxis to get
around. The passenger would sit on a
padded cushion on the rack.
They were probably all one speeders.
Gears or changing hubs would probably
break, and become costly or difficult to
repair. Even the western style mountain
bikes that I saw had the derailleur
bypassed or removed and the chain
shortened.
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Set automatically created by dopiaza's set generator on 8th January 2010 at 12:28pm GMT
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items are from between 12 Jul 2007 & 27 Jul 2007.