S T E P H E N H U C K E R . C O M

2008-09-30 My Bike Friday fully loaded.jpg, originally uploaded by Stephen Hucker.

The panniers and backpack weigh around 10 kgs, the bike about 14.5kg, so in total about 25kg !
This is going to hurt when I hit the mountains.

2008-09-30 Food Stand, originally uploaded by Stephen Hucker.

Hate to me that guy in winter.
It’s just a motorbike with training wheels and a flatbed on the back.
Basic, but it does the job.

Today was the first day of my cycle touring. I cycled about 60km in way too much time.
Even with the excellent maps provided to me, I only got lost 3 times… pretty good I think!

Video taken at Seoul station, Korea
Nice music, reminds me of Victoria Market in Melbourne.
I like to know how long it takes to decorate the building with the add.
Very colourful.

2009-09-27 - Bicyle Path, Han River with parliament building in backtground.jpg, originally uploaded by Stephen Hucker.

Seoul now has a large number of bike paths along the banks of small creeks, and large rivers like the Han.
Even some of the extremely busy inner city roads have good segregated bike lanes.

Look carefully at the rider in red on the MTB (behind the blue rider)
He is wearing a mask to protect against air pollution.
this is very common in Korea.
The day the photo was taken the temperature was about 25 degrees, yet the majority of riders were wearing long sleeved jerseys, leggings (cycling pantyhose) and a significant percentage of the serious riders wore the pollution masks.
Why?
Because Koreans consider a white skin to be better than the tanned look westerners prefer.
A deep tan indicates you work in the outdoors which is usually a sign that you don’t have a good education and status.

2009-09-27 - 61 Building, Seoul.jpg, originally uploaded by Stephen Hucker.

The “61″ building in Seoul Korea.
It is the gold one in the background

2009-09-27 - 61 Building, Seoul 02.jpg, originally uploaded by Stephen Hucker.

The “61″ building in Seoul Korea.
It is the gold one in the background

W.O.W that is one big kite.
The music in the background is from a traditional Korean dance group.

The Korean word for Mosquito is “mogi”
You will often see this happen in Korea.
The Korean government say they have eliminated Malaria from Korea. This is one of the ways they do so. Every street is visited by a car or scooter in this case spewing out a cloud of mosquito poison.
Often you will see kids running behind this very same cloud.

Toss English, originally uploaded by Stephen Hucker.

[insert smirk here]

hee hee