Ecuador: The Moto Built For....

In Ecuador, two people will make any sort of transport on a bike.  Sometimes there is a little kid in the middle, sometimes the little kid on the back, sometimes a box in the middle or a crate of fruit. 

Nonetheless, all you need to know is that all bikes and 2 people is where it is at. 

To further my point, the smaller the engine displacement, the more volume the little bike will haul.  Take for example, this 150cc bike. 

One of the more memorable events of the trip was the two people, and the kid holding his arm out holding a cookie. S/he was so tightly dressed, all we ever saw was the little hand.   They were mounted on a small displacement cruiser style with street tires.  It in particular section of road, Bruce and I were stopping frequently for pics.  The little cruiser with the kid and cookie would just chug on by.  Naturally, we'd catch up and proceed to pass them on the steep uphill ascents.  We'd stop some more on the vistas, and soon we were dropping over the apex and down the back side. 

By this time, we've been leap frogging for a good hour.  The kid hasn't dropped that cookie. On the last pass, the Ecuadorian is winding out that poor little cruiser for all it's worth.  While my DR200 is nary a powerhouse, I surely don't have his determination.  But yet, I wonder what will happen to the cookie.

We follow in hot pursuit for a bit, before the road comes to a Y.  Bruce was convinced that women are the small all around the world, and he was probably getting hit in the kidneys for his poor riding!

Life Lesson:  Never drop your cookie, no matter how bad the riding gets!