How Many People are on this Motorcycle?

Posted on July 24, 2008
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Adil Najam

Pictures of overloaded vehicles are nothing special. Not in Pakistan. And our fascinations for rickshaws (here, here, here, here, here, here) is also well known. So, why yet another rickshaw picture?

Pakistan rickshaw motorcycle overloading

Unless I have it terribly wrong, what we have here is really an ordinary motorcycle – probably not 7occ, maybe more like 140cc (what do you think, Owais?) – that has been retrofitted to become a people-carrier. All very good till here.

But the question is, how many people are riding on this, well, motorcycle? And did they just break any records without even knowing about it?

By my count, there are at least 9 people on this (3 in the front, four in the back, at least 2 hanging), and maybe as many as 12!

Even by Pakistani standards, that is impressive (and really really dangerous!).

Has anyone here seen worse? Or better? [Depending on what you consider worse, or better!]

40 responses to “How Many People are on this Motorcycle?”

  1. Franz says:

    i was in a piaggio rickshaw in gurgaon (delhi) with four hanging off the back, three next to me, four facing me, two next to the driver and one hanging out the front side (16).. even the delhiites thought that was funny.

  2. Eidee Man says:

    “This is one more

  3. Shazia it is not just you. I see the pictures one day later and I am in US. Also either the Spam Protector does not know math or I am loosing it but it rejected my first ever comments on my alma mater CCH. This is the kind of stuff that makes you throw up both hands and shout, “I am never writing again on this broken site”.

  4. Amazed says:

    Do they drive these things at night also?

    I am looking at the little lights in the front and wonder just what good they could do?

  5. Qudoos says:

    I would not be surprised if one of these things was carrying as many as 15 people.

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