https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_gQiOoUwfk
One man was carrying 200 or 250 kg of bananas. There's another video in the "Most Dangerous Roads" that shows the DR Congo's incredibly bad (as in, literally, small-car-sized ruts and knee deep mud) "roads" where a few km a day is not uncommon in trucks and buses that in the US would have been compacted in 1980. But if it's bad for the trucks, there are men, often in pairs, who take old bikes across the nearest border to buy cooking oil and other really basic supplies in modest bulk, pushing the bikes night and day in worn flip flops for hundreds of miles through mud and rain to make a few francs profit -- US$1 - 2000+ Congolese francs. Really, really hard lives. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgteLWLBrDfTgr6Sjd8sHx%2B1n3vjSCupbDyTB%2BcPphuMzw%40mail.gmail.com.
