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Motorbikes in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

I have never seen so many motorbikes on the road in my life before. In South Africa we get the taxis which really do not look like the teksi here. I tried to take photos of the motorbikes in the traffic, but of course it is not easy. They are just everywhere and seem to successfully weave themselves between the cars without accidents! My photos don’t even tell half of the story. People on motorbikes do kill themselves. I was reading in the local paper of one cyclist who tried to snatch the bag of a passenger cyclist. She resisted and he let go of the bag, but in the effort zoomed away from them and crashed into a pole and died of head injuries.