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any road,
any load
--Grace; Oct 13, 2004
If there was an Olympic event for carrying
the most amount of stuff on a bicycle, the Ugandans would be sure
frontrunners. We’ve seen bikes laden with huge bundles of
sticks (I mean huge), stacks of bricks, an array of bright yellow
jugs (full of water, petrol or banana liquor), or an enormous
amount of green bananas on the way to market (this seems to be
the most popular cargo). Laden such, it doesn’t take much
of a grade for someone to get off the bike and start pushing,
sometimes requiring an assistant. Getting it all ON the bike to
begin with seems difficult enough, but balancing the darn thing
over cruddy roads seems almost impossible. A billboard for Roadmaster,
a popular brand of bicycle, screams its tagline: “Any Road,
Any Load!” Sometimes people are just riding the bikes, too,
but maybe that’s just on the way home, after single-handedly
delivering an elephant or a house or something like that.
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