red750 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Saigon Racetrack.mp4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Driving on that racetrack is a doddle when this is your daily drive 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Those racing car drivers, for fun, participate in close formation dogfighting comps on the weekend. .. OME's video reminded me of a couple of weeks I spent in Hyderabad, India. Traffic was even more chaotic... Long story about trying to cross the road as a pedestrian... I still have 3 of my 4 limbs working, apparently.. and lost a lot of weight through a sudden onslaught of a natural laxative. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Life must be cheap in these places. Figure 8 racetrack? They probably still have scrutineers to make sure the tires are OK. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I set up my toy train track in a Figure-of-8 pattern. Ran the loco up the arse of the caboose. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 It used to amaze me watching the women pillion passengers on motorcycles in Indonesia. Very graceful how they would lean forward and backward into the bends while riding sidesaddle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 That's what you shouldn't do. Best a pillion just sits in the one place unless you really know what to do and lean with the rider who is really trying to go fast. Most novices try to stay more vertical and THAT can really make things dangerous. Side saddle is quite risky but you often see 4 or more on a Bike in some of these places. Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 It was pretty common in Vietnam in the 1960's to see the whole family - Dad, Mum and 3 kids - plus a crate of chooks, or several bags of personal possessions - all on a 70cc step-through Honda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 2 hours ago, facthunter said: That's what you shouldn't do. Best a pillion just sits in the one place unless you really know what to do and lean with the rider who is really trying to go fast. Most novices try to stay more vertical and THAT can really make things dangerous. Side saddle is quite risky but you often see 4 or more on a Bike in some of these places. Nev Tell that to the Muslims. Women straddling the seat is not the done thing in Java. I think they think it's indecent. In Malaysia, all the Malay Muslim girls are side saddle, the Chinese and Indians straddle the seat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I won't have to. God willing. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 1 hour ago, onetrack said: It was pretty common in Vietnam in the 1960's to see the whole family - Dad, Mum and 3 kids - plus a crate of chooks, or several bags of personal possessions - all on a 70cc step-through Honda. Nine on a bike.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Honda Postie bike. Rubbery at any speed. Probably the largest selling vehicle in the world. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 2 hours ago, onetrack said: plus a crate of chooks I've got an Asian chook story. The first time I went to Bali, we were in a VW country buggy driving down the road when the mate driving hit a chook. I looked around to see the chook, and without a word of a lie, some old girl had grabbed that freshly killed chook off the road while feathers were still floating in mid air. No tucker wasted there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Road kill is fresh and nutritional. Waste NOT , want Not. . Keep your wild pigs though. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Asian obstetric team delivering babies and take-away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Those 9 are cheating. That's a 125cc bike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 On 25/01/2022 at 2:48 PM, facthunter said: Road kill is fresh and nutritional. Waste NOT , want Not. . Keep your wild pigs though. Nev Maybe you are just too discriminating. True story:- Driving along the Cape York highway (500k of corrugations) I crested a hill to see long skid marks, an oil trail and a sad almost new, hot lowered red Ford with it's front badly compacted. Fully expired. A couple of First World people stood folornly by. Knowing that there is always an extended family involved, I stopped and offered ONE a lift to town. "Nah, we won't be ready for quite a while. The others haven't caught the damn pig yet. Big BBQ tonite. You commin?" I know it isn't polite to turn down such generosity, but.... 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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