The knights of the road.

Hanoi has famously mental traffic, operating on a more intuitive flow [chi?] principle more than the western concept of stop and go. Still it's fucking terrifying, even when you understand that the key is simply to "go with the flow".

Because people spend a lot of their life on two wheels in Hanoi, it is one of those places where you feel the city on the move - their mass transit system being a never-stopping river of scooters.



Also the gear people wear on their bikes is subject as much to fashion as practicality.



I was also struck by how much the folk on their scooters and step-throughs looked like medieval knights as they fought their way through the other riders on their mounts.