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..... however, I've been riding in Ho Chi Minh this weekend. The mesmeric volume of traffic has increased on a massive scale to that I fist saw here 15 years ago. Yes, there's a tonne of bad cyclists and moped riders filtering amongst buses and cars and pedestrians that walk out in front of you with very little apparrent observation of what's around them.
9 hours saddle time this weekend, and I saw one accident, and it was a guy with no legs, walking around on stools strapped to his stumps and not being seen by veichles. Not something we'd exerience back on our wondrous streets back in London is London.
The speed of traffic here is slower in general, trunk traffic is restricted to late night only, the accident rate (purely by observation) is vastly less than we experience in the UK. It's an attitude thing, you get there when you get there and you get there how you can. The difference being 2 wheels were King here a long time before the 4 wheeled monster arrived, and 2 wheels remains King.
If we had even the smallest of mindset shifts, then this thread would be virtually redundant, and replaced with 'Biggest thing you saw on two wheels' thread.
For the record, a fussball table on the back of a moped, one handed and talking to his pal.......