An attempt at making a cool, slow motion video goes horribly wrong for this Chinese bike gang.
Motorcycle gangs are a growing trend among upper middle class Chinese, as Rob Schmitz reported for Marketplace last year:
In China, there's now plenty of highway to ride. The country's paved 32,000 miles of highways in the past eight years, the world's most expansive road-building campaign since America built the interstate system 50 years ago.
An era that heralded a culture of riders in the U.S. is doing the same in China. 51-year-old Zhu Zhongling owns a Cashmere sweater company. He shows me photos of him on his Harley on remote mountain passes in Tibet, China's Northwestern province of Xinjiang and from a ride across Africa. He owns more than a dozen motorcycles -- three of them are Harleys. He spent $90,000 on his newest one.
Hopefully the biker who wiped out in the video above wasn't riding a 558,620 yuan ($90,000) bike (or, depending on how sadistic you're feeling, hopefully he was).
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