The funny part is that they all take place on motorcycles that are tooling around Nigeria. The roads seem to be cluttered with them and they will carry almost anything. Here are a few examples for you:
1. A Door! Yes you heard me right. We were driving around yesterday seeing a few of the ministries around Jos and coming down the other side of the road is a cycle with a passenger on back and on top of his head is a full sized door. Talk about drag, that bike had to be pushing hard. These are not Harleys with big ol’ fat engines.
2. 1” x 1’ x 12’ boards. I think there were about three boards on top of the passengers head. Those things were bending like crazy. I am surprised first off the driver could see around the boards and that the boards didn’t shift the weight all over the place throwing the bike on the ground.
3. There was a fella on a medium trying to put this huge bag of, what I think were, potatoes on his bike as well. Unfortunately for him the bike took a tumble (as witnessed by my wife and our driver). This time he was the only one on the bike and to hold all that and drive. Yikes!
4. A Wheel barrel. Yes a full size one not a kiddy sized wheel barrel. The scary thing is that it was making a u-turn in the middle of the road and did not take a tumble, at least not at that moment could have further down the road that I am not aware of.
I have been told that most of these motorcycle drivers do not have licenses. They seem to be pretty laxed on their rules of the road already and then to learn that half of the bike drivers are unlicensed can be a bit scary. They swerve in and out of cars without much notification but a honk on their horn if that.
This is just an example of the most populr motorbike in Nigeria, a Jincheng!
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