That's a vendor on a bamboo raft, not someone trying to sell bamboo rafts. In this photo, taken on the Li River near Guilin in China,
As a tourist, I felt a touch self conscious at observing these artisans at work. Their concentration despite the distraction was admirable.
Back in 1991 in China, this appeared to me to be the Chinese F150 - the 1 manpower, bicycle pickup.
I saw this wonderful piece of machinery reversing down the track and I thought it was getting hitched to the locomotive-less carriages on the platform in front of us.
I would imagine that there's a considerable need for bicycle repair men in China. Maybe these days there are more cars on the road, a lot more than in 1991 when I took this photo, bicycles are still in high demand.
I've ridden numerous motorcycles over the years but I've never ridden a sidecar motorcycle, either as the driver of the motorcycle or as the passenger in the sidecar.