How Many People Can Ride on a Single Motorcycle?

The Atlantic ^ | 1/26/2024 | ALAN TAYLOR

[BraveMan]

Motorcycle-stunt teams from different Indian security forces frequently put on performances at festivals and parades, such as the annual Republic Day parade in New Delhi. These teams of daredevils stack themselves high on single or multiple motorcycle rigs, displaying their skills and putting on a show. One team in particular, the ASC Tornadoes, set the world record for “most people on one moving motorcycle” in 2017, with a total of 58 riders. Gathered below are photos of some of these two-wheeled performances from recent years.

[BraveMan]

[Seruzawa]

Figures it would be India.

[Responsibility2nd]

Let me guess. They’re all on their way to work in a call center for US corporations.

[dragnet2]

I think they do that because in India they have way too many people and not enough motorcycles.

[dragnet2]

I think they do that because in India they have way too many people and not enough motorcycles.

[BraveMan]

More pictures in the link (includes a picture of a crash; bodies everywhere!)

[Flaming Conservative]

In the Philippines, about 10.

[dragnet2]

[Liberty Ship]

When I saw the headline, I came to post a joke about India! I didn’t have to!!!

[V_TWIN]

When you got a litter of kids, what's losing one or two now and then?

[Sirius Lee]

If the motorcycle is a Ducati 740 Monster, only one. And you look like a monkey fornicating a football while you're doing so.

Still, you can't put a price on smiles per corner.

[Woodman]

The only things I see missing from my experience in India is a Toddler sitting on the handlebars and a Breastfeeding wife on the back.

[BraveMan]

Beats the snot out of anything done by the Shriners . . .

[dragnet2]

There is something wrong with this.

[Woodman]

No they do it in India because a 125CC motorcycle is the equivalent to the family car in the US for most of the population.

[ConservativeMind]

I’ve seen how good they are on top of trains and trucks.

These people appear to like feeling a lot of hot crotches.

[dragnet2]

Shriners? You’re going way back. You mean like the Grand Poohbah in the Fred Flintstone series?

[scrabblehack]

HOV lanes near Atlanta say one is enough.

[dragnet2]

Sounds like the leadership we’ve now have. But ours want us using battery powered golf carts.

[dragnet2]

Btw, that’s kinda hard to miss when every time I see a scene in India, there are 3,000 175cc two strokes per mile.