Sign up for Ofo bike sharing

It’s getting easier and easier to get around Nansha. The latest entrant to the mobility scene is Ofo, a bike-sharing service whose yellow bikes are ubiquitous in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other urban areas.

Foreigners can sign up if they download the app (using Wechat doesn’t seem to work), but the in-app registration mechanism appears to be buggy: it accepts your documents, but forgets that you’ve submitted them when you exit the app. To sign up, you need to contact customer service… but you can also visit Matt K and bring your passport if you want help signing up for Ofo. We’ll be posting video instructions here soon as well if you want to do it yourself and can type some Chinese!