How China wheelchair users claim the outdoors with hand-cranked bikes

Adaptive bikes ensure that everyone, regardless of ability, can experience the joy of cycling. Photos: AFP

Speeding along crumbling roads past dusty villages and herds of sheep, a team of cyclists turns heads in China’s Inner Mongolia with their unusual equipment.

Most of the people in the group were wheelchair users, and were strapped into low-slung, three-wheeled handcycle bikes instead of the two-wheeled mountain bikes more commonly seen on the challenging terrain.