India bicycle culture gallery

In India, bicycle culture shows up in wonderfully inventive ways. With a bit of extra rope, riders manage to load their bikes with coconuts, water cans, basically anything you can imagine. Some bicycles are decorated with statues and tassels, turning them into glitzy eye-catchers. Others double as market stalls, with toys and other goods attached to the back rack. And when it comes to truly heavy or bulky loads, people switch to rickshaws and tri-wheelers, the workhorses that carry most in-town cargo.

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