Inadequate and then some.

I've often felt inadequate when watching you clever commuter riders in
London you seem to put your bikes in the most difficult of places.
However I've just come back from a holiday in Nepal and those guys in
Kathmandu put everyone to shame. They can put their bikes into spaces
a fag paper can't go, and their slow riding skills are something to
behold.

There are millions of Hero Hondas about, I thought this was a model by
Honda, but no its a machine made in India. They seem to be around the
100cc single pot size. As do most of the other bikes I saw. I guess
that I only saw three or four multi-pots, one was a Suzuki with a
copper on the top, the others twins of some description about 250cc.

My first sight of the traffic frightened the shit out of me. I was in
a small coach in the middle of the road, they supposedly dirve on the
left but clearly they can't tell left from right. Anyhow we were
driving down the middle of the road when I saw a Tata bus coming
towards us, it was being overtaken by another Tata. That wa sbeing
overtaken by a Hero Honda and that was in turn being overtaken by yet
another bike. So 4 vehicles coming straight at us, but all missed each
other, f'king clever these Nepalese. The ladies ride pillion side
saddle, all the better to hold onto the kids, I saw one bike with Mum
Dad and 3 kids on it, another with he rider a pillion passenger and a
goat.

Maybe a competition to see how many people can ride around the
Kathmendu ring road on a single bike and still live would be
interesting. I bags holding the stopwatch.

Brian