The costs of having a Petrol vs Diesel

[Spike]

That's very true. But locals are up to speed on local fuel deliveries etc and keep cans of juice for personal use with their bikes. You don't want to pitch up a filling station and the bowser is only coming to fill up next week. Speaking largely about northern Moz now, where my most common fuel hassles have been, and rural not urban.
Tanzania is big bike territory. Taxi and deliveries are mostly all on bikes. The women even sit side-saddle on the taxi bikes

[Peter Connan]

Tanzania is big bike territory. Taxi and deliveries are mostly all on bikes. The women even sit side-saddle on the taxi bikes

Thank you Spike

I once had the devious pleasure of a visit to central Thailand (way off the tourist-beaten path) to trouble-shoot a problem in a power station.
The things those guys do with scooters/small bikes beggars belief. I saw many carrying entire families, and seeing bikes outfitted with "roof-racks" or towing trailers coming down the main street of Lampang was not uncommon. The most impressive one I saw was four people and three 19kg gas bottles on one bike. The gas bottles were on the "roof rack".

As a person who has never done anything on a motor bike except fall off, the skill exhibited was awe-inspiring!