Motorcycles are more than just fun
In the code of the taxi motorcyclists of northern Nigeria, only weaklings and losers refuse a heavy load. But it takes a real man to handle the unbearable lightness of eggs.
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The usual load on Isa's beloved Lifan motorcycle taxi is three enormous sacks of potatoes or onions. That's 661 pounds -- nearly a third of a ton -- two bags piled on the seat behind and one tied on the front wheel.
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It's a feat worthy of Nureyev, weaving lightly through the potholes, delicately nudging through a tangle of honking cars, not to mention the other motorcyclists with equally unwieldy loads. He's also carried goats, large panes of glass, bundles of 6-yard steel poles and steel doors on his dinky Chinese motorcycle. The word reckless is not in his vocabulary. He prefers "adventurous." "When you do it, you have this feeling of pride, that you're stronger, you're more adventurous," he says. "Of course those who do these adventurous things tease those who can't. We call them sissies." For sheer size, the loads the motorcycle taxis carry are staggering, almost comical, reminiscent of a team of circus clowns stacking boxes higher and higher until they tumble. |
The usual load on Isa's beloved Lifan motorcycle taxi is three enormous sacks of potatoes or onions. That's 661 pounds -- nearly a third of a ton -- two bags piled on the seat behind and one tied on the front wheel.
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