In shanghai visiting some family! This was my second trip, I ended up taking more pictures this time than the first.
Shanghai skyscrapers:
Shanghai cityscape river is the Pu river which is filled with barges (no wrx barges) all the time:
Cityscape, sitting on the patio at Paulaners mmm weinerschnitzle:
Construction site pictures from inside the Citigroup building:
Random Alley shot:
I dont see this often in the states, and ive seen three in shanghai! One of the other ones had the curtains in the back, gangsta style.
Starbucks at Xin tin di. Xin tin di is a bitchin little plaza thing with a bunch of different restraunts and a theater (if you can fluently speak chinese, or read french subtitles)
Autro, automobile supply store:
These next pictures are a real trip. My father and brother who live in shanghai along with my mum bought scooters to buzz around town.
They are made by some random chinese company and come stock at 150cc good for ~70 mph topped out. Abs front disc brakes, manual rear discs and take 93 octane. Fun little scooters, and faster than the local ghetto scooters and most of the auto traffic!
My dad stumbled on this random shop, he saw scooters being torn down on the sidewalk and looked in. They do performance modifications and repairs! My dad bought a new exhaust, intake is on the way and he had the motor "built". They tore down the motor and put a new piston, cylinder, cylinder head, and valves on it to increase displacement to 200cc. About the same top speed, but more grunt!
It was nuts watching them tear down this motor with 3 tools total and in the middle of the sidewalk! They'd take the old piston off and toss it onto the sidewalk, rip the old valve springs off the head and toss them into a random cardboard box. I didnt have my camera on me for this whole process, or for when they put different "gears" into the (automatic) transmission. We did buzz back and caught them working on a ghetto propane powered scooter.
I Guess I should add on the real kicker... the whole 50cc increase, new valves, and new transmission gears cost approximatley 350 rmb. which translates into roughly 43 bucks! They pretty much have a flat labor fee of 100 rmb (12 bucks) for minor things like if a belt were to fall off the trans or something like that, but my dad has been there so often they all yell Penyo (friend) and refuse to take money from him. Says alot considering if you look at the very top of their shop in the first picture, that loft is where 4 people sleep wearing the same clothes everyday
And finally my ugly mug repping SZ06, ford svt, and CEG in shanghai in front of our homies at the "scooter place"
Fun stuff, however the 2 hour flight from shanghai to tokyo + 11 hour flight from tokyo to the D sucked... hard.
