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...Delhi in the early 1970s, my family traveled by scooter in the classic, death-defying Indian fashion. My father would drive, with me, a toddler, standing on the floorboard in front of him and my mother seated pillion, cradling my infant sister in her arms. My father was a civil engineer and my mother a nurse, and in India at that time, cars for a young family were far out of reach...
...rush hour in São Paulo, and I am riding pillion through the frenetic streets of downtown. Up ahead are two motorbike medics on their way to an emergency call. From the way they handle their bikes I can tell they are used to weaving through the nose-to-tail traffic. I, on the other hand, feel as if I am in a deadly video game. This is São Paulo, the biggest metropolis in South America and one of the most chaotic cities on earth. Everywhere we turn, obstacles rush at us. As we approach the city...
...told me a boy from my own village would drive the motorcycle, the first time I knew that he was part of the organization too." Having studied his target's movements for a week, Abdullah says he rode up behind two soldiers on a motorbike and shot the pillion rider in the back, killing him. The other soldier fired back, hitting Abdullah three times...
...Barely 200 meters from the Buddhist temple, two black-garbed men in ski masks pulled up alongside on another motorcycle. The one riding pillion shot Jay's mother dead. Boonchuay tried to speed away, but the gunman kept firing until Boonchuay's motorcycle careened onto the pavement. Bleeding on the road, he shouted at his son to run. The boy scrambled over a fence. As he cowered in the darkness, he saw the gunman put a bullet in his father's head...
...licensed. The country's underdeveloped road network is jammed with children and teens riding at breakneck speed in heavy traffic. Adults use motorbikes as beasts of burden, dangerously overloading them with goods bound for local markets. Entire families go for rides, dad doing the driving, mom on the pillion seat holding a baby, while a young daughter perches on the handlebars. A recent survey found only 3% of riders wear helmets. "I've never worn a 'rice cooker'?it's too much hassle," says Nguyen The Hung, 40, doing his weekend shopping with his wife and 12-year...