While motorcycles like a Harley Davidson or Yamaha may seem like a leather-clad, cool guy’s form of transit in the West, anyone who has traveled to Africa or Asia knows a motorbike is a lifeline for millions of people. Beyond just a means of conveyance, motorbikes are prized items, demarcating people who can afford one and those who can’t. (The line for people who can afford cars is on a whole different level.) Motorbikes are often shared between families, used to transport said families (sometimes with up to five or more people on a single bike at a time) and used to transport goods from the farm to market or anywhere else.
In this list, we’ve cruised around to find the most ridiculous things people have ever carried on the back of a motorbike. While carrying more than two people may seem wild enough for some delicate sensibilities, true motorbike experts have honed their craft and are able to carry loads many times the weight of the bike itself. You’ll be flat-out amazed at the massive loads some people can carry – from 1,000 eggs to a mobile shop on wheels to even an entire car on the back of a bike. Prepare to be amazed with this list of the 25 Ridiculous And Crazy Things Carried On A Bike.
Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Backpacker for use of many of these images.
This cat is having the ride of a lifetime!
This motorbike driver gives new meaning to "business on wheels."
Sometimes you just need to move your sandshark from Point A to Point B.
Someone is throwing the most epic barbecue of the year.
Enough eggs to feed a village for a month
The reincarnation of the happy Buddha himself
We're not sure if this man got into a fight or just thought this was the best way to transport his chair.
Sometimes you just don't trust your friend to drive your other bike across town.
Somehow this bike doesn't tip over under the weight of a forest's worth of bananas.
The perfect solution when the grocery store doesn't sell beer on Sundays, but you still want to have an awesome party.
The ultimate rear-view mirror - placed just a few inches too far back, though
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There's more than one way to take out the trash
The biggest pocket watch in Vietnam
When you've got to get everybody to work on time
Enough water bottles for a marathon's worth of runners
When you want to take your dog for a walk but are too lazy to actually walk
The newest concept to introduce green space to a crowded city
"How do you transport your foam?" "By rolling it!"
When even the gas station attendant thinks you're out of your mind
For when you're throwing the family reunion
Clearly more than the kitchen sink
More Vitamin C than you need in an entire year
For when you invite the extended family for dinner
More chickens!
Because when you gotta go, you gotta go...
As you can see from this post, there is no end to people’s innovative ways. Take a look at 25 Innovative But Crazy Inventions.