This week was the first time I had been to Panjiayuan antique bike meet in months. Being it was the end of spring festival, and still winter, there wasn't the usual crowd. And the crowd that was there came late. But still there was some interesting stuff to be seen. One first timer unloaded a table of bits and pieces. A fine melange for a browsing.
There are many, many, many brands of bicycles in China besides the "Famous Four". A lot of these manufacture to a standard that closely matches the major manufactures like Forever and Flying Pigeon. This allows a fair amount of interchangeability of spares. The street side bike doctors can only keep so many parts on their tricycle, and if they had to stock unique parts for all the different brands, street side service would never work. One of these "other" brands is Jin Shi.
